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ISSUED SEKMTEEEZ.^ l. m. grist & sons, publishers.} % ^familg |lett!spaper: <Jfor the promotion o( the |otitiraL_#onaI, ^^rirultural, and (llomnieiirial Interests of the people. j TKRMsSino1e02opy1!^mSe1 ceot8*nce' established 1855. YORKVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY lO, 1901. ISTO. 55. ? * r " " i " ~~ ' | meww SY SYLVAN CHAPTER IX. THE MASK FALLS LOWER DOWN AND RE VEALS THE HEART. It was early evening ere Zenobie entered the apartment of her young mistress. As she opened the door - i, fiL . she found all darK witnin. one moved into the room, and, shading her candle with her hand, she gazed about. The wind still howled fearfully without, and the snow came driving against the windows. When the girl had reached the extremity of the place, she called her mistress' name, and she was answered by a low groan from the couch in the corner. Thither she hastened, and there she found her mistress. "Rosalind ? my mistress!" she cried, kneeling down. "Who is it?" the maiden asked, starting up and gazing frantically around. 'It is I, Zenobie. Say, my dear, good mistress, what is it ? What is the matter? What has happened?" With a quick movement Rosalind put her attendant away and sat up, and, having gazed about her for some moments, she murmured: "Where am I? Who is here?" "It is I. You are in your own chamber. Come, you are cold here." Without resistance the maiden suffered herself to be led to the place where the heated air came up from the furnace below, and there she sat down. "What is it?" again asked Zenobie eagerly. "What has happened?" Rosalind bowed her head upon her hands, and after some moments of thought she looked up. She was very pale, and a fearful tremor shook her frame. "Zenobie," she uttered in a low, strange whisper, "ask me no more now. 1 am not well. Oh, ask me no more now." "My mistress," returned the faithful girl, placing one arm about Rosalind's neck, "you know what you may tell me and what you may not. But whom will you trust if you trust not me? Oh, give me your love, and if I can serve you let me do so." "1 would trust you with life itself," the maiden returned, "and some time you shall know all that has happened here, but not now? not now. Oh, I cannot speak it now I" "Say no more, my mistress; only let me serve you. You will have some refreshment ? something to eat." "You may bring me some wine, Zenobie." And thereupon the young girl hastened away. In the meantime the duke was in his private room below. He was pacing to and fro across the floor, with his hands behind him, and his brow was dark and lowering. Ever and anon he would stop near the door and listen and then proceed. At length there came a r*p upon the door, and the duke said, "Enter." It was a priest who entered the A flmnll /InfApmA/1 mon apaj IEUCIIL a auiau, uuiUI mcu ujau^ i somewhere about 50 years of age. His face was very dark, his features sharp and angular, his eyes dark and sunken deep into his head, his brow heavy above the eyes, where the shaggy brows hung over, but sloping back from thence, leaving the points where phrenologists locate benevolence and veneration deficient and Hat. Upon his shoulders he wore a huge, ungainly hump, and, all in all. he was just such a man as a timid person would shun. His name was Savotano. The duke had been the means of getting him into the church, and in consideration thereof he had bound himself to do the duke's evil work. But this is not all. Some years before there had been a murder in Moscow, and Savotano did the bloody deed. It was a work of pure vengeance. Olga had him apprehended, but he was not brought to justice. The duke found him to be a shrewd, unscrupulous wretch, willing to serve those who would pay him well and ready to let himself then to any one who could save his life. Olga was a man of plots and schemes. He fancied that 6uch a man as Savotano might be of use to him, so he proposed to save him if he would serve his benefactor. The villain was glad enough to accept the proposition, and the bargain was made. Could Savotano enter the church and assume the sacred garb he might in many cases work to better advantage. The wretch readily agreed to this, too, and through Olga's powerful influence he gained a place in the church. He knew that the duke held his very life, and he failed not to serve him. His clerical robes shielded him from much suspicion, and, moreover, the place .gave him additional advan US COBB, JR. tage9 fo work at his diabolical trade. His salary from the government was sufficient for his support, while an occasional sum from his master enabled him tn eninv manv of those luxuries which were denied to most of his brethren. Olga feared not to trust this man, for the fellow had nothing to gain by betrayal, but everything to lose. And such was the man who now entered the duke's private room. He entered with a bold air, for, though he was somewhat