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ft ^ ^ " ISSUED SEXX-WEEEL^ : ^ ^ ^ l m. qrist 4 sons, pnbushers. } % ^amflg gloujsgapor: ^[or the promotion of Ihij political, Social, ^griqulfurat and (Commercial interests of the ?outh. J TERMs1s;olkco\ J fiKvkNc^ts'1.nce' established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1899. NUMBER 40. * "" *" ^ * ' *' It? ~~~ * * '" I rinakneo ^ an'f /1a # Va o f TKn f rw nn Unn 4- mm mm By JOHN STR. Copyright, 1898, by the Author. CHAPTER V. SHIPWRECK. Mary Conway forgot in an instant all the weariness and heartsickness which , had possessed her when she entered the 4 house. She cast but one glance at the helpless figure lying on the hearth rug, then ran to the bell and pulled at it hard, an eager peal such as brought the two maidservants running in to see what was amiss. "Mouncey?my mother I How long has she been left?" Mrs. Conway gasped. Mouncey with a scared face knelt down on the other side of the unconscious woman. "Lor", ma'am,"she said in trembling tones, "it's not ten minutes since I carried tea in. I came twice, and Mrs. Hamilton said she'd , rather wait for you, and at last Foster made the buns hot, and 1 brought tea in without saying anything. And Mrs. Hamilton, she says, 'Why, Mouncey,' she says, 'you do spoil me.' And I say to her, 'Lor', ma'am, misses will be vexed if you go any longer past your teatime.' And then she says: 'There's the newsboy. I'd like a paper,Mouncey.' So I went out and got one, and I give it to her and?why, poor lady, she's never had any tea at alll" "We must get her up to bed at once," said Mary anxiously. "Can we carry her among us?" "Lor", yes, ma'am," answered Mouncey promptly. "A little bit of a thing like her! Here, Foster, take her feet. I'll take her bead. No, ma'am; we can do better jnst the two of us." She was rigbt, and Mrs. Hamilton, who was very small and slight, was soon safely laid upon her own bed. "I'd better fetch the doctor, ma'am?" asked Foster. "Oh, yes, yes, at once! We must get her into bed. Mouncey." "Yes. ma'am, but there's no need to hurry. Poor lady! I'm afraid it will make very little difference to her!" "Hush-sh!" cried Mary fearfully. "Nay, ma'am; she hears nothing. If I was you, I would just cover her over with the eider quilt till the doctor has seen her. Anyway I wouldn't undress her till the fire has burned up. I was just coming up to light it" She covered the old lady with the warm, gay colored quilt as she spoke, and taking, after the manner of housemaids. a box of matches from her pocket set light to the fire, which soon burned cp cheerfully, casting a bright glow over the pretty room. "I'll fetch you a cup of tea now, ma'am," she remarked, "for I'm sure you need it." The protest which instinctively rose to her lips died away under a newborn realization of her intense weariness. "I am very, very tired, Mouncey," ehe Baid helplessly. The good natured girl drew her into a chair by the fire. "Sit here, ma'am, until I bring your tea. You can't do anything for the poor lady, and you may want all your strength for later on." She sped away, returning in a very nVinrfc time with the tea trav. on which were a pot cf fresh tea and a covered plate of hot hnns, which had been on the stove awaiting the mistress' return. These she arranged on a little table by the fireside and then poured out the tea and held the inviting little cakes that Mary might take one. In truth Mary was too tired to refuse such ministrations, which were doubly welcome just then, and Mouncey fairly stood over her until she had eaten enough to satisfy her sense of what was necessary and right. Then she went down stairs, leaving her mistress Bitting in the big armchair wondering what the end of it all would be. "Poor mother!" her thoughts ran. "Poor, poor mother! Are you going this time, and have I made the sacrifice for nothing? No, not for nothing, for I shall always be able to say, 'The end of her life was peace.' " She rose restlessly from her chair and went to the side of the bed, where she stood looking down upon the drawn, gray face already so deathlike in the immobility of unconsciousness. "I wonder what caused her to have an attack?" Mary said to herself. "She was so bright and well this mornir g. Could there have been anything in th it paper ? Where is it? What did Moancey do with