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ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. NO. 30.
. LOVE MI
BY JEANNETTE
Copyright, 1899, by Jeannette H. Walwo
Synopsis of Previous Installments.
^ In order that new readers of The Enquirer
may begin with the following installment
of this story, and understand it
nnmn oo fKnnrrh fhftV hftfi PfiflH it
JU3V tuo oaiuv no vuwvt^u v-wj ??? ?
all from the beginning, we here give a
synopsis of that portion of it which has
already been published:
Tom Broxton comes to Broxton Hall
from college, having been summoned to
his father, who is dying. Mr. Matthews,
Tom's guardian, passing "Mother" Spillman's
cottage, d rops a bag ofpapers. The
next morning Matthews comes to look for
one of the papers which have been lost.
He does not find it, but Jimmy Martin, a
gardener, soon after brings it to "Mother"
Spillman, 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 unfinished
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
^ the room the figure disappears. Approaching
his father's body lying in his coffin,
Tom looks for a seal ring worn on the finger,
but it is not there. Olivia Matthews
arranges with her father for a garden party
at Broxton Hall on her eighteenth
birthday. Her father, riding past the
Hall, stops there and sees the mysterious
e 1! r?-.
ngure smuuiug uvci v/inuuci ?
desk. After the lawn party Tom Broxton
and bis guardian sit at the Hall talking
^ abont it, ana Mr. Matthews proposes that
Tom, after being graduated at college,
shall go abroad to study and declares that
the Hall must be sold, to both of which
propositions Tom demurs. Mother Spillman
cautions Tom against his guardian,
but fails to convince him. Olivia rides
out with Clarence Westover on horseback.
Tom goes to the Hall, where he finds
Olivia, who has been thrown from her
horse, and carries her into the bouse. She
is notseverely injured. The party remain
at the Hall. At midnight a scream is
heard. It has come from Olivia, who has
seen the mysterious figure standing over
Colonel Broxton's desk. Two years
elapse. Broxton Hall is sold to the Westovers.
Tom Broxton is studying abroad.
He writes to Olivia declaring his love for
her. His guardian writes him that his
estate has been lost, and Olivia writes him
that she is engaged to Clarence Westover.
Mr. Matthews' study is burned under
suspicious circumstances, and all his papers
destroyed, including those pertalning
to the Broxton estate. Tom Broxton
returns from abroad and settles in the
the west to practice his profession. Mr.
Matthews is taken ill. Oliva visits the
room where her father lies. Half conscious,
she sees "Mother" Spill man,
whom she recognizes as the figure she had
seen standing over Colonel Broxton's
desk, bending over her father and accusv
ing him of having stolen the Broxton estate.
Olivia visits the Spillman cottage,
where she fiuds that "Mother" Spillman
has just died. Olivia recognizes the chair
in which she had once seen "Mother"
Spillman searching and asks permission
to come again and search for the papers
her father lost the night of Colonel Broxton's
death. After she has gone Malvitia
pulls out an unused drawer, and the
missing package falls out. It contains a
" v deed to the Broxton property, showing
that the property was entailed and could
not be sold. Clarence Westover comes in
- ? _
ana taKes me aeea away to cupy. mr.
Matthewsdemands that Olivia marry Tom
Broxton to cover up the fraud. Westover
seeks Broxton ana delivers the deed to
the Hall. Tom declines to avail himself
of it. Olivia tells Westover that she cannot
marry him. Tom informs Olivia
that he overheard her father demand that
, she marry him, hut declines to take so
mean an advantage of her.
CHAPTER XIX.
"and the whole wide ocean between
us!"
At a foreign resort where her shy,
untraveled ways subjected her to unfriendly
comment and all of her most
cherished domestic traditions were violently
set at naught Miss Malvina necessarily
experienced the desolate sensations
of a cat in a strange garret.
Olivia had a much better time of it
She was seen to be beautiful and said
to be wealthy, a combination which
w makes for popularity anywhere and
everywhere. Nice promptly put Itself
under her feet. Poor Miss Malvina
was seen to be not beautiful and in her
capacity as Miss Matthews' companion
proclaimed herself not wealthy.
She was under Nice's feet Never was
meeker or more acquiescent chaperon.
She was devoted to her charge, and so
long as Ollle would not be sensible and
marry Tom Broxton she supposed one
ought to rejoice over the multiplicity
of newer adorers, from whom the fastidious
little lady had a chance to select
a secoud best.
