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^ _ 1SSUBD SBKl-WaBSL^ " ^ ^ ^ l m. grist * sons, Publishers. } % Ifamitg ftemspaper: 4or""! promotion of the political, Social, Jlgriqnttuital and ?ommet;rinl Interests of the jjleogte. {term8?mscop"rivepe?t8a!iceESTABLISHED 1855. TOEKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1900. NO. 18. - 7 ? 7 f LOVE FIND BY JEANNETTE I Copyright, 1899, by Jeannette H. Walworth Synopsis of Previous Installments. Id order that new readers of The En- j quirer may begin with the following in- f stallment 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: . Tom Broxton conies to Broxton Hall from college, having been summoned to * his lather, who is dying. Mr. Matthews, t Tom's guardian, passing "Mother" Spill- 1 man's cottage, drops a bag of papers. The j next morning Matthews comes to look for one of the papers which have been lost. He does not bnd it, but Jimmy Martin, a T fardener, soon afler brings it to "Mother" i pillman, She pledges Martin to secrecy , and bides the paper in the back of an old chair. Tom Broxton visits the room in * which his father lies, finds some flowers on an easel and among them an unfin- , ished letter from his father to himself. Through ground glass doors he sees a figure tampering with the papers contained ' in his father's desk. Before he can enter s the room the figure disappears. Approach- f ing his father's body lying in his coffin, Tom looks for a seal ring worn on the fiu- c ger, but it is not there. I CHAPTER IV. the figuke in white. i Having nearly arrived at the mature age of 18, Miss Olivia Matthews con- r sidered herself qualified to give her fa ther advice on ail matters or impor- * tance. c Tom Broxton was a matter of Impor- t tance. one which came up with Increas- t lng frequency and growing importuni- t ty as his term at college rounded to its c end. On the subject of what was or what j was not best for Tom the small moni- i tor assumed large airs of gravity and i decorum which tempted one to smile t into her dimpled face. Not that she would have countenanced such levity \ for an instant. She took herself in her j relation as semiguardiau to the last of the Broxtons quite seriously. Ever ? since that dismal day on which they i had laid the dear colonel to rest under j the weeping willows of the Mandeville churchyard and brought Tom to stay ^ temporarily at the Matthews cottage j while "arrangements for his future" j were perfecting she had come to look upon him as in some sense her personal t charge. That had been four years ago. The j years have healing properties for the young wmen tney lose in later years. A correspondence had been one of the - inevitable consequences of Ollie's self ^ elected guardianship and Tom's crav- * ing for friendship. rj His 11 months of seniority, which counted for little on the calendar, were entirely reversed in their social rein- ^ tions. In their letters he figured as * quite 11 years her junior. She never j forgot his birthday. It was always remembered by a gift chosen with a view to a man's ever recurring demand for neckties, gloves or the like and always sent accompanied by a neat lit- . tie homily on the approaching years of responsibility, prettily indited on her . best society stationery. . Fresh from the perusal of an effusive , letter of thanks for the latest donation t of gloves and advice. Olivia sagclv wrinkled her brows and looked across !: the breakfast table at her father. * "Just to think, papa, the dear boy is .. 18 years old! I suppose he will be putting on all the airs of a grown uian . when he gets back. 1 can hear the beating of restless wings in each letter more distinctly. That is as it should be. If I were a man. I know 1 should strain at the leash violently long before the college doors closed upon me." Her mataphors were somewhat mixed, but as she was preparing her father's second cup of coffee with just so much sugar plus so much cream metaphor had to look out for itself. The lawyer, deep in his own mail matter, glanced up quickly, showing a dark, unsmiling face. "Who is straining at the Iptsh. my dear?" "Oh, that was just a figure of speech! I was talking about Tom. I've got an absurdly grateful letter from him, thanking me for his gloves. If I had sent a shoestring, he would have wax* ed just as eloquent over it. Tom is a wee bit sophomorie. I must admit, but time will tone all that down." She was conscious of a very abstract- ' ed auditor. Her father's head had been lifted * just so long as bis band had been ex ' tended for the cup of coffee. He was ( once more poring over his morning's ' mail with knitted brows. Iler maltose ' cat, always discreetly observant of the progress of the meal, gently reminded 1 her by a velvet pawed caress that lie was waiting to be served. Her canary ' bird, swinging in its gilded cage in tut ' sunny bow window, shrilly inouopo- ' lized the realm of sound. Her father's absorption in letters 1 which properly belonged to his oilice ' work was an infringement of her most 1 cherished household regulation. She in- 1 terfered despotically. ( "Papa, you know 1 regard the break- 1 fast hour as my exclusive property. 