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f _1 ' _ -2 I " ^ ^ ?? "'" ' ???^ ? ? 1? ? ? ?? ?? - _ IBSUBD TWIOE-A-WBEK?-WEDNESDAY AKTD FHI33AY. l. m. grist & sons, Publishers, f % <ifamilg Demspager: Jfor flic jpromofioit of the Jlolificat, Social, ^gricultaal and ffiommei;rial Jnfcrcsls of flic jsouth. {cram?18' VOLUME 41~ YORKVILLE, S. C., AVBDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. NUAIBEE toT FROM TH BY CAPTAIN C Copyright, 1694, by the J. B. Ltpplncott Co. ? CHAPTER V. Before 7 o'clock that same morning Captain Chester had come'to the conclusion that only one course was left open for him. After the brief talk with Sloat at the office he had increased the perplexity and distress of that easily muddled soldier by requesting hia company in a brief visit to the stables and corrala A "square" and reliable old veteran was the quartermaster sergeant who had charge of those establishments. Chester had known him for years, and his fidelity and honesty were matters the officers of his former regiment could not too highly commend. When Sergeant Parks made an official statement, there was no shaking its solidity. He Rlent in a little hex of a house close bv the entrance to the main stable, in which were kept the private horses of several of the officers, and among them Mr. Jerrold's, and it was his boast that day or night no horse left that 6table without his knowledge The old man was superintending the morning labors of the stable hands and looked up in surprise at so early a visit from the officer of the day. k "Were you here all last night, sergeant?" was Chester's abrupt question. "Certainly, sir, and up until 1 o'clock or more " "Were any horses out during the night?any officers' horses, I mean?" "No, sir, not one " "I thought possibly some officers might have driven or ridden to town." "No, 6ir. The only horses that crossed this threshold going out last night v were Mr. Sutton's team from town. They were put ap here until near 1 o'clock, and then the doctor sent for them. I locked up right after that and can swear nothing else went out." Chester entered the stable and looked curiously around. Presently his eye lighted on a tall, rangy bay horse that was being groomed in a wide stall near the doorway. "That's Mr. .Tflimld's Roderick, isn't it?" "Yes, sir. He's fresh as a daisy too. Hasn't been out for three days, and Mr. Jerrold's going to drive the dogcart this morning." Chester turned away. "Sloat," said he as they left the stable, "if Mr. Jerrold was away from v, the post Last night?and you heard me say .he was out of his quarters? could he have gone any way except afoot after what you heard Park say?" "Gone in the Buttons' outfit, I suppose, " was Sloat's cautious answer. "In which event he would have been seen by the sentry at the bridge, would he not?" "Ought to have been certainly." "Then we'll go back to the guardhouse. " And wonderingly and uncomfortably Sloat followed. He had long since begun to wish he had held his peace and said nothing about the con , iounaea rou can. xie nateu rows 01 any kind. He didn'c like Jerrold, but he would have crawled ventre a terre across the wide parade sooner than see a scandal in the regiment he loved, and i' was becoming apparent to his slugging faculties that it was no mere matter of absence from quarters that was involving Jerrold. Chester was all aflame over that picture business, he remembered, and tne whole drift of his present investigation was to prove that Jerrold was not absent from his post, but absent only from his quarters. If so, where had he spent his time until nearly 4? Sloat's heart was heavy with vague apprehension. He knew that Jerrold had borne Alice Ren wick away from the party at an unusually early hour for such things to break up. He kn4*v that he and others had protested against such desertion, but she declared it could not be helped. He remembered another thing?a matter that he thought of at the time, only from another point of view. It now seemed to have significance bearing on this very matter, for Chester suddenly asked: "Wasn't it rather odd that Miss Beaubien was not here at the dance? She has never missed one, seems to me, since Jerrold began spooning with her last year." vv ay, sne was nere. "She was? Are you sure? Rollins never spoke of it, and we had been talking of her. I inferred from what he said that she was not there at all. And ' I saw her drive homeward with her j mother right after parade, so it didn't j occur to me that she could have come out again all that distance in time for ' the dance. Singular I Why shouldn't Rollins have told me?" Sloat grinned. A dreary sort of smile it was too. "You go into society so seldom you don't see these things. I'vo more than half suspected Rollins of be, ing quite ready to admire Miss Beaubien himself, and sinco Jerrold dropped her he has had plenty of opportunity." ! "Great guns! I never thought of it! i If I'd known she was to bo there, I'd havo gone myself last night. How did she behave to Miss Renwick?" "Why, sweet and smiling and chipper as you please If anything, I think Miss Renwick was cold and distant to her. I couldn't