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' '/ . ' *' * ISSUED TWIOB-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAY ASTS SATURDAY. l. m. grist a sons, Publishers. } % ^amilg ftapaper: <Jfor promotion of th$ ffotitiqal, J^oqial, giigrifoltuital and 4[ommqriaI gntosts of the ?outh. { SINGLE COPT. THREE CEWT6. VOLUME 43. " YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1897. NUMBER 21. ROB Mc< BY MARTHA McCU Copyright, 1896, by the Author. * Synopsis op Previous Installments. In order that' new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Chapter I.?Life in Walnut Creek, in Tennessee, centers around Topmark's , store. Magnolia Tubbs, a mysterious newcomer in the neighborhood, not without attractions of a coarse type, is a nocturnal caller on Topmark. Chapter II.?Mrs. Topmark dies from the poison of herbs brought to the store by a charm working Negress, ostensibly to kill mice. Gossips and a managing mamma are trying to bring about a match between Topmarkjp niece, A'aice Winfold, and aristocratic Colonel Talbot's son Jack. Bnt spirited Rob McGregor, heiress of Roscoe. has been before Jack's eyes' from childhood. Chapter III.?Topmark covets the Roscoe acres, which are heavily mortgaged and adjoin his own. Rob is the mainstay and comfort of her widowed and blind father. Chapter IV.?Jack Talbot is a frequent callei at Roscoe. So is the newly made widower Topmark. Jack proposes to Rob and njeets with a good humored repulse. Chapter V.?Magnolia Tubbs holds a mysterious land claim of value, and Topmark seeks to control it. Chapter VI.?Alice Winiold places a stumbling block in the path of true love by telling Rob that Jack has proposed to her. Chapter VII.?Mrs. Talbot prevails upon Jack to act as the es;ort of Alice Winfold. He does so reluctantly, but ends in trifling with her while his heart is set upon Rob McGregor. Chapter VIII.?A series, of mysteri* ons persecutions of the people of Roscoe inaugurated by the theft of-Rob's favorite saddle horse, Lightlady. Chapter IX.?Jack drives Alice Winfold to the great annual church meeting. Rob is there in the company of Topmark, having arranged it to spite Jack Talbot for his supposed double dealing. She believes Alice Winfold's story. Chapter X.?All the gossips have it that Jack Talbot and Alice Winfold are engaged, but Jack again proposes to Rob. She cleverly evades the question. Chapter XI.?Jack Talbot and his mother, ride horseback to church at night. Mrs. Talbot tells Ja? k of her desire to sfee him happily married. They are joined by Miss Winfold and Nina and later by Rob and Topmark. Jack overhears an interesting conversation be-' " tween Rob and the widower. CcriDTPRa vtt and XIII.?Bethel 6X periences a great revival in which Teddy Barton, among others, professes conversion. Topmark calls on Magnolia and leaves a few gauds and gewgaws. M rs. Winfold gives a quilting party to which Teddy is not invited because Topmark objects. CHAPTER XIV. It was thirst, not any thought of adventure, that made Rob when she came to her own demesne turn aside to Aunt Phemy's oabin. "It is only a step out of the way," she said to herself, "and my throat is parohed. Besides Aunt Phpmy ought to be glad to see me.' I hope she will not be cross, as she was the last time. 'Marse Robert, he better had be tole de trufe,' she said then. As if anything could make me tell him! My darling daddy 1 I would suffer torture first." The cabin stood only a little way off the mill road. Passersby often stopped there for a drink from the spring. In her heart Aunt Phemy was glad to see them, though she kept her face impassive. Company 1 . What did it matter? she said. She bad her pigs, her fowls and her big dog Tige, who was Lion's full brother and the savager beast of the two. In his guard she was sife, no matter who came or went The cabin sat in a screen of tangle. The path to it ran jaggedly through vagrant growths of sumao, sassafras and fruitful young grapevines. It wound so, indeed, com ing in from the front, you hardly saw the roof until you were in the shade of the gourd arbor above the door. Thus Rob was almost facing her before she saw that the old woman was not alone, but sight of the visitor in nowise discomfited her. It was apparently a tall, lean woman, with powerful shoulders, yet a stooping, hollow chest, who sat upon the doorstep, with arms locked about the knees. In spite of the heat the stranger was huddled in a fro?