1 You are breaking my rules." * The dark face opposite her was lifted. The light of a mighty love illumined its gloomy eyes. Lawyer Mutthews i pushed his letters from blm in a heap and smiled. 5 All. i. WALWORTH. ??? "You are right, my queen of hearts, ts you always are. I beg your pardou or my rude inattention. I am all your3. l'ou were saying"? "Nothing very profound." She smiled ??nofAt?nr1 rrnn/1 hlimnr "T hflVP 1 .'(II 4 \.\? ^VVU UUU1VI v >ecn wondering what we are going to io with Torn Broxton when he comes >aek to Mandeville for good. He can't ive alone In that great barn of a louse. He would meet a ghost at >very turn. And he could not live here vith us. Every old woman's tongue n Mandeville would chorus 'Improper.' What on earth can we do with he poor boy?" Twice during her remarks her fahor had taken off his glasses, wiped hem abstractedly and replaced them >n his nose with nervous energy. Instead of the direct answer her direct luestion invited, he looked straight >ver her head through the vine clothed low window, frowning incidentally at he shrilling canary. "Is there no way of silencing that wise?" _ "Dick's yodeling? Certainly. 1 did lot know it annoyed you." She left the table long enough to in:mi a luinn of sutrar between the bars >f the birdcage. Returning, she perch'd on the arm of her father's chair, refining her precarious vantage ground >.v clutching his coat lapels firmly with me hand. "Father, you must be working too mrd. l'ou are horribly nervous of ate. 1 shall have to take you in tend." She passed a caressing hand >ver the lawyer's troubled forehead. There are at least a dozen new worry ines here. This will never, never do. Uut about Tom." "What about Thomas?" Her caressng failed of soothing. He drew her lands down with almost a petulant rest u re. "What are you going to do with him vlien he leaves college and comes lome to live? You know we must ilnn for it." "There is no immediate call for uglating that point, my love. Thomas s to go abroad for two years after caving college." "Does he want to go?" "1 want him to go." "Of course, papa, as his guardian 'ou may advise him to go. and 1 think ivery boy ought to travel. But has L'om expressed any wishes of his own >ti the subject?" "1 have not broached it to him as et. 1 anticipate no objections on his >art. His father was a great traveler n his day. Indeed. I may say he was lassionatelv fond of it." "Then you have not consulted him ibout it yet?" The lawyer rose from the table with lis hands full of letters. A slight frown outracted his forehead, bringing lis bushy gray brows almost into conact with each other. He loved this ireakfast hour above all the hours of he day. It was full of peace and ileasantness. It was pleasant to look icross the table into his child's beautiul, spirited face, a face which always irimmed over with intelligence and vitli love for him: it was pleasant to ook beyond her, out through the vine /^\ I 'You ntu]tkl papa?to want a fretful. puny baby always under your wing!" circled bay window into the tangle 5f beauty and perfume which Ollie :alled her garden; it was pleasant to contemplate the fact that this dear child had but to express a wish and he was able to gratify it. Things had jone well with him the last four years. Men said he was waxing rich as no lawyer of Mandeville ever hud before liim. It was pleasant to prolong this L'ommunion time. Presently he would go off to his office, and the sweet music of his dar ling's voice would bo swallowed up in the harsher tones of augry men chaffering for their rights. But Just now Olivia was growing a trifle inquisitorial, aDd It was that which sent him away front the table somewhat abruptly "No," he said, standing on the hearth rug; "I hove not written to him yet. 1 I don't want the pleasant anticipation of travel to get between hint and the closing exercises of his college. I am some | what apprehensive tbaf Thomas may be lacking in energy." "I don't know why you say that, papa. Ilib reports from the very beginning have been Just splendid. He stands first in all of his classes and"? "Oh. as a student Thomas has made a fair record, but I should prefer more fire, more vim. more fervor of anticipation for the future, ip so young a man. He shows no signs of restlessness. That is a bad sign." Olivia championed the absent with warmth and decision. "T think von are altoeetber mlstak en, father, and Inclined to underrate Tom. His letters to you. 1 suppose, are more restrained and formal. 1 see abundant evidence of ambition and of purpose. Tom Is essentially well balanced. 