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lewis m. grist, proprietor. gin independent .jfaiiiiltj $leu:spaper: ifor. the fromofion of the ?olitii(at, Social, Hgtpculturat and (|oniinci;cial interests of the ?outh. j TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. YOL. 40. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, S"FiPTJCMB3j]R 5, 1894. ISTO. 8G. THE OVER" - BY MARTHA McCUI Copyright, 1?M, by the American I'ress Assoc CHAPTER XV. As the hall clock struck 10 that night Hawkins, who stood hat and whip in hand, ready to make his adieu, said low to his hostess: "Really it begins to look as though what began as a speculation may turn out a grand passion-" "Heaven send it to be mutual," Mrs. rr~*?"i"*' onJ/t <-V?o nnssihle XVnUiCJ DWU) niiu v**v x inclination of her head toward the room's farther side, where Royal Cleve still bent upon Dare that burning regard. "You had better take him away." ! she went on. "I am afraid he will frighten her. By the way, what did he say to your scheme before he saw her?" "Took it first as an American joke," : Hawkins said. "But I had got pretty well the length of his foot and knew how to convince him that there were millions, in it for all of us." Mrs. Towuley darted at him a keen j suspicious glance. "You told me this man Cleve was very, very rich, "she said. "If that is the j case"? A look finished the sentence, so , that Hawkins made haste to declare: "He is rich, Mrs. Towuley, rich enough to want very badly to be rieher. j You see, his father is a big iron master over there. There are just two soils, this boy and another, and their ambition is to become iron kings. That's why they j are looking for investments here." "This one is handsome and well bred, i but looks dissipated. That I don't like," Mrs. Towuley said conservatively. Hawkins smiled a grim smile. "No doubt he has gone the pace," he said, "but that only makes him the readier to settle down. Clearly he thinks so. The girl is charming, and he has got it worse about her than even" "Whom?" asked Mrs. Towuley as he stopped short Hawkins did not answer. He was lost in rage at the memory of , Allen Fauntleroy, of delight in the , thought of how well his wrong at that young man's hand was likely to be avenged. Hawkins knew, what was us yet a secret, that Allen, while apparent- ; ly accepting Major Overton's refusal, had so arranged affairs that the old man's death would make Dare sole ! owner of the property in dispute. When she was Mrs. Royal Cleve, no doubt I Fauntleroy would kick himself for his ! overscrupulosity. And that she should i be one way or another?fairly, if pasHe had hung at her side the evening i through. sible. The way was plain and easy II uieve s araor cua not ingmeu nor. Mrs. Townley was right, though it would never do to leave him uninterruptedly in the girl's presence. Striding across the room, Hawkins said, with affectation of jocular terror: "Mr. Cleve, please don't shoot me for saying it?we really must be riding." Cleve started a little, but said, with a : light laugh: "Oh, go away, Hawkins! You talk f like a member of parliament. I have only had five minutes with Miss Over- j ton, and you speak of leaving at half past 8." "Half past 10, you mean, with 15 miles to ride," Hawkins said, showing I his watch. The other frowned. "You are an unmitigated nuisance, j with your hours and distances." Cut ho got up, looked lingeriugly at Dare and made his adieu with what grace he i might Dare rose, too, and went up to her ! aunt The girl's cheeks were damask roses, her eyes starry in their dark dilation. She seemed to herself all one throbbing pulse of new sensation, not 1 WUU11J pictwuiauic, uut n iiUij ouuugv. Royal Clove was unlike aught she had ever seen or dreamed of. Her favorite heroes even were quite put out of court. His voice \yas music itself. He had a smile that glorified his face. Yet somehow the girl shrank a little from the memory of him, shivered at the thought of those too persistent eyes. He had hung at her side the evening through, with eyes, ears, for naught else. She wondered vaguely if it were not because she was a new species, something wholly different from any he had hitherto known. In all the story books she knew grand gentlemen had a habit of amusing themselves with the country j girls they chanced to meet and then riding away, leaving their victims to death or desolateness. Mr. Cleve should j not do that; she was too wise in the ways i of his kind. Besides she went 110 further even in her thought, though the quick red flushing over neck and brow pro- j claimed some mighty postulate unspoken. Mrs. Townley saw the blush and misread it to suit her own desires. As she kissed her niece good night she said, lightly touching the smooth cheek: "I think this face might charm even cruel fate. Do be careful of it, child. Ill j fortune has lain in wait for us so long that it really behooves you to try to change tho family luck." Dare lifted her eyes and asked: "Aunt Mel, am I really extraordi- i narily pretty?" "Judge for yourself, my child," Mrs. j Town ley saw, turning ner to iace tne long pier glass, that surely had never reflected loveliness more winsome. For a minute both looked in silence at the fair image. Then Dare gave a low cry, the elder woman screamed aloud, for there, faintly, from the half lit depths behind her, a man's face showed, whito and set, iu the mirror over her shoulder. Next minute it had vanished. Dare rubbed her eyes. Mrs. Town ley said, sharp tremor in her tone: "Did you see anybody? Whoso face was it?" Dare did not answer at once. When she did speak, it was to say: "I thought I saw something, but 110 doubt we were both mistaken. We must have been. There is 110 one here but ourselves." "Not a soul," said Mrs. Townley, shivering violently. ' 'It must have been the flickering of the light." Dare said nothing. Instead she walked away with tingling pulses. She had no fear of, no belief in, ghosts or visions. Her eye was too true and keen for optical illusions. She had seen a face, a face she knew well. It was Allen Fauntleroy who had looked at her from that claro obscure. A little later Hawkins reined up from their hand gallop to say to Royal Clove: "No need to ask if evorv prospect pleases. 'Pun my life, man, you camo near to making a spectacle of yourself." Cleve shook the other's hand impatiently from his sleeve, saying x'ather coldly: "Stop that, Hawkins. I am immensely obliged to you for the initial suggestion, but please remember that while I am always ready and willing to hear you on business I prefer to escape discussion of my personal affairs." Hawkins gave an angry whistle and said_roughly: TON CLAIM. iLOCH WILLIAMS. kit Ion. "See liere, Mr. Royal Clevo, it's quite too late for yon to take that tone with me. Remember we have drawn and signed a few papers, papers that would be awkward reading for a young lady I could name. You went into this on busi XT?.. - 4- fry callfi. J.1UW WU ant iv/ oiuiv iv ov^va ment. Very good, but you'd better keep a civil tongue. By turning my band over I can put a lion in your path?auother lover?beside whom you would have as much chance of winning this Overton girl as I have of going straight to heaven just as I stand I meant no harin, no disrespect to you, to her. I am as anxious nearly as yourself that you shall marry her, but I won't get in the dust and take kicks and cuffs at your pleasure to bring it about. The sooner you understand that failure or success for you rests wholly in my hands the better it will be for both of us." Royal Cleve swore a great oath under his breath Aloud ho said, half mockingly: "Is it so, my good Hawkins? Now listen to me. I hope yon :ire my faithful ally. Certainly I will do all that I can have said, but I reckon surely on one thing. This girl, Dare Overton, 6hall be my wife in spite of everything." Through the bright moonlight Hawkins smiled sourly, saying, half to himself: "I hope you are a true prophet. The day I know she is to be your wife that day makes her heiress of Overton's claim." CHAPTER XVL Daro went to her room so filled with tense expectance as almost to stop the beating of her heart. She went straignt to the toilet table and saw, with no sense of surprise, a handful of field flowers laid loosely upon it. At her touch they fell apart, letting her eye rest upon a scrap of paper, bearing in Jubilee's best flourish: "misS dare, this Toe say, wil yo cum toe gait wil bee Thair twell Arfter Midnight." Drawing her curtain, sho looked outside. The "gait" was almost half a mile away. You came through it from the highway that ran past Exeter. The distance was as nothing to her quick feet Even had she not been absolutely fearless, all abroad was now such silver shining as mimicked day. But ought she to heed a message so vague? Her aunt, she knew, would disapprove. Did not honor forbid her to do under her roof the thing which would be against her wishes? But the case must be urgent, the need strong, to bring her thus a secret message. What had Jubilee to tell that the whole world might not hear? The boy was sharp, shrewd beyond his years, and Allen's sworn advocate and worshiper. In leaving Ridgeley her last word had been for him, bidding him bring her instant news if anything befell the household Most likely that was what had brought him to this midnight conference. Still that face in the glass. Spite of her bravery, her firm nerves, she shivered, recalling eerie tales of apparitions forewarning death or periL She must go. Below stairs she heard the clang of closing doors. Running hastily down, she said to the servant: "I'll fasten the west door. I want to sit on tho small porch awhile and see the moonlight and the mists along the creek. "As you please, Miss Dare. Better take do key outside wid yo'. De do' falls shet sometimes. You might fin yo'self locked out," Black Patsey said, adding