To loyal Miss Malvina any man
would be second best to Tom. but
through all her single hearted devotion
to Utile's interests mere ran au uuuurcurrent
of homesickness which it was
hard to conceal. She longed for Mandeville?obscure,
dull old Mandeville?
with an exceedingly great yearning.
The Mandeville Morning News, an aspiring
sheet, at which she had often
pointed the finger of scorn when she
+ s was at home, was her one solace on
foreign soil. Its coming filled her day
with light.
Coming in from an afternoon drive
one day. flower laden and smiling. Olivia
found her dampening this cherished
sheet with copious tears. Flowers and
all, she twined affectionate arms about
her faithful friend's neck.
V "You are homesick, and 1 am torturing
the life out of you. Nice is not doing
you one particle of good. We will
start home tomorrow. I have been
having such a lovely time 1 have grown
selfish, but we will start right straight
home."
"We will do nothing of the kind, my
dear. Nice has cured my cough entire
)S A VAT.
H. WALWORTH.
rth.
ly?that is. almost. I was crying just
a few tears, but it was for Tom. poor,
dear Tom!"
Olivia flushed resentfully. "Tom
Broxton?"
' 1* I ** ~ i,im ?
ICO, 1 UU ICL'l OU OUIIJ IVl UlUJ.
Ollie walked over to a distant table
and busied herself putting her flowers
in water.
"Your tears must flow readily, Maivina.
Every one says he Is getting on
' splendidly; that he will be a rich man
before he Is 30. And?then?I have
made my will. He is to have every
thing I leave."
Miss Malvlna was turning the damp
paper about in search of something.
She sniffed scornfully.
1 "You ridiculous child! You ieave?'
I don't think Tom Broxton cares a copper
for money for its own sake. He
said to me once, quite confidentially, of
course, that when he had hoped to
marry you he had thought the wealth
of Golconda too slight. But Tom has
1 had so much trouble In Ills short life,
and now comes this."
"And now conies what?"
Olivia wheeled suddenly, showing a
very pale face and eyes full of fright.
Miss Malvina held out the paper folded
in a long strip.
"It Is dreadfully hard to find a paragraph
once you let it go."
"Is It about Tom?"
"Yes. or at least It is about"?
"Read it aloud, please."
And Miss Malvlna read:
"That fine old piece of real estate
known as Broxton Hall, on the outskirts
of town, has again changed
hands. It Is said that Mrs. Westover's
health demands a permanent residence
in a warmer climate. Some mystery
seems to attach to the recent transfer,
and no aniouut of reportorinl enterprise
has enabled us to secure the
name of its owner. Extensive repairs
on the house and grounds are already
under way."
wen, sum vjuviu, imiug ou u rose
stem witb strong white teeth, "what
that all has to do with your bedewing
the morning paper with tears has yet
to he explained."
"Why. Tom. you see, he told me?
you know he and I had quite a little
talk after you had sent him away in
such a hurry that Sunday?that when
he had expected you and Mr. Westover
to live at the old place he had
become reconciled to give it up. as he
certainly never could have lived there
by himself, but if time should prove
that you and Clarence were uot to
adjust your little difference he should
buy back the old place himself."
"And how do you know he is not the
new owner?"
"Oh. 1 dou't think there would be
so much mystery about it if he were.
Tom isn't the man to want to do any'
thing sensational."
"Was he so very fond of the place?"
"Ollie, you know as well as I do that
he loves that old house better than he
does anything on earth. Not"?quiekly
seeking to repair any probable hurt
-"that he blamed your dear papa for
letting it go. 1 do wish I knew who
this mysterious purchaser is."
"I can relieve you to that extent," 1
said Ollie. swooping down upon the 1
paper and hiding behind it. "I have
bought Broxtou Hall." 1
"You, Olivia?" 1
"At least my business man has for !
me. I told him before we left America
to buy it at any price I could afford (
to pay if Mr. Westover would sell."
"Wasn't that a little reckless, dear? 1
It is a beautiful old place undoubtedly,
and I do believe Thomas would
rather think of it as belonging to you
than anybody in the world."
Ollie's temples showed pink above
the Mandevllle Morning News. "Of
course 1 did not buy it to live In. That
would be absurd. I bought it for
Tnm I want Tom to live in it with i
his wife when he gets one. But now i
that it Is mine I don't know how to
give it to him unless I die and leave
it to him In my will."