it?" She looked abont for it, bus without success, and then she remembered that possibly it was still in her mother's hand. So it proved to be, and Mary was obliged to tear the sheet a little in order to release it from that viselike grip. A glance was sufficient to tell the cause of Mrs. Hamilton's seizure. As she smoothed the crumpled page her eye caught the heading of the latest telegraphic news?"Reported loss of the ocean liner Arikhama, with over 800 lives!" Mary Conway was still staring wildly at the paper when Mouncey came in with the doctor in her wake. "What is it?" she asked, seeing the horror on her young mistress' face. "Oh, Mouncey?the paper?the news ?my poor mother!" was all that Mary could say ere exhausted nature gave way under the strain and she dropped to the ground as dead to all sound and feeling as the poor lady stretched upon the bed. "Dear, dear, dear," said the doctor, "but this is a prettv kettle of fish! VXGE WINTER. Dear, dear, a bad seizure this time ! 1 was afraid it might happen before long. My good girl, is there bad news in that paper?" "Lor", sir?master's ship?loss of the Arikhama with 800 souls. That's master's ship?he's the captain! Oh, my poor missis, my poor, poor missis!" "Good heavens I' Are you sure?" "See here, sir?oh, it's true enough! Oh, my poor, poor missis I" "Well, help me to get her off the floor. In her case it's no more than a simple faint. Yes. in that chair; undo her gown?a few drops of brandy. There, there, my dear lady, you'll be all right now." "What has happened?" asked Mary, struggling up, but sinking back again as her head began to swim. "Oh, I remember 1 It doesn't matter about me, doctor, but my mother?she is very ill. The shock was too much for her. Do attend to her, please." "If you will lie still the maid and 1 will attend to Mrs. Hamilton," said the doctor soothingly. "Little or nothing to be done," he murmured to Mouncey, as they turned to the bed. "She is not likely to live the night out. She must be got to bed, of course. What etrength have you?" "Oh, I'm very strong, sir I" replied Mouncey, in a matter of fact tone. "No, no; I mean how many of you I are there?" U-hf -A " xuo auu tuuivi ou. "What is she like?" "As strong and sensible a yonng woman as yon conld wish to see in a day's march, sir," replied Mouncey promptly, "and'll do anything in the world for the missis." "That's good. If Mrs. Hamilton lingers there most be a nnrse got in, of course, but for tonight there will be little or nothing to do, only she must not be left. I'll help you to get her into bed." "We can manage, sir." "It is not so easy as you think. Besides, I'd like to see her safely into bed before I leave." The desired end was soon accomplished under the skilled hands of the doctor and the willing ones of Mouncey. Then the doctor wrote down a few simple instructions and went, promising to look in again the last thing. "Mrs. Conway," he said gently to Mary, "I must beg of you to try to eat your dinner. You have had a great ' double shock, and you will need all your reserve of strength. I have given your maid all instructions. There is little, almost nothing, to be done while ! your mother continues in this state." He went away then, and Mary sat ' down again in the big chair. The cook 1 was busy witb tbe dinner, ana iviouncey, after clearing up some imaginary litter, disappeared with the tray, promising to come back in a few minutes. So she was left alone with her dying mother and the knowledge of her own. widowhood, left alone to face the fact: that she was practically free; that all the horror and wretchedness which had but a few hours before lain directly facing her had suddenly been removed. The tears gushed out from her sad eyes as she realized how this had come about; but, although she wept, the 6ense of relief was there, involuntary. ; yet very, very strong. j It was a wretched night which fol- , lowed. Mary honestly tried to eat the | dainty little dinner which Foster served ( to her. while Mnuncey mounted gnard , in the sick chamber. But all the time ( the sound of rushing waters was in her ( ears and the vision of drowned faces ( before her eyes, and she turned loath- < ingly from the lonely meal, which would , have been thoroughly enjoyed by tbe , poor soul up stairs fast drifting into ] eternity. J The pretense of dinner over, she