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THE GREAT
TRAII\
BY PAUL LEIC
Copyright, 1896, by J. B. Lippincott Comp
Synopsis of 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 grad
uate, goes in ior nam wors. x- rum me
Chicago and Alton railroad repair shops
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. Cullen, 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 Ralles,
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 auswers gruffly.
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. Goruou remains to assist
the sheriff.
Chapter V.?Gordon with the sherifi
and posse follows to Grand canyon, finds
the party in camp, tells them he suspects
them of complicity in the robbery and
searches them and their effects.
Chapter VI.?to nna me leuera ue
decides that be must search Madge.
When she finds be is determined, sue
yields up the letters. The motive of the
robbery is explained. The letters were
proxies for the K. <S A. election. Cullen's
company was fighting for control. They
took a desperate chance to get the proxies.
Gordon resolves to pull the Cullens
out of the scrape for Madge's sake.
Chapter \ II.?Our hero in league
with the Cullens. Madge is happy and
Lord Ralles discomfited.
CHAPTER VIII.
how did the secret leak out?
I made up for my three nights' lack
of sleep by not waking the next morning
till after 10. When I went to 218, I
found only the chef, and he told me the
party had gone for a ride. Since I could
not talk to Madge, I went to work at
my desk, for I had been rather neglecting
my routine work. While I still
wrote I heard horses' hoofs, and, looking
up, saw the Cullens returning. I
went out on the platform to wish them
good morning, arriving just in time to
see Lord Ralles help Miss Cullen out of
her saddle, and the way he did it, and
the way he continued to hold her hand
after she was down, while he said something
to her, made me grit my teeth
and look the other way. None of the
riders had seen me, so I slipped into my
car and went back to work. Fred came
in presently to see if I was up yet and
to ask me to lunch, but I felt so miserable
and downhearted that I made an
excuse of my late breakfast for not join
ing them.
Alter iuncneon tne party in toe otoer
special all came out and walked up and
down the platform, the sound of their
voices and laughter only making me
feel the bluer. Before long I heard a rap
on one of my windows, and there was
Miss Cullen peering in at me. The moment
I looked up she called:
"Won't you make one of us, Mr. Misanthrope?"
I called myself all sorts of a fool, but
out I went as eagerly as if there had
been some hope. Miss Cullen began to
tease me over my sudden access of energy,
declaring that she was sure it was
a pose for their benefit, or else due to a
guilty conscience over having slept so
late.
"I hoped you would ride with us,
though perhaps it wouldn't have paid
you. Apparently there is nothing to see
in Ash Forks."
"There is something that may interest
you all," I said, pointing to a special
that had been dropped off No. 2 that
morning.
* "What is it?" asked Madge.
"It's a G. S. special," I said, "and
Mr. Camp and Mr. Baldwin and two
G. S. officials came in on it."
"What do you think he'd give for
those letters?" laughed Fred.
"If they were worth so much to you,
I suppose they can't be worth any less
to the G. S.," I replied.
"Fortunately there is no way that
he can learn where they are," said Mr.
Cullen.
"Don't let's stand still," cried Miss
Cullen. "Mr. Gordon, I'll run you a
race to the end of the platform.'' She
said this only after getting a big lead,
and she got there about eight inches
ahead of me, which pleased her mightily.
"It takes men so long to get started,"
was the way ?hc explained her vicfnr-cr
Then she walked me bevond the
end of the boarding to explain the workings
of a switch to her. That it was
only a pretext she proved to me the moment
I had relocked the bar by saying:
"Mr. Gordon, may I ask you a question?"
"Certainly," I assented.
"It is one I should ask papa or Fred,
but I am afraid they might not toll me
the truth. You will, won't you?" she
begged very earnestly.
"I will," said L
"Supposing," she continued, "that it
became known that you have those letters?
Would it do our side any harm?"
K & A.
I ROBBERY.
'ESTER FORD.
any.
I thought for a moment and then
shook my head "No new proxies
could arrive here in time for the election,"
I said "and the ones I have will
not be voted."
She still looked doubtful and asked
"Then why did papa say just now,
'Fortunately?' "
"He merely meant that it was safer
they shouldn't know."
"Then it is better to keep it a secret?"
she asked anxiously.