-.y shawl. A deep sunbonnet shroude^ head and face. The long lower limos showed gaunt and shrunken beneath the thin folds of a faded calico skirt. As Rob's shadow fell on the earth the creature started and drew the poor skirt yet cioser about her feet, as though seeking to hide poverty, yet more pitiful. Rob noted the action with a sympathetic thrill, then said with a civil nod: "Good morning, madam. Aunt Phemy, how are you? Don't get mad when I tell you my lost turkej' hen has come homo with ten fine young ones, for all you were so certain the foxes had caught her. The little ones aro beauties and so pert. Why, they cau outrun me now. Thnnrah aro cn latfi T mean tn raisa tbem just to show you wise people that you don't know everything." "Uph! Dat dest your owdacioua luck. Had er been my ole turkey hen her haid'd been off an Br'er Fox done had er dinner er whole mont'ago," Aunt Pbemy said, pretending to frown,though she gave really a mild c uckle. "Ah, how jealous you are 1 Aunt Phemy, I didn't think that of you," Bob retorted, letting ber eyes rest casually upon the hands of the visitor. They were hard and brown, two masses of knotted muscle, with long, coarse hair straggling over them and a curious pale 3REGOR. ILOCH WILLIAMS. ring on fhe skin about one wrist. Though Rob looked away instantly, she knew the strange woman had felt her gaze and been disquieted by its note of details, for the knotted bands were drawn baok and began nervously to wrap themselves in the ends of the thin shawl. Annt Phemy, too, noted the movement. She half tnrned in her chair and said slowly: "I ain't gredgin you no res', Miss Who-eber-you-is, bnt I s'peo's you better had be trabblin. I done kep' yon now longer'n I tole you you mought stay when you come yere ter my do' 'fore de zarn er day." "Ob, don't send her away, Aunt Phemy 1 It is hot, and she looks so very tired," Rob said, plucking at the black woman's sleeve. "Maybe she is more sick than tired. Keep her udtil tomorrow. I know that is what pappy would say." "Umphl Yes; Marse Robert, he'd take keer de whole worl an let am cheat him puten he eyeteefs," Aunt Phemy said. The stranger got up, saying so hoarsely the sound made Rob shudder, "I will go in jest er little while." Rob opened her mouth to protest, but before she conld speak Tige sprang up and gave a tremendous howL The strange woman made a wild, backward spring, gathering her limp skirt as though to run, then sank down, breathing bard. Aunt Phemy bad been looking toward the path. Rob alone had seen beneath the flapping garment boots and trousers miserably ragged and the dull gleam of an iron ring about one an Irln MUBiUi "Go inside and lie down! Qniok! Let .me help yon!" she said imperatively, looking fall in the strange woman's eyes. They dropped before hers, bnt the tall figure straightened slowly and Inrobed within as a hail came over the matted growth in front: "Hello, thehonBe! Annt Pbemy, tie up your dawg. We're com in fer water," a man's voice called cheerily. Next breath three stout fellows had ridden in sight, dismounted and flung themselves down beside the slipping runnel. Af sight of Rob in the doorway the foremost of them rose, touched his hat and said awkwardly: "Oh, howdy do, Miss Rob? My, but we're thirsty! Been racin an cbasin all day after one er them triflin convicts that got erway. Yon see, they're leased out, an they had 'em at work, with ball an chain, on the big new railroad fill, an this poor fool must run off, though he had jest one more year ter serve; took chances er gittin shot an doin double time fer jest that little." "Don't say he came this way," Roh said lightly, though she shivered a little. "I hope, though, you won't catch him?that is, unless he is a horse thief. I have suffered too much irom iuem to have the least bit of compassion left." "Yes, it's too bad about your stock," the mau said. He was Deputy Sheriff Reed and mighty ambitious to be a sher"Oh, don't send her away, Aunt PhcmyP' iff full fledged after the next election. It delighted him no little to And Miss Rob McGregor, whom he knew very slightly indeed, thus social and friendly. "This feller was sent up fer horse stealin, I'm sorry ter say," he went on; "fust offense, though. Thar was some thought he wasn't really guilty, but others said he was one er the gang, an so he had ter go"? "I see. A case of poor Tray?whipped because of bad company," Rob returned, smiling pleasantly at the deputy, who meandered on: "Ef we ketch him, Miss Rob, mayby he can help us erbout that last matter O" rrnnya It rlnoa Bfipm tfir tTlft nO mall ner men couldn't er took off anything so well known as your old mare ner so handsome as that high steppin colt er hers 'thout somebody a-seein 'em, at least somewhar's. Thar ougkter been bills out an er reward offered"? "Yes, I dare say," Rob broke in. "But, you see, Mr. Reed, I have not any bad money to throw away after good horses. I believe you legal gentlemen have a fiction that all money is bad." "It does make most er the trouble in the world, either havin it er losiu it er lackin it," Mr. Reed said profoundly, and mentally patted himself on the back for having spoken so well. "Of co'se you ain't seen, but jest fer form's sake we must ask you?you an Aunt Phemy ?ef you've saw any long, dangliu feller, lean as er houu, with black eyes an erTiaugdog Toot, either passfri the road er skulkin in the hashes yere?" "If sach a man hus passed,I have not seen him," Bob said, facing the official, though her heart was thumping fast. "Aunt Phemy can answer for herself. But, if you must search the place, please do not go near the house. If pappy knew, it would make him so unhappy"? "He shan't be bothered, depend on that,"the deputy said, smiling down at her. The other men had come up to him, their long mustaches beaded at the ends with