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ft ISSUED TWICE A WEEK?WEDNE83DAY AND SATURDAY. l. m. grist & SONS, Publishers. 1 A jfnmilg Jh'trspapcr: <$or the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural, and 0'ommei;cial Interests of the gouth. {TERIn'o^'cotv* Le ce"?NCE' VOL. 43. YORKVILLE, S. P., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1897. JSTO. 28. THE GREAT TRAIh BY PAUL LEIC Copyright, 1896, by J. B. Lippincott Comp Synopsis ok 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.?Dick Gordon, Yale graduate, goes in for hard work. From the - - j ? i. _..:l 1 okim. I l-mcago auu a1u>h millwail icpan o?.wk.-, he is gradually promoted and finally works up to the position of superintendent of a western railroad?the Kansas and Arizona. The story opens with an account of a trip by rail of Mr. C'ullen, a railroad vice president, over the lines of the K. and A. Gordon is asked to meet Cullen and party and pilot them through. In the party are Madge Cullen, with whom Gordon falls in love ; Lord Rallcs, an Englishman, in love with Madge, and Captain Ackland, brother of Lord Ralles. Talk turns on train robbers. Madge would like an adventure with hold ups. So would Ralles and Ackland. While horseback riding near Santa Fe, Gordon! points out among convicts working on a railroad grade Jack Drute, a train robber under a 14 year sentence. Madge speaks to the convict, who answers gruffly. 1 Chapter II.?The party is joined by Madge's invalid brother. On a special) train all go on westward. While Mr. Cullen, his elder son and the two Englishmen play poker and Gordon and Madge enjoy the moonlight on the rear car the train is held up by bandits. Chapter III.?The robbers are fired at and frightened away, taking with them but three registered letters from the mail coach. Gordon telegraphs for help and starts the company's sleuths. He overhears Lord Ralles talking rudely to Madge and knocks him down. Chapter IV.-Mystery of the search for the robbers; only four shots fired by the robbers, and yet six empty shells are found. Cullen and party go on to the Grand Canyon. Gordon remains to assist the sheriff. CHAPTER V. a trip to the grand canyon. X stood pondering, ior no expiauuuuu that would lit the facts seemed possible. I should have considered the young fellow's story only an attempt to gain a little reputation for pluck if in any way I could have accounted for the appearance and disappearance of the robbers. Yet to suppose?which seemed the only other horn to the dilemma?that the son and guests of the vice president of the Missouri Western and one of our own directors would be concerned in train robbery was to believe something equally improbable. Indeed I should have put the whole tiling down as a practical joke of Mr. Cullen's party if it had not been for the loss of the registered letters. Even a practical joker would hardly care to go to the length of cutting open government mail pouches, for Uncle Sam doesn't approve of such conduct. Whatever the explanation, I had enough facts to prevent me from wasting more time on that alkali plain. Getting the men and horses back on to the nurs T tnmneri nn on the tailboard and ordered the runner to pull out for Flagstaff. It was a run of seven hours, getting us in a little after 8, and iu those hours I had done a lot of thinking, which had all come to one result?that Mr. Cullen's party was concerned in the hold up. The two private cars were on a siding, but the Cullens had left for the Grand canyon the moment they had arrived and were about reaching there by this time. I went to 218 and questioned the cook and waiter, but they either had seen nothing or else had been primed, for not a fact did I get from them. Going to my own car, I ordered a quick supper, and while I was eating it I questioned my boy. He told me that ho had heard the shots and had bolted the front door of my car, as I had ordered when I went out; that as he turned to go to a safer place ho had seen a man, revolver in hand, climb over the offside gate of Mr. Cullen's car, and for a moment he had supposed it a read agent till ho saw that it was Albert Cullcn. "That was just after I had got off?" I asked. "Yis, sah." "Then it couldn't have been Mr. Cullen, Jim," I declared, "for I found him up at the other end of the car." "Tell you it wuz, Mr. Gordon," Jim insisted. "I done seen his face cl'ar in de light, and he done go into Mr. Cullen's car, whar de old gentleman wuz sittin." That sefme whistling to myself, and I laughed to think how near I had come to giving nitroglycerin to a fellow who was only shamming heart failure, for that it was Frederic Culleu who had climbed on the car I hadn't the slightest doubt, the resemblance between the two brothers being quite strong enough to deceive any one who had never seen them together. I smiled a little and remarked to myself: "I think I