Miss Malvina looked at her gravely.
"I am quite sure he would not like to
get it that way. my dear."
"And I am sure 1 should not like
him to get it that way. at least not immediately."
She laughed hysterically. Miss Malvina's
literalness often gave her cause
for mirth. She fiuug herself into a chair
to read that paragraph about Broxton
Hall for herself. There was a certain
zest in the idea that all Mandeville was
trying to guess her secret and a deeper
sort of satisfaction in the reflection 1
that no one could ever again come between
Tom and the old place after she
should have given it back to him.
Dear old Tom! Some time, somehow,
he should come into his own again.
Miss Malvina glanced at her confiscated
paper enviously. She had but just 1
begun upon the "Local Brevities" when
Olivia had entered.
"Would you mind turning to 'Deaths'
and 'Marriages.' dear, and reading
them out? I had just got to them."
Olivia ran glibly through the mortuary
and hymeneal reports.
"And now the casualties of the day."
"Where do you find them? Oh, yes.
here! Why"?with a sharp cry she looked
over the paper at Miss Malvina?
"had you seen It and left me to stumble ri
on it for myself?" a
"Had I seen what, child?" a
"About Tom? He Is hurt, badly hurt n
Oh, Miss Malvlna, listen! 'News reached
this office late last evening by tele- a
graph that Mr. Thomas Broxton, our s
highly esteemed ex-townsman, has
beee seriously injured in an accident to li
the Electric Light works in Kansas t
City, of which he has recently beeu h
made general superintendent. The account
of his accident as we have re- 1<
ceived it makes quite a hero of Mr. "
Broxton and shows him to be the gal- d
lant son of a noble gentleman. It was
by endeavoring to save the life of an
old, crippled employee of the works, v
who was engaged on the top floor, that p
he came near losing his own valuable ti
life.'" h
Olivia flung the paper down with a I l<
moan. "And the whole wide ocean betTrwn
*?at i^voi My love!" "
Miss Malvina rra& sobbing heipiessiy.
Olivia sprang to her feet passionately.
"Don't let us waste time crying. Miss
Malvina. Help me to pack up. Help
me to get ready. We will start borne B
tomorrow. We will go to him. Oh. Tom.
Tom! Why did I let you drive me away t<
from you?" *'
"Olivia! Tom Broxton drive you 81
away from him?"
"Yes, he did. he did! I asked him*- c'
to?have me?and he refused! Yes, he k
did!" tl
She was wringing her hands in au C
agony of tearless distress. A
"Olivia!" U
"Oh. please don't keep repeating my
name for all the world like a parrot. ^
Miss Malvina!" b
"Why. the boy is perfectly wrapped f'
up in you!" ^
"He isn't, he isn't! He despises me. if
and I?I love him! I have loved him s<
all my life, and?and I did not know it. J1
He was so meek and lowly that 1 tyrannized
over him. Oh, to thiuk of the a'
miles of 6alt water between us and w
him! Who knows? Suppose"? She If
turned white to the very lips. p:
Miss Malvina. frightened at the b<
storm raised by The Morning News, di
mendaciously cast discredit on it and
Its methods. I
"But. my dear Olivia, you are working
yourself up Into a perfect fever so
unnecessarily. Don't you know the w
newspapers never tell the truth? They f<
can't afford to. They have to spread bi
every sensation out so thin, to make it bl
cover so much space, that you would bi
see right through it if they didn't color
it up high and smear it all over with "i
manufactured features. Now, 1 don't pi
doubt for a moment that Tom Broxton's
legs have done double duty in ?
that paragraph as well as on that fire
escape." \
"He Is none the less a hero, a great. _
brave fellow." said Ollie. brightening ?
into contbntiveness under this comforting
view of the case.
"Of course lie is. and no one knows So
it better than 1 do. Suppose we send
a cablegram to ask about him." y(
"1 am going straight to him." said
Ollie. with lofty superiority to all lets
and hindrances. ^
"But if uo vessel should be sailing immediately,
my dear?"
"Oh. Miss Malvina. please get to i
packing onr trunks! Yon are such a
creature for pointing out obstacles."
Whether Miss Malvlna's meek spirit
t* I
would have held good under this fresh
'AT
outburst of injustice will never be j"
known. Some one knocked at the door .
of their apartment. Ollie. feverishly 18
anxious to be doing something, answer- P1
ed It herself. 18
"You? Why"- P1
She moved back from the door, and 11
Clarence Westover entered, holding a
newspaper in his hand.
