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J ISSUED TWICE A WEDK--WBDNEBDAY AND FRIDAY. l7 m. geist & sons, pnbushers. f ?, dfamilg jpeirsijaper: 4" tilt ^promotion of the {political, Social, ggriculturat, and Commercial Interests of the ?oufh. {TER aioS'co^raLL^E?^013' VOL. 41. YORKVILLE, S~. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1895. jSTO. 88. FROM TH BY CAPTAIN C Copyright, .1894, by the J. B. Lipplncott Co. CHAPTER XTTT. Once within doors it was too dark for Armitage to see the features of his lieutenant, and he had his own reasons for desiring to read them. Mr. Jerrold, on the other hand, seemed disposed to keep in the shadows as much as possible. He made no movement to open the shutters of the one window which admitted light from the front, and walked back to his bedroom door, glanced in there, as though to see that there were no occupants, then carefully closed it as he returned to face his captain. He took off his helmet and Dlaced it on the cen ter table, then thrusting his thumbi inside the handsome, gold broidered sword belt stood in a jaunty attitude, but with a very uneasy look in his eyes, to hear what his senior might have to say. Between the two men an invitation to sit would have been a superfluity. Neither had ever remained long enough in the other's quarters, since the exchange of the first calls when Jerrold came to the garrison, to render a chair at all necessary. "Be good enough to strike a light, Mr. Jerrold," said Armitage presently, fleeing tnat his unwilling host made no effort on his own account "I purposed going out at once, captain, and presume you cannot have any very extended remarks to make." "You cannot see the writing I have to call your attention to without a light I shall detain you no longer than is necessary. Had you an engagement?" "Nothing of great consequenca I presume it will keep." "It will have to. The matter I have oome upon will admit no farther delay. Light yonr lamp, if you please." And Jerrold aid so, slowly and with mnch reluctance. He wiped his forehead vigorously the instant the flame began to splutter, but as the clear, steady light of the argand gradually spread over the little room Armitage could see the sweat again beading his forehead, and the dark eyes were glancing nervously about, and the hands that were so firm and steady and fine the year before and held the Springfield in so light yet immovable an aim were twitching now. It was no wonder Jerrold's soore had dropped some 30 per cent His nerve had gone to pieces. Armitage stood and watched him a moment; then he slowly spoke: "I have no desire to allude to the subject of your conversation with Merrick. It was to put ah* end to such a thing?not to avail myself of any information it might give?that I hurried in. We will put that aside and go at onoe to the matter that brings me back. You are aware, of course, that koa nnmnvAmioo/l a tPHtTl J UlU WUUUVV uao %m M V? an's name, and that the garrison is talking of nothing else." Jerrold grasped the back of a chair with one slender brown hand and looked furtively about, as though for some hope of escape. Something like a startled gulp seemed to work his throat muscles an instant; then he stammered his reply: "I don't know what you mean." "You do know what I mean. Captain Chester has already told you." "Captain Chester came in here and made an unauthorized inspection of my quarters because he heard a shot fired by a sentry. I was out I don't deny that But he proceeded to say all manner of insulting and unwarrantable things and tried to force me to hand in a resignation simply because I was out of quarters after taps. I could account for his doing something so idiotic, but I'm at a loss to comprehend your taking it up." "The most serious allegation ever made against an officer of the regiment is made against you, the senior lieutenant of my company, and the evidence furnished me by the colonel and by Captain Chester is of 6uch a character that unless you can refute it and clear her name you will have a settlement with me to start with, and your dis missal irom tne regiment "Settlement with you? What concern have you in the matter?" interrupted Jerrold. "Waste no words on that, Mr. JerroldL Understand that where her name is concerned no man on earth is more interested than L Now answer me. You were absent from your quarters for some hours after the doctor's party. Somebody believed to have been you was seen and fired at for refusing to halt at the order of Captain Chester at 8:80 in the morning. The ladder that usually hung at your fence was found at the colonel's while you were out, and that night a woman's name was compromised beyond repair unless you can repair it Unless you prove beyond peradventure where you were both that night and last