in the duke's power, yet there was a peculiar satisfaction in knowing that when he fell the noble lord must fall with him, part way at least. Brethren in crime cannot count much upon respect. "I have come, my lord," the priest said as he shook the snow from his robe and then took a seat by the furnace pipe. "And how is the count?" asked Olga. "He is recovering, I am sure." "Does Kopani say so?" "Yes. He says he will have him out within a month." "By heavens, Savotano, this must not be." "But tell me, my lord, what is the particular need of the count's departing ?" The duke gazed his visitor a few moments in the face and then said: "Why, since the affair interests you, I'll tell you. Thus far I have paid you promptly all your dues, but I cannot do so much longer unless we can make some of our points work. My property is on the decrease fast. I have not enough left to live on. Within the past three years I have made some bad ventures. I put it into? But never mind; suffice it for me to say that T urn at the end of mv fortune." The duke was about to say that he had placed large sums in the hands of the Minister Gallitzin for the purpose of carrying out the conspiracy by which the Princess Sophia was to have been placed upon the throne, with Gallitzin for her prime minister and himself also high in power. He chose not to tell of this. And no wonder, for heads had ere then been taken to pay for such indiscretions. "And now if this count survives I thus have one source cut off. My half of Drotzen is used up and mortgaged to him, but if he dies the whole comes to me. His father and myself married sisters, and they owned Drotzen, and on his side the count is the only heir. So in the event of his death the whole comes to me. You understand this now." "Perfectly," returned the priest. "And 'tis a pity your first effort did not succeed. "So it is," said the duke uneasily. "When I sent him with that message to the gunmaker, 1 felt sure he would be slain, and then 1 hoped that the other could be disposed of for having slain him. But the emperor has turned all my plans upside down, for the present at least. Savotano, you must have a hand in Damonoff's medicine 1" "That is easily done, my lord," replied the priest quietly. "You have free access there?" "Yes." "And can you not watch with him some night?" "1 think I can." "Then do so. When he is dead, 200 ducats are yours." "Then he dies." "Good! And now there is one more. This gunmaker must be got out of the way." "Ah!" uttered Savotano, looking up incredulously. "Do you mean so?" "Most assuredly I do." "But why him?" "Do you fear to undertake the work ?" "Not at all, ray lord. I only wished to know why he was wanted away." "The reason in simple. I must marry with Rosalind Valdai. Her property is worth the whole of Drotzen twice fold?over two million of ducats." "So much?" uttered the priest, opening his eyes with greedy wonder. "Yes; it is one of the finest estates in Moscow, and it pays her now a yearly income of a hundred thoucnnrt a Slip flops not know it. Ha, ha, ha!" "Ila, ha, ha!" laughed the priest in concert. "She doesn't, eh?" "No; she knows nothing about it. But I must secure this, and in order to do it I must marry her, and? if I would be sure of that this accursed gunmaker must be out oi' the way." "But what is he to her ?" "She.loves him." "And is not your authority"? "Hold, Savotano. I'll explain to you in a few words. I'm afraid the emperor has taken a fancy to this youngster, and if he has he may he appealed to in this case. The girl will take marriage hard. I shall have to hire you to perform the ceremony." "Whiph T fihnnld hp nleased to do," returned the priest, with a coarse smile. "You shall have the opportunity. But first we must have the young Nevel taken care of." "I think I can manage that, my lord." "And how will you do it?" i "I suppose you don't want him put where he can get off and come | oack here." "No. Finish him while you are about it" "I will." "But, mind, it must be done so that in no possible way suspicion can fall upon me. You must contrive some way so that suspicion shall be led at once to some apparent point and there baffled." "Leave me alone for that, my lord. I can call help if 1 want it." "Are there not places in the city where a body can be hidden?where it may be so disposed of and never be found?" asked the duke as the thought came to his mind. "Never mind," returned the other, with a confident nod of the head. "If I meddle with the matter, it shall be well done." "Very well. I'll trust it with you." For a few moments after this there was a dead silence, during which only the moaning of the wind cc ild be heard. But at length the i i ?ii -11 duke started up, and, wnn suuuen energy, he said: "Ah, Savotano, there is one thing I came nigh forgetting. You have heard of this strange monk?Vladimir his name is." "Aye, and I have seen him too. You mean that huge lump of human fat?" "Yes. And now