after a minute: "You don't look lik' yo' mother. I 'member her. I hear 'em say, Ann' Jincey say yo' des de livin image of her mistes, yo' gran'pa's mother, dat died so long ago." "I am like her portrait more than any one else," Dare said, impatient to be off, but not daring to show it. After n little nhn Raid, as thonnh the thought had just come to her: "Shut the door, Putsey; then nothing can get in, no matter how moonstruck I may happen to be. With the key I can come in whenever I please." "Young ladies mos' giuer'lly want ter watch de moon when good lookin beaux des gone erway,'' Patsey chuckled, obediently closing the'door. Dare dropped down upon the steps and for 10 minutes watched the faint ghastly mists .writhe up from the babbling runnel and hover and waver in the full leafed tree tops. As she stepped lightly to the grass a low growl fell on her ear. She saw in the moonlight a big, iliaggy white cur standing full in her path, gently waving his tail and looking at her with the air of a stern but loving guardian. With eyes full on his she went straight up to him and laid a hand 011 his head, saying very low: "Nice fellow! Big dog! Come and walk with me!" Half reluctantly he yielded to her impulse, stood aside and at las# walked soberly behind. Keeping well in shadow, darting from tree to tree, from covert to covert, Dare gained the carriage way and riui so swiftly along it that, almost before she thought of it, the gate barred her way. Not for long. As she stopi>ed breathless and panting it swung open, and Jubilee's voice said: "Oh, Miss Dare, if you please, prograss outside. Those dog is too expicious here in the plain moonshine." In silence Dare followed him to the shade of a big oak that stood a little to one side of the highway. As soon as they were well within it she said very low: "What brought you here, Jubilee? Are you by yourself? Tell me quick. Is anything wrong at home?" "My two feet brought me here," Jubilee said, with a grin. "That is to say, I pedestrianed since 1 - o'clock today." "Why did you come? Is mummy sick, or grandfather, or anybody in trouble?" Dare asked hurriedly, "inat was uuiv * f ~ i / / 1 h'. She xccnt strai'jht uji to him and laid a hand on hi.s la ad. tlireo hours after I left. Surely nothing happened in that little time." Jubilee looked down and began to speak very low, in his earnestness forgetting the dictionary and relapsing now and then into the dialect of his race. "When yo' went away," he said, "1 went an axed old marster tor lemme go see granny. Word had conic that she wus sick, sick er heap, an I thought I'd * ' II 'fi.VI. vtl.Mlil d iliv 1^1 !H.*U 1K I V?i*w vt^n* - j ef (l;it ^ot happen rijrht s?k?ii. Yo* know she lives 'tween here an Rirtjreley. So when marster say lie ain't got no Injections ter <loin without nie for the rest of the week I put 011 my clean shirt an my Sunday clothes .'Ui come ! lipi>eu'erlong ter "lier nouse, jest bey ant the Boilin Spring church meetin house. | When I got dar, I saw or fine horse wid er man's saddle on hitched sorter behin the house, lik' whoever done rode it wus j sorter 'feared somebody'd fin out he been ! dar. I say ter myself: 'Ef dat's de doetor man's critter, mus' be he's 'feared ter let folks know lie 'tendin 011 de ole conjure woman. So I better stay outside tell he's done gon erwav.' Den I erope 1 ter de ehimbley corner an peep through do little winder granny had cut 'tween de logs dar at do head er her bed. Miss - * ' r .1 _ 1 Dare, who yo' recxon 1 see lnsiue, min black as de dark night too? Shore as wo stan's here it wus dat ar Mr. Hawkins whut come tor Ridgeley artcr Mr. Allen Fauntleroy. De sight er 'im skeered me good, I tell yo'. I jump back j from dat winder an scrooch .down under hit, andurlheard him say, I did, Miss Dare, it's God's trufel'm er tellin you: 'Well, aunty, I have brought what you asked for, a lock of my enemy's hair an one of his handkerchiefs. I spent $50 to get them, too, so yo' may ! guess what money there is in it for yo' if only the spell works right. "I popped up an poe]>ed through the winder ergin. Granny wus layin in do bed, wid er eyes half shot, but soon its he laid dem t'ings in her hand she laugh out loud ansa}', sorter mawkin him: 'Ef yo' had told me the truth, yo' might have saved yo'r money. Ef my spells would work on Frank Overton, lie would have | died 50 years ago.' " 'How you know it's 'im?' de man j 6?y, settin down hard in de cheer, he wus so 'stonislied. Granny shet 'er mouf wid | or snap -an say, "Never lnin, I know.' ; Den ho try ter 'snado her hit warn't ole marster. She iiiils' work de spell anyway, but she tole him 'tain'tnouse. Ef she was, hit would come back on her. At las' he got up an come out de do', an [ as he got on his critter I hear 'im say terjiisself: 'That ole fool is more afraid j of her master than' she is of the devil. I I'm t'inkin there is nothin for it now j but to get some of these hill fellows to I put a bullet in 'im.' ' 'When he had done rid erway, I sauntered uplik' I jes' done come, an warn't i granny mad! Ax me what I come dar I dat time er week fer. She ain't sick, j Nee'n ter think she gwine die yit erwhile, but she do look sick. An arter I give her de money I fotch she say I'm ain't such er bjwl boy, eat my dinner out de cupboard an run erlong home I did eat, an all de time she wus axin mo 'boutyo' an ole marster, an everything at Ridgeley, an Mr. Allen Fauntleroy. Seem lik' she know everthing, but she want special ter fin out whar he is." i "Do you know?" Dare asked, all a-tremble. "I kin fin him easy," Jubilee returned, speaking the last word in a whisper | to himself. "You must find him at once," Dare 6aiil ' 'Find him and tell him my grandfather is in danger, and I look to him to save him from it" ''He will, Miss Dare. Don't yo' be uneasy. I'd 'a' gone to him first, but thought best to ask your commission," Jubilee said, pulling himself back into a polysyllabic frame of speech. "He just about I owns that man Hawkins. Don't yo' fret We'll take care of old marster. " CHAPTER XVIL j "Law is full of surprises, but this is about the most surprising," Mr. Hil| dreth said, refolding the yellow letter I that Major Overton had put into his I hands. "Why, major," he went on, "it j really seems that this young fellow is ! determined to beat you. You refuse his | surrender, and he at once goes to work : developing a new line of evidence that i 80 years ago might have won your caso j for you." ! "Why not now as well as then?" Major Overton asked. "Because, let me see?yes, it is 80 years since Bruce Stirling died. If we had known while he lived that he had a hand in the matter, we could easily have got the truth, of course paying well : "With an Overton material considerations do not ivcioh gijainst honor." for it While we may be morally cerI tain of his turpitude, I see 110 way in the world of proving it. No, major," shaking his head commiseratingly, "though I this letter explains much that has alI ways been dark it can in 110 way affect | either side with the courts, and loath as I am to say it we are very nearly at the end of our rope. If within the next three months we do not find at least a trace of the missing papers?your deeds, thoreci ords, one or both?the other side must be confirmed in possession, as they would have been 10 years back had their case been vigorously pressed. While Allen Fauntleroy was a minor and out of the country it was easy enough to have tho business set over from term to term. You know it waited 10 years the first time for a hearing in the higher court after hanging so long in the lower ones. Then, when it came back, I know my father fought for delay. He said he knew he had the side of right and justice and kept hoping time would show it. 1 think you know that I took up the case as whole heartedly as he had done ami fnmrht it the best I could, honimr. 1 coll fess, to wear the other side out, if I could do nothing more. You have shown 1110 that that was useless; that you will not accept victory by default. Since the property lues found a prospective purchaser, then; is such activity among our enemies that the end must come sooie I j wish I could persuade you to compromise, major. This letter ought to show you that your opponents are innocent parties to the fraud against you, and surely young Fauntleroy's action" "Don't speak of it," Major Overtoil 6aid hoarsely. "Hildroth, you?you? don't know?everything. You can never understand just why I must do as I do or how I hate myself for?for finding it impossible longer to hate him." Mr. Hildreth got up and walked twice or thrice about the office, stopping at last in front of his client to sav: "Major, keeping secrets from one's lawyer is nearly as suicidal as keeping them from one's doctor. But if you choose to do it I have no word to say. Listen to this, though, Iln-g: Your granddaughter has some claim on you. Are you willing she should be left without a roof, a protector? I know some things, T irimeo lliuif puniupA man j uu i^uvo.i others, and in face of all I say it is your duty as a gentleman, a man of honor, either to agree to a settlement that shall divide the property equally betwixt the Overtoils and Fauntlerovs or else to the marriage of Allen Fauntleroy to your grandchild." Major Overton got up, white to the. lips. "You forget yourself, Mr. Hildroth," ' he said froeziugly. "With an Overton material considerations do not weigh , against honor. I thought I had sufficiently impressed that 011 your mind. Permit me to wish you a very good day." "Poor old Spartan! He's three parts a monomaniac," Mr. Hildroth said conii ..l 1 v,. passionauy as uiu uuur ciuseu iH-imm him. Vance looked up from his desk at the room's far end to say: "No. He happens to live just 500 years too late. His is one of the souls 1 made for crusades and jousts to the death for a liege's name or a lady's glove. His superb