make it out at all." "And did Jerrold dance with her?" "Once, I think, and they had a talk out on the piazza?just a minute. I happened to be at the door and couldn't help seeing it, and what got me was this: Mr. Hall came out with Miss Ren- ! wick on his arm. They were chatting and laughimz as thev nassed me. but E RANKS, j HARLES KING. the moment she caught sight of Jerrold and Miss Beaubien *>*he stopped and said: 'I think I won't stay out here. It's too chilly,' or something like it, and went right in, and then Jerrold dropped Miss Beaubien and went after her. He just handed the young lady over to me, saying he was engaged for the next dunce, and skipped.'' "How did she like that? Wasn't she furious?" "No. That's another thing that got ma She smiled after him, all sweetness, and?well, she did say: 'I count upon you. You'll bo there,' and he nodded. Ob, she was bright as a button after that!" "What did she mean? Be 'where,' do you suppose? Sloat, this all means more to me and to us all than I can explain." "I don't know. I can't imagine." "Was it to see her again that night?" "I don't kn*w at alL If it was, he fooled her, for he never went near her again. Rollins put her in the carriage. " "Whose? Did she come with the Suttons?" "Why, certainly. I thought you knew that" "And neither oldMme. Beanbien nor Mrs. Sutton with them? What was the old squaw thinking of?" By this time they had nearea the guardhouse, whore several of the men were seated awaiting the call for the nest relief. All arose at the shout of the sentry on No. 1 turning out the guard for the officer of the day. Chester made hurried and impatient acknowledgment of the salute and called to the sergeant to send him the sentry who was at the bridge at 1 o'clock. It turned out to be a young soldier who had enlisted at the post only six months before and was already known as one of the most intelligent and .promising candidates for a corporalship in the garrison. "Were you on duty at the bridge at 1 o'clock, Carey?" asked the captain. "I was, sir. My relief went on at 11:45 and came off at 1:45." "What persons passed your post during that time?" "There was a squad or two of men coming back from town on pass. I halted them, sir, and Corporal Murray came down and passed them in." "I don't mean coming from town. Who went the other way?" "Uniy one carnage, sir?Mr. outton's. " "Could you see who were in it?" "Certainly, sir. It was right under the lnnjppost this end of the bridge that I stood when I challenged. Lieutenant Rollins answered for them and passed them out. He was sitting beside Mr. Suttou as they drove up, then jumped out and gave mo the countersign and bade them good night right there. " "Rollins again," thought Chester. "Why did lie keep this from me?" "Who were in the carriage?" he asked. "Mr. Sutton, sir, on the front seat, driving, and two young ladies on the back seat." "Nobody else?" "Not a soul, sir. I could see in it plain as day. One lady was Miss Sut-ton and the other Miss Beaubien. I know I was surprised at seeing rue lauer, uecause she drovo home in her own carriage last evening right after parade. I was on post there at that hour,.too, sir. The second relief is on from 5:45 to 7:45." "That will do, Carey. I see your relief is forming now." As the officers walked away and Sloat silently plodded along beside his dark browed senior the latter turned to him: "1 should say that there was 110 way in which Mr Jerrold could have gone town ward last night. Should not you?" "He might have crossed the bridge while the third relief was on and got a horse at the other side. " "He didn t do that, Sloat. I had already questioned the sentry on that relief. It was the third that I inspected and visited this morning. " "Well, how do you know he wanted to go to town? Why couldn't he have gone up the river or out to the range? Perhaps there was a little game of 'draw' out at camp." "There was no light in camp, much less a little game of draw, after 1 o'clock. Yon know well enough that there is nothing of that kind going on with Gaines in command. That isn't Jerrold's game, even if those fellows were bent on ruining their eyesight and nerve and spoiling the chance of getting the men on the division and army teams. I wish it were his game instead of what it is." "Still, Chester, he may have been out in the country somewhere. You seem bent on the conviction he was up to mischief here around this post. I won't ask you what you mean, but there's more than one way of getting to town if a man wants to very bad." "How? Of course ho can take a skiff and row down the river, but he'd never be back in tihie for reveille. There goes 6 o'clock, and I must get homo and shave and think this over. Keep your own counsel, no matter who asks you. If you hear any questions or talk about shooting last night, you know nothing, heard nothing and saw nothing. " "Shooting last night?" exclaimed Sloat, all agog with eagerness and excitement now. "Where was it? Who was it?" But Chester turned a deaf ear upon him and walked away. He wanted to see Rollins and went straight home. "Why didn't you tell me Miss Beau bicn was out here l;isc