tell me who and what he is. He was at the duel, and I know he has been here to my house. Who is he?" "You've secured me there, my lord, for I can tell you no more about him than I caD about the man in the moon. In short, no one seems to know him, save that he is a monk of some Roman order and named Vladimir. He has been here only a few months, as near as I can find out, and yet I think I know what his business is, or, at least, why he's here." "Ah, you suspect?" "Yes, and if my suspicions be correct we could have him taken care of at any moment." "Explain." ! "Why, I think he is a spy of the pope, sent here from Rome to learn something of our emperor's plans." "But he has not visited the imperial palace." "Oh, yes, my lord; he has been there several times, and once the emperor himself was obliged to send him out of the audience chamber." "But have vou any particular reasons for thinking him a spy from the pope?" "Why, he is a Romish monk, and he hangs about the most important places in our city. Even the circumstance I have just related? hie trvincr to remain in the audi '"w w" J ""O t? ence chamber while private business was going on and having to be ordered out by the emperor?is some ground for suspicion. I mean to watch him at all events." "That's right," returned the duke. And then, after a moment's thought, he added: "I do net see why he should be around vfter every petty duel that may be fought if he is a spy from Home, and, besides, I have heard one or I wo persons say that they were sure they had seen him before." "Oh, that may be only the result of some strong resemblance which he bears to some one else. I am sure he was never here before?not in Moscow." Again the humpbacked priest was cautioned about the work he had in hand, and, having promised over and over again to be very careful, he took his leave. And Olga, duke of Tula, was left alone with his own thoughts. Better for him had that wicked priest been his executioner. Better for him had he been upon the count's % . ? i * . L bed, racked witn dying pain9. necter for him had he been a poor gunmaker, so he had been honest. Oh, better for him had he been the meanest beggar that walked the earth than what he was! But he did not realize this. lie had a goal ahead, and he tried to overlook the black, dreadful gulf that yawned between him and it. TO BE CONTINUED. Hi* ExlinaMtlnK I'oite. "Henry had to go to bed after that visiting clergyman went away." "What was the matter." "He prostrated himself trying to give the clergyman the impression that he was a pillar in our church."?Chicago Record. piscfltauwus grading. ABOUT CORN SHREDDING.* A Farmer of Experience Give* Vainable Information. Editor Southern Cultivator: The forage question Is getting to be a serious one; and some In this section who have never before considered it, are thinking this season of shredding their corn stalks. For the benefit of these and others, you will greatly oblige by giving a full discussion of the sub ject in The Cultivator, noting particularly the following points: 1. Will horses and mules do as well on shredded corn stalks the year round as they will on hay or fodder? 2. Recently I have seen it stated that It is best to do the shredding only as the stover is needed. Will it deteriorate if shredded in the fall and kept in bulk until used? 3. Is It liable to spoil when kept In bulk? 4. What could a person with a good shredding outfit afford to shred for others per ton? Onj the other hand what could one aflfond to pay per ton for shredding, in preference to pulling fodder? 5. What is stover worth per ton as compared with corn fodder and wit') hay? Very truly yours, J. B. Wright. Answer 1. We have from time to time urged our readers to quit pulling fodder, because it Injures the com, and costs too much. We have urged them to cut the corn an4 shred the stalks, and thus save not only the fodder, but also the stalks and shucks. Repeated experiments have proven that the hay made from corn stalks Is about as good as any hay we can save. Analysis shows it to. be equal In food elements to clover or Timothy and much more digestible than either. Stock of all kinds do as well when fed upon shredded hay as upon any other. First class peavine hay may be a little better, but very little. This is not guess work, nor Is it reasoned out from analysis. It has been tried and proven over and over again. 