1 bave seen plentiful signs of restlessness." "I bope I have molded him fittingly." said the lawyer, with pious self gratulation. "Yes, I think be may be called essentially well balanced." "He Is just what ! fancy Colouel Broxton was at bis age." Ollie resum ed, with unconscious point. "He is not one of those tiresome boys who bore you to distraction with wordy vapor ings about what they are going to do and be. winding up by doing and being nothing. Moreover, the fact of his bo Ing so rich would incline him to delib eration. The spur of necessity Is not pricking him to select a career in wild haste. Tom Is very rich Indeed. Is not be, papa?" Some of his letters slipped from the lawyer's grasp. He stooped to recover them. His sallow face was deeply flushed when be straightened himself almost defiantly. He did not look at Olivia as he answered curtly: "By no manner of means. That s one of the current local fallacies, a great mistake. Thomas' personal ex penses have been heavy, and some of his dear father's Investments turned out very badly." Ollie soared superior. "I am rather glad to hear that. Rich young men are so apt to wax conceited and worthless on the strength of their father's hoarding. They lose the Incentive to personal endeavor." Her father rewarded this flight with a somewhat acid smile. "Your worldly wisdom becomes star tling. my love 1 think I shall have to get you a new doll to dress." "Doll, indeed!" She mimicked lus gravity. "Your capacity for Insulting a helpless female becomes startling, my love. 1 think I shall have to get you a new pair of eyes the better to see. my dear." Slit* came toward him. a riant, sparkling creature, and stood before him with crest uplifted. "Observe the length of my gown, if you please, and the Psyche knot which tops my mature and classic head." Her father drew her to him almost rougblj*. "Olivia, you startle me In earnest. You are a 3'oung lady. The fact has burst upon me In a second. You are no longer my loving, trusting, unquestioning little darling. You will be measuriug your strength with mine, demanding your place at my side rather than under my wing. It frightens me." She laughed musically up into the furrowed face. "And It delights me. You stupid papa?to want a fretful, puny baby always under your w'.ng in place of a wise young woman by your side! And. you naughty papa, to let my eighteenth birthday almost dawn without a breath touching appropriate celebrations!" "Celebrations V" He repeated the word, perplexedly. "Don't you even know, father, that a girl comes of age when she Is 18V She doesn't come Into a vote and all that sort of nonsense, but she comes out. and 1 propose to do that appropriately." "Appropriately! Why, bless my soul, yes. of course! What shall we do. Oilier "1 should like a fete cbampetre." said OHIe grandly, "such a fete as the people of the country shall date back to and from for generations to come. 1 shan't come of age but once in my lifetime, you know, papa." Her father looked overhead out of the bay window iuto her garden and upon the grassy terraces Intervening between it and tbe cobblestone street. The Matthews cottage, perched upon its well kept terraces, was one of the sbow places of Mandeville. but its ilin.ensions were by no means imposing In land it was conspicuously cramped. "A garden party, my love? 1 believe that is your idea done in English. Do yon think our modest little yard"? She interrupted him with a gay laugh. "Oh. no. papa! That would be absurd, ridiculously so. Over at Tom's house is where 1 mean to holu my fete. We could give a lovely garden party among the grano old trees on Broxton lawn and such a delicious dunce in the long, yellow parlor." "But the people?" "The Westovers are expected back from Europe on Monday 1 should es pecially like them to see that one does not have to go abroad to know what to do on occasion. Oh. 1 want it to be very grand indeed, papa! Miss Malvina Spillinan will help me to make it just perfectly lovely. She can act chaperon too. 1 can make out quite a splendid list of guests." A strange hesitation seemed to bind her father's tongue. lie, who was generally eager in his readiness to gratify her slightest wish, stood mute and frowning in face of her very dearest one. "You have a guardian's right to use the house, papa, haven't you?" "Yes. Oh, yes. of course!" "And I know Tom would be only tc glad. I shall write for his permission Still that unfriendly silence. "M heart Is quite set upon it. papa." Her father's surrender was suddei but complete. "Then so Is mine." t said almost violently, lifting her swei face near enough to kiss her on bot cheeks. "So it is settled. We will hat our garden party over at Broxton Hal and I will stop there this evening as drive home from Rosecliff to give o ders about having the house openc and properly aired. A good deal < weed chopping will be needed." "Oh. I forgot court was In sessioi You truant papa! You ought to bav been In Rosecliff half an hour ago. am going to send Reuben over wit the ponies for Miss Mally. I am dyic to talk with iter all about the affair And she dismissed him with a showt of kisses and the Injunction: "Don't t late in getting back. papa. There is ? much to see