"I suppose so," I said and then added,
"Why should you be afraid of asking
your father?"
"Because he might?well, if he
knew, I'm sure he would sacrifice himself,
and I couldn't run the risk."
"I am afraid I don't understand?" I
questioned
"I would rather not explain," she
said and of course that ended the subject.
Our exercise taken, we went back to
the Cullens' car and Madge left us to
write some letters. A moment later
Lord Ralles remembered he had not
written home recently, and he, too,
went forward to the dining room. That
made, me call myself?something, for
not having offered Miss Cullen the use
of my desk in 97. Owing to this the
two missed part of the big game we
were playing, for barely were they gone
when one of the servants brought a
card to Mr. Cullen, who looked at it
and exclaimed "Mr. Camp!" Then,
after a speaking pause, in which we all
exchanged glances, he 6aid "Bring
him in."
On Mr. Camp's entrance he looked
as much surprised as we had all done a
moment before. "I beg your pardon for
intruding, Mr. Cnllen," he said. "I
was told that this was Mr. Gordon's
car, and I wish to see him."
"I am Mr. Gordon."
"You are traveling with Mr. Cnllen?"
he inquired, with a touch of suspicion
in his manner.
"No,"I answered. "My special is
the next car, and I was merely enjoying
a cigar here."
"Ah!" said Mr. Camp. "Then I
won't interrupt your smoke, and will
only relieve you of those letters of
mine.''
I took a good pull at my cigar and
blew the smoke out in a cloud slowly
to gain time. "I don't think I follow
you," I said.
"I understand that you have in your
possession three letters addressed to
me."
"I have, " I assented.
"Then I will ask yon to deliver them
to me."
"I can't do that."
vvny 1101.' ne cnaiiengeu. xney re
my property."
I produced the postmaster general's
telegram and read it to him.
"Why, this is infamous!" Mr. Camp
cried. "What use will those letters be
after the 20th? It's a conspiracy."
"I can only obey instructions," I
said.
"It shall cost you your position if
you do," Mr. Camp threatened.
As I've already said, I haven't a good
temper, and when he told me that I
couldn't help retorting:
"That's quite on a par with most G.
S. methods."
"I'm not speaking for the G. S.,
young mail," said Mr. Camp. "I speak
as a director of the Kansas and Arizona
What is more, I will have those letters
inside of 24 hours."
He made an angry exit, and I said to
Fred: "I wish you would stroll about
and spy out the proceedings of the enemy's
camp. He may telegraph to Washington,
and if there's any chance of the
postnmster general revoking his order I
must go back to Flagstaff on No. 4 this
afternoon.''
"He shan't do anything that I don't
kaow about till he goes to bed," Fred
promised. "But how the deuce did he
know that you had those letters?"
That was just what we were all puzzling
over, for only the occupants of No.
218 and myself, so far as I knew, were
in a position to let Mr. Camp hear of
that fact.
As Fred made his exit he said,
"Don't tell Madge that there is a new
fMimnlifiitiroi for the dear irirl has had
worries enough already."
Miss Cullen not rejoining us, and
Lord Rulles presently doing so, I went
to my own cur, for he and I were not
good furniture for the same room. Before
I had been there long Fred came
rushing in.
"Camp and Baldwin have been in
consultation with a lawyer, "he said,
"and now the three have just boarded
those curs," pointing out the window
at the branch line train that was to
leave for Pheuix in two minutes.
"You must go with them," I urged,
"and keep us informed as to what they
do, for they evidently are going to set
the law on us, and the G. S. has always
owned the territorial judges, so they'll
stretch a point to oblige them."
"Have I time to fill a bug?"
"Plenty," I answered him, and, going
out, I ordered the train held till I
should give the word.
"What does it all mean?" asked Miss
Cullen, joining me.
I laughed and replied, "I'm holding
up a train all by my lonesome."
"But my brother came dashing in
just now and said he was starting for
Pheuix."
"Let her go, "I called to the conductor,
as Fred jumped aboard, and the
train pulled out.
"I hope there's nothing wrong?"
Madge questioned anxiously.
"Nothing to worry over," I laughed.
"Only a little more fun for our money.
By the way, Hiss Cullen," I went on,
to avoid her questions, "if you have
your letters ready and will let me have
them at once, I can get them on No. 4."