2. If the com is thoroughly cured and dry when shredded, the hay will keep indefinitely either in bulk or In bales. There is no danger whatever, except from water. Some recommend a little salt sprinkled in as it is put away, to make the animals more eager for it. But this would be Just as true of any other hay. Tou can keep the stalks until it is convenient to shred, but there is no necessity of waiting after they are once dry. - ? _ f; 3. There is no danger if properly kept. Perhaps less risk than with any other hay. 4. This is a question of local bearing and personal convenience. Some shred by the day. Some by the ton, some by the acre. A man can afford to pay 31 a ton, and a shredder will soon pay for itself at that. The help question often enters into this trade. But it is certainly cheaper for some farmers to hire than to own a shredder, and it i' a profitable business to the pa running the shredder. If you think how much more forage or hay a farmer will have when he saves all, than when he saves less than one-flfth, you can see at a glance how it pays to save it all. What are we farming for? To make something to eat, feed with, and sell? Then, if we have a crop of corn stalks and they are valuable to feed with and to sell, is it not wise to save them? We think so. 5. Stover is worth as much per ton as corn fodder or other hay. It sells readily at about the same price as No. 2 Timothy, which Is the standard of pricing for hay. It will bring anywhere from 312 to 320 per ton, according tr? nnnlltv and location. The stalks made Into stover are worth as much as the corn or ear crop. Not a blade of fodder should be pulled In all this land. Pulling fodder is a luxury that costs too much. We are glad to get your letter and to know that you farmers are waking up upon this important question. There is more money to them in grass, hay, forage and cattle than in cotton. We hope you will encourage them in this line; and see that they quit losing so Important a part of their crops. Help them to get enough shredders in the community to shred all the corn stalks. One great advantage in this business comes from the fact that it is not necessary to shred all at once or in any given short period. If well stacked the stover or stalks will keep a long time. Shredding may begin in August or September and continue all through the fall and winter. Cotton seed have added to the value of the cotton crop. Stalks will add much more to the value of the corn crop. This value will be just doubled.?Southern Cultivator. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS. New Mills anil Enlargements Daring the Month of Jane. New York Journal of Commerce. Textile interests in the South have been in rather a quiescent condition during the past four weeks, but indications point to a revival of the manufacturing activity of a year ago. Southern mills have received encouragemg indications ti.at the trade formerly enjoyed with China and which was interfered with by the war, will within a short time resume its former volume. Several factories have filed good-sized contracts for export. One South Carolina mill shipped to the Orient last week ten carloads of goods that were ordered from China. These facts are especially important to the several mills now constructing in the South that were designed originally to supply the Chinese demand for cotton cloths. A feature of the month was the act ive inauguration of the system that Southern manufacturers have been promoting for rendering the mills independent of the commission men. The association has already taken steps intended to lessen the selling cost of cotton products and bring the manufacturer into direct relations with the buyer. However, not every Southern mill is in I me movemeni; in mci many ui mein are not and some few of them are controlled by northern commission Arms who sell their product. The work of construction and equipment on the new mills announced during the past year, continues actively In many Southern states, and some large plants will be ready for operation this fall. Several of these plants are Investments of around a half million dollars. June's progress In new spindles was quite an awakening as compared with recent, months, for during the past 11 months the announcements have apparently been In a declining ratio. But June's announced spindles were a total of 95,684, the largest for any one month since June, 1900, when they numbered over 112,000. SOMETHING OF A WHEAT KING. A Former Clerk Who Bought Kansas Farm Land and Is a Millionaire. The wheat rentals of John T. Stewart, of Sumner county, will amount to nearly 100,000 bushels of wheat this year. In his home county he owns 115 quarter sections of land and about 30 quarter sections In adjoining counties. He rents the lands on the basis of half the yield, he furnishing all the seed and taking chances of securing a crop. It is estimated that if all the wheat due him on rentals this year was shipped In one consignment it would require 17 freight trains of 15 cars each to take it to market. His rentals in wheat last year netted him $45,000. In addition to owning about $350,000 worth of land, every foot of It paid for, he has tOKA AAA tirnrtK nf honlr otnplf flnH Iiuat 1J ^tt?