night prove beyond question that you were not where you are believed to have been, her name is stained and yours blackened forever. There are other things you must fully explain, but these first" JerrolcL's race was growing gray ana . sickly. He stared at the stern eyes before him and conld make no answer. His lips moved dryly, but made no sound. "Come, I want to hear from you. Where were you if not with or seeking her? Name your place and witnesses. " "By God, Captain Armitage, the army is no longer a place for a gentleman if his every movement is to be spied upon like this!" "The world is no place for a man of your stamp is perhaps a better way ?f putting it," said Armitage, whose fingers were twitching convulsively, and whose whole frame quivered with the effort he was making to restrain the rage and indignation that consumed him. He could not?he would not? believe in her guilt He must have this man's proof, no matter how it might damn him for good and all,,no E RAMS. :harles king. matter whom else it might Involve, so long as it cleared her precious namo. He must be patient, he must be calm and resolute, but the man's cold blooded, selfish, criminal concealment nearly maddened him. With infinite effort he controlled himself and went on: "But it is of her I'm thinking, not of you. It is the name you have compromised and can clear and should clear, even at the expense of your own ?in fact. Mr. Jerrold. must clear. Now will you tell me where you were and how you can prove it?" "I decline to say. I won't be cross questioned by men who have no authority. Captain Chester said he would refer it to the colonel, and when he asks I will answer?not until then." "I ask in his name. I am authorized by him, for he is not well enough to meet the ordeal." "You say so, and I don't mean to dispute your word, Captain Armitage, but I have a right to demand some proof. How am I to know he authorized you?" "He himself gave me this letter, in your handwriting," said Armitage, and opening the long envelope he held forth the missive over which the poor old colonel had gone nearly wild. '"He found it the morning they left?in her garden." If Jerrold's face had been gray before, it was simply ghastly now. He recoiled from tne sig.iu art rone fruitless effort to grasp the letter, then rallied with unlooked for spirit: "By heaven, Armitage, suppose I did write that letter? What does it prov6 but what I say?that somebody has been piyillg UI1U. upyillg llllru llljr DUUIlDi JLJ.V/TT came the colonel by it if not by fraud or treachery?" "He picked it up in the garden, I tell you, among the rosebushes, where she ?where Miss Renwick?had been but a few moments before, and where it might appear that she had dropped it" "She! That letter! What had she to do with it? What right had she to read it?" Armitage stepped impulsively forward. A glad, glorious light was bursting upon his soul. He could almost have seized Jerrold's hand and thanked him, but proofs, proofs were what he needed. It was not his mind that was to be convinced; it was "society" that must be satisfied of her utter innocence, that it might be able to say, "Well, I never for a moment believed a word of it" Link by link the chain of circumstantial evidence must be destroyed, and this was only one. "You mean that that letter was not intended for Miss Renwick?" he asked, with eagerness he strove hard to repress. "It was never meant for anybody," aaid -Tprrnld. the color cominsr back to his face and courage to his eyes. "That letter was never sent by me to any woman. It's my writing, of course?I oan'fc deny that?but I never even meant it to go. If it left that desk, it must have been stolen. I've been hunting high and low for it I knew that suoh a thing lying around loose would be the cause of mischief. God 1 is that what all this fuss is about?'' And he looked warily, yet with infinite anxiety, into his captain's eyes. "There is far more to it, as you well know, sir," was the stern answer. "For whom was this written if not for her? It won't do to half clear her name." "Answer me this, Captain Armitage. Do you mean that that letter has compromised Miss Ren wick; that it is she whose name has been involved, and that it was of her that Chester meant to spea ?f' "certainly it was?and I too." There was an instant's silence; then Jerrold began to laugh nervously: "Oh, well, I fancy it isn't the first time the revered and respected captain has got away off the track. All the same, I do not mean to overlook his language to me, and I may say right now, Captain Armitage, that yours, too, calls for an explanation." "You shall have it in short order, Mr. Jerrold, and the sooner you understand the situation the better. So far as I am concerned, Miss Renwick needed no defender; but, thanks to your mysterious