can make good my boast that l would cutcli tne robbers, but whether the Culleus will like my doing it I question. What is more, Lord Ralles will owe me a bottle. '' Then I thought of Madge and didn't feel as pleased over my success as I had felt a moment before. By 9 o'clock the posse and I were in the saddle and skirting the San Francisco peaks. There was no use of pressing the ponies, for our game wasn't trying to escape, and, for that matter, couldn't, as the Colorado river wasn't passable. It was a lovely moonlight night, and the ride through the pines was as pretty a one as I remember ever to have made. It set me thinking of Madge and of our talk the evening before and of what a change 24 hours had brought. It was lucky I was riding an Indian pony, or I should probably have lauded in a heap. I don't know that I should have cared particularly if a prairie dog burrow had made me dash my brains out, for I wasn't happy over the job that lay before me. We watered at Silver Spring at quarter past 12. From that point we were :K.&A. I ROBBERY. :ester ford. ?any. I clear of the pines and out on the plain, I ar. 1T70 fOTllr) rrn n TI.'LPfi. Thi9 brought us to the half way ranch by 2, where we gave the ponies a feed and an hour's rest. We reached the last relay Btation just as the moon set, about 8:40, and, as all tt#3 rest of the ride was through coconino forest, we held up there for daylight, getting a little sleep meanwhile. We rode into the camp at the Grand canyon a little after 8, and the deserted look of tho tents gave me a moment's fright, for I feared that the party had gone. Tolfree explained, however, that some had ridden out to Moran Point and the rest had gone down Hance's trail. So I breakfasted, and then took a look at Albert Cullen's Winchester. That it had been recently fired was as plain as tho Grand canyon itself. Throwing back the bar, I found an empty cartridge shell, still oily from the discharge. That completed the tale of seven shots. I didn't feel absolutely safe till I had asked Tolfree if there had been any shooting of echoes by the party, but his denial rounded out my chain of evidence. Telling the sheriff to guard the bags of the party carefully, I took two of the posse and rode over to Moran's. Sure enough, there were Mr. Cullen, Albert and Captain Ackland. They gave a shout at seeing me, and even before I had reached them they called to know how I could come so soon and if I had caught the robbers. Mr. Cullen started to tell his pleasure at my rejoining the party, but my expression made him pause, and it seemed to dawn on all three that the Winchester across my saddle and the cowboys' resting nonchalantly on the revolvers in their belts had a meaning. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "I've got a ve y unpleasant job on hand, which I don't want to make any worse than need be. Eveiy fact points to your party as guilty of holding up the train last night and stealing those letters. Probably you weren't all concerned, but I've got to go on the assumption that you are all guilty till you prove otherwise. " "Aw, you're joking," drawled Albert. '' I hope so," I said. '' But for the present I've got to be English and treat tho joke seriously." "What do you want to do?" asked Mr. Cullcn. "I don't wish to arrest you gentlemen unless you force me to," I said, "for I don't see that it will do any good. But I want you to return to camp with us." They assented to that, and, single file, wo rode back. When there, I told each that lie must be searched, to which they submitted at once. After that we went through their b;iggago. I wasn't going to have the sheriff or cowboys tumbling over Miss Culleu's clothes, so I looked over her bag myself. The prettiness and daintiness of the various con- 3 tents were a revelation to me, and I 1 tried to put them back as neatly as I 3 had found them. But I didn't know ( much about the articles, and it was a ' terrible job trying to fold up some of the things. Why, there was a big pink 1 affair, lined with silk, with bits of rib- i bon and lace all over it, which nearly 1 drove me out of my head, for I would 1 have defied mortal man to pack it so that it shouldn't muss. I had a funny little feeling of tenderness for every- i thing, which made fussing over it all a i pleasure, even while I felt all the time i that I was doing a sneak act and had ( really no right to touch her belongings. I didn't find anything incriminating, and the posse reported the same result with the other baggage. If the letters i were still in existence, they wero either concealed somewhere or were in the 1 possession of the party in the canyon. Telling the sheriff to keep thoso in the camp under absolute surveillance, I took a single man, and, saddling a couple of 1 mules, started down the trail. We found Frederic and "Captain" Hance just dismounting at the Rock cabin, and