fair water. Aunt Phemy stood with eyes downcast. She had the African instinct of secrecy and had instantly caught Rob's cue. " 'Tnin't nobody wentenong ais way as I seed," she said; then, dropping a sort of courtesy: "I bear Sis Liza an Ann' Viny Johnson say las' night as dee corned home frum pra'ar meetin dee gat er skeer fram some sort er critter. Dee 'lowed it was er han't, dar on de hill by Topmark's grabeyard. It wns long an high, dee say, an groan so dee qho' thank it was ole man Topmark done come back 'case er de way he son Ben carryin on seuce he los' he wife." "Oh, ho, hoi Beg yoar pard'n, Miss Rob, but that's jest too rich!" the depnty said, langbing explosively. He had heard?who had not??of Topmark's infatuation. If Rob became Mrs. Topmark No. 2, her influence would be a thing to covet, for Topmark certainly carried the district in his pocket when it came to local elections. The whites divided always on lines of social or personal cleavage. .It was the black votes which really told for a fellow or against him, and the storekeeper swung the black vote as he pleased. Not in set words, bnt dimly and afar off, all thisrnshed through the official's mind. He ,bad good reason for not wanting Miss Rob McGregor to remember him as a rode and pestilent fellow. Now, no doabt on her father's account, she was anxious to have the posse go in nome other direction. So much he read shrewdly underneath her smiling courtesy, and she should have her way. There was certainly small likelihood that the man they hunted lay hid at Roscoe, for * * ' ' V A alJ it bad so mucn taugieu sumo. xxuyway the obance was too remote to be worth making her an enemy. Facing about, he said to his followers, speaking low and rapidly: "I think I've got a clew. We'll ride fer the big meadders an not spare our stock. Good day, Miss Rob! Ton be right easy erbout your par. Ef we had ter chase the feller past your gate, they shouldn't nobody make' noiBe ernough ter let him know what was up. Now, rich Lard, boys. Poor wretch! I've nothin ag'iu him, but it's our juty ter ketch him ef only wo kin." As they clattered noisily away Rob stepped inside the cabin. The convict had flung off his woman's garb and sat with burning eyes in a face as white as death. His jagged brow was beaded with cold sweat. At sight of the girl he put his hands upon his breast aud said, speaking as though the words came from desert dryness: "They're after me. I'm a horse thief, like they said. More, I helped steal your Lightlady. I'm willin ter die fer it ef only I kin see Betty one more time." "Hash!" Rob said imperatively. "Tell us nothing about yourself, except where you want to go and what wo can do to help you." "You didn't hear may by. Oh, you couldn't! I said I helped ter steal," he began monotonously. Rob's hand went over his mouth. "That has nothing to do with it, nothing at all," she said. "I asked you what you wanted. Tell me at once." 'Gimme er day's start. 1 kin manage the rest," the man answered, a slow, painful red burning up through the pallor of his face. "Once lemme have 30 miles 'tween me an them thar outside they won't never tetch me. Oh, ef only you will?God! Miss, you may kill me, cut me in little pieces. You can't never know what it'll mean ter me." Rob pondered a minute, feeling his eyes devour her face. Then she said, low, but firmly: "You shall have that. I pledge my word for it. Now, listen. You are to stay here until almost midnight. Aunt Phemy will stain your face and hands till you would pass for one of her color. Then at 12 o'clock tonight you must be at the bridge on the turnpike, two miles from here. Some one will meet you there. Never mind who. You can trust him. He will answer 'Tom' when you say 'Jerry.' He will take you where you choose, as far as he can before morning. Meantime get a file and take that ring off your ankle and borrow Aunt Phemy's wallet to carry the food she will give you"? "Des do listen at her! She talks like I 'longed her same as eber!" Aunt Phemy said, with a little, odd laugh. Rob put out her hand and touched the black woman s xignny as sne saiu: "No, Aunt Pheiny. I know you are free, but free only to do good." ****** When she had gone away, the man seemed to rouse from a dazo. He talked long and earnestly with the old black woman and evidently of matters very near her heart. When at last he had crept into her loft, and she heard the loose boards creak as his length rested upon them, she said, nodding to the embers which smoldered the year round upon her wide hearth: "T'ings happen motty quar in dis worl an kentry. Dar Ben Topmark. He rich an strong as ho mean, I po' an ole. Dis yere feller 'feard er he own shadder while he stay roun yere, but I lay us puts er spoke in dat big gent'emun's wheel, one whut he ain't nebber kuowed wus growin in de woods, much less cut out er um." TO BE CONTINUED. pisccUancmts ^tailing. IMPORTANT LAWS. These Are of More or Less Interest to Everybody. Here are some acts of the recent session of the general assembly which will prove interesting and valuable information to the public. VIOLATION OF CONTRACTS. Section 1. That any laborer