and unwarranted absence from quarters two very unlucky nights, and to other circumstances I have no need to name, and to your penohant for letter writing of a most suggestive character, it is Miss Renwick whose name has been brought into question here at this post and most prominently so. In plain words, Mr. Jerrold, you who brought this trouble upon her by your own misconduct must clear her, no matter at whoso expense, or" "Or what?" "I make no threats. I prefer that you should make the proper explanations from a proper sense of what is due." "And suppose I say that no man is called upon to explain a situation which has been di> torted and misrepresented by the evil imagination of his fellows?" "Then I may have to wring tneiruin out of you?and will; but, for her sake, I want as 1: ttle publicity as possible. After this display on your part I ain not bound to show you any consideration whatever. Understand this, however?tho array of evidence that you were feloniously inside Colonel Mayuard's quarters that night and at his cottage window last night is of such a character that a court would convict you unless your alibi was conclusive. Leave the service you certainly shall unless this whole thing is cleared up." "I never was anywhere near Colonel Maynard's either last night or the other uiglit 1 was absent." "You will have to prove it. Mere denials won't help you in the face of such evidence as we have that you wero there the first time." 1 "What evidence?" 1 "The photograph that was stolen i from Mrs. Maynard between 2 and 4 o'clock that morning was seen in your drawer by Major Sloat at reveille. You were fool enough to show it to him." "Captain Armitage, I shall be quite able to show, when the proper time comes, that the photograph I showed Major Sloat was not stolen. It was given me." "That is beyond belief, Mr. Jerrold. Once and for all understand this case. You have compromised her good name by the very mystery of your actions. You have it in your power to clear her by proving where you were, since you were not near her; by showing how you got that photograph; by explaining how you came to write so strange a letter. Now I say to you, will you do it instantly, or must we wring it from you?" A sneering smile was the only answer u rwArnonf aui a mvuivuv) vuvu* "I shall take great pleasure in con- J founding my enemies should the matter be brought before a court I'm sure if j the colonel can stand that sort of thing I can, but as for defending myself or ' anybody else from utterly unjust and proofless suspicions it's quite another thing." "Good God, Jerrold, do you realize what a position yon are taking? Do you" "Oh, not at all, captain," was the, airy reply, "not at alL It is not a position I have taken. It is one into which you misguided conspirators have forced, ma I certainly am not required to compromise anybody else in order to relieve a suspicion which you, not I, have cre-; a ted. How do you know that there may, not be some other woman whose name, I propose to guard? You have been really very flattering in your theories so far." Armitage oould bear no mora The airy conceit and insolence of the man overcame all self restraint and resolution. With one bound he was at his throat, his strong white hands grasping him in a sudden, viselike grip, then hurling him with stunning, thundering force to the floor. Down, headlong, went the tall lieutenant, his sword clattering by his side, his slim brown hands clutching wildly at anything that might bear him up, and dragging with him in his catastrophe a rack of hunting pouches, antlers and one heavy double barreled shotgun. All came tumbling down about the struggling form, and Armitage, glaring down at him with clinching fists and rasping teeth, had only time to utter one deep drawn maledic IFiWi one bound he was at his throat. tion when he noted that the straggles ceased, and Jerrold lay quite stilL Then the blood began to ooze from a jagged cut near the temple, and it was evident that the hammer of the gun had struck him. Another moment and the door opened, and with anxious face Chester strode into the room. "You haven't killed him, Armitage? Is it as bad as that?" "Pick him up, and we'll get him on the bed. He's only stunned. I didn't even hit him. Those- things tumbled afterward," said Armitage as between them they raised the dead weight of the slender Adonis in their arms and bore him to the bedroom. Here they bathed the wound with cold water and removed the uniform coat, and presently the lieutenant began to revive and look about him. "Who struck mo?" he faintly asked. "Your shotgun fell on your head, but I threw you down, Jerrold. I'm sorry I touched you, but you're lucky it was no worse. This thing is going to raise a big bump here. Shall I send the doctor?" "No; I'll