night?'' was trie question he asked as soon as he had entered the room whore, all aglow from his cold bath, the youngster was dressing for breakfast He colored vividly, then laughed. "Well, you nover gave me much chance to say anything, did you? You talked all the time, .as I remember, and suddenly vanished and slammed the door. I would havo told you had you asked me." But all the same it was evident for the first time that here was a subject Rollins was shy of mentioning. "Did you go down and sec them across sentry post?" "Certainly. Jerrold asked me to. He said he had to take Miss Renwick home and was too tired to come back?was goring to turn in. I was glad to do anything to be civil to tho Suttons." "Why, I'd like to know? They have never invited you to the bouse or shown you any uttcmiuu wnmevw. xuu mo not their stylo at all, Rollins, and I'm glad of it. It wasn't for their sake yon staid there until 1 o'clock instead of being hero in bed. I wish"?and he looked wistfully, earnestly at his favorite now?"I wish I could tfiink it wasn't for the sake of Miss Beaubien's black eyes and aboriginal beauty." "Look here, captain," said Rollins, with another rush of color to his face, "you don't seem to fancy Miss Beau bien, and?she's a friend of mine, and one I don't like to hear slightingly spoken of. You said a good deal last night that?well, wasn't pleasant to hear." "I know it, Rollins. I beg your pardou. I didn't know then that you were more than slightly acquainted with her. I'm an old bat and go out very little, "w-hy didn't yon ten me miss acauoien uas out here lust night?" but some things are pretty clear to my eyes, and?don't you bo falling in love with Nina Beaubien. That is no match for you." "I'm sure you never had a word to say against her father. The old colonel was a perfect type of the French gentleman, from all I hear. " "Yes, and her mother is as perfect a typo of a Chippewa squaw, if she is only a half breed and claims to be only a sixteenth. Rollins, there's Indian blood enough in Nina Beaubien's little finger to make me afraid of her. She is strong as death in love or hate, and you must have seen how she hung on Jerrold's every word all last winter. You must know she is not tho girl to be lightly dropped now." "She told me only a day or two ago they were tho best of friends and had never been anything else," said Rollins hotly. "Has it gone that far, my boy? I had not thought it so bad by any means. It's no use talking with a man who has lost his heart. His reason goes with it.'' And Chester turned away. "You don't know anything about it," was all poor Rollins could think of as a suitable thing to shout after him, and it made 110 more impression than it deserved. As has been said, Captain Chester had decided before 7 o'clock that but one course lay open to him in the matter as now developed. Had Armitage been there he would have had an adviser, but there was no other man whoso counsel he cared to seek. Old Captain Gray was as bitter against Jerrold as Chester himself and with even better reason, for he knew well the cause of his little daughter's listless manner and tearful eyes. She had been all radiance and joy at the idea of coming to Sibley and being near the great cities, but not one happy look had he seen in her sweet and wistful face since the day of her arrival. Wilton, too, was another captain who disliked Jerrold, and Chester's rugged sense of fair play told him that it was not among the enemies of the young officer that he should now seek advice. but that if he had a friend among the older and wiser heads in the regiment it was due to him that that older and wiser head be given a chance to think a little for Jerrold's sake. And there was not one among the seniors whom ho could call upon. As he ran over their names Chester for the first time realized that his ex-subaltern had not a friend among the captains and senior officers now on duty at the fort. His indifference to duties, his airy foppishness, his conceit and self sufficiency, had all served to create a feeling against him, and this had been intensified by his conduct since coming to Sibley. The youngsters still kept up jovial relations with and professed to like him, but among the euiors there were many men who had only a nod for him on meeting. Wilton had epitomized the situation by saying he "had no use for a masher," and poor old Gray had one day scowlingly referred to him as "the professional beauty.'' In view uf all this feeling, Chester would gladly have found some man to counsel further delay, but there was none. He felt that he must inform the colonel at once of the fact that Mr. Jer roTcTwas aBsenF" ffom" Efs~~quarter8 at the time of the firing, of his belief that it was Jerrold who struck him and sped past the sentry in the dark, and of his conviction that the sooner the young offloer waft called to account for his strange conduot the better. As to the episodes of tho ladder, the lights and the form at the dormer window, he meant, for the present at least, to lock them in his heart But ho forgot that others, too, must have heard those shots, and that others, too, would bo making