working on shares of crop or for wages in money or other valuable consideration under a verbal or written contract to labor on farm lands, who shall receive advances either in money or supplies, and thereafter wilfully and without just cause fail to perform the reasonable service required of him by the terms of the said contract shall be liable to prosecution for a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not 'less than twenty days nor more than thirty days, or tf> be fined in the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more tban one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court: Provided, the verbal contract herein referred to shall be witnessed by at least two disinterested witnesses. t AS TO UNION DEPOT8. Section 1. That the railroad commissioners of this state are hereby invested with authority to require all railroads in this state to erect union or other depots for the convenience and accommodation of the public, and if any railroad company shall fail or refuse to do so when required by the said railroad commissioners it shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than $5,000 to be recovered in an action in any county in this state where such violation has occurred, and shall be in the name of the state of South Carolina. The commissioners shall institute such action through the attorney general or any of the solicitors of state. COMMUTATION ROAD TAX. Section 1. That the time for tbe collection of tbe commutation rocLd taxes in tbe several counties of this state be, and tbe same is hereby, extended until tbe 1st day of April, 1897, instant, without tbe addition of tbe penalty, and all parties who shall pay such commutation tax on or before said date shall be exempt froq> punishment from default. INTER-STATE COMMERCE LAW8 ENL . FORCED. Section 1. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation doing business in this state, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, to do herein any act which constitutes a violation of tbe act of congress entitled "an act to regulate commerce" or tbe act amendatory thereof, or any order of tbe inter-state commerce commission issued thereunder. Sec. 2. That any corporation aforesaid violating this act shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and liable to indictment therefor in any county where said offence is committed, and ? _i.! - _ ?-? 11 J on CODV1CUOU sunn uc uucu uuii icoo than $1,000 (one thousand dollars) or more than $5,000 (five thousand dollars) for each such offence. Andt he doing of such act or acts, in addition, constitute a ground for the forfeiture of the charter and franchise of any such corporation in this state and for the withdrawal and forfeiture of any franchise or license or right to operate railroads herein enjoyed or exercised herein, by grant, contract, statute or comity, by any such corporation chartered elsewhere; and any person or corporation, public or private, injured by any such act of such railroad company may maintain quo warranto in the circuit court of the residence, or, if non-residence, of the principal office of such corporation to enforce such forfeiture, which said court is hereby given jurisdiction so to decree. Conviction and punishment for a misdemeanor under this act shall not prevent proceedings also for forfeiture and judgment. Sec. 3. Any officer, agent or employee doing or engaged in any such act shall be also guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000 (one thousand dollars) and imprisonment not to exceed twelve months or either or both of these penalties. Sec. 4. That every person taking part in the said violation in any way, even in carrying out the orders of superior officers or in collecting the proceeds of any. illegal charge shall be equally guilty of a violation of this act; and the offence shall be equally held to have been committed in the county where said act, if fiually carried out, or where any illegal charge is collected, as well as where the act or charge is ordered, or agreed upon, or any step taken in execution thereof. Sec. 5.. That each act done in violation of said act to regulate commerce, its amendments, or of any orders of said oommission, or each separate failure to obey the same, or discrimination, or preference, or overcharge to each separate person or corporation, shall constitute, both as to the railroad company offending or said officers, agents or employees, separate offence hereunder, and render the corporation or person offendiug to successive indictment and punishment therefor. Sec. 6. That no commaud of a superior officer shall constitute any defence or excuse for a violation of this act by any inferior. Sec. 7. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and they are hereby, repealed ; and this act shall take effect immediately upoD its approval. AS TO CONCEALED -WEAPONS. Section 1. Any person carrying a pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot,.metal knuckles, razor or other deadly weapon usually used for the infliction of personal injury concealed about his person shall be guilty of a misdemeauor, and upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction shall forfeit to the county the weapon so carried concealed and be fined in the sum " ?