Miss Cullen blushed as if I had said
something I ought not to have and stammered,
"I?I didn't write them, after
all."
"I beg your pardon," I said, thinking
what a dunce I had been not to understand
that the letters of both herself
and Lord Ralles had been only a pretext
to get away from the rest of us.
My apology and evident embarrassment
deepened MissCullen's blush fivefold,
and she said hurriedly, "I found I
was tired, and so, instead of writing, I
went to my room and rested."
I suppose any girl would have invented
the same yarn, yet it hurt me more
than the bigger one she had told on
Hance's trail. Small as the incident
was, it made me very blue and led me
fn eVint mvfiplf nT> in mv own car for
the rest of that afternoon and evening.
Indeed, I couldn't sleep, but sat up
working, quite forgetful of the passing
hours, till a glance at my watch startled
me with the fact that it was a quarter
of 2. Feeling like anything more than
sleep, I went out on the platform, and,
lighting a cigar, paced up and down,
thinking of?well, thinking.
The night agent was sitting in the
station, nodding, and after I had walked
for an hour I went in to ask him if the
train to Phenix had arrived on time. As
I opened the door, the telegraph instrument
began clicking and called Ash
Forks. The man, with the curious ability
that operators get of recognizing
their own call, even in sleep, waked up
instantly and responded, and, not wishing
to interrupt him, I delayed asking
my question till he should be free. I
stood there thinking of Madge, and
listening heedlessly as the instrument
ticked off the cipher signature of the
sending operator, and the "24 paid."
But as I heard the clicks
which meant ph, I suddenly became attentive,
and when it completed Phenix
I concluded Fred was wiring me and
listened for what followed the date.
This is what the instrument ticked:
That may not look particularly intelligible,
but if the Phenix operator had
been talking over the phono to me he
couldn't have said any plainer:
Sheriff yavapai county ash forks arlzona be
at railroad station three forty five today to
meet train arriving from phoenix prepared to
immediately serve peremptory mandamus issued
tonight by judgo wilson sig theodore e
camp.
My question being pretty thoroughly
answered, I went back and continued
my walk, but before five minutes had
passed the operator came out and handed
me a message. It was from Fred,
and read thus:
Camp, Baldwin, and lawyer went at once to
house of Judge Wilson, where they staid an
hour. They then returned with judge to sta
uon, UHU lllttr Uispuiuumjj a H-lctjiaui uotu
taken Hi'uts in train for Ash Forks, leaving
hero ut 8:25. I shall return with them.
A bigger idiot than I could have understood
the move. I was to be hauled
before Judge Wilson by means of mandamus
proceedings, and, as he was coming
to Ash Forks solely to oblige Mr.
Camp and was notoriously a G. S.
judge, he would unquestionaly declare
the letters the property of Mr. Camp
and order their delivery.
Apparently I had my choice of being
a traitor to Madge, of going to prison
for contempt of court, or of running
away, which was not far off from acknowledging
that I had done something
wrong. I didn't like any one of the
options.
CHAPTER IX.
A TALK BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Looking at my watch I found it was
a little after 8, which meant G in Washington.
Allowing for transmission, a
telegram would reach there in time to
be on hand with the opening of the departments.
I therefore wired at once to
the following effect:
Postmaster General, Washington:
A peremptory mundumus has been Issued by
territorial judge to compel mo to deliver to
addressee the three registered letters which by
your directions, issued Oct. 10, I was to hold
pending arrival of Special Agent Jackson.
Service of writ will be made at 8:45 toduy unless
prevented. Telegraph me instructions how
to act.
That done, I had a good tub, took a
brisk walk down the track and felt so
freshened up as to be none the worse for
my sleepless night. I returned to the
station a little after 6, and, to my surprise,
found Miss Cullen walking up
and down the platform.
"You are up early 1" we both said
together.
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sleep last night."
"You're not unwell, I hope?"
"No?except mentally."
I looked a question, and sho went on,
"I have some worries, and then last
night I saw you were all keeping some
had news from me, and so I couldn't
sleep."
"Then we did wrong to make a mystery
of it, Miss Culleu," I said, "for it
really isn't any tiling to trouble about.