about." The day held more than Its full qui ta of trials for the iron nerved ma who never yielded a point to anythin living but the soft dimpled"child wt held his very heartstrings In her car less grasp. Night had fallen before he mounte his horse and turned its head horn ward. Seven lonely miles stretched to tween him and Mandeville. He glad] would have foregone the stop at Bro: ton Hall on his way home, but he ha promised Olivia, and that was enoug] When he reached the outer gate to tt gloomy old mansion, he dismounte and, flinging his bridle rein over tt horse rack, made his way on foot u the crumbling brick walk, slimy no' from the dense shading of the untrin med cedars. There would be much to do In ordt to make Ollie's birthday fete a succes but It should be done. The ccdai must be trimmed up tomorrow and tb brick walls all scraped clean. Reaching the house, he made a el: cult around it. In a remote corner of tb large back yard he knew be should fln the care taker and his wife. He wou! givetbem general directions foropenin the house, sunning the rooms and ell] ping the cedars. That must do for t< night. Just by way of keeping hi promise to Olivia. He was tired, harassed, unhappj but. whatever befell, the shadows tits sometimes crowded thick and faf about his own resolute head should nt Infold her. To make Olivia happy wr the law of his life, the mainspring ( his every action, his one earthly d( sire. The care taker and his wife ha closed their cottage for the night an were preparing to retire when hi knock startled them. He heard thei draw the bolt with reluctant caution t answer his summons. "What! Not abed thus early, S mon ?" "Not just abed, sir, but since tl master's been gone .less and me at jus' as willin as not to lock up earl and shut things out. It be awful !on< some and gloomsoine here now. M Matthews, and unless things brighte up when Mr. Touf gets through schoo I /IaiiIii If Iaco ontl mo oon hnl/1 n nt this gait." And then Mr. Matthews told Simo how he was going to break tl>e glooi spell by a garden party on his daugl ter's birthday, and Simon espoused hi cause gladly. Broxton Hall used to I. a happy and a gay bouse. "Anything to bring back the ol gladsomeness. sir." "Mr. Matthews gave his orders aboi opening the house, clipping the cedar: etc When he turned away, he bear the old man promptly bolt the doc again, and as the wooden sbuttci were of solid boards the little cottag Immediately offered but a dark, squat bulk for observation. He returned a bt bad come. Making the circuit of th bouse from rear to front, by the sld cn which Colouel Broxton's study wa located. Involuntarily he glanced uj ward at the closed shutters, then slated and stood still, wondering. A fait light, so faint that It might have bee a phosphorescent glimmer, shor through the slats of the dark gree shutters. Whatever else his shortcoming physical cowardice was not amor tbem. Some one was in the Broxto house and In the colonel's study. 1 go back for Simon would be useles He would not come. He must depen upon his own address and his ow nerve. Stealing noiselessly to the front < the house, the lawyer mounted the lo1 front steps and tried the front doc handle softly. It was locked. With strong grip he next seized one of tt shutters of the long French window that opened from the parlor to the v< randa floor. It yielded readily. So di the sash. lie slipped his shoes from'h feet and sped with swift uoiselessne: rPK? c-tiv/lv tvnc nt H ui'iuaa luu nan. A UC oiu?J roar of the house. It connected wjt the room In the parlor suit by the dooi glazed with dead ground glas Through the dim glass of these iftoi the pale phosphorescent gleam can: steadily. He would catch the thief ri handed. His hands were planted firn ly on the silver doorknobs. He sent tl sliding doors gliding noiselessly I their grooves with a resolute toucl Then lie staggered and held fast by tl lintel to keep himself from falling. Bending over the dead man's stud table was a tall, shadowy form I white. The sound of scattering loo; paper fell on his ears with a ghostl rustle. lie saw a restless hand tlirt times distinctly. In a sighing whlsp< he heard the words, "Lost, lost, lost all this in a second of time. The uigl wind swept through the open_froi >0 window. The pale light was suddenry the extinguished. The house lay in utter hie y darkness. A faint, slow movement. wj| like the rustle of garments, came near- ora a. er to the terror palsied man. passed by pet le him. died away entirely. tioi it How long he staid there he never the b could have told, nor how he ever grop e ed his way back to the spot where he 11, had left his shoes and from there to his 1 horse. Th( r- Once in the saddle, with the cold d night air fanning his cheeks, his cour- Ne> )f age came back and witu It a flood of self contempt ^ a! "Bah! Am I in my dotage? be cried coc e angrily. "Tomorrow I will investigate f?r 1 this ghostly trickery and run the trick- 8er :h ster to earth." _ n... 1 - -1?1 111.X 1 - 