impracticality is quite out of place in this late nineteenth century. But, do you know, whenever he passes I take off my hat and stand bareheaded even to his shadow?" "It's a contest in Quixotism betwixt him and young Fauntleroy. Why, talk of the devil. There he is now. Give you good day, young gentleman. What brings you with such a face of concern into the enemy^ camp?" Mr. Hildreth said, rising and holding out a cordial hand Vance made as if to go, but the newcomer stopped him, saying with an impatient gesture: "Stay if you meant any part of what r-nit tinvn -inct Gil ill nVinnfc t.llSlt T>OOr old man." "We both would fight or lio for him," Mr. Hildreth said lightly. Then, seeiug that. Allen's eyes were still fall of horror: "What is up, Mr. Fauntlcroy? Has murder been done?"' "No. Only plotted, and I am come to 1 you for help in thwarting the assassins,'' Allen said very low. "Who are they?" asked Vance. Allen answered in a whisper. For an hour the three men talked eagerly together, arguing, suggesting, planning. When the young fellow at last went away, Hildreth said, drawing a deep breath: "Here's a pretty go! Planning riot, sedition and murder in the face of daylight I always knew Hawkins wasn't the clear grit, but hang me if I thought he'd wade this fashion up to his neck in iniquity." "He is really a monomaniac," Vance said, lighting a cigar. "He has been money crazy ever since ho first sat at a desk in the other Allen Fauutleroy's office. What surprises me, though, is that those poor hill folk listen to him when j he tells them that Major Overton is their enemy, the only thing that stands netwixt them and the work that means prosperity." "You forget. Hawkins has truth on his side, a mighty good ally even for a | rascal such as he, "Mr. Hildrcth said, ! taking a revolver out of his desk and tunning his fingers along the barrel. Holding it muzzle down, lie Went on: "I wonder if?no, it can't be! Melissa Townley can't know all his scheme. Anyway wo will manage to spoil his i little game for him, but if we let the j major get wind of it first" "There'd be the devil to pay and no pitch hot," Vance supplemented, with his hand on the knob. Hildreth nodded an emphatic assent "Poor old major! Wo must save him, even in spito of himself. " CHAPTER XVIIL When Dare had been 10 days at Ex1 cter, it seemed to her that years lay lie twixt her and the old colorless life. The j day but one after Jubilee's warning she had found a line, likewise ambushed in field flowers, upon her dressing table, which said: ' 'Keep a stout heart. There is no danger yet that the old tree will be cut j down.' * I There was neither date nor signature, 'but none was needed to tell her whence ( it came. Intuitively she knew that her j message had gone straight to Allen j Fauntleroy, and this was his answer, j Trusting in him, her heart was at rest. She could let herself be amused with what went on about her; could laugh i in girlish mirth over Holthum's droll stories; listen unweariedly to all her ; aunt could tell her of dead and gone Dares, who once had ruffled it with the best; freeze Hawkins utterly upon the j rare occasions when he ventured to ad- ! dress her?above evervthinir. sun her ! vanity in the light of Royal Clove's ; eyes. Though all untaught, she was wise enough, woman enough, to know that ! she attracted him its perhaps no other ! had ever done. No day shone but brought him to Exeter. Often indeed midnight struck ere he took himself away. In spite of all, though, his wooing made scant headway. Often upon the homeward way Mr. Cleve swore roundly at himself as both fool and coward thus to falter and stand abashed before this girl, j who had no arts of fence save those of nature's providing. It was ridiculous, worse, he told himself, that he, who had made love half the 1 world over, who had been courted and j caressed by dark women and fair, for ; whom more than one l>eauty had dimmed her sweet eyes, should find himself thus taken aback by this slip of a girl, whoso guard of delicate haughtiness he I could neither pass over nor break down. . A hundred times he had begun to tell his love outright; as many times his speech had been deftly turned aside or passed over as a jest. This must not be, could not, should not endure. Aside from his own headlong passion, there was Hawkins in the background, inexorably urging him to "make hay while the sun shone" and hinting more than darkly the dangers of delay. He must speak out, speak at once, j and under such conditions as to make refusal out of the question. Hawkins easily supplied them. Upon his motion, Mrs. Town ley agreed that | all her household should go for a day's j ; excursion into the heart of the disputed iw,.. f-i-.iof n-lwmi vivirl: linil sn Injur ceased that for the most part everything was picturesquely ruinous. It was a region of steep, thickly wooded hills, seamed through and through with hollows so dark and narrow that in them midday I was as twilight. A labyrinth of paths and cartways ran hither and you, many | i overgrown to tint merest tract*, others showing still scant signs of use by tint hill folk, squatters whose cabins clung here and there to a hillside or sent blue thready smoke up from some darkling hollow. Once all the region had been alive with noise of axes cutting timber for the charcoal pit, ring and rattle of chain, | hoof, wheel, shouts from hill to hill, singing and laughter of oreinen working at the breasts in full daylight. The old folk reniemljered it well. They had told 1 I the younger ones over and over of the * good old times when work and money were plenty, when iron, king of metals, t , went out and came back silver and gold, j What wonder if the remnant who clung , still to the tract, getting a bare subsist- j ence as best they might, sighed for the 1 good times gone, the friends who went with them, or that their sons, trained in penury's hard school, were easily stirred to anger against the man who, they were told, stood needlessly betwixt them and the return of that golden age? , No such thought, such knowledge, | came to Dare as she rode through the \ sylvan maze with the tall handsome stranger close at her bridle rein. All the party were 011 horseback, and as soon as 1 they were well within the hills Haw- 1 kins and Cleve had fallen to disputing ' as to which was the hotter, more picturesque route to the old forgo, the day's appointed rendezvous. Both had recently spent days there in exploration, and each contended stoutly for the way of i his choice. Dare herself had settled the 1 matter by saying, with a delicious smile: "There is nothing for it but to divide and conquer both routes. Aunt Mel, we will go with Mr. Clove. Mr. Hawkins j can take Mr. Holtham and Patsey and j the dinner, and we will see who gets I there first and easiest." "Just what I was about to propose," Clove said, with a quick flash of the , eye. Mrs. Townley demurred. "I'm afraid to risk it," she said, shaking her head. "This is a fearful | place to get lost in. You might wander j for days on one hill of these coalings and never find your way out. I am sure j Mr. Cleve thinks he knows the way per fectly, but I hud rather trust Mr. Haw- \ kius." : "Well, I had nut," Dure said willful- j ly. "Come, Patsey. Wo will follow him. Aunt Mel, if wo hear you crying in tho wilderness, wo will come and find you," "Thatwe will," Clove said triumphantly, touching his hat to the others and turning the horses' heads into a track running almost at right angles to that they had been following. A little way farther it climbed a shnrp hill, which Patsey's mule utterly refused to breast, though he showed by turning completely around that he was willing enough to rejoin the other party. Patsey looked at the couple in front of tier rapidly vanishing over the hill's crest, saying to herself: "Spec dem two be much better pleased Mnnf mn 'mi wid me. Anvwuv I'm gwine back. Miss Dare des called nie ter keep dat man fin sayin she want him ter court her, when de good Lord knows hit 'pear lik' he dcs er dyin ter do hit, :ui I gwine gib 'im one chance ef he don't uebbcr git no yuther one." With that she trotted back, following leisurely the track of the other party, and so it came .about that when, an hour later, Dare drew rein after climbing along a sharp hill she found herself in its high solitude alone with Royal Cleve. Upon the very crest of it a little clearing mado a sunshiny cup in the dark forest. On one hand the ground fell so sharply away that through the rift in the trees you could see miles and miles of woodland ridges lying all summer fair in the shimmering heat, with lappings and foldings of palest soft haze along the far fading lines that ran down to the river's brink. A wild world it seemed,full of savage, untouched lx>auty. Daro studied it long and earnestly, then took away her eyes, with a shiver, saying: "One might fancy all the giants of the fairy tales were dead and buried here under theso long leafy graves." Royal Cleve caught the hand that lay - ' 1 - 1 Vi - M lightly upon nor pommci, 1am ins nps upon it and said in a shaken voice: "Dare, darling, is not a living lover worth as much in your eyes as a dead giant?" "It depends," Dare saitl breathlessly, reining her horse away, a quick flush staining her neck and brow. In a flash Cleve was beside her, but said, not attempting to touch her: "It depends upon what, Miss Overton? Nothing impossible, I hope?" "Upon who he was, whether I cared for him and the way he told his love," Dare said spirited]}*. "I am sure I should not care what befell him if he took advantage of?of?circumstances to thrust unwelcome declarations upon me." "Ah! Then they are unwelcome now: Will they always be so?" Cleve asked quietly, with a dark flush rising in his cheek. Dare looked him full in tho eyes and said slowly: "I hardly know what you mean, or that you mean anything. Let us agree that you do not, Mr. Clove. It is a pity that anything should come up to spoil the day's pleasure for either of us." "But I do mean something, mean that I love?that I am mad about you, as I have been about 110 other woman alive. Ever since I saw you I have tried to tell you so. You slipped away from the subject?laughed at, flouted me until in very desperation I am forced to speak here, to take tho 'advantage of circum-i. 1 Ai._i fcSUlIlUUS lllilt UU lllllfj 111 lllj mm. Dare, Dare, bo pitiful, be kind, for your own sake even more than mine!" the young man entreated, sinking from anger to pleading. A fine faint scorn touched Dare's lips as she answered: "I have been taught, Mr. Clove, that in matters of this sort a woman's will is always a gentleman's pleasure. Believe me, it is my will that the subject be never again mentioned between us. Oblige me now, please, by riding on. I am anxious to get back to my aunt, whom I acknowledge I should never have left as I did. No doubt you mistook me, thought that that licensed you to speak as?us you have done. I pray you to pardon me if I misled you and take me back at once. " "I will someday," Royal Clevosaid, speaking through hard set teeth. To UK I'OXCMMtKO XKXT WKKK. ROBERT E. LEE. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, a name honored and revered, wherever big-hearted benevolence and the graces of Christian virtue are recognized, was invited by the committee in charge of the demonstration at the laying of the corner stone of the Lee monument in Richmond, to be present on that occasion. The venerable philanthropist, finding that he could not accept, owing to the state of his health, wrote a letter in which he thus speaks of General Robert E. Lee: "It was my good fortune to have been honored with the intimate acquaintance and close friendship o! General Lee during the whole period of his public career, and whether I recall him as he moved in the social sphere, which he adorned by his virtues and graces, or as he towered above his contemporaries on that higher stage where the lustre of his greaJ qualities shone in the eyes of the whole civilized world, I can truly say, with no small experience of my fellow-men, that of all the men I ever knew, he always seemed to me the most remarkable for the grandeur, as well as for the symmetry of the elements which composed the strength and beauty of his peerless character. Foi such was the natural constitution and such the. harmonious blending of these elements that, in the gentleness and benignity of his demeanor, he was seen to he as great in his goodness, as he was good in all his greatness. ' Like all t ruly great and good men, (ieneral Lee had in the highest degree that simplicity of character which springs from purity of heart as well a> from the perfect transparency of a eleai intelligence. Kndowcd with an understanding which was as calm as it was penetrating and profound, he alwayspossessed his soul in a patience which never murmured, and a serenity which never rufiled, whatever might be tin duties he was summoned to perform or whatever might be the perils he wa.callcd to face. "No duty ever found him unprepared No trial ever shook his steadfast mind Intrepid in all assaults of fortune and the very soul of honor, he was tin Chevalier ltayard of his day -aknighl without fear and without reproach because in him all that was soldieil) conduct met and mingled with all thai was blameless in life. Willi an integ rity which rooted itself in every fibrt of his moral constitution, and which therefore, never gathered spot or stair throughout the whole of his long and eventful career, he yet had not tin - < : I.;. StlgllteSL iracu Ol U-i^uiuiiimu-m 111 III.nature, but walked before men wit 1 the modesty and humility born of a dee] religious spirit. ' It is only those who knew him wel in all the serene depths of his menta and moral being who can account foi the heroism he displayed on the liebi of battle, and the greater heroism whicl he displayed after he had sheathed his sword and bowed, without repining, t( the decree of an overruling Providence "Although the life ami example 01 such a man may seem to belong it some special sense, to the State ant section which stood in the clearest sight of all his greatness aud al his goodness, yet the whole countrj may rightly claim its share in the heritage of that renown which all getter oils minds arc quick to accord to ex alted virtues wherever found, and U magnanimity of soul wherever it i: inspired by si conscientious sense o right." BSaT Heiress?There's a man after mj own heart. Papa?Who? "Titscount But he wont geti t!" ! THE NEW TARIFF j AMI ISljil TAX.: i Comparison With Duties.Under j the Old Law. BILL JUST PASSED BY CONGRESS. I 1 Full and Exact Copy of the Schedule 01 i Rates?Designed to Take Effect Aug. 1, 1894?The Complete Free List?Text ol the Income Tax. CONTINUE!) FltuM I.AST WEEK. ?Average Ad Valorem I'nder? i MeKinley New I Kate. Rate. I SCHEDULE N?Sundries. Bristles of all kinds H'.r.r 8.1C i Brooms of all kinds 40 20 Brushes of all kinds, including feather dusters and hair pencils in quills 40 35 Buttons and button formsButton forms 10 10 | Agate buttons 25 25 j Pearl and shell buttons 110.01 84.50 Ivory, vegetable ivory, bono or horn buttons 50 35 Shoe buttons, made of paper board, papier niHche, pulp or similar material not spedully provided for, valued at not cx1 ceedlng 3 cents per gross 05.03 25 Corks 00.55 20.37 Cork bark, cut Into squares or cubes 9.00 25 Dice, draughts, chess men. balls of Ivory, bone or other material 50 50 ' ' Dolls, doll heads, toy marbles.... 85 25 EmeryGrains or ground, pulverized or refined 25.19 20.13 j Gunpowder and all explosive substances? I Firecrackers, all kinds 147.32 50 Fulminates, fulminating- powders and all like articles not ? 1-ti? ? 1on Hueriuuy jiruviiiL-ii n>i <*' ?... | Gunpowder and nil explosive substances used for mining, blasting, artillery or sporting purposesValued at SI cents or less per pound 25.S0 2.".S0 j Valued at above SI cents iter pound 8.(18 8.0.1 j ' Coal and coke? Bituminous coal and shale 22.72 12.12 Black or culm of coal sucli as will pass through a half inch screen 28 03 14.34 ' Coke 20 1*> Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions? In boxes containing not more than 100 matches per box 33.03 20 i Otherwise than in boxes contaln, | ing not more than 100 mutches 1 j eacl 21.19 20 i j Percussion caps 40 30 Feathers manufactured, including dressed and finished 1 | birds, for military ornaments? ' Ostrich feathers CO 35 i All other 50 35 I ! Furs dressed on the skin, but not made up into articles 20 20 Furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use 20 2.1 j Beads of glass, loose, unthreaded or unstrung 10 10 ' | Gun wads of all descriptions.... 35 10 ; Human hair? ! Clean or drawn, but not manufactured 20 20 Haircloth, known as crinoline I cloth 27.09 20.09 ' Haircloth, known as hair seating 23.22 15.43 [ Ilalr, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses 15 10 Hats, composed of the fur of the rabbit, beaver or other ani, j mals 55 40 Jewelry and precious stones, not elsewhere specified? . | Pearls 10 10 Precious stones and imitations i of? Cut, hut not set 10 25 Bet. and not specially provided for 25 33 ' Imitations of, not set, composed of paste or glass, not exceeding 1 Inch in dimensions 10 25 Diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut Free 10 j Leather and manufactures of? l Bend or belting und sole 10 10 Calfskins. Japanned 30 20 I Pnlfukiim tanned or tanned and ; I dressed '. 20 20 j Pianoforte and pianoforte action. j leather 83 20 i Skins for moroccoFinished 20 20 | Tanned, but unfinished 10 10 Skins, chamois or other, bookbinders' calfskins, kangaroo, sheep and goat skins, dressed and tinished 20 20 Upper leather, dressed, including patent, enameled and japanned leather, dressed or undressed and finished 20 20 j All leather not specially provided for 10 10 Boots and shoes 25 20 j Gloves? Indies and children's? | Fourteen inches and under in extreme length? Schmaschen? Plain 52.70 40 ) Pique or priek seam, and embroidered with more than three single strands or cords... 58.50 40 Lined 04. W 40 LambPlain 55.57 40 ; | Pique or prick seam, and em( ! broidereu with more than three single strands or cords... 58.55 40 ' | Lined 04.44 40 I i KidI Plain 00.77 40 , I Piquo or prick seam, and em- ; I i t broidereu with more than three ' \ single strands or cords 51.50 40 , ! I Lined 57.07 40 j j ; : Suedes and other, whet her more i or less titan 14 inches in extreme , length? ; I Plain 50 40 j Pique or prick seam, and enti broidered with more than three j , s single strands or cords 57.82 40 j Lined .3.13 40 I ' Ladles' and children's on which . the abovo rates of duty do not equal a duty of 60 per cent 60 40 ' i Men's gloves? f Fourteen inches and under inex. I treme length, plain 50 40 1 Over 14 inches in extreme length? , Plain 70.29 40 I Pique or prick seam, and embroidered with more than three single strands or cords... 73.52 40 1 Lined 79.30 40 . Lined 75.02 40 i Lined 75 40 i Miscellaneous manufactures? . Alabaster and spar, manufac; tures of 25 45 I Amber, manufactures of 25 25 I Asbestus, manufactured 25 25 Bladders, manufactures of 25 25 ! , Coral, manufactures of 25 25 Catgut, or whlpgut or wormgut, manufactures of 25 25 i ] Jet, manufactures of 25 25 . ; Baste, manufactures of 25 25 Wax, manufactures of 25 25 I Candles and tapers of wax 25 25 Osier or willow, prepared for basket makers' use 30 20 1 j Osieror willow, uiunuracturesof, 40 25 | , Bone and horn, manufactures of. 30 25 ' | Chip, manufactures of (baskets). 