I told the former he was in custody for the present and asked him w: ere Miss Cullcn and Lord Ralles w. re. Ho told me they were just behind. But I wasn't going to take any risks, and, ordering the deputy to look after Cullen, I went on down the trail. I couldn't resist calling back: " How's your respiration, Mr. Cullen?'' He laughed and called, "Digitalis put mc on my feet like a flash." I said to myself, "He's got the most brains of any man in this party." The trail at this point is very winding, so that one can rarely see 50 feet in advance, and sometimes not 10. Owing to this, the first thing I knew I plumped round a curve on to a mule, which was patiently standing there. Just back of him was another, on which sat Miss Cullen, and, standing close beside her, was Lord Ralles. One of his hands held the mule's bridle, the other held Madge's arm, and he was saying, "You owe it to 1 me, and I will have one, or if"? I swore to myself and coughed aloud, which made Miss Culleu look up. The J moment she saw me she cried, "Mr. Gordon! How delightful!" even whilo she grew as red as she had been pale the 1 moment before. Lord Ralles grew red, too, but in a different way. "Have you caught the robbers?" cried Miss Cullen. "I'm afraid I have," I answered. "What do you mean?" she asked. I smiled at the absolute innocence and wonder witl which she spoke and replied, "I know now, Miss Cullen, why you said I was braver than the Britishers. " "How do you know?" I couldn't resist getting in aside shot at Lord Ralles, who had mounted his muio and sat scowling. 'The train rob bers were such thoroughgoing duffers at the trade," I said, "that if they had left their names and addresses they wouldn't have made it much easier. We Americans may not know enough to deal with real road agents, but we can do something with amateurs." "What are we stopping here for?" snapped Lord Ralles. "I'm sure I don't know," I responded. "Miss Cullen, if you will kindly pass us, and then if Lord Ralles will follow you, we will go on to the cabin. I must ask you to keep close together." "I stay or go as I please, and not by vnnr orders." said Lord Ralles. "Out in this part of the country," I said calmly, "it is not good form for an unarmed man to argue with one who carries a repeating rifle. Kindly follow Miss Cullen." And, leaning over, I struck his mule with tho loose ends of my bridle, starting it up the trail. When we reached the cabin, the deputy told me that he had made Frederic strip and had searched his clothing, finding nothing. I ordered Lord Ralles to dismount and go into tho cabin. "For what?" he demanded. "We want to search you," I answered. * "I don't choose to bo searched," he protested. "You havo shown no warrant, nor"? I wasn't in a mood toward him to listen to his talk. I swung my Winchester into line and said: "I was sworn in last night as a deputy sheriff and am privileged to shoot a train robber on sight. Either dead or alive, I'm going to search your clothing inside of ten minutes, and if you have no preference as to which condition you are in when it's done I certainly haven't." That brought him down off his high horse?that is, mule?and I sent tho deputy In with him, with directions to toss his clothes out to me, for I wanted to keep my eye on Miss Cullen and her KiwfVior en ns nrfivfint. auv leorerde main on their part. One by one the garments came flying through the door to me. As fast as I finished examining them I pitched them back, except?well, as I have thought it over since then I have decided that I did a mean thing and have regretted it. Bnt just put yourself in my place and think of how Lord Rallcs had talked to mo as if I was his servant, had refused my apology and thanks and been as generally "nasty" as he could, and perhaps yon won't blame me that, after looking through his trousers, I gave them a toss which, instead of sending them back into the hut, sent them over the edge of the traiL They went down 600 feet before they lodged in a poplar, and if his lordship followed the trail he could get round to them, but there would then be 100 feet of sheer rock between the trail and the trousers. "I hope it will teach him to study his Lord Chesterfield to better purpose, for, if politeness doesn't ' cost anything, rudeness can cost considerable, "*I chuckled to myself. My amusement didn't lust long, for 1 my next thought was, "If those letters are concealed on any one, they are on Miss Culleu." The thought made me lean up against my mule and turn hot and cold by turns. 