crept . back again to the sickroom, sending , the two maids down to supper and stay- j ing alone to keep the watch by the dy- ( ing beloved for whom she had worked ( so hard and suffered so much, to watch i the outward passage of that frail and feeble little bark which would leave i her tossing to and fro upon the ocean of life with none to counsel or gnide. It was a terrible night, and it was ^ followed by a still more terrible day. Mary received from the owners of the great ship full confirmation of the news which the newspaper had taken to j them in the first instance. There was not the smallest doubt j that the large vessel was gone, that she ( was many fathoms under water. There j was little or no doubt that Captain Conway had gone down with her, and, ( so far as was known, only five persons ( of all her goodly company had lived to j tell the tale of her disastrous end. Two ( of these were passengers, two were or- , dinary sailors, the fifth was the ship's ' purser; all the rest of the 300 souls ' who had 6ailed aboard of her had found J a watery grave and would be seen no more. ' All through the long hours of watching and suspense did Mary Conway try to battle down the overwhelming sense 1 of relief which had taken possession of 1 her. She cared not. did not feel the 1 very smallest grief for the husband who 1 had forgotten his manhood and her 1 womanhood alike, but she hated herself ' for not feeling it. Her heart was torn J in twain. One half was singing a paean of thankfulness for deliverance; the ' other was bursting with a sense of her ' own impotence and helplessness to avert 1 the sword then hanging above tbe beau of her sick mother as the sword of Damocles hung suspended by a single hair. She was glad in her heart that her care and anxiety for her mother wcnld ] naturally account for the absence of any exhibition of great or noisy grief for her husband. The doctor spoke of the loss of the Arikhama once or twice, . and Mouncey brought her the latest de- : tails that were published in the papers, but Mrs. Hamilton was during those first few days the object of paramount ' interest. Captain Conway was gone! ' All the love or loathing in tbe world 1 could not affect him any more. For him 1 all was over; he had already passed * atncng the things that have been and 1 shall be no more. But Mrs. Hamilton 1 was still alive and still needed the most 1 * - --3 -1 4. ,.4.4.1 minute care anu ujh ciueeau mmcuuuu. She was, in spite of that terrible tragedy of the sea, the most important person 1 of that small honeehold. 1 In health she did not improve. At * times faint flashes of understanding ] came back, but they were only feeble and flickering efforts of the clouded ' brain to re-establish its mastery of what 1 was going on around her. If she knew 1 any one definitely, it was Mary, but of 1 that, even, they were none of them very 1 certain. The nurse who was in charge 1 said positively that Mrs. Hamilton 1 knew no one. Mouncey, on the other ' hand, insisted that she had seen the poor lady's t^cs follow the mistress as she 1 moved away from the bed. This, how ever, was a question which no one could < decide positively, but in discussing it the onlookers, although it is prover- < bial that onlookers see most of the game, 3 never realized that in anxiety for her I mother Mrs. Conway suffered no grief I for her husband. ' On the fourth day after the coming i of the news Mary received a visit from j two gentlemen. One was the managing < j "/ did not Know it," said Mary. director of the company to which the Arikhania had belonged; the other was by him introduced as the lawyer to the company. "You are perhaps," said Mr. Lawson, the managing director, "not aware, Mrs. Conway, that your husband made a will three days before the Arikhama sailed from London." "I did not know it," said Mary. "Such, however, was the case," he said suavely, "and, moreover, his last instructions were that should anything happen during either of these voyages Mr. Mannington"?indicating his companion by a gesture?"should at once 3eek you out and make you acquainted with as little delay as possible with his last wishes with regard to the property he had to leave." TO BE CONTINUED. Situation ok the Garden of Eden.?The home of our first purents is generally believed to have been situated in the highlands of