/U,UU V nvi 1>II wj. MMiin M?WW? $300,000 invested in farm lands in Sumner county and Oklahoma. About 25 years ago Mr. Stewart began life as a clerk in an obscure office in this city at $60 a month. He slept in the office and was economical in other ways. He began loaning money in Sumner county when about 20 years old and has developed into a remarkable financier. It is said that his ambition is finally to own a railroad and he may gratify it, as he is still a very young man, not more than 45. He carries a small memorandum book and It is said that he can take it out at any hour of the day and tell every debtor exactly what his account is. Indeed, it Is said that accounts of his vast transactions are always kept in a book that fits his trousers pockets. It is said that he lives on less than $100 a month and that outside of this his largest annual expense Is $500 to the Methodist church, which his wife and a large family of children attend. He is not fond of travelling, except to go to a Democratic convention, a diversion he is passlontely fond of. He is a pronounced temperance man, and, it is said, believes in the prohibition laws of Kansas. The people of Wellington Insist that his success is due to luck, but it isn't. He has a genius for making money and nine-tenths of it is hard work. That luck attends him, however, Is certain. The great Wellington cyclone of 1892 picked him up and absolutely pasted him to the gable end of a big barn and kept him stuck to it for more than half a minute, as if he were the picture of a man instead or tne reai imng. wnen the tornado had passed he dropped to the ground and landed on his feet without a scratch. The same cyclone passed over his house without doing $5 worth of damage, although It reduced every house for a block to splinters. It cut ofT two or three of his fine maple trees at the base as smooth as if they were sawed off, just to show him what it could have done if it had wanted to, and passed on to pick up a church across the street and make it turn a complete somersault in the air.?Kansas City World. Both Praters Were Answered.? General "Joe" Wheeler is good to the Interviewer. He talks without reserve, as if talking to a friend. He is modest in manner, even meek looking, and no one, at first sight, would Imagine that this gentle, genial, kindly man was a hero of some of the boldest, grlmest battles of modern times. General O. O. Howard, who commanded one of the wings of Sherman's army on the famous march to the sea, and who bore Lee's first shock at Gettysburg, is another of precisely the same type. No one could be simpler, kinder or gentler. In fact, it seems to be the rule with men as with steel, that the hardest knocks produce the best temper. Old army officers and old physicians are apt to have a broad-minded charity and a hopeful, sunny love of their Kina wnicn ib ia?c ciocmicis. They reverse the rule of the witty French cynic. "The more I know about men the better I like dogs." The last time I interviewed General Howard it was on the subject of answers to prayers, and I thought I had him. In his famous fight with Stonewall Jackson the Union forces were defeated, so I inquired of General Howard: "You prayed before that battle?" "Yes." he answered. "And Jackson was a praying man. He prayed also?" "Yes," he answered. "Then how was it he gained the victory? Did you mean that the Union cause was wrong?" Very gently the good old general replied: "Both our prayers were answered. Jackson prayed for immediate victory and I for the ultimate triumph of our cause. We both got what we prayed for."?The Independent. NOT EASY FOR CAPERS. Tillman, 'Ti? Said, Will Lead Figh Against McLaurln'a Man?Anger Ii Republican Fold. Charleston special. 2d. to Baltlmor Sun. Mr. John G. Capers, a resident of th< District of Columbia, who has been ap pointed United States district attorne: for South Carolina, will be sworn int< office this month. While he will tak< charge at once the senate has not ye confirmed the appointment, and, It ii stated here that the nomination will b< bitterly fought. Senator Tillman is believed to bi leading the opposition, although it ii not known here Just how far the opno sltlon has gone. Mr. Capers was ap pointed through the Influence of Sena W~T A?.M|n 4-Ulc iui uiuuauuu auu iui uiio icaovu uch ator Tillman will aim to compass hli final defeat. There are other reasons however, which have forced the Till man following to help defeat the ap polntment. It has been announced that the presi dent will not make any Federal ap polntments for South Carolina until af ter the senate has acted on the Capen appointment, and this is accepted t< mean that the administration knowi of the opposition, and prefers to hav< that permanently settled before tread Ing on other uncertain ground. Mr Lathrop, who was deposed by Mr, Ca pers, has great strength with many o the leading Republicans, and while n< statement has been made for this side It Is hinted that Lathrop's friends an not satisfied. The appointment of Mr Capers was also a slap at E. A. Web ster, the personal friend of Mr. Lathro] and the acknowledged "boss" of Re publican politics in this state. Th* fact that other men will not be