Mr. Camp is simply taking legal steps
to try to force me to deliver those letters
to him."
"And can ho succeed?"
"No."
"How will you stop him?"
"I don't know yet just what we shall
do, but if worse comes to worst I will
allow myself to be committed for contempt
of court.''
"What would they do with you?"
"Give me fret! bo;ird for a time."
"Not send you to prison?"
"Yes."
"Oh," sho cried, "that mustn't bo!
You must not make such a sacrifice for
us."
"I'd do more than that for you," I
said. And I couldn't help putting a little
emphasis on the last word, though I
knew I had no right to do it.
She understoou me and blushed rosily,
even while she protested, "It is too
much"?
"There's really no likelihood," I interrupted,
"of my being able to assume
a martyr's crown, Miss Cullen, so don't
begin to pity me till I'm behind the
bars."
"But I can't bear to think"?
"Don't," I interrupted again, rejoicing
all the time at her evident anxiety
and blessing my stars for the luck they
had brought me. "Why, Miss Cullen,"
I went on, "I've become so interested in
your success and the licking of those
fellows that I really think I'd stand
about anything rather than that they
should win. Yesterday, when Mr. Camp
4.1? TKon T cfrvnTwl n.q "if.
tiueaiciicu w ~ -suddenly
occurred to me that it was best
not to tell Madge that I might lose my
position, for it would look like a kind
of bid for her favor, and, besides, would
only add to her worries.
"Threatened what?" asked Miss Cullen.
"Threatened to lose his temper, " I
answered.
"You know that wasn't what you
were going to say," Madge said reproachfully.
"No, it wasn't," I laughed.
"Then what was it?"
"Nothing worth speaking about."
"But I want to know what he threatened.
"
"Really, MissCullen"? I began, but
she interrupted me by saying anxiously:
"He can't hurt papa, can he?"
"No," I replied.
"Or my brothers?"
"He can't touch any of them without
my help. And he'll have work to get
that, I suspect."
"Then why can't you tell me?" demanded
Miss Cullen. "Your refusal
makes me think you are keeping back
some danger to them."
"Why, Miss Cullen," I said, "Ididn't
like to tell his threat because it seemed
?well, I may be wrong, but I thought
it might look like an attempt?an appeal?
Oh, pshaw!" I faltered, like a
donkey. "I can't say it as I want to put
it."
"Then tell me right out what ho
threatened," said Madge.
' Ho threatened to get me discharged,"
I said.
That made Madge look very sober,
and for a moment there was silence.
Then sho said:
"I never thought of what you were
risking to help us, Mr. Gordon. And I'm
afraid it's too late to"?
"Don't worry about me," I hastened
to interject. "I'm a long way from being
discharged, and, even if I should be,
Miss Cullen, I know my business, and
it won't be long before I have another
place."
"But it's terrible to think of the injury
we may have caused you," said
Madge sadly. "It makes me hate the
thought of money."
"That's a very poor thing to hate," I
said, "except the lack of it."
"Are you so anxious to get rich?"
asked Madge, looking up at me quickly
'Td do more than that for you."
as we walked, for we had been pacing
up and down the platform during our
chat.
"I haven't been till lately," I said.
"And what made you change?" she
questioned.
"Well," I said, fishing round for
some reason other than the true one,
"perhaps I want to take a rest."
"You are the worst man for fibs I
ever knew," she laughed.
I felt myself getting red, while I exclaimed,
"Why, Miss Cullen, I don't
think I'm a bit worso liar than"?
"Oh," she cried, interrupting me, "I
didn't mean that way. I meant that
when you try to fib you always do it so
badly that one sees right through you.
Now, acknowledge that you wouldn't
stop work if you could''
"Well, no, I wouldn't," I owned up.
"The truth is, Miss Cullen, thatl'd like
to be rich because?well, hang it, I
don't care if I do say it?because I'm in
love."
Madge laughed at my confusion and
said, "With money?"
"No," I said; "with just the nicest,
sweetest, prettiest girl in the world.''
Madge took a look at mo out of the
corner of her eye and remarked, "It
must be breakfast time."
Considering that it was about 6:80, I
wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle
now, but I resisted the temptation
and said:
"No, and I promise not to bother you
about my private affairs any more."