1I..1 _i_ux illti ig dui ! ? tuepi very nine uiui mgui, nor (lid be run that ghostly "trickster" iba ?r to earth on the morrow nor the next cot >e day nor any day thereafter. bei i0 TO BE CONTINUED. Ma piisatlanwus Reading, jog HOLD THE PHILIPPINES. hal , Senator McLaurin Gives the Reasons of id Ne e_ The Faith That Is Within Him. mjl e- Senator McLaurin delivered the ] ly principal speech that was delivered in eel ?. the senate on Wednesday. His sub- the d ject was the Philippine question, and ext b. his speech is reported in the Associated nes ie Press as follows ; "In discussion of the we; d question there has been jnanifested a wh ie disposition to ignore the conditions by res ip which we are confronted, and to pro- the w ject the debate upon a line of political eel i- sentimentalises. This mode of discus- est sion is not only unpatriotic but is an Sot >r evasion of the true issue. This is not Ah s. a political question." cer 3 Mr. McLaurin stroDgly deprecated alo ie the position which the Democratic J party bad taken in making the Phil- ry r lippine question and expansion a poli- val e tical issue. He pointed to the past to ph< d show that some of the greatest Demo- of d crats who ever lived were expansion- tac g ists and to prove by their acts and meas- der ) ures that if it had not been for them bet > the United States would not have been can Is the nation it is today. onl He took the ground that the Philip- sec ; pines are rightfully and legally ours by phc it the treaty of Paris, and the United spe it States should bold them, affording the pos )t Filipinos every opportunity to acqure Thi is the art of goverment and giving them seat >f all the powers and rights possible in anc s- the circumstances. He dwelt particu- the larly on the great opportunities afford- gra d eel by the islands for trade. Detween tail d Americans and the nations of the Ori- mei Is ent. He did not agree with some of fine n bis colleagues on the Democratic side pbc :o that our trade in the east was a mere the figment of the imagination. He quoted cbo I- statistics to prove that the experience ecli of the last decade contradicted those and 10 who asserted that our eastern trade imp e was not of immense consequence. 'J y "It is in the Orient,"he said "that 40 I f> we must look for markets. There must reg r. be a change in our policy. We must mei n enter into actual competition for this at \ J- trade. We must as a nation recoguize sen u changed conditions, and I believe that tub by holding the Philippines our trade of I u iu the Orient will continue to increase anc until all surplus products for years to con j- come will find remunerative markets the Is in the East." vat c Mr. McLaurin then discussed the pas special interests of the south in the par d expansion of our trade. exf "I am glad," said he, "to believe line it that the southern people have de wh ?, termined to investigate and study this tor d question rather than to be led blindly Brc >r by political anti-expansionists. The wh s southern farmer, by the increased price wai received for raw cotton last year, has lan e become aroused. Fealty to party and its misleading information, I fear, has pro- wai duced among them opposition to terri- sev le torial expansion. The effort has been pos 13 made in my own state to suppress all ext > information and arouse public senti- coa l" meut against expansion. The frightful mo 11 ghost of'imperialism' has been held up |jgi Q before the people of the south to fright- J ie en them ; but I believe it is impossible tioi n much longer to mislead them." eqc Mr. McLaurin said in sketching the giv 3. progress of the south during the past anc g 20 years, that the blight of Negro suf- the D fuge and Negro domination had almost pos o extinguished hope and energy and man- pla 3- ly effort, but, like a giant bound with am d fetters, she aroused herself at last and goc n aguin started upon an era of industrial ces life. } "Capital has flowed into that section," ^ ' ' ifl rtrt.t |n II 1 1 ^ SaiU Lit?. "1UCIC 19 uvuuucuvu Ju w<? southern enterprises. The bitter mem- Con ories of the past are being forgotten in the rush of development of our resourc- I B_ es. Our people feel that they are again Ric j a part of this great country and are left of jg free and untrammeled to work out their fev Js own destiny. Our southern manufact- hot ie ures have all reached out to the markets eve ^ of the Orient and discovered their ad- par rs vantage. The southern farmer needs he s such markets for his raw cotton to " ,g make its production remunerative. leai le "By the acquisition of the Philippines phi we hold the key to the eastern situa- bill tion. We need not rely solely upon rl ie treaty rights to secure the unopen 1 |U door, but can demand equal commer- for lj cial opportunity with other nations and mai if necessary, with vantage ground we era have, assert that demand. Will the Cut y United States throw away the golden unt *? opportunity by giving up the Philip- " pines? I