"I am awfully glad to find you In. 1 m
am just back from Berlin; found a lot
of mail matter waiting for me. this
among It."
"1 know?we know." said Olivia, nodding
her head slowly. 111
"It's about Broxton. I mean." Clar- Uj
ence said.
"Yes: we have seen Iti"
Westover's handsome face was
wrinkled with perplexity. He found '''
himself in rather an awkward predica- "
raent. He had come to plead Tom m
Broxton's cause with the woman they
had both loved. cc
"It Is an awful pity." he said, glanc- Ct
Ing at the paper be still held. "There
are not many men like Broxton in the P1
world." fu
"Not a single one." Miss Malvlna in- IB
terjected. with decision. Vt
"I thought perhaps?you might? w
You see. 1 feel deucedly officious."
"Miss Malvina and I are starting for ?
America immediately." said Ollie. with '*
blushing dignity. ' <
"Good! The sooner the better! But l'1
I don't know of any vessel that sails ji1
sooner than the one 1 have taken pas- ia
saire by. That goes on Wednesday. C<
This is Mouda.v." ki
"You?" CI
Westover looked at her meditatively. In
A demure smile lurked In the corners ?i
of his mouth. How desperately in love lo
with this pretty little thing he had
once fancied himself! Rut that was th
before he had met his Clementine, la
whom he had married a week before
in Venice. m
"Yes. my wife and I sail for America ci
on Wednesday." he said quietly. hi
"Your wife? I?we had "heard in
that"? n ih
"I hope you will like her, Ollie." P<
"I know I shall adore her, Clarence." lo
"You see." he went on maliciously, u<
"after you made up your mind that le
you would never, never marry any- m
body. I felt it a duty I owed myself fo
to fall in love with somebody else." ie
Ollie treated him to one of her most av
patronizing nods. "You did quite pt
Ight I hope you will always stand 0f
p as well to your sense of duty. I jn
m so glad. As for me, I shall never vj(
larry." XI
"Of course not Consistency forbids, cu
nd a woman Is nothing If not con- tr<
Istent"
"Miss Malvlna and I nave been hav- Wj
ag a perfectly lovely time this win- be
er." Sbe bent her bead to pin a rose th
a her belt th
"Miss Malvlna especially, doubt- pr
?ss," said Clarence, laughing gayly. Bi
Shall I secure berths for Wednes- Yi
ott'o Krto* irnn
aj d uuai ivi j vu Qy
"If you would." tjc
A little while later she stood In a
rlndow watching him cross the wide jja
laza upon which her apartment
ronted. She had never found him so er
andsome nor so lovable. She turned .
>ward Miss Malvina, who was reck- !?'
>ssly emptying the entire contents of ..
le writing table Into a pillowslip.
"He Is very handsome."
"Who? Tom?" . tn
"No; Clarence."
of
"Yes; he Is good looking enough. :
lut, Olivia"
"He has a wife, you dear old simple- ~'
>n! Let that suffice to <>"27 j?ui
s. Cut, Imibb wuivlna. all this has on
Jt me to wondering about myself. Am
after all, just a commonplace. P*
hangeable creature who never will
now her own mind? What made me
link myself so dreadfully In love with wt
larence Westover a year or two ago? W(
nd now I know my heart will break
' anything happens to Tom." "e
"Oh, I don't know! Clarence was ?c<
orldlywise and showy, and you never "ei
ad been courted before. His masterll
ways and strong will dazzled you. a#
ty dear, splendid Tom treated you as
' you were a queen. He abased him- an
ilf before you, and so you exalted tr
Durself unduly." a'1
Ollie flashed a bright smile at her. fbi
ad, coming over to the trunk Into 'es
'hlch- things were being pitched as
' the steamer were waiting for that thi
articular piece of baggage, she put ao
oth hands on the thin spinster shoul- aul
ers. 8*?
"Malvina Spillman, stand still while pr<
whisper a great truth into your ears." ha
"Well?" tir
"You are the wisest woman In the by
I nm cr> rrmfdl ohliced to VOU PCI
)r explaining me to myself: 1 hate to wl
e inconsistent. After all, Tom is to po
lame for everything. He shouldn't '
ave been so meek." an
Miss Malvina stared, called her a em
ridiculous child" and resumed her ity
acking. pr<
TO BE CONTINUED. mC
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JIUscrUanrou.s grading.