1 A nice situation for a lover! I TO BE CONTINUED. I Played Horse** With the Bojs. The truth of this story can be vouched for by such reliablo citizens of Yolo ;ounty as Judge E. T. Hampton, Professor Barr, George W. Rupley, Dr. George H. Jackson and the old veteran fisherman, the Hon. Jason Watkins. A few summers ago the canal in the aastern part of the county was full of salmon that had come into tho tule waters early in the spring and were left in the canal after the water had subsided in the Sacramento river. Some men and boys conceived the idea of putting wire ( screens across the canal, a mile or so apart, then by forming a line of persons 1 and wading from one screen to the 1 other, driving the fish before them, they would catch wagon loads of big, fine salmon. Some boys, while engaged ! in this sport, caught one day a huge salmon, at least 4 feet long, that had been injured by running against a snag or in some other manner so they turned i him Inner* i This happened several times, until the fish became quite gri lle and would come to the water's edge whenever the boys whistled to him and would be fed by them with bread, worms, etc. One of the boys became possessed with the idea that they could have some sport with old Sam, and, carrying the idea into execution, he one day caught the fish, and, fastening a strong cord around the fore part of Mr. Salmon, he mounted astride of him, and away he went down the canal at more than railroad speed. As scon as one of the screens was reached the fish stopped and another boy bestrode, and away they went for tho other screen. The fish seemed to enjoy the sport and would flop his tail and jump around in the water, while the boys were shouting with laughter. This sport continued through the spring, until the poor old fish died, on account of the water getting so low and so warm in the canal, and tho boys buried him with all the honors he deserved.?tean jjrancisco Call. How to Cure Ingrowing Nails. When external pressure has been the :ause of ingrowing toenails and ulceration exists, the 6oft parts should be carefully pressed away from tho sharp edge of the nail by tho careful introduction beneath the overhanging integument of a small strip of iodoform gauze, which should bo well pressed down to the bottom of the sore and held in position by means of strips of adhesive plaster, applied so as to draw tho soft parts away from tho nail. This treatment, by removing tho soft parts from the sharp edge of the nail, is almost always successful How to Brighten Brass Ornaments. Brass ornaments should bo first washed with a strong lye, made of rock alum, in tiie proportion of an ounce of alum to a pint of water. When dry, rub with leather and fine tripoli. This will give tho brass tho brilliauey of gold. Jjrtiaccllanfous grading. LENTEN SERVICES. Mr. Editor May I ask a place in your columns for the following as a supplement to our recent invitation to the Christian people of the community to partake with us of the benefits of the Lenten services. R. W. Anderson. A NON-SECTARIAN LENT. By the circling of the church year the overwhelming body of Christianity is brought to the Lenten season once more. It matters little, indeed it is positively of no concern at all, just what this Leuten period stands for? whether as typifying the 40 years' wandering of the Israelites, or the 40 days' period of our Lord's fasting in the wilderness. The Lenten fast is one of the old institutions of the Christian Church, and it is with this.fact that we have to do. It is difficult to see how any one can refuse to admit the accruing advantages of this season. We may grant, as we do grant, that fasting is not commanded in the New Testament; that the one passage upon which it is based is doubtless interpolated, and that the evidence is especially strong because only one Gospel coutains it, and only one manuscript of that Gospel.* This may be granted, and yet the season may be profitably observed. For fasting is not all that there is of Lent, nor is it the chief thing. The chief characteristics that make the Lenten season profitable for all are its seclusion from the social dissipation and from the pursuits of mere pleasure, and the opportunities for religious worship which it offers the devout. Of course in a sense these opportunities always abound. But they are peculiarly emphasized when by general agreement society pauses, when the whirl of amusement is stopped and people say to themselves and to others, "We will stop our pleasure hunting awhile and seek communion with God in the services of his sanctuary." Much is meant by such a movement; and indeed this is precisely what the week of prayer of the evangelical alliance stands for, although the observance of the period is limited, and the religious services, constricted to the evening, are growing fewer with each recurrence of a new year. We may have our Lenten season although we may not feel called upon to fast. We can join our fellow Christians in the observance of a period of religious devotion, in the agreement to seek repose from party going, from engaging in the thousand and one forms of amusement which the inventiveness of sor?i<?t.v nrnvidps. It fiertainlv is an im pressive sight to see