Madgo laughed again merrily, saying:
"You aro the most obvious man I
ever met. Now why did you say that?"
"I thought you were making breakfast
an excuse," I said, "because you
didn't liko the subject. "
"Yes, I was," said Madge frankly.
"Tell me about the girl you are engaged
to."
I was so taken aback that I stopped
in my walk and merely looked at her.
"For instance," she asked coolly,
when she saw that I was speechless
"what docs she look like?"
"Like, like"? I stammered, still embarrassed
by this bold carrying the war
into my own camp?'' like an angel."
"Ofi," said Sludge eagerly, 'Tve always
wanted to know what angels were
like! Describe her to me." :
"Well," I said, getting my second
wind, so to speak, "she has the bluest
eyes I've ever seen. Why, Miss Cullen, 8
you said you'd never seen anything so
blue as the sky yesterday, but even the
atmosphere of 'rainless Arizona' has to ij
t;Jie a back seat when her eyes are j,
round. And they are just like the at- ^
mosphere out here. You can look into
them for 100 miles, but you can't get to a
the bottom." 1
*' The Arizona sky is wonderful, "said b
Madge. "How do the scientists account
for it?" E
I wasn't going to have my description jof
Miss Cullen side tracked, for since she 0
had given me the chauco I wanted her ..
to know just what I thought of her. I B
didn't follow lead on the Arizona skies, t
but went on: ^
"And I really think her hair is just t
as beautiful as her eyes. It's light
brown, very curly and"?
'' Her complexion!'' exclaimed Madge.
"Is she a mulatto, and, if so, how can ^
a complexion be curly?"
"Her complexion," I said, not a bit
rattled,'' is another great beauty of here. .
She has one of those skins"? J!
"Furs are out of fashion at present,"
she interjected, laughing wickedly.
"Now, look here, Miss Cullen!" I 0
cried indignantly. "I'm not going to let *
even you make fun of her."
"I can't help it," she laughed, "when
you look so serious and intense."
"It's something I feel intense about, ?
Miss Cullen,'' I said, not a little pained,
I confess, at the way she was joking. I
don't mind a bit being laughed at, but ?
Miss Cullen knew about as well as I 1
whom I was talking about, and it seemed ?
to me she was laughing at my love for *
her. Under this impression I went on: F
"I suppose it is funny to you. Probably f
so many men have been in love with 1
you that it hits come to mean very little
in your eyes. Put out here we don't *
make a joke of love, and when we care r
for a woman we care?well, it's not to 8
be put in words, Miss Cullen."
"I really didn't mean to hurt your s
feelings, Mr. Gordon,'' said Madge F
gently, and quite serious now. "I ought F
not to havo tried to tease you." d
"There!" I said, my irritation en- F
tircly gone. "I had no right to lose my I
temper, and I'm sorry I spoke so un- t
kindly. The tiwih is, Miss Cullen, the g
girl I care for is in love with another e
man, and so I'm bitter and ill nutured t
in these days." f
My companion stopped walking at t
the steps of 218 and said, "Has she told li
you so?" g
" No," I answered. '' But it's as plain
as she's pretty." p
Madge ran up the steps and opened t
the door of tho car. As she turned to f
close it she looked down at me with the t
oddest of expressions and said: d
"How dreadfully ugly she must be!" r
TO BE CONTINUED. F
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CRAZED BY THE STARING EYES. F
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A Gravedlgffer's Grewiome Experience t
Shatter* HI* Blind. ^
John McCloud, 81 years old, sexton of t
St. Mary's Catholio church, South Amboy, t
N. J., was recently driven Insane by a pe- .
cullar experience. While digging a grave
In the cemetery his spade broke through c
a coffin which had been previously placed 8
In the plot. McCloud was standing shoul- J
dor deep In the hole that he dug, and when t
his spade struck the wooden obstruction g
he was horrified to see an upturned face
with glaring, open eyes, peering through j
the broken boards of the coffin Ud, staring ,
at him as if In anger at being disturbed. ?