Central Asia, out it has been fouud quite impossible to locate the exact spot. Many futile ittempts have been made to recon [file witb modern belief the mytnieai i jeography of the garden's Bitnation, as 1 described in the second chapter, of i 3enesis, verses 10 to 14. The river f which went out of the garden is there c dated to have divided iuto four heads : g Pison, comprising the land of Haviluh ; t Sibon, compassing the whole of Ethio- b [)ia ; Hiddekel, going east toward As- b *yria, and Euphrates. The Euphrutes I s well known. Hiddekel is supposed c to be the name of the Tigris; but as r :o the other two rivers, opinions have b been almost as varied as the number I rf writers on the point, whose name is t egion. . Havilah is the general desig- s nation of South Arabia, Abyssinia, ind perhaps India ; Cush is the name b for Ethiopia, and the southern lands t >f Africa and Asia generally. Schra- |i ler, following the early tradition, v which goes back as far as Josephus, t dentifies Gihon with the Nile, and s Pison with one of the great rivers of f India; Ewald and Dillmann find the I two rivers in the Gauges and Indus ; 1 Lassen, Knobel, Kenan and Spielgel j think Pison stands for the Iudus, and c 3ihou for the Oxus. The late English 3eueral Gordon, famed both for his li heroism and his rare child-like faith in o 3od, believed in the identity of the o seychells Islands with the Garden of t Eden, and the identification of the p jocodemer, or double cocoanut, with v the forbidden fruit, by which our first b r.nHA?>tc> ri I'ttI CU 10 1^11. ? 1 ? n Is the Earth Hollow ??Accord- t ing to a queer belief in existence c imong the Icelanders, all waters which ii [low towards the north are drawn b thitherward by a suction created by h :he oceans tumbling downward through b the hollow which they firmly believe i penetrates our globe from pole to pole, rbeir authority for this curious belief a is the "Utama Saga," a semi-sacred t work, written early in the fourteenth s century. c piUtfUanfous ficading. ROARING NIAGARA. Interesting Running; Account of a Flying Visit. Correspondence of the YorkviUe Enquirer. Amsterdam, New York, May 16.? Last Sunday morning, at 3 o'clock, oeing through work and having about 15 hours at my disposal, I took advantage of the opportunity to visit Niagara Falls. I have read a great deal about Niagara, and I naturally expected to see a great sight; but what I iid see went far beyond my expecta Lions, .tsut seeing me ians is noi aione the pleasure of the trip. A great pleasure is the way of getting there From this city. Leaving Amsterdam at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, on an accommodaLion train, I reached Utica in time to natch one of the New York Central's luxurious trains?the Southwestern Limited?at 6.37 a. m., and it was then Lbat one of the chief pleasures of the trip commenced. No person has ever ?njoyed a really comfortable and fast railroad journey uutil they have made i trip on one of the New York Cental's luxurious and fast trains. The service on the trains of this railroad has reached the acme of perfection, which, combined with the speed, safey, polite attention of the officials, and he low fares, make traveling a thing if pleasure. The route from Albany west, for iver 100 miles, is through the famous Mohawk Valley, where nature outdid serself in making everything beautiful and pleasing to the eye. The hills which line the river are just now cov;red with wild flowers, green trees and grasses, while beautiful and highly nultivated farms pass by the vision of :he eye in rapid succession. The country between here and Buffalo seems to be one continuous village, rnd at no time is there a stretch of nouutry where farm houses and vilages are not in view. Passing rapidly along the Mohawk, Little Falls, Utica and Home are passid, and then Syracuse and Rochester :ome and go, reaching Buffalo at 11.40, which city is the gateway of New STork to the west, and which, in 1901, will give to the world a great internaional exposition under the name of ;he Pan-American International Exaositiou. But as Niagara Falls was sy destination, I did not stop in Buf'alo; but proceeded on to the falls, eachiug there at 12 30 p. m. On reaching Niagara Falls station, I vas importuned by dozens of hack irivers, all wanting to take me to a Jifferent place for