30 25 1 ! Grass, manufactures of 30 25 . ! India rubbor 80 25 Palm leaf, manufactures of 80 25 ! Straw, manufactures of 30 25 I Do., for juleps 30 25 Whalebone, manufactures of.... 30 25 , Leather, all manufactures of.... 35 30 , ; Fur, manufactures of 35 30 India rubber, vulcanized, known t j as hard rubber 85 00 ! Gutta porcha 35 30 ' Hair, manufactures of 35 30 Papier uiachc, manufactures of. 35 30 Ivory and vegetable ivory, uiun! ufactures of 40 35 ; Bhell and mother of pearl, manufactures of 40 85 ' Masks, composed of puper or I j pulp 35 25 Matting and muts made of co1 coa liber or rattan? ? Matting 71.87 20 I Mats 41.43 21 ! Pencils? ' : Wood, filled with load or other material, and pencils of lead... 53.07 60 i Slate pencils 47.57 30 ' ! Pencil leads, not in wood 10 10 Pipes and smokers'articles? I Common pipes of clay 50.11 10 1 Pipes, pipe bowls and all smok? ers'articles 70 50 . ' Umbrellas, parasols and sun" shades? Covered with silk or alpaca 55 45 , i Covered with other materials 45 45 Sticks for umbrellas, parasols I and sunshades ? Carved 50 ft) " Plain 35 30 ? Waste, all not specially provided for 10 10 | FREE LIST UNDER THE PRESENT LAW. I | 5 Acids used for medicinal, chemical or ntanu5 factoring purposes, not specially provided for in this act. Aconite. Acorns, raw, dried or ' undrled, but ungrouml. Agates, unmanufac> tured. Albumen. Alizarin and alizarin col, ors or dyes, natural or artificial. Amber and | | amberoid, unmanufactured or crude gum. Am. j bergrls. Aniline salts. Any animal of pure ' breed specially for breeding purposes. Anip i mals brought temporarily for a period not ex| ceedingslx months, for tlie purpose of cxhibt' tion or competition. Annatto, roucou, rocoa ' i or Orleans, and all extracts of antimony ore. > Apatite. Argal or argol or crude tartar. Ar- 1 > rowroot, raw or unmanufactured. Arsenic 1 | and sulphide of, or orpiment. Arsenate of ' ! aniline. Art educational stops, composed of j ' ! glass and metal and valued at not more than il 1 j cents per uross. Articles imported ity iim | | United States. Articles In a crude stute used | . j in dyeing or tanning, not Hpeclally provided ^ i for in this uct. Asbestus, unmanufactured. 1 Ashes, wood and ley of, and beet root ashes. | r | Asphaltum and bitumen, crude or dried, but not otherwise manipulated or treated. Asnfetida. " | Bagging for cotton, gunny clot it and all slm I liar material suitable for covering cotton, com} i iwsed in whole or in part of hemp, (lax, Jute or ! ! jute butts. Bulla of gilead. Bark, cinchona j * j or other, from which quinine may be extractf ed. Baryta, carbonate of, or witherlte, and baj ryto, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured, j iucluding barytesearth. Bauxite or bcauxite. | Beeswax. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken 1 T j and fit only to he remanufactured. All bind- I , I Ing twine manufactured in whole or in part J from New Zealand hemp, islle or Tampico | I /Biar. ekj?) urnt& or sunn- of slmrlo ply nqd measuring not exceeding fidfl feet In the nounii, j anil manila twine not exceeding ta*) feet to the pound. Birdskins, prepurcd for preservation. Birds and land and water fowls. Bismuth. Bladders and all integuments of uuiniaSs and flsh unmanufactured,not specially provided for 1.. <1.1 1)1 1 .1 -1?1 III..A..UMI?I ill mis mi. i)iomi,urim. nine > uriiii ur mjijuiuiu of copper. Bologna sausages. Bolting cloths. Bones, crude and bone dust for fertilizing purposes. Books, engravings, photographs, hound or unbound, etchings, music, maps and charts, which shall havo been printed more than 20 years at the date of importation. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English: also hooks and i music, in raised print, used exclusively by the ' blind. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, hound or unbound maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the library of congress. Books, maps, music, lithographic jfrints and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the uso of any society for educational, philosoDhical, literary or religious purposes. Books, libraries, usual furniture and similar household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, if actually used abroad by them not less than one year. Brazil paste. Braids, plaits, laces and similar manufactures composed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier or rattan, suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets and hoods. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured. Breccia, in blocks or slabs. Bristles, crude, not 6orted, bunched or prepared. Bromine. Broom corn. Bullion, gold or silver. Burgundy pitch. Burlaps and hags for grain made of burlups. Cabbages. Old coins and medals nnd other antiquities. Cadmium. Calamine. Camphor, crude. Castor or castorcum. Catgut, whit- I gut or wormgut, unmanufactured or not further manufactured than in strings or cords, i Cerium. Chalk, unmanufactured. Charcoal. Chicory root, raw, dried or undried, but unground. Cider. Civet, crude. Chromate or iron or chromic ore. Clay?Common blue clay In casks suitable for the manufacture of crucibles. Coal, anthracite and coal stores of American vessels,but none shall be unloaded. C'onl tar, crude. Cobalt and cobalt ore. Cocculus lndicus. Cochineal. Cocoa qr cacao, crude, t , ,,,.1,1 ?ll IL'UVfS U11U nilCllS UI. vuiu-c. vuuio, K?-/*x?, onver and copper. Coir and coir yarn. Copper imported in the form of ore.s. Oid cop|>er, (it only for manufacture, clipping from new copper and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially provided for in this act. Copper, regulusof, and black or coarse copper nnu copper cement. Copper in plates, bars, ingots or pigs, and other forms not manufactured not specially provided for in this act. Copperas, or sulphate of iron. Coral, murine, uncut and unmanufactured. Cork wood or 1 cork bark, unmanufactured. Cotton and cotton waste or flocks. Cotton ties of iron or steel, cut In lengths, punched or not punched, with or without buckles, for baling cotton. Cryolite or kryolith. Cudbear. Curling stones, or quoits, and curling stone handles. Curry and curry powder. Cutch. Cuttlefish bone. Dandelion roots, raw, dried or undried, but unground. Diamonds-minors', glaziers' and engravers' diamonds not sot, and diamond dust or bort. and jewels to be used in the manufacture of watches orclocks. Divi-divi. Dragon's blood. Drugs which are not edible and which have not been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or by other process of manufacture. Eggs of birds, fish and insects. Emery ore. 1 Ergot. Common palmleaf fans and palm leaf unmanufactured. Farina. Fashion plates, engraved on steel or copper or on wood, colored or plain. Feathers and downs for beds and feathers and downs of all kinds, crude or not dressed, colored or manufactured, not specially provided ! for in tills act. Feldspar, tell, adhesive, for sheathing vessels. Fibrillin all forms. I'ish, frozen or packed in fresh ice. Fish for bait. I Fisliskins. Flint, flints and ground flint | stones. Floor matting manufactured from round or split straw, including what is commonly known as Chinese matting. Fossils. , Fruit plants, tropical and semitrupical, for tho purpose of propagation or cultivation. Fruits and nuts. Fruits, green, ripe or dried, not specially provided for in this act- Tamarinds, ifrozil nuts, cream nuts, palm nuts and palm 1 nut kernel, noi otherwise provided for. Furs, undressed, dr.-ssed furs suitable only for use in the manufacture of hatters' fur. F ur bklns of all kinds not dressed in any manner. Gambier. Glass, broken and old gloss which I cannot be cut for use and fit only to be remunufactured. Glass plates or disks, rougli cur or unwrought. Grasses and fibers?istle or Tampico fiber, Jute, Jute butts, manlla, sisal grass, sunn, flax straw, flax not hackled, tow of flax or hemp, hemp not hackled, hemp, flax, jute I and tow wastes, and all other textile grasses or i fibrous vegetable substances, manufactured or undressed, not specially provided for iu this act. Gold beaters' molds and gold beaters' , skins. Grease and oils, such as are commonly nsed in soapmakinir. Guano, manures and all substances expressly used for manure. Gunny j bags anil gunny cloths, old or refuse, fit only for remanufacture. Gutta pereha, crude. Hair of horses, cattle or other animals, cleaned or une'eaned, and human hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn. Hides of skin, raw or i uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled. Hide I cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock. Hide rope. Hones and whet- ! fitnnnn. Hoofs, unmanufactured. Hou roots for cultivaticn. Horns, and parts of, unman-' nfacturcd. including horn strips and tips. Ice. India rubber, crlide and milk of, and old scrap or refuse india rubber, which has been worn out by use and is flt only for remanufacture. Indigo, and extracts or pastes of, and carmines. Iodine, crude and resubllmed. ! Ipecac. Iridium. Ivory, sawed or cut into logs, but net otherwiso manufactured, and Vegetable ivory. Jalap. Jet, unmanufactured. Joss stick or Joss light. Junk, old. Kelp. Kieserlte. Kyanite or cyanite and kainlte. Lac dye, crude, seed, button, stick and shell. Lac spirits. Lactarine. Lava, unmanufactured. Leeches. Lemon juice, lime Juice and sour orange juice. Licorice root, unground. Lifeboats and life saving apparatus specially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage the saving of human life. Lime, citrate of. Lime, chloride of, or bleaching powder. Lithographic stones, not engraved. Litmus, prepared or not prepared. Loadstones. Madder and munjeet or Indian madder, ground or prepared, and all extracts of. Magnesia, sulphate of, or Epsom salts. Magneslte, or native mineral carbonate of magnesia. Magnesium. Magnets. Manganese, oxide and ore of. Manna. Manuscripts. Marrow, crude. Marshmallows. Medals accepted as honoruri > distinctions. Meershnum. crude or unmanu- | factured. Milk, fresh. Mineral waters, all not artificial, lemonade, soda water, and all Blmilar waters. Minerals, crude. Models of Inventions. Moss, seaweeds and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured. Musk, crude, in natural pods. Myrobolan. Needles, hand sewing and darning. Newspapers and periodicals. Nux vomica. Oakum. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and Bienna earths, umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in tills act, dry. Oil cake. Oils?Olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical purposes, unlit for eating and not otherwise provided for in this act. Opium, crude or unmanufactured and not adulterated, containing 11 per cent and over of morphia. Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied or otherwise prepared, Orchil or orchil liquid. Ores of gold, silver and nickel matte. Osmium. Paintings, in oil or water colors. Palladium. Paper stock, crude, of every description. Paraffin. Parchment and vellum. Pearl, mother of. not sawed or cut or otherwise manufactured. Peas, green, in bulk or in barrels, sacks or similar packages. Personal or house- i hold effects not merchandise of citizens of the United States dying in foreign countries. Pew- j ter and britannia metal, old and tit only to be I rcmanufactured. Philosophical and scientific ; apparatus. Phosphates, crude or native. Plants, trees, shrubs and vines of all kinds commonly known as nursery stock, not spe- 1 cially provided for in this act. Plaster of paris and sulphate of lime, unground. Platina, in Ingots, bars, sheets and wire. Platinum, j unmanufactured. Plows, tooth and disk i harrows, harvesters, reapers, agricultural drills and planters, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, thrashing machines and cotton gins. Provided that all articles mentioned in this paragraph, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imSiorted from the United States, shall be subect to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act. Plumbago. Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush. Polishing stones and burnishing stones. Potash, crude, carbonate of or "black salts." Caustic potash or hydrate of, including refined in sticks 1 and rolls. Nitrate of potash or saltpeter, j crude. Sulphate of potash, crude or refined. Chlorate of potash. Muriate of potash. Professional books. Implements Instruments uiul I tools of trade, occupation or employment, in the actual possession at the time of persons arriv- j ing in the United States. Pulu. Pumice. Quills, prepared or unprepared, but not made up into complete urticles. Quinia, sulphate of and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark. liags, not otherwiso specially provided for in this act. Kegalia and gems, statues, statunty and specimens or casts of sculpture where spe- j cially imported in good faith for the use of any society Incorporated or established solely for educational, philosophical, literary or religious purposes. Rennets, raw or prepared. Saffron and saffiower and extruct of and saffron cake. Sago, crude, and sago Hour. Salacine. Salt. Sauerkraut. Sausage skins. nr Innn Shells of all kinds. not cut, ground or otherwise manufactured. Shotgun barrels, forged, rough bored. Shrilling and other shellfish, canned or otherwise. Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not double, twisted nor advanced in manufacture { In any way. Silk cocoons and silk waste. Silkworms' eggs. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy. Snails. Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate and chlorate of. Sulphate of soda or salt cuke or tiller cake. Sodium. Sparterre, suitable for making or ornament inghuts. Specimens of natural history, botany and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets or as objects of science, and not for sale. Cassia, cassia vera and cassia buds, ungrouml. China- j nion and chips of, unground. Cloves and clove stems, unground. (linger root, unground and not preserved or cunuied. Mace. Nutmegs, l'epper, black or white, ungrouml. Pimento, unground. Spunk. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, porcelain and stoneware. Stamps?foreign postage or revenue stamps, canceled or uncanceled. Stone and sand. Storux or sty rax. Stronlia, oxide of and protoxide of stroniiau, and strontianite, or mineral carbonate of strontia. Sulphur. Sulphuric acid. Sweepings of silver and gold. Tallow and wool grease, including that known commercially us degras or brown wool grease. Tapioca, cassava or cassady. Tar and | pitch of wood,and pitch of coal tar. Tea and j tea plants. Teeth, natural or unmanufactured. Terra alba. Terra Juponica. Tin ore. cessiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks, pigs, or grain or granulated. Tinse wire, lame , or lalin. Sawed boards, plank, deals and otlier lumber, rough or dressed, except boards, plank, deals and other lumber of cedar, lignum vitie, i lancewood, ebony, box, granadillu. mahogany, rosewood, sat in wood and all other cabinet woods. Pine clapboards. Spruce clapboards. ! Hubs for wheels, posts, lust blocks, wagon blocks, our blocks, gun blocks, beudingand all like blocks or sticks, rough hewn or sawed only. ' Laths. Pickets and puliugs. Shingles. Staves of wood. Woods?namely, cedar, lignum vine, lancewood, ebony, box, grunudllla, muhoguiiy, rosewood, satinwood and all forms of cabinet woods, In the log, intended to be converted; bamboo reeds and sticks, not otherwise specially provided for in this act, in tlie rough or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips or walking canes, and iudiu malacca joints, not further manufactured than cut into lengths for the manufactures into which they are intended to be converted. Tobacco stems. Tonquin. tonqua or tonka beans. I Tripoli. Tumeric. Turpentine, Venice. Tur- | pentlne, spirits of. Turtles. Types, old and unlit only to lie reinunufactured. Uranium, oxide and suits of. Vaccine virus. Vulunia. Verdigris, or sub- j acetate of copper. Wafers, unmedicated and not edible. Wax. | Vegetable or mineral. Wearing apparel uml otnor personal etreets. \\ iinieonrio, untnanu- j fuctureil. Wood?logs and roiinil, unmanufnctured timber. Firewood, handle bolls, heading bolts, slave lnills and single bolts, bop i poles, fence jiosts, railroad ties, ship timber and ship planking, not specially provided for in tliis act. Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves. Timber, squared or sided. Wool of t lie sheep, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like animals. Works of art. the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad. Works of art. drawings, engravings, photographic pictures and philosophical and scion- I title apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily for exhibition. Works of art. collections in illustration of the | progress of the arts, science or manufactures, ! photographs, works in terra cotta, parlan, pottery or porcelain and artistic copies of antinui- I ties in metal or other ninterlal, hereafter 1m- I ported in good faith for permanent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution estahiisheu ror the encouragement or rue aria or of science. Yams. ZaiTer. THE INCOME TAX. Sec. 54. That from and after Jan. 1. 1805, and until Jan. 1,190O, there shall bo assessed, levled, collected and paid annually upon tho 1 gains, profits and income received in tho preceding calendar year by every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing therein, whether said gains, profits or income lie derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employment or vocation carried on in tho United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever, a tax of 2 per cent on the amount so derived, over and above j ,000, and a like tax shall bo levied, collected and paid annually upon the gains, pi oflts and income from all property owned, and of every business, trade or profession carried on in tho j United States by persons residing without tho United States. And tho tax herein provided for shall be assessed by the commissioner of internal revenue and collected and paid upon the gains and profits and income for the year ending Dec. 31 next preceding the time for levying, collecting and paying said tax. Sec. 55. That in estimating tho income of any person there shall bo included all income derived from interest upon notes, bonds and other securities, except such bonds of tho United States, the principal and interest of which are by the law of their issuance exempt front all federal taxation; profits realized within tho year from sales of real estate purchased within two years previous to the close of tho year for which income is estimated; interest j received or accrued upon all notes, bonds, mortgages or other forms of indebtedness I bearing interest, whether paid or not, if good and collectible, less the Interest which has become due from said person or which has been paid by him during the year; the amount of all premium on bonds, notes or j coupons; the amount of sales of live stock, sugar, cotton, wool, butter, cheese, pork, beef, mutton or other meats, hay, and grain or other vegetable or other productions, being the growth or produce of the estate of such person, less the amount expended In the purchase or production of said stock or produce, and not Including any part thereof consumed directly by the family; money and the value of all personal property acquired by ?;lft or inheritance; all other gains, profits and ncome derived from any source whatever except that portion of the salary, compensation or pay received for services in the civil, military, naval or other service of tho United States, including senators, representatives and delegates in congress, from which the tax has been deducted, and excopt that portion of any alary upon which tho employer is required by law to withhold, and does, withhold the tax and pays the same to the officer authorized to receive it. In computing Incomes the nece.