inquiries. TO BE CONTINUED. IrtiscrUanmts jKcntlini). HOW GOLD IS EXPORTED. Two or more million dollars of gold withdrawn from the United States subtreasury and put aboard steamers for shipment to Europe in one day sounds like a pretty big undertaking to per sons outside of Wall street, yet it is hut a few hours labor to the men who make handling gold their business, and the whole transaction is a simple one. When a banker, or coffee merchant, or whoever it may be, determines to send gold abroad to meet his obliga- ' lions, instead of buying bills of exchange, he accumulates the amount he inteuds to ship in the form of greenhacks, treasury notes, or certificates, ' and presents them at the sub-treasury. ' The government is bound to maintain : its credit; much as it may dislike to see the gold go, aud the treasury officials turn over the equivalent of the currency presented in gold coin at short notice. When the gold is handed to the shipper all government responsibility ceases. The yellow metal is put in canvass bags and carried to a cooper, whose specialty is mukiug kegs for shipping gold. The gold kegs are about 18 inches high and 10 inches in diameter | at the ceuter. They are made of oak, , and are firmly strapped with iron ( hoops. The packing of a keg of gold j is an easy matter to the "gold cooper." , A keg will hold $50,000 of gold coin, , and the cooper will have $1,000,000 of | it all packed for shipment in an hour's , time, each keg weighs 225 pouuds, , and is securely sealed. It is then ready for the truckman, who takes it to the steamer. 1 i * n > m?i n i * %?rv an it net inn naiirv i A JAIMiV-i'lIB IMAU ur LI'SIUB UUti .1. A Japanese book begins where ours ends, the word "finis" cotniug where we put our title page. Consequently, when we read a book, we turn the 1 leaves from right to left, while the Japanese turn them from left to right, '> The Japanese put their foot notes at the top of the page, and the reader puts his book mark in at the bottom. 1 In writing a letter, the Jap puts the stamp on the seal, and writes the name of the town first, and the name of the i addressee last, thus exactly reversing our way of putting the particular first and the general last. The complete address thus assumes an appearance < which to us is comical in the extreme, as, for example: Japau, Tokio, Akasa- 1 ka District, Such-and-Such a street, 19 Number, Smith John Mr. In Japan, children are called by 1 their family name, or "last" uame lirst, and their "given" or Christian i second. It is as if we were to call our youngsters in such a way as Jones Tom, Smith Peter, Robinson Mary. | In Japau, the total of a bill is put at the top, and the items beneath, and ] many tools and implements are used in a way contrary to ours. For instance, Japanese turn the lock the "wrong way," and Japanese carpeuters saw 1 and plaue toward, instead of away from themselves. When the ingeni/wic Tan wue fiivf. intrnrlnocd t,n cork- 1 VMS, screws, his notion was to twist the 1 buttle on the screw. The Jap mounts his horse on the right side, all parts of the harness are fastened on the right, the mane is made to hang on the leftside; and, strangest of all, when the animal is brought 1 home and put into the stable, its head 1 is placed where we suppose its tail ought to be, and the animal is fed from a tul) at the stable door. Boats are hauled upon the beach I stern first. The Japanese in naming I the points of the compass, do not say ; northeast or southwest, but "east ' north," "west south." The hest room of a house is not ai the front, but at the back. The garden too, is at the back. When building a house, the roof is constructed I first, then, the pieces having beeu l numbered, it is broken up again and I kept until the substructure is finished. I Politeness in Japan prompts the re- I moval of the footgear, not of the headgear. The ladies have different ideas I .i 1 i U*.. Oil Uloss ami ntaui^ Iiuui muse ui uuropeaus. A European beauty wears i low-necked and almost sleeveless i dresses, but would be shocked at the s bare thought of showing her ankles; a ! Japanese keeps the upper portions : carefully covered, and shows her feet, i The women of the middle and lower < classes, when dressed for an evening ] entertainment, show as much of their J feet as they can, sometimes being en- i tirely barefooted. In Japan the ladies j dress splendidly until they are 1G?the < age about which, in our country, they I only begin to dress well. White, not black, is worn as mourn- I ing. Marriages are solemnized in the i daytime with us; night is the proper | lime in Japan. Here the wedding- l breakfast takes place at the Jfeuse I of the bride's parents, who < invitations and defray the i H Japan there is any feast at ull, the : bridegroom bears the burden. i We eat together at long tables. In Japan small tables are set for just one l person. Their servants stand in front, i instead ofplaeing the plates on the ta- I ble from behind. i Doctor's bills are unknown iu Japan, j When a physician is called in, he never i asks for his fee; but wheu his services >. are no longer required, a present is i miiHfi to him nf whatever Slim