society turning away from the pursuit of pleasure and seeking the churches. Let Christians, then, of whatever denomination, unite with their fellow Christians in observing this period whose right improvement will bring profit to every devout soul. Enter the temples of your Episcopal friends where those of your own denomination are closed, and get that measure of spiritual refreshment which comes to every devout soul in putting aside for a time the pleasures of the world and seeking communion with God, the Father of all mercies.?Cbristian Work (Ind.), New York. * It seems to be taken for granted. Compare Matt. Ix, 15; Mark il, 18; Luke v,35, with Matt, vl, IK, 17,18, Acts xlll.8; xlv, 28. K.W. A. THE PENSION BOARDS. Rules For Tlieir Guidance Issued by the State Board. The following rules for the guidance of township and county boards of pensions have just been issued by the state board : The pension boards organized in 1896 will at once call together the soldiers and sailors resident in each township in their respective counties, fixing the time and place for such meeting in each township. Those soldiers and sailors, when assembled, elect one of their number chairman and another secretary. Ten days after this township organization the chairmen of these townships boards meet at i he county seat and elect four of their number and one physician as a county examining board of pensions. Pensioners now applicants for pensions cannot be elected a member of i_i_ K? lOWIlSllip pcusiuu uuui uo. II utu uiu soldiers cannot be found in the townships, reputable resident citizens may be elected. If any township shall fuil or refuse to organize as required by this act, then the county boards should recommend three good men, not pensioners, to the state pension board, who will appoint such township boards. All pensioners resident in the townships must appear in person before the township boards. Those already on the pension roll need not prepare and file new applications. All new applicants must be presented to and have the approval or disapproval of the township boards and county boards before the state board can approve. T/xwnohm KnurHa r* Hrnn fVnm t.hp. jvnuow.j, 1 roll of pensioners, as now constituted, the name or names of any party or parties which in their juiigmeut are not entitled to a pension under the laws, and add to the roll only such names of new applicants as may file such applications, with proof of service thereon, as indicated by the blank forms prepared by the state board. Applications defective or not filled up correctly in each particular, although appioved by townsbip and county boards, will be disapproved by the state board. Applications approved or disapproved by the stute board cannot be returned to the county or township boards after money has been prorated and paid out. Townships and county boards will notice that the law provides three classes, "A," "B"and "C," (with five sub-divisions of class "C\") as follows: Class A.?Those who have lost both arras, or both bands, or both legs, or both eyes, or whose absolute disability arising from wounds are equivalent to the loss of either. This does not include soldiers whose disabilities arise from diseases or causes arising since the war. Class B.?Those who have lost one arm or one leg, or whose disabilities l from wounds are equivalent to the loss | of an arm or a leg. Class C.?(No. 1.)?Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds, but not sufficient to be placed in class B, whose incomes do not exceed $250. Class C.?(No. 2.)?Those who have reached the age of 60 years and whose incomes do not exceed $100. Class C.? (No. 3.)?Widows of those who lost their lives in the service of the slate or Confederate states, and whose incomes do not exceed $250. Class C.?(No. 4.)?Widows above the age of 60 years whose income does not exceed $100. Class C.?(No. 5.)?Widows of pensioners. This class is not mentioned in the printed act sent out, but by the act approved December, 1894. Blanks for the reports of township and county boards in accord with these classes and sub-divisions have been prepared and mailed to auditors to distribute among the boards. Class A gets $6 per month or $72, and will be paid in full this amount, Class B, $4 per month or $48; and Class C, with each of its sub-divisions, $3 per month or $36. After Class A is paid, the balance will be pro rated between B ? j n ?q Tk;0 auu \ju tuc uaoio ui %>-x uu yu. j. uia raoDey will be seat to the clerks of courts as heretofore provided in the appropriation acts each year, aud will be sent just as soon as the roll for the state can be corrected and completed. Township boards cannot be too careful in these matters of "income" and "physical condition." It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor, and other sources, does not exceed $100, or poor lands, if any, which will not produce this amount. Property in applicant's or his wife's name debars them. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by giving or selling to their children, they are debarred from receiving a pension. The question of service to the state in connection with the various classes of reserves called into the service of the state just at the close of the war, will depend much upon the evidence submitted to the state board. When real service was rendered, the pension should he allowed. Any citizen of the state over 60 years of age, and otherwise qualified, is as much entitled to a pension as that class of her good citizens who merely met and organized on call, without real service. Let township and county boards act promptly and fairly, giving the state board full information with complete reports by township for each county, writing names full and clear, with particulars for approving or disapproving each case. Township boards must approve or disapprove, in writing, each new application, and then county boards, and afterwards the state board. When old boards (1896) have acted under laws then of force and approved or disapproved applications for pensions, let such applications be sent to township hoards, then to county boards to be approved or disapproved under the act of 1897 amending former acts. Respectfully, D. H. Tompkins, Secretary of State. W. A. Barber, Attorney General. James Norton, ComDtroller General. State Board of Pensioners. JONES VS. STRAIT. Republican Contestant Makes a Somewhat Mysterious Statement. The Rock Hill Messenger, colored, of last Friday contains the following, dated Blacksburg March 16 : To the executive committie of the Republican party of the Fifth congressional district of South Carolina: As the candidate for the Fifty-fifth congress, I deem it proper that I should make a brief statement of the motive impelling me to give notice of contest to Mr. Strait, and the present conditions of that contest. It was believed that a decision on the grave constitutional questions involved in the suffrage laws of this state could best be had by this contest, and my notice presents these questions fully. I have carefully taken all necessary preliminary steps and have preserved all the data and evidence necessary to show the condition of affairs in this state with reference to the right of suffrage. I have consulted at each step with Mr. Ernest F. Cochran, my counsel, who was our candidate for attorney general, and who is an able an conscientious lawyer. Accompanied by him I visited Washington and consulted with leading Republican members of the senate and house, and ulso with some of the best legal talent nf t lio f?nnntrv W1 "MV The consensus of opinion was that while a continuance of the contest would more than likely result in unseating Mr. Strait; yet, under a late decision of the house committee, it was very probable that the committee would unseat Mr. Strait on other grounds and leave untouched the constitutional questions raised. As our object has been to get a decision on these points it has therefore been determined best to have the matter brought up in another shape, so that a decision on these questions would be certainly reached. I have always been and still ready to sacrifice personal interest to the interest of the party, and am therefore willing that the matter should take the course suggested. Having interested such men as are the recognized national leaders of our party in these questions and having good reason to believe that the whole subject will have thorough investigation, I would 1 suggest that you, and all members of < the party, carefully preserve all data i and evidence that would throw any < light on the matter in which the last I election was conducted, and have it i ready to be produced on short notice. I Respectfully, I John F. Jones, i A SCORCHING ARRAIGNMENT. i What Judge Helton O'Neall Said to a Murderer. Mr. Robin Love, of Hickory Grove, 1 requests the publication of the following in The Enquirer. It is clipped ^ from tho TTnionvillft Journal of 1852. . and Mr. Love has a vivid recollection of all the circumstances in connection therewith: The court of appeals have refused to grant a new trial in the case of the state vs. Phineas H. Johnson, for murder. We publish below, the sentence of the court, as delivered by Jukge O'Neall, in Columbia on Monday, the 15th inst. Phineas Johnson: Young man, how can I say to you, in the awful language of the inspired prophet, "set thy house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live!" Yet it must be done. You are before me now, in the morning of life?in a few brief days you will be cut off, and the place whiph now knows you, "shall know you no more forever." It is my duty to say to you, that the nature of your crime forbids the possibility of pardon here. Your only hope of pardon is in the merciful atonement offered