THE CHINESE BOXERS. ^
?;? fes
mething About the Murderou* Society of S\V
the Sword. joj
2w York Sun. eri
Whether or not the powers have
uud it necessary to warn China that
must suppress the Great Sword soety,
or the "Boxers," as the members Dei
' that organization ure more commoncalled
by foreigners, there is no '
>ubt thut the siluatiou is serious iu of
mheastern China, where missionary wb
lterprises are numerous and there is i
e maDy native converts to Christian mu
y. The scene of the recent outrages on<
oue of the most densely peopled tht
irts of the Middle Kingdom. This ter
the western part of Shantung (
ovince, along the shallow Hoaug str
ver and east of it, where wild silk gui
ows ou the hillsides, mines of coal po]
id iron abound and the?people make pot
ore straw braid than in any other Sc<
irt of the world. The Germans have Bl<
ished the survey for their railroad Vu
ear through this region to the Hoaug sut
o, and beyond it, and the excite- far
ent over this innovation has been abi
ied by the Boxers to increase the dis pat
irbauces. Dti
The Boxers begau to attract some ab<
reign attention in December last, it
inugh they had been active before, tht
woe ennn that t,hev are not '
vv"" .V.V-- -J
erely Chinese fanatics inspired by Bl<
ltred of the "white devils" who are in
iming in increasing numbers to their to\
>untry, but that they are first and spt
remost a great band of thieves who on<
etend to make war on the foreigner ine
r religious reasons, though their wh
ain object is loot. They have de- tlx
istated about 40,000 square miles in is
estern Shantung and the neighbor- wh
g parts of Chihli in about five months. iM*
undreds of Protestant Christians have fro
en sullerers ; but the Roman Calho- '
i converts have been the chief vie- art
ms. The Boxers have spared the Ra
ves and property of nearly all Christ- iiuj
ns who could pay them blackmail, urt
imparatively few persons have been am
lied except in the fights between the gee
hinese soldiery and the marauders, mu
it schools and chapels by the dozen am
id houses by the hundred have been art
oted and destroyed. teu
Attention was first widely called to prt
ese lawless proceedings in December evt
st when the Boxers murdered Rev. om
r'dney Brooks, a Church of England wh
issiouary, under the most atrocious chi
rcumstances. He had been visitiug
s sister and was returning to his own rat
ission, about 40 miles away, when wh
e murderers seized him. They strip- dei
'd him of all his clothing except a cot
in cloth, pierced a hole through his str
>se and inserted a cord by which they bui
d him along the road while the mob En
altreated him. When they halted clo
r the noouday meal he was so care- ]
sslv guarded that he managed to get cer
vay and outfooted the fleetest of bis pre
irsuers. As soon as possible, a party wh
horsemen was sent after biin, and
two or three hours they found their i
clim half dead behind a boulder, i
3ey then stabbed him to death aDd
t off bis head and exhibited it as a
jpby of their prowess.
The Boxers had then been on the <
irpath since October. If it had not
en for the treachery of Yu Hsien,
e governor of Shantung, it is likely i
at the revolt would have been sup j
essed before the murder of Mr. <
ooks occurred. Warning came to i
1 Hsien from Pekin that the Boxers i
ntemnlated the wholesale destruc- i
id of the Christians, and he was orred
to repress them with a heavy
nd. Under this compulsion the govnor
sent out a party of soldiers who
it the Boxers in a pitched fight kill?
over a hundred of them and putting
e rest to iJight. Yu Hsien was terriy
enraged when be beard of this litil
obedience of orders. He degraded
e three officers in command and rerted
to Pekio that they bad stupidly
tacked and struck down common
lage people and country mercbauts.
i knew that this was fulse, and the
xers, seeing that the governor was
their side, redoubled their destruc
e efforts. By this action Yu Hsien
raljzed the efforts of every official
thiD the area of the distnrbaDce.
38t of the centers of Catholic missions
ire completely devastated iu a few
.eks. The Pekin authorities reived
the disobedient governor, but
fore his successor arrived at the
me of disturbance the mischief had
en done.