McCloud stood transfixed for a moment, *
unable to move. He almost fainted from c
the nervous shock, and it was some moments
before he became calm enough to
ascend from the grave. He at first started
to leave the cemetery, but returned and
covered up the grave again, whloh he did
with a great deal of difficulty, owing to
tho nervous state he was in. After he had t
finished his task, he returned to his home t
and told his family of his strange expert- r
enco. 0
From being a gay and light hearted man j,
he went into a decline and became melancholy
and morose. He was superstitious,
and tho vision of the dead face haunted 1
him night and day until his mind gave G
way. His relatives noticed tho change and c
tried in every way to brighten him up and i
remove from his mind the thought of his *]
terrible experience. Their, efforts were of g
no avail, and at last he became a raving ^
maniac, so violent that at times it required
tho united efforts of three men to re- c
strain him. 8
When he was in these fits, he would cry f
out to those around him to remove the t
dead body from his sight. (
Carious Cases of Cruelty to Animals. t
Tho Boston Society For the Prevention e
of Cruelty to Animals was very active last a
year and investigated 8,000 cases of cruel a
ty. One man, who drove his horse to c
death, was sent to jail for six months. For
ovordriving, two other men were sentenced
to throe and four months, respectively. As 8
usual, there were a number of convictions r
for beating and kicking animals, one man a
being so gratuitously brutal as to beat a j
gray squirrel. Another man, while drunk, i
bit three inches off the tall of a cat. It 0
cost him $5 an inch. Two Frenchmen
were fined $5 each for exhibiting a bear. F
Tho animal was confiscated and killed, so 1
that thero will bo no more cruolties prac- 1
ticed on that bear, at any rnte. A butcher f
was fined $10 for hanging up a steer before (3
slaughtering him. Two men, while drunk, c
attempted to kill a hog with an ax. They f
mangled him torribly and were each giv- c
en ten months in the house of correction. .
Two cases of docking horses' tails cost the '
offenders $100 each. ,
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Soot Water For Plants. t
Boot water, made from the soot of ?
wood fires, is said to be an excellent fer- *
tilizer of house or outdoor plants. The 0
soot should be brushed down from the 1
chimneys with a long handled bru6h, 0
gathered into a quart bag and soaked in r
rainwater overnight. The water, black ?
as ink, will be ready for use tbe next
morning. To uso about house plants it ^
should be considerably diluted. It has ^
a tendency to bake the soil and can 1
easily be too strong for the little amount c
of earth in window box or pot It is a
perfect destroyer of insects and worms 1
that sometimes infest honse plants and to
may be used in such cases once or twice o
a week until they disappear.?New u
York Times. ^ v
Jrtiscetlaiuous Reading. ,
1
AS SEEN BY A LAYMAN. i
trong Endorsement ol the Position Taken ^
by Mr. MnLaarln.
Since the delivery of his recent tar- ,
(T speech, Congressman McLaurin has <
teen receiving numerous letters of en- i
lorsement from all parts of the state, ]
,nd, with the consent of the writer, j
las given out the following, dated Lis- (
on, Laurens county, April 2 : ,
Dear Sir : I hope you will excuse i
oe for intruding on your time; but I
lave just finished reading your speech
>n the tariff and feel it my duty toexiress
my thanks to you and to com- i
nenH vnn for the stand vou have I
aken. The southern members should j
lave taken that position long ago; <
ben, perhaps, we might have been in
> better condition financially today. |
Lt least we would have the satisfaction i
f knowing that we had stood up man- i
ully for our rights and not tamely *
ubraitted to every demand that the j
lorth has exacted of us. Your speech j
3 the ablest exposition of the infernal j
leviltry (if you will pardon such an <
ixpression) and the canting hypocrisy *
if the descendenta of the Mayflower i
rilgrims that it has ever been my <
ileasure to read. It should be read i
ly every man, woman and child in the |
outhern states. It should be scatter- 1
id all over the United States. It will ]
te one of the best campaign documents <
hat could be asked for. If it does ]
lot open the eyes of every southern *
arraer as to the manner in which they 1
ire being fleeced to enrich the New
England manufacturers and stop the |
iroduction of any more Samps. Popes, ,
3. S. Nettleses and George von Koln- ,
tzes, no argument will. The north j
expressed great sympathy for France i
vhen Germany took Alsace and Lor- ,
aine and demanded two billion franks j
is a war indemnity ; but when it comes
mmfi she has no svmDathv for the I
outh. After destroying the south's ,
>roperty, the north has forced her to 1
>ay as pensions to the northern sol- ,
liers a far greater burden to the im- i
toverished south than that imposed on j
rrance; and added to that is the trib- ,
ite she has exacted of us under the
;uise of protection. While the southrn
members of congress foolishly de- ,
sand free raw material, the northern (
ellows, with an eye to business, helped
o secure their wish; at the same time, ,
mowing where the profits were, they j
;ot the manufactured article protected. t
By placing everything the south i
?roduced on the free list, they have (
leen able to import tbe raw material ,
ree, or force the southern producers
o accept their prices for southern pro- (
lucts. They then manufacture the ]
aw material, purchased at free trade t
trices, and sell back to the producers ,
it protection prices. No other peo- j
>le or country but southern people ,
tod the south, placed iu the condition |
hey were by the war, could have surived
such a drain. It is time for us ,
o call a halt, and your speech is a (
imely notice that the new south in- ,
ends to made a departure from old ,
ustoms and will no longer quietly <
ubmit to the unjust exactions of New <
England, but will demand equal rights |
o all and special privileges to no one (
ection of the Union.