you and all men, in the broken body and streaming blood of him, who cried, "Father, forgiveithem, for they know not what they do." Your crime, awful as it is, must be set before you, in the hope that it may ' do you and the community good. To 1 creep upon a poor woman, in her own 1 solitary cabin, in the stillness of night, 1 with her nursling at her feet, her first ( born wrapt in infantile innocent slum- i ber by her side, when preparing the scanty portion of vegetables for her < and their food, and to shoot her as a ' wild beast, hardly has a parallel in the ' annals of crime. When to this is added, < 4 t- _ ?2 1 * ' AL IILA AAtMnlftf A/1 VllO J ILIC gUlll/^ \V I'Cltll VYUU UULupicicu kuio deed was her seducer, the father of her < little ones?where, oh where, shall we ' find another as foul a blot on humanity ! < To you, at least, her person ought to * have been sacred. For you, she had made herself the guilty, degrading be- ' ing, to whom beauty was a reproach, ? character was infamy, and affection was hatred. For you she had left a ' father's house and plenty, and had be- ( come a dependent on almost charity, ' for food and covering. To you, she < had given the pledges of her love, in the starving, degraded children around 1 her! How could you, young man, 1 slay her, who had thus given her all I to you ? How could you level your ' gun at the head which had often been J pillowed in guilty affection upon your > bosom ? Remember, I beg you to re- 1 member, that her blood will sink you < forever into everlasting torments, un- < less you can feel that mercy, your Sa- * vior's dying mercy, has removed the .< guilty weight of it from your soul. 1 It is necessary, too, young man, for < your own sake ana mat or me section < of the country (Pea Ridge, of Union district,) from w. eh you came, that it should be said, I tear your crime is the consequence of the gross immorality and vice which has too much there abounded. Female virtue has there, I am told, lost its appropriate value. Seduction is not regarded as a crime ; and concubinage is not at all rare or disgraceful. Will you not, as you approach the gallows, say with me, I shame upon such a state of things! You will be, most probably, the first I white man hanged in Union district; and fearful will be the commentary of your fate, upon such a state of morals. Is it true, that you and the deceased once were members of the same religious community ? Can it be, that you forgot that the weak and lovely being by your side and your sister in the house of your sister, and that violatiug her confidence you snatched a crown of peace from her head, to place upon it one of shame ? Oh ! if these things be so, think upon them?ponder them night and day, for they demand a fearful reckoning and account. From you I turn, and with me I hope you will in thought also go, to the housoof your parents. What is there ? Peace? No! oh no ! I can, in imagination, hear your young wife frantically asking to be allowed to share your prison solitude; your mother, like Rachel, "weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, for they were not;" your father, once respectable, now broken down, and lamenting like David for Absalom, "oh, my son, would to God that I had died for thee!" Who has caused this scene of mourning? Must I say guilty young man, "thou art the man !" Sai and awful as all these thoughts and reminiscences may be, they are as nothing to that which is before you! Death, a shameful death, in a few days, s must be met and suffered. uu ! young i mau, do not die forever. I God is before you as he ever has ? been, willing to be gracious. He still 3 points to the atonement offered on 1 Calvary. He still says, "wash and be clean." I have no doubt that, although a 1 murderer like Massey, you may yet c have his hope of pardon and peace, t I have heard with great pleasure, that f you have as you believe, experienced' * already that hope. c Be not deceived ! Wrestle contin- t ually, like good old Jacob with the c angel of the covenant, and say like ? him, "I will not let thee go till thou f bless me." J May you have that blessiug ! May God pass you through the dark valley of the shadow of death and enable 1 you to say, "I will fear no ill, for thy d rod and thy staff doth support me." c The sentence of the law is that you b be taken hence to the jail of Union riistrict ; that you there be safely and securely confined till Friday, the 13th day of February next, on which day, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 2 in the afternoon, you will be taken by the sheriff of Union district to the place of public execution, and there be hanged by the neck, till your body be dead, and may God have mercy on your soul! ALL ABOUT THE BABY. Chicago Physician Tells Fond Mothers All About Their Offspring. Dr. Robert N. Tooker, of Chicago, has been writing a valuable treatise on