Early in February, the empress dower
issued a proclamation saying that
is anti-Christian movement had
sen from the false sentiment of
:ating the missionaries as enemies
hough they were permitted to teach
3 Christian religion under the treatwilh
foreign nations. Soldiers,
ircbants and people were informed
it they must not maltreat Christians,
d the authorities were commanded to
ppress all agitation against the misnaries
and their converts. Since this
aclamatioD was issued, the disorders
ve diminished, but are not yet enely
suppressed. Work carried on
the missions has been wholly susnded,
although Brooks is the only
lite man whose murder has been re- s
rted. E
There is no doubt that the reaction- {
? l*/\ nrm v\n/\on /~\ r* It! /M? A f VlOU -
f yuuuy Ul tuo cujpicoo uunagci uao t
couraged this revolt against author- ]
and this flagrant violation of treaty ]
jvisions. These riots have been the
>st serious and extensive attacks [
on foreigners in China that have oc j
rred in years. They have taken ]
ice, not in an isolated region like
man, hut mostly in a district only a }
v days' travel from the seaboard. It 1
nains to be said that the region in- j
ted by this Society of the Great i
rord is one wherein the Germans en- j
' special privileges under their gov- iJ
jment's treaty with China. J1
. 11
BLOEMPOXTKIN.
icrlptloD of the Little Capital of the
Free State. A
The capital of the Free State is one
those happy idyllic little towns
ere it is always afternoon. There '
no bustle about the streets, no com- '(
>tion in its highways (it has ouly 1
?,) and nothing occurs more exciting r
in the morning market or the quar- P
ly nacbtmaal. tJ
Dne hears a deal of English in the
eels. Probably it is the native lau- "
nge of nearly one-half of the white
pulation. One also notices a pre- ^
aderance of pure Scots Doric, for
alsraen are in the ascendant in P
>emfonteiu. Many members of the "
lksraad are of Scottish descent, as 1
:h recurring names as Fraser, Mac- v
lane, Stuart, Macintosh and lones 1
jndantly testify. The talk in the c
rliamentary house is officially in v
itch, but there is a braw twang
jut much of it which suggests that 8
has been acquired on the bauks of a
i Tweed or thereabouts. s
The four-squared appearance of a
jemfontein is owing to the fact that, r
common with nearly all Dutch
vns, it is laid out in rectangular
ices, with streets equi-distant from )
3 another, and bordered with the '
ivitable eucalyptus or "gum tree,"
ich flouiish almost everywhere in 0
5 uplands of South Africa. There I
a little fort ou an outlying kopje, d
lieh at oue time boasted a couple of a
ixims. These are probably at the 11
nt today. 1
The public buildings of Bloemfoutein A
! quite imposing in their way. The P
aiizaal, or bouse of parliament, is an
portant edifice with some architect- 1
il pretension. It has a domed tower, r
1 looks something between a gor- b
)us masonic temple and a palatial o
isic hall. It cost nearly ?70,000, 81
3 was furnished by one of the most u
istic and enterprising houses of Tot
ham Court road. Churches are v
ivaleut in every street, almost at 11
?ry corner; in fact Bloerafontein is
i of the few South African towns in e
-1 ? -.1 n?A
icn llierc urc uiuie tuuiuuca uuu
ipels than there are canteens. d
The presidency of Mr. Steyn is a
her lurge and important building of ri
ite stone, of a somewhat mixed or- a
of architecture, but exceedingly e
nfortahle, cool and commodious in
ucture. It cost nearly ?20,000 to 0
ild, and has a pretty garden of old e
glish flowers, such as hollyhocks, v
vepinks, stocks and peonies. A
3loemfonteiu is a great educational
iter, aud there is a very fine college,
isented by Sir George Grey, the erstile
Old Man of South Africa. It is a
known as the Grey college, aod has
turned out some remarkable scholars.?
London Mail.
OUR MONEY CIRCULATION.
2,021,274,506 on April 1, and the Per Capita
Showing Is 826.12.
More money per capita, more gold,
more silver, and a larger total of money
in circulation than ever before is the
summary of the "Circulation Statement"
issued by the treasury department
for April 1, 1900. For the first
time in the history of the country the
per capita circulation has crossed the
f26 line, and the year 1900 carried the
total for the first time past $2,000,000,300,
while the amount of gold and
zold certificates in circulation is larger
than at the corresponding date of any
previous year. The "Circulation
Statement," which is issued at the beginning
of each month, shows the tola]
money in circulation on April 1,
1900, to be $2,021,274,506, and on
ipril 1, 1899, $1,927,846,942. Od the
. orresponding date in 1898 it was $1,556,058,645;
on April 1, 1897, it was
51,669,000,694, and on April 1, 1896,
51,528,629,463. This shows an in:rease
in total money in circulation in
our years of $492,645,043, or 32 per
:ent.