* ?i??. ?inn ?J -?t fv,n? 01 Dot) more luul f iuu uuu uuu icm kuou $20. or be imprisoned at hard labor Dot more than 30 nor less than 10 days, in the discretion of the court. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to persona carrying concealed weapons upon their own premises. Sec. 2. In every indictment for murder, manslaughter, assault and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, assault and assault and battery with intent to kill, and in every case where the crime is charged to have been com nitted with a deadly weapon of the character specified in the first section, there shall be a special count in said indictment for carrying concealed weapons, and the jury shall be required to find a verdict on such special count; and all cases embraced in this section, including the carrying of the weapons, shall be in the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of general sessions: Provided, that one-half the fine shall go to the free school fund of the county and the other half to the pension fund of said county. Sec. 3.- That all acts and parts of. acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS. Section 1. That from and after the passage of this act, all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trust or combinations between two or more persons as individuals, firms or corporations, made with a view to lessen, or which tends to lessen, full and free competition in the importation or sale of articles imported into this state, or in the manufacture or sale of articles of domont.in crrnwih nr of domestic raw ma terial, and all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts or combinations between persons or corporations designed or which tend to advance, reduce or control the price or the cost to the producer or to the consumer of any such product or article, are hereby declared to be against public policy, unlawful and void. -Sec. 3, Whenever complaint is made upon sufficient affidavit or affidavits showing a prima facie case of violation of the provisions of the first section of this act by any corporation, domestic or foreign, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to begin an action against such domestic corporation to forfeit its charter, and in case such violation shall be established the court shall adjudge the charter of such corporation to be forfeited, and such corporation shall be dissolved, and its ? " J J-a cnarter soan cease auu ueieruiiuc , uuu in ibe case of such showing as to a foreign corporation an action shall be begun by the attorney general in said court against such corporation to determine the truth of such charge; and in case such charge shall be considered established, the effect of the judgment of the court shall be to deny to such corporation the recognition of its corporate existence in any court of law or equity in this state. But nothing in this section shall be. construed to affect any right of action then existing against such corporation. Sec. 3. Any violation of the provision of this act shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be destructive of full and free competition and a conspiracy against trade, and any person or persons who may engage in any such conspiracy, or who shall, as principal, manager, director or agent, or in any other capacity, knowingly car- , ry out any of the stipulations, pur- | poses, prices, rates, or orders made | in futberance of such conspiracy, shall | on conviction be punished by a fine , of not less than one hundred dollars pr more than five thousand dollars, ( and by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months or more , than ten years, or in the judgment of the court by either such fine or such ( imprisonment. , Sec. 4. That any person or persons i or corporation that may be injured or i damaged by any such arrangement. , contract, agreement, trust, or combi- ( nation described in section 1 of this ] act, may sue for and recover, in any j court of competeBt jurisdiction, the ( full consideration or sum paid by him , or them for any goods, wares, mer chandise or articles the sale of which J is controlled by such combination or ( trust. I Sec. 5. That any and all persons ( may be compellable to testify in any s action or prosecution under this act: , W u flknll rroviaea, iuai suuu icsnuiuuj ou?w uot be used in any other action or j prosecution against such witness or ( witnesses, and such witness or witnesses shall forever be exempt from ( any prosecution for the act or acts ( concerning which he or they testify. Sec. 6. Nothing contained in this , act shall be taken or construed to , apply to any person or persons acting j in the discharge of official duties un- j der the laws of this state. Sec. 7. All acts in conflict with this , act be, and the same are hereby, re- ] pealed. I I Scottish Independence.?Mr. Ir- , ving related in Boston that once, traveling in Scotland near Balmoral, be met an old Scotch woman with whom ] he spoke of the queen. "The