a small fare. But )eing weary after a night's work and i morniug without sleep, I took one of he hacks of the Miller & Brundage rlack company, and went to the In.ernational hotel, the chief hotel at the alls, where, after a bath and a most :xcellent dinuer, I prepared myself or a visit aud introduction to the vorld's greatest cataract. As I neared the falls, all by my 'lonesome," I was inspired with awe think of my being inspired) and saw it once that I made a mistake in comng to Niagara Falls to stay only a 'ew hours, because I realized that ten lays', instead of so many hours, would >e required to visit all the places of nterest. But determiued to make the test use of the time possible, I secured i guide uud started to lake a view of is many places of interest as practica>le, and I impressed this fact upon my fuide. A few years ago, so I was informed, >ne had to pay. for almost everything hat was to be seen ; but through the a.... v..rb fVntpiil ii ii ueui:e ui me it v .? A ti... A tailroad company, this has been largey done away with. The places I visled first were the places that were fee, because it was "innocent amusenent and didn't cost anything." Be[inning with Prospect Park, I visited he American falls, (side view,) American Rapids, (front view,) Goat island iridge, Bath island, Bath island bridge, jiina fall, Luna island, Biddle Stairase, Horseshoe falls, (side yiew) Terapin Point, Hermit Cascade, Island iridge, Three Sister islauds, Little Jrotber island. This part of my aferuoon's pleasure is the gift of the tale of New York. Then crossing the new steel arch iridge, passing through "Queen Vicoria Jubilee Park," I enjoyed the folDwing views: Americau Falls, (front lew,) Horseshoe Falls, (front view,) Canadian Rapids, Rambler's Rest, Inpiratiou Point, (I was "inspired" beore I reached this point,) Split Rock, tain bow Ramble, the Flower Gardens, tecreation LawD, and Table Rock. Lll of this was free of cost; except 15 ents for passage over the bridge. Tradition tells us that the Indians iviug near the falls used annually to tfer, as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit f Niagara, the fairest maiden of the ribe, sending her over the falls iu a lure white canoe, which was decked nth fruits and flowers. The honor of ieing chosen for this human sacrifice fas eagerly sought by the Indian ?:J?On mm nwoeinn t.ViA rlH11Ch LJttlUCLia. V/u vuv vvvMwtvu 0 ? er of one of the great chiefs was hosen. The father betrayed no feeltigs ; but as the white canoe, guided by iy his daughter's hand neared the falls, te leaped into a canoe and followed ler, nearly overtaking her, and meetug bis death a few secquds later. The most novel feature of the visit, ,nd the best view of the falls, was obained from the "Maid-of-the Mist," a mall steam vessel, which, for fifty :ents, takes one out right in front of me mree ihiis. viuae uy?nuu h is really the only place of vantage from which one can see the talis properly and take in the awful grandeur and power of the great mass of water. : After the novel trip on the Maid-ofthe Mist, it was nearly dark, so my visit to Niagara Falls was fiuished. Returning to the hotel, I bad an elegant supper, and was afterwards told that within the memory of the oldest citizens (they have these old fellows up here, too) the falls had receded over 100 feet, showing that the great rocks that make the falls are constantly wearing awsy. After a good night's rest, I boarded the east bound Lake Shore Limited at 8.30 o'clock, and arrived at Albany at 3 p. m., where I boarded an accommodation train for Amsterdam, having spent 36 hours in a most pleasant flying visit to Niagara Falls, not the least pleasant feature of which was the journey on the Lake Shore Limited train, on America's great railroad? the New York Central. Albert M. Grist. A SLAVE THE STAKE. Captain Joseph Brown's Recollections of a Thrilling Incident on the River. "The events which I am about to relate," remarked Captain Joseph Brown, formerly mayor of St. Louis, "occurred long before the war. I was a passenger on the boat and witnessed the whole affair. A principal actor in the scenes that led up to the tragedy, for so it proved to be, was Andrew Butler. Mr. Butler lived in Hannibal, Mo., and was a slave dealer. Those purchased by Mr. Butler iu this section were usually transferred, before