-sa- f ry exjicnses actually incurred in carrying on any business, occupation or profession shall lie deducted and also all interest due or paid within the year by such person on existing indebtedness. And all national.slate, , county, school and municipal taxes, not in/tlii/ilmr tlmcu nccncwiul ntminkt lfif'fl 1 hl>tll*llid paid within the year, ahull l>c deducted from the gains, nroflts or income of the person who has actually paid the same, whether such person l>e owner, tenant or mortgagor. Also loss actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from tires, storms or shipwreck, and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise, ami debts ascertained to bo worthless, but excluding all estimated depreciation of value and losses within the year on real estate purchased within two years previous to the year for which income is estimated. Provided, That no deduction shall be made for'any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate. Provided further. That only one deduction I of $4,000shall he made from the aggregate in- I come of all the members of any family, com- | posed of one or both parents, and one or more 1 minor children or husband and wife: that ! guardians shall be allowed to makeadeduc- | tion in favor of each and every ward, except ; that in case where two or more wards are com- i firised in one family and have Joint projterty nterests, the aggregato deduction in their fa- | vor shall not exceed $4,000. And nrovided fur- I ther, that in cases where the salary or otIter compensation paid to any person in thecmploy- I mentor service of the United States shall not exceed the rate of $4,0UI j>er annum, or shall bo by fees, or uncertain or irregular in the j amount or in the time during which the same shall have accrued or been earned, such sala- < ry or other compensation shall be included in estimating the annual guilts, prolits or income of the person to whom the same shull have been paid, and shall include that portion of any Income or salary U]ton which a tax has not been paid by the employer, where the employer is required by law to pay on the excess over $4,000; provided a'so. that in computing the income of any person, corporation, company or association, there shall not be included the amount received front any corporation, company or association, as dividends upon the stock of such corporation, company or associa- | tion, if the tax of 2 per cent lias been paid ; upon its net profits by said corporation, com- | pony or association as required by this act. Must Iteport His Profits. Sec. 50. That it shall lie the duty of all persons of lawful age having an income of more than $0,500 for the taxable year, computed on the basis herein prescribed, to make and render a list or return, on or before t he dav provided by law, In such form and manner as may be directed by the commissioner of internal revenue, with the approval of the sejretury of the treasury, to the collector or a deputy col- j lector of the district in which they reside, of the amount of their income, gains and profits j as aforesaid. And all guardians and trustees, executors, administrators, agents, receivers i and all persons or corporations acting in any fiduciary capacity, shall make and render a list or return, as aforesaid, to the collector or a deputy collector of the district in which j such person acting in a fiduciary capacity resides or docs business, of the amount of income, gains nud profits of any minor or person for whom they act, but persons having Jess than $2,500 income are not required to make such report, and the collector j or deputy collector shall require every list or return to be verified by the oath or affirmation of the party ren- j derlng it and may increase the amount of any list or return if he lias reason to believe that the same is understated, and in ease any such person having a taxable income shall neglect or refuse to make and render such list and return or shall render a willfully false or fraudulent list or return It shall be the duty or the collector or deputy collector to make such list, according to the best information lie can obtain, by the examination of such person or any other evidence and to add 50 per cent j as a penalty to the amount of the tax due on such list in all cases of willful neglect or refusal to make and render a list or return, and i in all cases of a willfully false or fraudulent j list or return having been rendered to add 100 l per cent as a penalty to the amount of tax I ascertained to he due, the tax and the additions thereto as a penalty to be assessed and collected in the manner provided for in other cases of willful neglect or refusal to render a list or return or of rendering a false or fraudulent return. Provided, That any person or corporation in his, her, or its own behalf, or as such iiduciary, shall be permitted to declare, under oath or affirmation, the form and manner of which shall be prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, that lie, she or his, her or its ward or beneficiary was not possessed of an | income of $4,1*10, liable to be assessed according to the provisions of this act; or may declare that lie, she or it, or his, her or its ward or beneficiary has been assessed and has paid an income tax elsewhere in the same year, under authority of the United States, upon all his, her or its income, gains, or profits, and upon ull the income, gains or profits for which he, she or it is liable as such fiduciary, as pre- i scribed by law; anil if the collector or deputy collector shall be satisfied of the truth or the declaration, such person or corporation shall thereupon be exempt from income tax in the aid district for that year; or if the list or re- i turn of any person or corporation, company or association shall have beou increased by tlio collector or deputy collector, such person or corporation, company or association may bo permitted to prove the amount of income liable to be assessed; but such proof shall not bo considered us conclusive of the facts, and no deductions claimed in such cases shall be made or allowed until approved by the collector or deputy collector. Any |>erso11 or company, corporation or asso- j elation feeling aggrieved by the decision of the j deputy collector in such cases may appeal to j the collector of the district, and his decision | thereon, unless reversed by the commissioner of internal revenue, shall be final. If dissa s- j fled with the decision of the collector such per- ! eon or corporation, company or association may submit the case, with ull the papers, to , the commissioner of internal revenue for his decision, and may furnish the testimony of witnesses to prove uny relevant facts, bavin : served notice to that effect ui>on the commissioner of internal revenue, as herein prescribed. Such notic" shall state the time und place at which, and tne officer before whom the testimony will be taken; the name, age, residence and business of the proposed witness, with tlio questions to be propounded to the witness or a brief statement of the substance of the testimony lie Is expected to give. Provided, that the government may at the same time and place take testimony upon like notice to rebut the testimony of the witnesses examined by the person taxed. The notice shall bo delivered or mailed to the commissioner of Internal revenue a sufficient number of days previous to the day fixed for taking the testimony to allow him after its receipt at least five days, exclusive of the period required for muil communication with the place ut which tlio testimony is to be taken, in which to give, should he so desire, instructions as to tlie cross examination of the proposed witness. A\ believer practicable, the affidavit or deposition shall be taken before a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue, in which easo reasonable notice shall be given to the collector or deputy collector of the time fixed for tuking the deposition or affidavit. Provided further, That no penalty s]mll bo assessed upon any person or corporation, company or association for such neglect or refusal or for making or rendering a willfully false or fraudulent return, except after reasonable notice of the time and place of hearing, to be prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue, so as to give the person charged an opportunity to bo heard. Jjec. 57. That every corporation, company or association doing business for profit shall mako and render to the collector of its collection district, on or before the first Monday of March in every year, beginning with the year 1895, a full roturn, verified by oath or affirmation, in j such form as tlio commissioner of internal revenue may prescribe, of all tho following matters for the whole calendar year last preceding the dale of such return: First?The gross profits of such corporation, company or association, from all kinds or I busineaa uLnvcry imuic and uaUirg, seconu?nit; vxyviiscn ui nuuu i?r|i(irhuuii, company or association, exclusive of interest, annuities and dividends. Third?The net profits of such eor|K>ration, company or association, without allowance for interest, annuities or dividends. Fourth?The amount naid on account of i itcrest, annuities and dividends, stated separately. Fifth?The amount paid in salaries of $4,000 or less to each person employed. Sixth?The amount pafd in salaries of more than $4,(100 to each person employed, and the, name and adaress of each of such persons, andthe amount paid to each. llooks to lie Inspected. _ ra mi.?a I* /Intf avart' CUU. tX>. lllill H Ollilii UU 111V UUtj XJ*. Vfw; corporation, company or association doing business for profit, to keep full, regular and accurate booko of account, upon which all its transactions shall be entered from day to day, in regular order, and whenever a collector or deputy collector of the district in which any