Not being one of your constituents, |
feel a delicacy in addressing you, (
>ut being a South Carolinian and in t
ull sympathy with you in this, is the ,
inly excuse I have to offer. ]
Yours respectfully, i
Alex J. Smith.
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HOW ACTORS LEARN THEIR PARTS.
Probably very few persons, when
hey are witnessing a performance at
be theater, give one thought to the
nanner in which the well trained act- <
irs have learned their parts. Yet this i
3 by no means an unimportant part I
>f theatrical lives. Some actors, even I
hose of long experience, have great (
lifficulty in committing their lines to J
nemory. Different men have different
oethods. Here are a few of them: i
The most unsal method adopted by <
tage people is to write out the part <
wo or three times until the lines be- !
:ome familiar, one very well known !
otor declares that until he has per- I
ormed this process at least a dozen <
imes he has not an idea of the words. <
)n the other hand, one celebrated i
lomedian is almost word perfect after i
he first writing out of the role. Oth- I
irs, again, simply read the lines over i
ind over again, just us a child learns i
l lessou at school. But perhaps ODe i
?f the most extraordinary methods of <
ill is that adopted by an American j
ictor who owns a phonograph. He
eads the whole part into the machine,
ind then makes the phonograph re>eat
the lines to him time after time |
mtil the words become familiar. An- i
ither performer, who spends the best i
>art of the day when not rehearsing, <
n bed, gets his wife to do the same I
king for him as the phonograph does
or the American thespian. The writer i
loes not know, however, which methid
is the more successful. Another <
ootlight favorite avers that he can i
mly learn his "scrip" when traveling i
n the train or a cab or other vehicle. <
ie states that the motiou assists his 1
irain to take in and retain the words, i
hough why this should be so it is i
omewhat hard to say. It is well i
mown, of course, that authors and ]
ither persons who have to exercise
heir imagination (more or less) will
iften find their brains stimulated by i
apid motiou ; but one would hardly 1
lelieve that the organ of memory ]
vould be so influenced. Strong drink i
las often been known to rob a man of <
lis memory for the time being, and I
he events of a dissipated evening are I
oustantly what novelists call a I
blankbut what will be thought of <
he actor who seriously declares that ;
ie can only commit his lines to mem- i
ry when in a state of semi-drunken- j
iess ? When he is sober, he says, the <
vords seem to make no impression on I
him ; but let bim be elevated with
drink, and he positively "eats" the
lines, retaining them afterwards most
thoroughly. Strange vagary of the
human brain, this. But whatever bis
methods, or difficulties in learning his
part, the actor has to be word perfect
at the dress rehearsal, and when he
somes forward on the first night and
reels off his words as though they represented
his spontaneous thoughts, it
is somewhat hard for those "in front"
to realize the fact that the words in
H f ?/\n A MA KAAIlU A C 1 a
jucouuu atc iuo icouit ui inuuiiuus,
md, in some cases, most eccentric
itudy.
THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET.
An effort will be made to have the
aumber of cabinet officers increased to
nine. The proposition being agitated
s to create a cabinet department of
commerce and industry.