the na- I tient or his friends deem to be just i compensation. The doctor is supposed to smile, take the fee, bow und < thank his patron. < Children are not kissed in Japan. I To the strict observance of this rule I has been truced the remarkable ab- s sence of various inl'untile diseases in I that country. Indeed, kissing and embracing are practically unknown as tokens of affection. Such actions would be held to be highly immodest, Girls do not kiss one another, nor do parents kiss or embrace their children ; < and this rule holds good of all classes \ of society, from the highest nobility to < the humblest peasantry. I Children never wear boots, and know no cradles. They are carried t until they can -walk, first ou the f mother's back, then on the older broth- t er's or sister's back. They are not 1 weaned until tbey are several years t old, as a rule. The small children of t the poor, who are given to straying i and have no nurses to look after them, 1 are very sensibly safe-guarded by a t simple precaution of hanging labels t round their necks, which tell their i names and addresses. r There are no old maids in Japan, t When a woman is not married at a s certain age, the authorities choose a t * ? " i ? - t_ _ _ 11 nusoaua ror ner wnom sne is couipeu- c ed to marry. i TALL STRUCTURES. ( The tallest chimney was built at 5 Port Dundas, Glasgow, Scotland, 1857 ! to 1859, for F. Townsend. It is the high- j est chimney in the world (454 feet) and ^ one of the loftiest masonry structures in existence. It is, independent of its size, one of the best specimens of sub- { stantial, well-made brick work in exisLeuce. In Europe there are only two church steeples that exceed this struct- ^ ure in height?namely, that of the Co- . logne Cathedral (510 feet) and that of g lhe Strasburg Cathedral (468 feet), j The Great Pyramid of Gizeh was originally 480 feet, although not so high at present. The United States outtops . I hem all with its Washington raonu- j raent, 550 feet high and the tower of the Philadelphia public building is 537 feet high. j The Eiflel Tower at Paris surpasses t all other terrestrial metal structures j with its altitude of nearly 1000 feet. The "Great Tower" for London, in course of construction from designs of Mr. Henry Davis, C. E. will outtop all metal structures, being built of steel, and its extreme height will be 1250 feet when finished. The highest and most remarkable J metal chimney in the world is erected j at the Imperial foundry at Halsbrucke, . near Frieberg, in Saxouy. The height of this structure is 452.6 feet and 15.74 feet iu internal diameters. It is situa- . led on the right bauk of Mulde, at an . elevation of 219 feet above that of the foundry works, so that its total height above the sea is no less than 711.75 feet. The works are situated on the left bank of the river, and the furnace gases are conveyed across the river to the chimney on a bridge through a , pipe 3227i feet in length. The highest artificial structure iu America is the water works tower at Eden Park, Cincinnati, O. The floor of the tower, reached by elevators, is 522 feet above the Ohio river. The . I A A i C ~ U~.,^ |U? T f 1 UiiSU 15 1Ut ICCl UUUVC lLIU Oil cauj. u j the height of the elevator shaft be add- j ed to the observation floor the grand , total height is 589 feet. The highest office building in the world is that of the Manhattan Life Insurance company, of New York city. ( Its height above the sidewalk is 347 i feet, and its foundations go down 53 t feet below the same being 20 feet be- , low tidewater level making a total of t 400 feet. The foundations consist of c 15 masonry piers, and are carried by ^ the same number of steel caissons. The ^ latter were sunk to bedrock by the t pneumatic process. The cantilever s system was used for the foundations, t B6T In the great outlay which George \ Vanderbilt is making at Biltmore, in i North Carolina, the young millionaire has entertained a more serious purpose than is generally known. Agreatdeal s has been written about the enormous 1 house, with its library, chapel, scores of i bedrooms, and the army of servants t which will be required to keep it up, t hut not every one knows that Mr. 1 Vanderbilt intends to make his estate \ si Mecca for all those who are seriously 1 interested in the study of forestry, j; scientific fanning aud horticulture. 1 He has land enough to carry out any 1 scheme of this sort, no matter how big r it may be, as he can go 40 miles in a 1 lireet line from his own door without t passing the confines of his domain, c He proposes, therefore, to create a t neighborhood of his own on this vast 1 property, which includes, among other j cultivated and uncultivated tracts, one 1 forest alone of more than 100,000 acres. 