come round presently. We'll see about this thing afterward." ''T" +Uawa out? -fvimi/1 trrvn want", to SG6? XS lUUiD HUJ mvuu j UM V. Shall I send word to anybody?" asked Chester. "No; don't let anybody coma Tell my striker to bring my breakfast, but I want nothing tonight but to be let alone." "At least you will let me help you undress and get to bed?" said Chester. "No; I wish you'd go?both of you. I want quiet- peace?and there's none of it with either of you." And so they left him. Later Captain Chester had gone to the quarters and after much parleying from without had gained admission. Jerrold's head was bound in a bandage wet with arnica and water. He had been solacing himself with a pipe and a whisky toddy and was in a not unnaturally ugly mood. "You may consider yourself excused from duty until your face is well again, by which time this matter will be decided. I admonish you to remain here and not leave the post until it is." "You can prefer charges and see what you'll make of it," was the vehement reply. "Devil a bit will I help you out of the thing after this night's work." Extortion.?A middle aged man of flnn/loi. klliM O ?1 f 1 Oil 1*11 PGf. HHSf. of in 11, nicmici wuin. countenance, stepped into a hatter's shop and removed the wrappings from a soft felt hat he carried in his hand. "How much will it cost to have this dyed a light gray to match my hair ?" he inquired. "It will cost you at least a dollar," replied the hatter. "The caller wrapped it up again. "I won't pay it," he said, decidedly. "For 35 cents I can get my hair dyed to match the hat. Good day, sir." A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. # ittisccUiincotts grading. THECATAWBAS. . An Abbeville Girl's Account of A Visit to Their Reservation. For some reason, all of the Winthrop college girl's did not go on the recent visit to the Atlanta exposition. Some of them remained in Rock Hill, and a party of these amused themselves by taking a trip to the Catawba Indian reservation. One of the visitors, an Abbeville girl, over the signature of "Nellie," has written an account of the visit for the Abbeville Medium. Here is her story: Thinking that perhaps some of your readers might be pleased to know something of the Indian reservation in the northern part of our State, I will ask for a few lines in which I may describe the trip to the reservation taken by some of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial ColU-ge girls. It was with very sad hearts we saw her 225 pupils aud teachers set out on Wednesday morning, the 281&, tor the Atlanta exposition. But the teachers who remained at home informed us that they were uoing to "make us have a good time." The first thing on docket was the Thanksgiving dinner, which whs elegant, and to which we all did justice. Then last night we had out reception ; one long to be remembered. But it is uot of these we wish to tell you ; hutofourtripthefollowingday? Friday. The reservation is situated about 10 miles west of Rock Hill. There were about 50 in the party, aud we went in wagons and hacks, reach ing the house of the chief, Jim Harris, about 2 o'clock. Here we stopped to rest and eat our luuch, and a tired and hungry set we were too. Jim Harris is a large, well built man, evidently about 35 years old. He speaks English very well; but cun neither read nor write. With him lives.his mother, Sallie Harris, a very friendly old soul, she took us in her house and'showed us her pottery (some of which was very pretty). Almost all of the girls purchased something from her as a memento of the occasion, Prof. Moses said that he told Jim be ought to have sent some specimens of their u/nrk tn rhp *xnosition. aud beirun to explain to him what it was, when he came to find out that he bad already sent some and that Jim knew more about the exposition than he did. Sallie said that the girls ought to all write down their names and give them to her in order that she might remember us. When Miss Wicker replied that we would do so if she would gi ve us a pencil and-paper, 9he said that she didn't have any ; but if her other son were there he could give them to us as he could read aud write. We were very anxious to see Old Uncle Billy George, who is about 100 years old, and quite a noted old person ; but owing to our limited time could . not go to see him. We went down to the spring, about a quater of a mile from the chiefs house, and ate our lunch, and drank pure mountain water from a real Indian spring. We then walked down to the Catawba river. The scenery here is simply grand. One can catch glimpses of the water, origm ana sparKiiug through the trees, sometimes a quarter of a mile away. The bottom lands on the banks of the river were sowed in oats or wheat, we are unable to tell which, (a girl is not