sAndino them south, to Lvnch's slave pen, located on Fifth street (now Broadway), between Elm and Poplar streets, where they were held until after a sufficient number bad been collected to make a shipment desirable, when they were taken to New Orleans and sold from the block, if they bad not before been disposed of by private sale. "At that time there was a family living in Kails county, near Hannibal, who were wealthy aud had rather a gay young son who spent much of his time in Hannibal and on the river, and who contracted fast habits, including a penchant for gambling. He, however, afterwards married and seemed to settle down. "The father of the family had a plantation, and among the household was Dina, a mulatto, who had a number of very bright children, and, as was often the case, little Sallie and Jim were always considered as beloDgiug to young 'Mars' George Taylor and his wife. Jim was George's body servant while Sallie took case of young Misses aud the little Taylors that were coming on. Jim was given a good deal of liberty, to the extent of going into Hannibal on odd occasions and hiriug himself to the landlord of the hotel (at that time Mr. Campbell) to wait on the table. "It so happened that Andrew J. Butler was a guest at the bouse on a public occasion when Jim, either by accident or design (for all the blacks hated a slave trader) spilled a plate of soup over the dress suit of Butler, which so incensed him that he demanded that the 'Negro Jim' should be whipped ; but Mr. Campbell not owning the Negro, refused to have it done. The result was that Butler swore vengeance on the Negro and said he would yet own him and would give him a hundred lashes and then sell him for plantation work in the south, which was the horror of a family Negro in Missouri; and when a Negro child disobeyed, the threat was often used to frighten bim into obedieuce. "The following fall, George Taylor and his beautiful wife, together with their servants, 'Jim' and 'Sallie' were passengers on the 'Rosalie* Captain Cameron, on their way to New Orleans, and the St. Charles hotel. At St. Louis it so transpired that tbey took passage on the splendid passenger steamer "Autocrat,' Captain Jim Goalee and Clerk Hamilton Hawley, the first of Louisville and the latter of Memphis, and it also occurred that Andrew J. Butler, with a number of slaves, was a passenger on the same boat for New Orleans. "The first night out Butler approached Taylor and proposed a game of poker. Taylor consented to sit down in the social hall in front of the bar aud play a four-handed game to pass the time. The four played for a ' couple of hours, when two of them quit, leaving Butler and Taylor to continue the game. They played on with J varied success until the next morning, 1 every little while having their glasses 1 filled at the bar with mint juleps or J something stronger, until at length ! both became more or less intoxicated, ' and $2,000 of Taylor's money, all he j had, had passed into Butler's bands. Butler was not willing to play unless 1 Taylor had money to 'ante-up' or 1 something in its stead. The result was that Taylor, in bis drunken frenzy, put up his watch and lost it. After the 1 watch had been passed over, before a crowd of excited passengers, who, however, dared uot interfere, Butler ' triumphantly said, 'What else have you got to put up ?" Taylor answered, 'I have nothing but this ring,' J which was a large cluster of diamonds. 1 Butler said, 'I do not want any more ! of your jewelry; but I will play you 1 $1,200 against "Jim." ' Jim, who bad been hovering around his master during the night to see to his personal I safety, now stepped up and said, 'Mas' i \JI tui i uub uiuu uao almost ruined you now, and he wants to get me so he can kill me, 'cause he hates me on an old grudge.' Taylor, who, by this time, was frenzied with his losses and liquor, merely said, 'Go away, Jim, and let me alone. I am bound to get even with him yet ; but I won't put you up for no $1,200.' 'Send that nigger away,' retorted Butler ; 'I am playing this game, and I want no interference,' and he fairly glared at George through his bloodshot eyes as he said, 'Name your price that you will put up that nigger for and I'll put up the stake." I'll put him up for $2,000 and nothing less,' said Taylor. 