babyhood, which many a fond mother cvill thank him for. "All About the Baby," as the title suggests, is primarily intended for the youthful wife and mother. It is written in the convenent form of questions and answers, ind even that personified interrogation mark, the young mother, will hardly 3e able to think up a question for Evhich she cannot find a clear, thoughtful and sensible reply in the author's long array of answers. The chapters 3n "The Nursery" and on "Food and Feeding" are especially valuable and suggestive, and are well illustrated, ;he plan given for the second floor of i "satisfactory house for a family" ceing both practical and attractive. In the discussion on food several 'hardshell" superstitions are exploded, such, for instance, as the time-honored 'milk-from-one-cow" fable. The carerul mother inquires: "In obtaining milk for the baby's jse is it best to get the milk from one 30W ?" And the answer is: "It is far better to get the mixed milk from a herd of cows, such as is iupplied from a dairy and distributed 3y an honest dairyman. No one cow, lAfllOIIAII /-?o haCm 11 Knf m ill Kaira juwcyci vai ciuiij uicuj uuv mu uw v v ier occasional illness during which ler milk will be poor and colicky. 3tall-fed cows always give milk which s more or less acid and therefore liable o cause disturbance. All milk dealers ire ready and glad to provide the bajy, for a little extra consideration, with the freshest and best milk which jomes from the dairy. Your milkman should be provided with a special milk ;an for your special use and sufficiently rewarded to stimulate him to use jxtra care in bis attentions to your special needs." The late Eugene Field was a personil friend of Dr. Tooker, and it is with jvident pleasure that "The Shut-eye rrain" is quoted in the. chapter on 'Sleep," wherein great stress is laid >n the importance of forming the habts of small persons at an exceedingly ;arly period of their careers. "If you expect your child to have good habits when grown up you must jegin to educate it early?as soon as pou are able to assume the responsijilities of motherhood. If you are ax and loose about the baby's habits t will soon appreciate the fact and you will regret it later. Sleep, perhaps, is much or more than any other item )f nursery regime depends on habit ._ J ?!1J U..4 J : J? J A lanlr 1UU IU11U UUbUCUiUCU put pUDC. Atava )f firmness in the early months of a jaby's life may not only render its jarly years a burden to itself but an mnoyance, if not a nuisance, to the mtire household." Nursing mothers are warned by Dr. Tooker of the great danger of giving ivay to ill-temper, "a mother's milk laving been rendered absolutely pois)dous to her babe by sudden anger or )y some nervous shock," and in illustration a story is told of a woman who wrought her infant to the Lincoln Park Sanitarium last summer. The baby was six months old, thin and wretchjdly nervous, unable to sleep and in ]uite a serious condition, yet the doctors could not succeed in discovering the cause of the trouble, and were much puzzled by the case. At last it was suggested that the mother's do nestic relations mignt do responsioie "or her child's condition, and she was isked whether she lived happily with uer husband. "We quarrel almost every day about something, and of course I get mad," was her reply. It was explained to the woman that 'getting mad" was a luxury which she must make up her mind to forego is long as she was nursing her baby, ind some months afterward she retppeared at the sanitarium, proudly lisplaying a big, healty-looking boy. "Do you remember me?" she injuired. "I want to show you my )aby. Isn't he fine? You told me it was my getting angry that ailed him, md I haven't got mad since." tGT In New York, the other night, Principal Booker T. Washington, of ruskegee, spoke of the moral and reigious life of bis owe race, and said bat it was probably all that could be sxpected after their 250 years of slavery. He told an anecdote of an old ilave who reasoned that, as his body >elon&ed to the master, if he ate the aster's chickens the chickens were till his, and no theft had been comnitted. His master remonstrated with lim for eating chickens shortly after, ind the slave replied : "Well, massa, rou'se got less chicken, but you'se got nore niggah !". S8T Many of the men who used to >e largely interested in the culture of tranges in Florida, are beginning to >elieve that the blighting frost of a ew years ago may have been somevhat of the nature of a blessing in lisguise. They say, for example, that his season's strawberry crop in Pasco :ounty will bring to the growers twice is much money as they ever realized rom the oranges grown there in one rear. AST" A South Penobscot, Me., hen is 8 years old and lays an egg every lay. She never wanted to set but nee, when she was 1(1 years old. She ius laid more than 5,500 eggs.