expected to know) but there was a fine stand, and the way in which the soil was tilled would have done credit to a first-class farmer. There are only about 250 remaining now of the great Catawba nation. Seventy-five are here in the northern part of York county, the others are at Fort Smith Arkansas. How sad it is to think that these few remaining ones will soon have passed away ! And the mighty Catawba nation will then have become extinct. The reservation consists of about 800 acres of, judging from what we saw, very fertile land. In addition to this, they are paid $800 annually, or about $10 apiece. On our homeward drive, about a half mile from the chiefs house, we passed another Indian house, in the piazza of which stood two Indian women, two little girls and a little boy. Prof. Moses told them he would give them a nickel if they would bring the babies down to the carriage. The mother grabbed the children and came immediately, although one of the children protested loudly against it and rent the air with its screams, thus proving that they have learned from their white brethren "to love money." Our ride home was more pleasant, than in the morning, we returning in a back instead of the wagon. The pale moon had risen and was shedding her silvery beam upon us ere we came in sight of our beloved home, which we reached about 7.15, tired hungry and happy, hoping some day to revisit the interesting sights of the Indian reservation. ?. The Tongue.?Taste is not equally distributed over the whole surface of the tongue. There are three distinct regions of tracks, each of which has to perform its own special office or fuucl.i-A rm._ ,i.? IIOU. 1 lie up Ui llic Lunelle in WII* cerned mainly with pungent and ucid tastes; the middle portion is sensitive chiefly to sweets or hitters, while the back or lower portion confines itself entirely to the flavors of roast meats, butter, oils and rich ami fatty substances. There are good reasons for this subdivision of faculties in the tongue, the object being, as it were, to make each piece of food undergo three separate examinations, which must be successfully passed before it is admitted into full participation in the human economy. The first examination gets rid of substances which would be actively and immediately destructive to the very tissues of the mouth and body; the second discriminates between poisonous and chemically harmless food1 stuffs, and the third merely decides the minor question whether the particular food is likely to prove then and there wholesome or indigestible to the particular person. The sense of taste proceeds in fact, upon the principal of gradual selection and eliminations; it refuses first what is positively destructive, next, what is more remotely deleterious, and, finally, what is only undesirable oroverluscious. FICTION AND FACT. There is rarely a circumstance or character invented by the imagination that does not find its parallel in real life. A year or more ago a writer described in a story the adventures and vicissitudes of an erring lad who ran away from home to follow the sea. The tale was pure fiction and the author invented for his young sailor a name unlike any he had ever heard. Soon after the story was published, its author received a pathetic letter from a sorrowing mother, saying that the sailor boy of the story was her only son, and begging for his address. "Tell him," she wrote, "if he will only come home, I will forget and forgive all the past. I am alone in the world, and if my dear son will but return to me, I will be happy again." It was hard to write to this poor mother that the sailor boy of the luh/ioo nomo niiupntnrps nild ovw.jr, ... ) life so closely resembled her son's, was but a creature of the imagination. "While addressing a jury in a criminal case a few years ago," said a lawyer, "I made up the following story to illustrate the need of coolness and calm judgment before condemning a man. "A passenger train was pulling into the station of a small town. The driver had seen many years of continuous service on that particular bit of line, and had never failed to stop bis engine at a certain point. "One day a great celebration was held in the town, and when that train came in, the line ahead of the point where the engine always stopped was crowded with people. No one feared being run over, so great was the confidence in the driver's ability to stop his engine at a particular spot. "But, alas! on this day the heavy train was not stopped, but continued its course, ruuning over a woman, who, hampered with a baby in her arms, was not agile enough to get out of the way. At first the crowd stood aghast; and then a great wave of indignation broke forth against the man who had done this thing. "The driver stood on his step, white and speechless?helpless against the fury of the mob. "' Wait!' cried the fireman. 