1 He will build a village containing s houses, stores, and a picturesque inn, t md apartments will be rented to all I properly accredited students who desire to avail themselves of the facilities of- t fered there for the study of the sciences s which are his hobby. The farm will be i conducted after the most approved i 1 scientific fashion, and forestry, which is almost unknown in America, and will become in a few years a science of the greatest importance to us, will be carried on experimentally and practially to an extent never before attempted in this country. Mr. Vanderbilt hay just returned to New York from Biltmore, where he has been spendiug the summer in a completed wing of his irreat mansion. He expects to have the house finished in time for a Christr mas house warming, the guests at which will be chielly members of his awn family. Edgar Poe wrote a story juce about a man whose income was so iarge that landscape gardening was the only hobby that could make any serious inroads on it, and it may be that it was this story that gave Mr. Vanderbilt his idea.?N. Y. Sun. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. THURSDAY. The whole day was devoted to the iiscussion of the educational article tvilh the result of practically agreeing >n the following section introduced by Benator Tillman : "Section 5. The general assembly shall provide for a liberal system of *ree public schools for children between he ages of 6 and 21 years, not mentally disabled, and for the division of the counties into suitable school districts,, is compact in form as practicable, bavng regard to natural boundaries, as arge creeks, etc., and not to exceed 49 lor be less than 9 square miles in irea: Provided that in cities of 10,000 nhabitants and over, this limit shall )ot apply : Provided, further, that if iny school district laid out under this lection shall embrace cities or towns ilready organized into special school listricts in which graded school buildngs have beer, erected by the issuance >f bonds, or by special taxation or by lonation, all the. territory included in ;aid school district shall bear its just, iroportion of any tax that may be leved to liquidate such bonds, or support be public schools therein: Provided urther, that nothing in this article contained shall be construed as a releal of the laws under which the several graded school districts of the State ire organized." After lots of debate, during which jovernor Evans and others proposed otake the school tax out of the conititution and leave it to the legislature, t was agreed to leave the tax in the constitution and make it 3 mills on the iollar instead of 2 mills as heretofore. Phis idea was championed by Sena,or Tillman. FRIDAY. Some of the members wanted to . nake the poll tax $3, some wanted $2, iome SI.50 and still others contended 'or SI. The SI tax was agreed upon. The sensation of the day was anoth;r heated battle between Ben Tillman md George D. George D. Tillman ittacked Clemson college and called it i humbug and a farce. Ben Tillman lefended the college in a spirited speech. The debate grew out of the proposition for the continued maiuainance of all the State's higher insti.utions. The matter was not settled. Section 7 of the school article, which eads as follows, was adopted with but ittle friction : "Separate schools shall pe provided for the children of the vhite and colored races, and no child pf either race shall ever be permitted to ittend a school provided for the other ace. An ordinauce to postpone the next egular session of the general assembly 'rom the fourth Tuesday in November intil the secoud Tuesday in January, vas adopted. saturday. Nothing was done on Saturday but ,alk. The subject was the various nstitutions of higher education, and he question was whether tbey should )e maintained by the constitution, or eft to the legislature. ^The matter ,vas not settled during the day. monday. The three days' tight on the question )f putting higher institutions of learnng in the constitutions, or leaving them 0 the legislature, was settled by au igreement to leave the whole matter to he legislature. Less tbau a majority >f all the delegates was present. The rote on the matter was 63 to 49. The rotes of Messrs. Brice and Wilson are lot recorded. Messrs. A. H. White, iud S. E. White voted to provide for he maintainance of higher institutions n the constitution. Mr. Ashe voted vith the majority to leave the higher nstitutions to the legislature. A Boy I Can Trust.?I ouce visited 1 public school. At recess a little felow came up and spoke to the teacher. Ls he turned to go dowu the platform he master said, "This is the boy I can rust; he never failed tne." I followed lim with my eye, and looked at him vhen he took his seat at recess. He iud a fine, manly face, I thought a cood deal about the master's remark. A hat a diameter naa mat noy earned : de had already gotten what would be nore to him than a fortune. It would >e a passport into the best firm in the :ity, and what is better, into the coufilence and respect of the whole comnunity. I wonder if the boys know low soon they are rated by other peo>le ? Every boy iu the neighborhood is mown, and opiuions are foruied of lim ; he has a character either favorible or unfavorable. A boy of whom he master can say, "I can trust him ; le never failed me," will never want imployment. The fidelity, promptless and industry which he shows at ichool are in demand everywhere. He vho is faithful in little will be faithful n much.?Band of Honor Review. t