am in favor of holding them, be ly and I believe the southern farmers and ed ?0 manufacturers will sustain me in my the ??T Koliovo further. tha.t the wit T |?UB,HWU' * I 7 presence of the United State9 and of its I jt Hug, the emblem of human freedom, era n progress and civilization, will carry to the i millions iD the Orient unnumbered ssings which in the coming years 1 be for their betterment and amelition and will conduce to the peruity and glory of our free institu 8and the commercial supremacy of i nation." TOTAL ECLIPSE IN MAY. i Government Will Have Observatory In Sontli Carolina. ^ v York Tribune. rhe naval observatory has asked igress for an appropriation of $5,000 the purpose of studying and obving the total solar eclipse of .y 28 next, a phenomenon of special erest to America, as it is the first one 1 will be visible generally in this intry since 1878, the only exception ng the eclipse of 1899, visible from > west coast of California up into nitoba. The eclipse next spring is ible in a narrow line or belt extend; from Norfolk, Va., in a generally ithwesterly direction through Texas i Mexico. The duration of totality Norfolk is about a minute and a f and the time diminishes until w Orleans, where it is only about a nute and twelve seconds. Preparations for observing this ipse were begun three years ago by i weather bureau, which gathered ensive data concerning the cloudiis and general conditions of the ather on May 28, in the regions over icb the eclipse will be total. Their ults, recently published, show that i best positions for observing the ipse, where there will be the greatprobability of clear weather, are in ath Carolina, Northern Georgia and tbama. But in order to secure a tainty, stations will be occupied all ng toe line 01 totality. U the coming eclipse the observatowill utilize instruments of great ue for the study of this peculiar momenon. First, the observation the precise time at which the conts of the moon to take place, in orto fix precisely its position in the ivens relatively to the sun, which i be done with unusual accuracy y at the time of solar eclipse. The ond purpose will be to study with itographic instruments and the ctroscope the structure and com- , ition of the sun's surroundings, is latter field is the one which posies such absorbing popular interest, I the 40-foot photographic lenses of observatory will give large photopbs, which will show the finest deof the corona. Smaller instru0 ts, however, with lenses of the !8t workmanship, will be used to itograph the widest extensions of corona. Stations will have to be sen some time in advance of the pse, and the telescopes mounted 1 adjusted to be in readiness for the lortant moment. u? lasa 01 muuuuug lue wsieauupce, "eet long, so as to poiot at a definite ion of the sky at the precise moot of time, and that the moment vhich the sun will be in position to d its rays through the long canvas e which will cut out the stray light the atmosphere, is no light task, I yet it has been successfully ocaplished on several expeditions by eclipse parties of the Lick obserory. The observatory has in time t sent out.eclipse parties to distant tn of the world, the last extensive edition being in 1883, to the Caroi Islands, in the South Pacific, of ich the present astronomical direcof the observatory, Prof. S. J. >wn, was a member. This eclipse, ose duration was unusually long, 3 visible at only two small dots of d in the Pacific ocean, the rest of entire track passing over the watery 3te. Previous to that in 1878, eral government parties occupied litions on the long line of totality ending from Iowa to the Pacific ist, especially in the high rocky unlains where the atmosphere was it and transparent. Uthough the proposed appropria3 of 15,000 seems ludicrously inadlate and is much less than those en in former times, the convenience 1 accessibility of tbe stations and fact t hat the observatory already sess many valuable instruments, exin why sucb a relatively small ount will be productive of much id, provided tbe expedition is suesful. A CUMIN' AN' A UWINE. igreaaman Camming* of New York, Get* Applauae Both Way*. )uriug the discussiou of the Porto 0 bill last Tuesday, Mr. Cummings, New York, threw tbe bouse into a er of excitement. He described v be believed it to be tbe duty of ry man in a crisis to raise above ty and support the government as had done during tbe Spanish war. 1 believe now we should follow the d ot toe president," aaia ne, emitically, "aud I will vote for this 9) r"his statement electrified the house. ?he Republicans, without waiting him to finish his sentence, rose en sse and cheered, while the Demots sat stunned and dazed. Mr. iimings stood with arms upraised il the Republican applause ceased. I will vote for this bill," he concontinued, "provided it is amendin accordance with the advice of president for absolute free trade h Porto Rico." t was now the turn of the Demote to cheer, and for several minutes y made the rafters ring.