'See this!' and he held up a broken bolt. 'Here is the cause of the accident?a broken bolt at the throttle.' "I believe that I won my case with that little bit of fiction, and what do you think? After the court had adjourned, a gray-haired old gentleman came forward, and grasping my hand, explained: " 'You told that story well! I was in that crowd at the time of the accident, and saw the whole thing.' " Poisonous Effect of Borax.?The AuiAMM.a.A HAA AAmr\Aiin/^Q ^Anfotil. C AICU3IVC uoc Ui LUui^vuuuu wuwM.u ing borax, which under various names are sold for preserving foods, a special interest to some observations of a noted French physician, who has used borax in the treatment of intractable cases of epilepsy, and with success in certain cases. It is true that for this purpose it was necessary to give large doses for long periods, but in the cousre of the trial he met with a considerable number of persons who were peculiarly susceptible to borax. In them, loss of appetite was succeeded by burning pain in the pit of the stomach, dryness of the mouth, and eventually hy nausea and vomiting. Borax produces also a remarkable dryness of the skin, which is found to favor, if not to cause, various skin diseases, especially eczema, says The British Medical Journal. The hair also becomes dry and may fall out, causing complete baldness. The most dangerous result of the use of borax, however, is its power of producing kidney disease, or of converting a slight disorder of the kidneys into a fatal malady. Boy Smokers.?Here and there about the street corners and around the doors of places of amusement, you will see a lot of urchins, some of them decently clad and presenting a respectable appearance, who are engaged in asserttheir manhood by puffing away at execrable cigars. It is fair to presume that their anxious mammas are not aware of the foul habits their darling boys pick up and practice outside the parental roof; but, for their Denent, they sliuuld know that it is stated that a French physician has investigated the effect of smoking on 38 boys, between the ages of 9 and 15 years who were addicted to ' the habit. Twenty-seven presented distinct symptoms of nicotine poison ; in 22 there were serious disorders of the circulation, indigestion, dullness of intellect, aud a marked appetite for strong drinks ; in three there was heart affection ; in eight, decided deterioration of the blood ; in 12 there was frequent epitoxis; 10 had disturbed sleep; and four had ulceration of the mucous membrane of the mouth. It is easy, then, to see how the ranks of the drunkards and dissolute men "about town" are recruited, when there are so many boys in training for delirium tremens and thp horrors of dissipation. Easy.?One frequently hears people say, when addressed in some language with which they are supposed to be familiar, "I can understand it, but I cannot speak it." The expression would not he heard as often if all who used it were treated as brusquely as was a Highlander recently by an old friend of the family. The old man spoke to him in Gaelic, and received the customary reply, "I can under stand it, but I cannot speak it." "My dog can do that," said the Macgregor scornfully.?Household Words. c: TILLMAN'S BIOGRAPHY. J The new congressional directory, t with sketches of the members of the t house and senate, has been published. ^ The sketch of Senator Tillman, from ^ facts furnished by himself, is as follows: "Benjamin Ryan Tillman, of Tren- j ton,was born in Edgefield county, S. C., ; August 11,1847; recieved an education ' under the instruction of General Gol- g phin, at Bethany, in the same county ; j quit school in July, 1864, to join the Confederate army, but was stricken ^ with a servere illness, which caused the loss of his left eye and kept him an invalid for years; followed farming as jrj a pursuit and took no active part in ^ politics till he began the agitation in r 1886 for industrial and technical edu- rj cation, which culminated iu the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural ^ and Mechanical college, at Calhoun's ^ old home, Fort Hill; the demand for educational reform broadened into ^ a demand for other changes in State ^ affairs, and he was put forward by the farmers as a candidate for governor in 1890; after an exciting and heated a canvass he received the nomination in j. the Democratic convention by a vote of 270 to 50 for his opponent, and was elected in the November following; this t was his first political office, and he was t re-elected in 1892 by an overwhelming vote ; his term as governor was signal- j ized by the passage of the dispensary law for the control of the liquor traffic by the State, and by the establishment ot aoomer coiiege, iue vviutuiup ^ Normal and Industrial college for Women, at Rock Hill, an institution which bids fair to lead all similar schools in the South; entered the race for the senate against General Butler, and the two canvassed the State, county by county, with the result that Tillman 0 was elected as a Democrat, by the gen- ^ eral assembly by a vote of 131 to 21 . for Butler. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901." Tillman Was Not Satisfied.? e This story is told on Senator Tillman: 11 "When he had his seat assigned a him on the floor he found his nearest t( neighbor to be Senator Irby, of South 0 Carolina. The two are out, and have n not spoken for a long time in pass- ^ ing. It made Tillman feel very un- n comfortable to sit so nearjto his enemy, and he asked to be changed on the 1 ground of his visual affliction, for every d one knows that Senator Tillman is blind of one eye. His plea was that d he could not see as well, sitting where v he did, as he could from another seat, h The next day he found himself assigned to a desk on the other side of Irby J T there simply having been a reversal of P positions. 9 "I asked to be changed," said Sena- a tor Tillman to the acting official of the ' senate, "because I could not see from that desk, and you have only changed b me to the other side of Senator-Irby." "Yes, sir," said the floor official, "I b did not suppose you could see him on C the side on which you are blind, and v so I changed you accordingly." Tillman gave a snore 01 contempt, and picked out a desk which is not ap- a proximately as desirable as the first e one was.?Washington Post. * . t What Conkling Thought of c Thurman.?Senator Roscoe Conkling e was once addressing the senate in an g impassioned manner and seemed to e direct his remarks to Senator Th-urman. a At length the later got irritated, r "Does the senator from New York," t he roared, "expect me to answer him every time he turns to me?" For a moment Mr. Conkling hesita- V ted, and everybody expected a terrible e explosion. Then, with an air of exquis- p ite courtesy, he replied : "When I speak of the law I turn to the senator from Ohio as the Mussul- o man turns toward Mecca. I turn to a him as I do to the English common b law, as the world's most copious foun- q tain of human jurisprudence." a The usually decorous senate broke into a storm or applause and the Thur- A man eye moistened a little. It is ever i' a pleasure to be complimented, but to c be complimented as a lawyer by Ros- i coe Conkling?that was praise indeed. The two statesmen were the best of b friends and greatly enjoyed each oth- a er's society? wnen "on" auty. g A 'Possum Hunting Hog.?Josb Crawford, an old colored man living on a farm five miles from Birmingham, ? Ala., has a freak of nature in the shape c of a razor-back hog, for which he has ^ refused $100 cash. The hog is anatu- 1 ral-boru 'possum hunter, and Uncle r Josh has no less than 50 hides this sea- 1 son as evidence of his hog's prowess. 8 He was in Birmingham recently with 1 his skins and razor-back, which follows c him round like a dog. The old man ^ tells a very simple story of how he dis- t covered the animals queer instinct. 8 One night while going through the 1 woods he discovered the hog under a ' tree grunting furiously and rearing up fc against the trunk. Approaching the F tree and looking up he discovered a 8 big, fat 'possum. Having a similar 1 experience several times, he came to F the conclusion that the hog was a natural-born 'possum hog, and, making a 1 * * I? ' ?/% (tin ivnnilc fro. 1 pet Ul III, UC lUUr\ IK w kiivk nvuuu -. ~ queutly, with splendid success. %8T Sunday is no more sacred than 1 Monday, but it is set apart for a spe- t cial purpose. The Lord asks you to f keep it holy. You shall not work ; you s must rest. Our age is not one of rest, v The terrific workers who built up a t nation in a few years fritter away their d energies. Stop. Kest, and let other d people rest as well. I say nothing f against recreation, except that which 1 involves labor, both of yourself and of f other people. That is not what is n needed. Rest your mind, your body, v and your heart. The Sabbath day was j( made for man, and not man for the e Sabbath day.?Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Lori- a mer. n LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART. Here is an incident related by Mr. :peed: Lincoln had the teuderest eart for any one in distress, whether aan, beast or bird. Many of the genie and touching sympathies of his naure, which flowered so frequently aud eautifully in the humble citizen at ome, fruited in the sunlight of the rorld when be had place aud power, le carried from his home on the praiies to Washington the same gentleness f disposition and kindness of heart, ix gentlemen?Hemgone, Lincoln, laker, Hardin, and two others whose ames I do not now recall?were ridig along a country road. We were trung along the road, two and twotoether. We were passing through a hicket of wild plum and apple trees. l viloent wind storm had just occured. Lincoln and Hardin were behind, 'here were two young birds by the oadside too young to fly. They had een blown from the nest by the storm, 'he old bird was fluttering about and railing as a mother ever does for her abes. Lincoln stopped, hitched his orse, caught the birds, hunted the nest nd placed them in it. The rest of us rode on to a creek, nd while our horses were drinking lardin rode up. "Where is Lincoln," asked one. "Ob, when I saw him last he had wo little birds in his hand hunting for heir nest." In an hour perhaps he came. They iughed at him. He said with much mphasis: "Gentlemen, you may laugh, but I ould not have slept well tonight if I ad not saved those birds. Their cries fould have have rung in my ears." A MEMBER WHO SAW IT. In the Wisconsin legislature of three r four years ago, there was a certain lember who had been elected by the Grangers with the understanding that e should vote against anything which artook of the nature of a monopoly, rust or combine, and favor about verything which didn't. Certain paries wanted to dam a certain stream, nd certain other parties were opposed o it. Each had its lobbyist, and the pposition got hold of the Granger lember first. They stuffed him full of gures as to the acreage of land which lust be overflowed, and financial loss o farmers, and gave an estimate that be slack-water would increase the eath-rate along the stream 50 per ent. When the lobbyist for the mill am got the ear of the member, he ras very ungraciously received ; but ? nrnoeeded to sav : r ?* "I don't deny that our dam will _Taise the water and flood some land? lerhaps the 300 acres claimed. In ummer time the slack-water may also dd a trifle to the sick list; but, sir, yhat inspires the opposition ?" "Public spirit for public good, I lelieve." "Does it? Have they made you ielieve any such nonsense as that? 'an't you see through the gauze which eils their efforts?" "Is there any?any trickery here?" "Is there ?" Dead loads of it, sir, nd I wonder that you haven't discovred it. These parties own a big catail swamp half a mile above where tie dam is to De. uur water win over the swamp. They have discoAred a way to mix cat-tail fuzz and ;eese feathers together to make feathr beds, aod have patented the idea nd propose to bull the market and un one-half the geese of America out he country." "No!"' "That's the scherqe ; and even while teeping it as quiet as they could, nough has leaked out to boost the irice of goose oil 30 per cent." "Why, it's a monopoly!" "That's what it is?the biggest kind f a monopoly?a corporation without , soul. Why, you can't buy a goose oue now for less than 25 cents, and luill toothpicks will soon he a nickel , piece!" "I see? I?I see. The scoundrels! Veil, you shall have my vote and nfluence, and I thank you for setting oe right. I might have played right nto their hands the wretches!" And he not only voted for the bill; lut worked for it and secured its passige, and the opposition could never ;et his ear for denials or explanations. %8T Beer kegs are being used with ;reat success for the* odd purpose of latching bears in the vicinity of Honiara, Wash., and are said to make be best bear traps ever used in that egion. One eud is knocked out of he keg, and then a number of strong, harp spikes are driven into its sides, he points slanting slightly toward the :losed end. A big dab of honey or ?ther delicacy especially liked by a ear is then placed at the further end, ind the keg is carelessly dropped in he woods where the bears are likely o stumble across ft. The device caught ive bears in one week for one keg danter recently. The bear just pushs right into the keg after the honey u the end, and the spikes effectually irevent him from backing out, and all ?.>r. is rnll nrnnnri nnt.il he is ired, and then wait for the trap layer o come round. 1ST The question is ofteu asked: 'Where do sea birds obtaiu fresh water o quench their thirst ?" An old skip>er says that he has seen these birds at ea, far from any land that could furlish them water, hovering around and mder a storm cloud, clatteriug like lucks on a hot day at a pond, and Iriukiug iu the drops of rain as they ell. They will smell a rain squall a 00 miles or even further ofT, and scud or it with almost inconceivable swiftless. How long sea birds can exist rithout water is only a matter of couecture, but probably their powers of nduring thirst are increased by habit, ,nd possibly they go without water for aany days, if not for several weeks.