The per capita money in circulation
>r the average amount for each individual
in the United States is also
arger than ever before, being $26.12
calculating the present population at
57,395,000) against $25.45 one year
igo, $23.69 two years ago, $23.01 three
r'ears ago, and $21.53 on April 1, 1896.
The amount of gold in circulation is
tlso greater than at the corresponding
late of any preceding year, the total .
told and gold certificates in circulaion
on April 1, 1900, being $785,845,>49
against $727,748,591 on April 1,
1899 ; $618,448,941 on April 1, 1898 ;
5554,582,096 on April 1, 1897, and
5489,151,505 on April 1, 1896 ; the in:rease
during the four years being
5296,694,044, or 60 per cent.
The amount of silver in circulation,
ncluding standard silver dollars, subsidiary
silver, silver certificates and
reasury notes of 1890, which were
ssued for the purchase of silver bulion
and are to be retired when the
silver is coined and put in circulation,
imounts to $631,133,689, against $626,182,804
on April 1, 1899; $610,761,729
m April 1, 1898, $569,024,775 on April
., 1897, and $558,524,447 on April 1,
L896.
The following table shows the total
nooey and total gold in circulation on
V.pril 1 of each year from 1890 to
900:
Gold and Gold
Total Money. Certificates.
89 0 81,437,494,0 2 8508,562,567
89 1 1,530,080,164 552,785,919
B92 1,608,641,520 561,943,647
89 3 1,602,521,806 519,285,960
89 4 1,690,714,808 566,408,865
89 5 1,584,181,424 528,337,088
89 6 1,528,629,463 489,151,506
89 7 1,669,000,694 554,582,096
89 8 1,756,058,645 618,448,941
89 9 1,927,840,942 727,748,591
1)00 2,021,271,506 784,815,657
SENATORS TALK HYDROPHOBIA.
Ln Interesting Discussion on a Much Disputed
Subject.
In the senate last Tuesday, Mr. Galinger
(Rep., N. H.) presented some
otters sent to bim protesting against
he order of the District commissioners
equiring all dogs to be muzzled. He
renounced the order "unnecessary,
mjust and cruel."
Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo ) asked Mr. Galnger
whether he, as a physician, beeved
there was such a disease as
lydrophobia.
Mr. Gallinger replied that he had
raclised medicine 30 years and bad
ever seen a case of hydrophobia, and
hat a good mauy eminent surgeons
yho had speul their lifetimes in hospials
had said they never bad seen a
ase of it. In his opinion, hydrophobia
>as a disease almost unknown.
*f- 171 n /.uoo in whinh ha
1111. VC?l irtaucu a iikv iu ?u<vu ~w
aw a young man die of hydrophobia,
nd he described how, among other
yraplons. the young man "barked like
dog," Mr. Gallinger interposed the
emark that a patient with that disease
id not bark like a dog.
"Then it was not hydrophobia," Mr.
Test returned. But the best physician
a Lexington so pronounced it."
"I do not desire to controvert that
pinion," said Mr. Gallinger. "What
wish to say was that barking like a
og is not a symptom of hydrophobia
ud cannot be found in any book. In
ay judgment, dogs save a hundred
imes as many human lives as perish
iom this so-called disease of hydrophobia."
Mr. Wolcott (Rep.,Col.) described
be order of the English home secetary
equiring all dogs in Great Britain to
e muzzled aud forbidding the bringing
f dogs into the Kiugdom. The home
ecretarv insisted on the order, he said,
gainst all the urging of "physicians
nd mock humanitarians, and people
- ho cared more for dogs than for hutan
beings;" and the result was that
he disease had been absolutely stampd
out iu Great Britain.
Mr. Gullinger ironically expressed
elight at hearing the statement of the
jarued and scientfic senator from Coloado.
He did not believe a word of it,
nd he wauted to go on record to that
fleet.
Mr. Bacon (Dem., Ga.) related his
wn experience in the loss of seven or
ight valuable bead of cattle aud a
aluable mare from the bites of dogs,
.fter further discussion of the question
le letters on the subject were referred.
t8T Postage stamps are gummed by
starch paste made from potatoes.