corjioration, company or association Is assessable shall believe that a true and-correct return of the income of such corporation, company or association has not been made, he shall make an affidavit of such belief and of the grounds on which It is founded, and tile the same with the commissioner or internal revenue, ana ir saia commissioner shall, on examination thereof, and after full bearing upon notice given to all parties, conclude there is good ground for suen belief, he shall issue a request in writing to such corporation, company or association to permit an inspection of the books of such corporation, company or association to be made; and if such corporation, company or association shall refuse to comply with such renuest, then the collector or deputy collector ?if the district shall make, from such information as he can obtain, an estimate of the amount of such income and then add 50 per cent thereto, which said assessment so mane shall then be the lawful assessment of such income. Sec. 59. That it shall bo the duty of every collector of internal revenue, to whom any payment of any taxes other than the tax rep resented by an adhesive stamp or other engraved stamp Is made under the provisions of this act, to give to the person making such payment a full written or printed receipt, expressing the amount paid ami the particular account for which such payment was made; . and whenever such payment is made such collector shall, if required, give a separate receipt for each tax paid by any debtor, on account of payments made to or to be made by him to separate creditors, in sucli form that such debtor can conveniently produce tlio same separately to his several creditors in satisfaction of their respective demands to the amounts specified in such receipts, and such receipts shall be sufficient evidence in favor of such debtor to justify liitn in withholding the amount therein expressed from his next payment to his creditor, but such creditor may, upon giving to his aebtor a full written receipt, acknowledging the payment to him of whatever sum may be actually paid, and accepting the amount of tax paid as aforesaid (specifying the same) as a further satisfaction of the debt to that amount, require the surrender to him of such collecter's receipt. Extra Tax on Arrears. Kco. fif). The taxes on incomes herein im posed shall be due and payable on or before the first day of July in each year, and to any sum or sums annually due and unpaid after the first day of July as aforesaid, and for 10 days after notice and demand thereof by the collector, there shall be levied in addition thereto the sum of 6 per cent on the amount of taxes unpaid and interest at the rate of 1 percent per month upon said tax from the time the same becomes due as a penalty, except from the estutes of deceased, insane or insolvent persons. Nonresidents, Sec. 61. Any nonresident may also receive the benefit of the exemptions hereinbefore provided for by filing with the deputy collector of any district a true list of all his property and source of income in the United States, and complying with the provisions of section 29 of this act, as if a resident. In computing Income he shall include all income from every source, but unless lie be a citizen of the United States he shall only pay on that part of the income which is derived from any source in tho United States. Incase such nonresident fails to file such statement, the collector of euch district shall collect the tax on the income derived from property situated in his district subject to income tax. mnking no allowance for exemptions, and all property belonging to such nonresident shall be liable to distraint for tax; Provided, that nonresident corporations shall be subject to the same laws as to tax as resident corporations, and the collection of the tax shall be made in tho same manner as provided for collections of taxes against nonresident persons. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS. The following additional requirements of revenue law are of importance: Internal Revenue Stamps. It shall be the duty of every collector of internal revenue, to whom any payment of any taxes other than the tax represented by an adhesive stamp or other engraved stamp is made under the provisions of this act, to give to the person making such payment a full written or printed receipt, expressing the amount paid and the particular account for which such payment was made, and whenever such payment is made such collector shall, if required, give a separate receipt for each tax paid by any debtor, on account of payments made to or to be made by him to separate creditors, in such form that such debtor can conveniently produce the same separately to his several creditors in satisfaction of their respective demands to the amounts specified in such receipts: and such receipts shall be sufficient evidence in favor of such debtor, to justify him in withholding the amount therein expressed from his next payment to his creditor, but such creditor may, upon giving to his debtor a full, written receipt, acknowledging the payment to him of whatever sum may be actually paid, and acccniim? the amount of tax naid as aforesaid (specifying the same), as a further satisfaction of the debt to that amount, require the surrender to him of such collector's receipt. Playing Cards. On and after Aug. 1, 1894. there shall be levied, collected and paid, by adhesive stamps, a tax of 2 cents for and upon every pack of plaving cards containing not more than 54 cards, manufactured and sold or removed, and also upon every pack in the stock of any d -aler on and after that date, and the commissioner of internal revenue, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, shall make regulations as to dies and adhesive stamps. Goods Made by Convict Labor. All goods, wares, articles and merchandise manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor shall not be entitled to entry at auy of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby Iirohibited, aod the secretary of the treasury s authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision. Imports of Cigars. Sec. 2,804 of the revised statutes is amended 60 as to read: "Sec. 2,804. No cigars shall be imported unless the same are packed in boxes of not more than 600 cigars in each box, and no entry of imported cigars shall be allowed of less quantity than 3,000 in a single package, and all cigars on Importation shall be placed in public store or bonded warehouse, and shall not be removed therefrom until the same shall have been Inspected and a stamp affixed to each box indicating such inspection, and also a serial number to be recorded in the custom house. And the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized to provide the requisite stamps, and to make all necessary regulations for carrying the above provisions of the law into effect." Value of Foreign Coins. The value of foreign coins as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value, and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated quarterly by the director of the mint, and be proclaimed by the secretary of the treasury immediately after the passage of this act, and thereafter quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July and October in each year. And the values o proclaimed shall do followed in estimating the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the United States during the quarter for which the value is S reclaimed, and the date of the consular certication of any invoice shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered the date of exportation, provided that the secretary of the treasury may order the reliquidation of any entry at a different value whenever satisfactory evidence shall be ^produced to him showing that the value in l nited States currency of the foreign money specified in the invoice was at the date of certification at least 10 per cent more or less than the value proclaimed during t lie quarter in which the consular certification occurred. Little People on the Farm. It pays to hire our little boys ami girls to help manage the farm. There are mum* thintrs thev can easily do that are a great help to us. Tliev can be interested in farm life and work if rightly encouraged. My little boys, aged 4 and 5 years, are up before 5 o'clock in the morning and want to "do something" all day long. I frequently hire them to help for a few cents at a time and pay them "on demand" when the work is well done. They take pains and enjoy being on the farm. We require them to go to bed and take a nap every day after dinner. They each have a small safe with a combination lock, in which their money is kept. Sometimes they send to the store for some candy or nuts or i>encil and paper. They understand what money is for. and I hope will make good use of it. When they are a little older, we shall take them into partnership and give them a chance to "do something all OUT own selves. ?wr, umiiuj in-Illlcnian. Fatiguing Pictures. Students of the comic papers are becoming a little tired of certain of their humors. Most tiresome of all, because most meaningless and prevalent, is the picture of two young women making sarcastic remarks to each other. There is nothing in these remarks that asks pictorial enhancement. The women might just at well be offering questions in political economy or cooking for all the pictures discover. This practice of putting the figures of two women above every reprint of the conundrum, "When is a door not a door? When it's ajar," originated with Punch, but then Punch at least tries to get a little variety in the costumes and accessories and is sometim? sn tii.it it will actuallv represent this brilliant talk occurring on horseback. The dialogic women would best leave the comic papers and go into the fashion and society weeklies.? Brooklyn Eagle.