The first cabinet, that of Washington,
consisted of five members. The
secretary of state was paid $3,500 a
pear, and the others $3,000 each.
War and navy formed obo department,
ind there was no department of the
nterior or of agriculture. The first
ncrfease in the number of cabinet officers
was under President Jefferson,
who had a secretary of the navy and a
secretary of war, instead of the two
offices being one. The number regained
at six until President Taylor's
term, wheu a secretary of the interior
was added. Just before the close of
President Cleveland's first term the
department of agriculture was established,
and a secretary of agriculture
was created. Prior to that there had
been a commissioner of agriculture.
The salaries of the cabinet officers
tiave been increased from time to time,
until now they are $8,000 per year
each. During the first three or four
Eidministrations of the United States
the cabinets were not composed exclusively
of men who agreed in politics.
Washington's administration
was kept in a state of turmoil by the
disagreements between Hamilton and
Jefferson, until finally the cabinet was
broken up. Madison, John Adams
and Jackson had much trouble with
their cabinets. Madison had 17 men
in his cabinet during two terms ; Jackson
had 17; and Grant had 21.
The Eye of the Hobse.?In purchasing
a horse a close scrutiny of the
eye as to any defects is imperative.
The following points therefore may be
of value : The calf eye or gross eye
is one where the eyeball is too prominent,
that is, bulges out from between
the eye lids. Animals with such an
nAOMi/vv^fa/) no a ?nn_
DJO QI C Vlicu ucaioi^uv^u auu uo w wusequence
shy or are irresolute.
Id the small eye or pig's eye, the
eyeball is not well developed, the eyelids
are thick and the openiog between
them is narrow. The eye as a whole
appears triangular. This eyes iB especially
prone to diseases, periodic
ophthalmia, commonly known as moon
blindness is often seen in them.
The concealed eye is justly known
as the eye of the vicious horse. It is
characterized by its smallness and
somewhat sunken state, while the bony
arch above the eye is excessively developed.
Eyes unequal in size are always
suspicious, as they either have
been diseased or are very apt to become
diseased.
The wall eye is frequently looked
upon as a bad eye, but such is not the
case. Of course it is as liable to disease
as any other eye but certainly
not predisposed to eye troubles. It is
recognized by the absence of the natural
hazel color in the visible colored
portion of the eye, causing the eye to
look pearly white.
W. E. A. Wyman, V. S.
Clemson College, S. C., April 10th,
Round the World.?The planet
cn which we live is now a small concern
in comparison to what it appeared
to be to our grandfathers. When the
trans-Siberian railroad is completed,
one may travel around the world in
33 days, thus: from New York to
Bremen, seven days; from Bremen
to St. Petersburg, one and one-half
days; from St. Petersburg to the Pacific,
ten days; from the Pacific to
San Francisco, ten days; from San
Francisco to New York, four and onehalf
days; total, 33 days. Summer
excursions around the eartb will become
fashionable. As tbe distant nations
and countries will come much
nearer to one another, many of the
mutual prejudices will give way to
a better mutual understanding, and
tbe human family will become more
reconciled and prepared for that brotherhood
of the whole race which Israel's
prophets many centuries ago predicted
with so much certainty.
t6T The celebrated phrase, "Millions
for defense, not a cent for
tribute," was the reply made by
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to the
Jirectory of France. Pinckney had
been sent as an embassador from the
United States to solicit aid from France
in the probable trouble between the
United States and Great Britian. The
iirectory refused to receive Pinckney,
and also refused even the promise of
assistance; but intimated that the julicious
use of money paid by the
United States government to France
night have influence in securing favorable
action. Pinckney made his reply,
which has become a watchword in our
foreign policy.
IST" The campaign against cigarettes
s increasing in strength. Like7most
-eforms of the kind, it is largely dependent
on women, who are pushing
inti-cigarette bills into the legislatures
>f the various states. Iu Tennessee
ibe governor has just signed an absolutely
prohibitory cigarette law. The
Connecticut law forbids the sale of
jigarettes to persons under sixteen
years of age. The Kentucky law
makes the age limit eighteen. The
Massachusetts law, which is generally
jbeyed, forbids the sale of cigarettes
;o minors.