'Agreed,' said Butler, and he produced the amount, which was only a part of the money he had won from Taylor. "'VVbo9e deal is it?" said Butler, "It's my deal,' said Taylor. Meanwhile Sallie, Jim's sister, who had been looking on while holding one of the children in her arms, ran back into the ladies' cabin to Mrs. Taylor, and said, "Lor', Missus, Mas' George is playing off Jim with that gambler Butler, an' if you don't hurry we'll lose him.' Mrs. Taylor started down the cabin to where they were playing, and on reaching the table said, 'George, don't play for Jim; he's like one of the family, and we can't do without him and Sallie.' 'Jim's up,' said Butler, 'and he's got to be played for.' Mrs. Taylor then despondingly said, 'If you win him will you let us redeem him at New Orleans ?" "I make no promises, 9aid Butler, with bis soft hat pressed down over his forehead. "Give me two cards,' he said in a mauldin tone of voice. Taylor laid down two cards, and dealt himself two more, when he asked Butler what he had. Butler threw down a pair of aces, a pair of kings and a jack. Taylor gasped and fell back in his chair, at the same time dropping on the table a pair of queens and a pair of teus. Butler put up bis roll of bills, took from bis pocket a pair of handcuffs, and, looking over at Jim, who was holding on his master's chair, said, 'Come here, Jim, I want you. Bring your bundle down with me on deck.' Jim falteringly said, 'Let me go back in the cabin a moment and bid missus good-by.' Butler said, "Go ahead, and be quick about it.' Jim accompanied Mrs. Taylor and Sallie back to tbe ladies' cabin, and after bidding his mistress, the children and bis sister good-by, said, "I hope we shall all meet in that world you have so often told me about.' Then with one bound be cleared tbe rail and landed in tbe waves back of tbe wheel. He tossed up and down for a few seconds with his arms up over bis head and then disappeared. "'Man overboard," raDg out from the lower deck. Tbe boat was stopped, the yawl lov ered and manned, but no sign of poor Jim. Nothing but his hat floating on the waves of tbe wheels. After a few minutes the yawl came back with the bat, the only remnant of Jim." CUBAN COMPLICATIONS. rianAoal Cnma* Waahei llli Handa of the Whole Business. General Maximo Gomez today informed Governor General Brooke that be could no longer act as representative of the Cuban assembly in tbe distribution of the $3,000,000 appropriated for tbe payment of tbe Cuban troops, says a Havana cable of Monday. General Gomez added that be bad arrived at this decision with great reluctance aud with the most friendly feelings toward General Brooke personally and officially ; but be felt be could no longer represent the Cuban army, because a cabal, composed of many of tbe subordinate commanders, existed to oppose, aud, if possible, defeat the plans for partitioning tbe money. He explained that former members of the Cuban military assembly, led by Mayia Rodriguez, Manuel Sauguilly, Juan Gualberto Gomez and otbei malcontents, who bad organized a majority of tbe officers against bim apparently, and though be (Gomez) might persist and possibly carry tbe payment to a successful conclusion, be was disgusted and wished to wash bis bands of tbe whole business. Therefore he thought best to leave General Brooke free, as the latter could act with equal effectiveness. General Brooke, expressing sympathy with General Gomez, said be regretted tbe position be bad taken. It was then mutually agreed that General Gomez will issue a manifesto to the Cuban army tomorrow. After it has been issued General Brooke may make a declaration concerning the manner in which he will proceed. He is determined not to be trifled with. He has the rolls of the privates and on-commissioned officers who are* willing to accept $75 each, and this amount will be offered on the alternative of forcible disarmament. Then and Now.?Compare the luxurious habits of the present legislators with those known to have been in vogue not over a century ago among one of the most aristocratic bodies in America. It has not yet been 100 years since the Pennsylvania legislature assembled passed this law : "That in the future no member of tbe bouse 3hall come barefoot or eat his bread and cheese on the steps !" fW "The only way to prevent what has passed," said Mrs. Mull, "is to stop it before it happens."