name< for the more Important offices until af ter the next congress iheets has mad* the Republicans feel somewhat easier The McLaurln movement was slmpl; taking all the patronage from the life long Republicans and this has cause* no end of hard-feeling in Republicai quarters. Mr. C. P. Townsend, of Washington D. C., who has been the private secre tary and law partner of Senator Mc Laurin, Is slated for the position o first assistant district attorney, and th* statement that he would get the plac* has not been denied. Mr. Townsen* was assistant attorney general unde the McLaurln administration and is i lawyer of no mean ability. The othe: attorneyship will go to Mr. Thomas B Butler, of Gaflfney, a nephew of Genera Matthew C. Butler, of this state. Gene ral Butler's recent utterances In Thi Sun in favor of the McLaurin move ment and his Influence generally is sail to have been responsible for his neph ew's probable appointment. KYLE AND PETTIGREW. The Queer Customer* Sent to thi Senate By South Dakota. Politicians In Washington are specu latlng upon the effect the death of Sen ator Kyle, In South Dakota, may havi upon the future of former Senator Pet tigrew. The senatorial careers of thi late Mr. Kyle and former Senator Pet tigrew furnish an interesting and a the same time peculiar chapter in polit leal history. Pettlgrew was elected ti the senate as a Republican, and then was not a more bitter and unscrupu lous partisan in the chamber than he By degrees, circumstances and condi tlons in South Dakota changed, and th< foxy Pettlgrew deemed it advisable t< change with the conditions In his state He, thereupon became first a free-sll ver Republican, then an antl-admlnls tration Independent and finally wouni up his senatorial career by trying ti pass as a leader of the Democratic mi nority in the senate. He is young, ambitious, supplied witl unbounded resources, a fighter wh< never knows when he Is licked, and i1 is understood he still harbors furthei political ambitions. Since leaving the senate only a fev months ago it is said that through thi friendship of James J. tun, me mimon aire railroad magnate of the west, Mr Pettigrew has made several* hundret thousand dollars speculating In gilt edged mining and railroad stock. A1 though the state of South Dakota If now controlled by the Republicans, It. ii said that Pettigrew still has a verj strong following In that state, whicl cannot be controlled by either polltlca party. With plenty of ready monej and Jim Hill's powerful Influence bad of him, Mr. Pettigrew may come bad to the senate one of these days. The late Senator Kyle was just th< opposite of Mr. Pettigrew. Kyle, wher he first entered the senate, announcer himself to be "an lndocrat." In othei words, he claimed to be independent ol both political parties, but with a lean lng towards the Democrats. The Dem ocrats were In the majority then In th< senate, so he located himself on th< majority side of the chamber and afflli ated with the Democratic party on al party questions. Gradually the politi cal complexion of the senate changed and a noticeable change In Mr. Kyle'i political deportment was observed. In stead of sticking closely to the Demo cratic party, he scattered his votes 01 political question with both polltlca parties, according to circumstances By degrees he showed a decided prefer ence for Republican policies, and event ually he became "steady company' with the ReDUblicans in the senate. At his last election he had Republicai support and upon his return to th< ?- ...no nioaooH wtth the Renuh aeilitic lie noo ...... .... , Means right along, although he did no go into the Republican caucus. Mr Kyle seldom figured In the senatoria debates, but it Is said that he was verj effective In securing official patronagf for his relatives and personal friends The Kyles were a thrifty family during their official residence in Washington and Mrs. Kyle did not allow "senato rial dignity" to present her from conducting a boarding house on Capito Hill to help swell the family income. WASHINGTON IRVING'g SORROW. "When a young man, rising to fame * as an author, Washington Irving fell 1 In love with Mathilda Hoffman," writes William Perrlne, In the April Ladles' b Home Journal. "To his eye she was such an Image of delicacy and purity e that his love for her grew Into an Idolatry. In the midst of his dreams of f future happiness there came an over3 whelming blow from which he never ' fully recovered. Mathilda was taken 1 sick with a cold; It rapidly turned Into 9 consumption, and It was his agony to e behold her fade away In a single winter, but in his sight beautiful and more s beautiful to the last. During the three 9 days and nights of her final sufferings he did not leave her house and scarcely slept He was at her bedside when she died; his was the last face that she looked upon, and when the grave closed 9 upon her the world became blank to ^ him In his distraction. In the nights of his first anguish after Mathilda's death he would carry to his bed her Bible and prayer-book, and place them tenderly under his pillow. Ever afterward he kept them with him in all of his many wanderings and travels. 