queen's a good woman," he said. "I suppose she's gude enough, but there are things I canna bear." "What do you mean ?" asked Mr. Irving. "Well, I think there are things which even the queen has no recbt to J" nVin /vAOfl t*An?inr? UU? X'Ul uuo iuiu^, CUV guvo ivmug on the lake on Soonday, and it's not a Chreeatian thing to do!" "But you know the Bible tells us? "I knaw," she interrupted, angrily. "I've read the Bible since I was so high, an' I knaw ev'ry word in't. I knuw aboot the Sunday fishing and a' the other things the good Lord did; but I want ye to knaw, too, that I don't think any the more, e'en of him, for a-doin' it I" THE TRUE STORY OF BLUEBEARD. Everybody who has heard the story of Bluebeard, the cruel husband whose pleasure seems to have been to cut off the beads of bis wives, will be grateful to Professor Wilson for telling the true story of this man who has made us shudder. Professor Wilson says that the real Bluebeard lived in Brittany, before Brittany became a part of France. His father died when he was young. In Brittany, at that time, it was not thought that mothers knew how to bring up their sons. The boy was given to the care of his mother's father. It was the custom in that country at that time, about 1420, for boys to marry young, so Giles de Rais married at sixteen years of age, his wife having been selected by his grandfather. His wife lived many years after him, and never complained of cruelty from her husband. Giles de Rais went to war shortly after he was married. Brittany was at war with England. He was a brave soldier, and advanced rapidly. He became dean of the nobles, and was sent to Bee the King of France, Charles VH. It is said that Giles de Rais was one of the body guards of Joan of Arc. He became a Marshal of Friance, but returned to Brittany, where he bad several castles. He was extravagant and at last used up all his money, and became a poor miser. He sought the philosopher's stone, that was supposed to bring great wealth to the finder. He met a priest who was an alchemist. Together the priest and Giles worked day and night in one of Bluebeard's gloomy castles to find the magic stone.' The priest at last said they must have the blood of innocent young men aud women. Then Giles became the mysterious monster- who-ggve rise to the famous tale, and men and women disappeared in bis castle. The people were roused, and the guilt of Bluebeard, an assistant, and the priest wa? proven. They were executed, and at this day the peasants show the place. There were no newspapers to print the story at that time, so people told it one to the other. Probably some unwise parents made it even more terrible in order to frighten little children. It was in this telling trom one to tne other that the story was changed. Prbfessor Wilson has studied the stories of that olden time, called folk lore, until he has found the true stories as . people of that far-away time told them.?The Outlook. A TRADING DOG. I was going down a little side street in the French quarter in New Orleans yesterday morning, when I saw a dog?apparently a cross-bred setter that had come down in the world? trotting gayly along the banquette in front of me, carrying a quail in his mouth. Presently he came to a queer little bakershop letting opon an old time court. Stopping before the shop window the dog reared up on his hind legs and tapped with bis fore paws upon the closed pane, whereupon the baker came and raised the window. "Bon jour, monsier," said the man, quite cherrily, as if he were speaking to an old acquaintance. At the same time be took a small round loaf of bread from the shelf and put it down on the sill. The dog, wagging his tail, the while, deposited bis bird on the window ledge, picked up the loaf and trotted back, the way he came. "You are wondering at my queer customer?" asked the baker, seeing my astonishment at the transaction. "Well, all I can tell you," he went on, "is that the dog has been trading with me for nearly a year now. Where he comes from and to whom he belongs I know not. I think it is more than likely that he is a stray, making bis own living. I have fancied sometimes that he must rob the stalls in the n v U.I .1? r reucu LUUIHCI IUI lUC luiugo uc UIIU^U me. But I do not know and nobody complains. Sometimes he brings a bird, as you see ; sometimes a fish or a crab ; now and tben only a potato or a 3prig of parsley or thyme. Now and then, although very rarely, he comes without anything at all. Then I kuow, poor fellow, he has had a hard lay, so he gets his loaf just the same. Why not ? Even a dog must live, and cften he overpays, anyhow, so it all comes right in the end." "It is queer, though," the man continued, "he always must have the same sort of bread ; no other will he take. See. I keen his loaf here always, and if I start to get one from another shelf, be barks, you don't know bow, and will not put down whatever he has brought till I get the right bread. Oh, be is sharp, that dog," added the little baker, and I think most people will igree with him. 86T" Don't be satisfied to "keep going." Be sure you are going somewhere. .