8 When he died at Sunnyslde he had 3 reached his three-score and ten, and 8 his celllbacy was still unbroken. There s was then found a little repository of which he had always kept the key. It ' was opened, and there lay a faded memorandum which told the story of f his sorrow, a miniature, a braid of 3 fair hair, and a slip of paper on which ' he had written 'Mathilda Hoffman.'" 6 j After Jasper's Flag.?'The mana- > gers of the Charleston exposition have ? solicited the aid of Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassador at Washington, and j Mr. Choate, the American ambassador at London, to secure the flag of the famous revolutionary Sergeant Jasper, which is reported to be in the tower of London. Nobody, however, seems to know anything about it There is no ~ reference to it in the guide books, which contain long lists of trophies, 1 and it is exceedingly doubtful if there is in the Tower of London or anywhere '* else In Great Britain more than one flag captured in battle from forces of " the United States. The only one I have seen hangs over the tomb of Ede ward Phllllpsi in the cathedral at Chese ter and the label records that it was * "captured at the battle of Bunker Hill." r It is rudely made, about four feet long 1 and two feet in width, with only eight r or ten stripes, and about as many stars. '* I once ascertained by inquiry that it 1 was presented to the Chester cathedral " by an officer of that county, who served B on the British side during the revolu" tlonary war, and was placed over the * tomb of Mr. Phllllpsi because he was " one of the most prominent Tories in the American colonies.?Wm. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Herald. e Hot Weather and Tobacco.?"Hot weatner, sucn as tne wnoie east is experiencing at present, means a daily loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars to manufacturers of cigars and cigarettes," said Mr. Edward C. Pointer, of Durham, N. C., at the National last night. "Even confirmed smokers cut their allowance in two during hot weather, and the ordinary man, who smokes two or three cigars a day, stops almost altogether. The effect on cigarette smokers is not so great, and the men who chew tobacco, seem to enloy that form of the weed as much when the thermometer is at 95 as when It is at 35 degrees. The daily sales of tobacco, largely in the form of cigars, in the country east of the Mississippi, reach about a million dollars, and if that falls off 35 per cent., which is a small estimate for such days as yesterday and today, see what a loss it makes to the trade. And this loss is not made up either. In fact, a man who cuts his allowance of cigars in two on account of the heat will not return to the number he has been in the practice of smoking dally for a week or more after the hot spell has passed."?Washington Post. Denominations In the United States.?The following table by the eminent statistician, Dr. Carroll, is given as quite as authentic as any comparative table that can be obtained: Roman Catholics 8,690,658 Methodists Episcopal 2,746,101 , Reg. Baptist (South) 1,630,985 . Reg. Baptist (Colored) 1,591,735 Meth. Episcopal, South 1,468,390 ' Disciples of Christ 1,149,982 i Reg. Baptist, North 998,657 c Presbyterian, North 983,433 Protestant Episcopal 710,356 African Meth. Episcopal 675,462 i Congregational 631,360 i Lutheran Synodical Con 581,029 . At. Meth. Eplsc. Zlon 536,271 Lutheran Gen. Council 356,401 r Latter Day Saints 300,000 t Reformed, German 242,831 . United Brethren 239,639 Presbyterian, South 225,890 Col. Meth. Eniscopal 204,975 German Evan. Synod 203,574 i Lutheran General Synod 199,589 . Methodist Protestant 183,714 . Cumberland Presbyterian 180,192 1 United Norweg'n Lutheran... 130,000 - Primatlve Baptist 126,000 , United Presbyterian 115,901 j Reformed, Dutch 107,594 ?? m Hay Exploded a Canard.?When , Richard Harding Davis returned from 1 the Transvaal, says the New York Times, he told a story of the then Con. sul Adelbert Hay. It seems that the Boers were in the habit of coating the ends of their bullets with a kind of grease to keep them j from splitting In the gun barrels. After a time the grease took on an emer . aid hue. Some British soldiers found a t number of these projectiles and immediately sent the story abroad that the I Boers used poisoned bullets. Consul r Hay happened to go Into a British tent j where some of the bullets were being examined. He asked to see one of ^ them. When it was handed to him he ' smelled it. "Why these must have fallen into a pudding by mistake." he said. "They're . flavored with wintergreen." Saying . which, he licked off the green coating with apparent relish. And that ended the story of Boer barbarism.