^^^ISST^^SEMI-WEEKI^^ ' ^ ^ l i. GRIST'S 80HS. Pibudwr.. ] % dfamilj Jfajsjajer: IUk? inviting us iu ai is*"-"How delightful!" said Sergla, wltt a hysterical laugh. "Here we are at Heroncroft! What can all these horiic little beasts, Francis? I have no idef how the animals came to whirl us upor your premises in this fashion." "Have the goodness to get down froir the cart, and I will investigate tlx case," answered Heron, dryly. I scrambled out, and Sergla aftei me. We were standing before a rec brick house, with a high, steep root and many chimneys, over which fiocki of purple pigeons fluttered in the sun There was a big, white door with s i-n^u-irur and a Dorch sheeted lr woodbine and red roses?the latter llk< a cloud of fire. Smooth turf stretched on all sides, also flagged walks, bordered with enormous pear trees, and on the steps of the porch the hound Cossack lay asleep in the sun. "Dear old Heroncroft!" said Sergla looking around. "You and I used tc romp and quarrel in these walks wher we were children, Francis?do you remember? How I would like to see th? the grand old rooms again!" "Would you?" he answered, eagerly "May I ask you to come In with Mts? Ferrers and rest awhile? Perhaps yoi; would consent to lunch with me? Al! the old servants are still here?thej make things fairly comfortable In m> bachelor establishment" "Oh," cried Sergla, "I yearn to accept your hospitality, Francis, but It cannot be! Miss Carbury would lift her hand! In horror at such a breach of propriety I must respect her feelings, even though mv own suffer"? She stopped short as we saw Graharr Vivian coming up one of the flagged walks?he, too, had taken the "shori cut" through the woods. Sergia turned her long, dazzling neck and welcomed with a smile which might have melted St. Anthony himself. "Hi, Vivian!"' cried Heron. "Holt these beasts a moment, will you, whilt I look at the harness? The ladles art in trouble." Vivian held the ponies and his friend made the necessary examination. Nothing wrong could be discovered. It was a case of pure malignity on the pari of the brutes. "My nerves are quite upset," sighed ?n nrettv air of timidity OC1 fy ;u, TT *v>. w r "Cousin Francis, I must beg you tc drive Hazel home, and I will walk tc Wolfsden through the garden." "Not alone!" said Vivian, and h< gave her his arm with an appearance of lively concern. They moved away together. "I had never before heard of Sergia's "nerves," but I entered the pony-carl with Heron, and we drove forth at ? funeral pace Into the high road. I hac an uncomfortable feeling that all was not quite right betwixt Francis Heror " ? ?nthirh qnnr unci myseu?a ous^iviv/u n ? became certainty. In a hard, cold voic? he began: "It seems that that English cad, Sli Griffin, has become your shadow o] late." "Is he a cad?" I asked, resentfully. "You cannot question the other hall of my sentence, Miss Ferrers." I looked straight before me in displeased silence. Directly he spok< again, and in a changed, remorsefu tone: "Pardon my boorishness. You dc well to despise me. I have no right t< n* sir Griffin?for aught that know, he may be an archangel." "I do not despise you," I answered coldly; "but I think you very ill-na tured." "I am!" he confessed; "for Instance there, on the preaching ground, Si Griffin was leaning on the wheel o your carriage. I longed to approacl you, but had I done so, I must hav< knocked him down. So I fled fron temptation. You don't understand, suppose?" "No!" I answered, shortly. "The explanation is simple enough Since the day 1 kissed you at schoolyou remember??I have loved you des perately. I want you for myself!" His dark, lean face was very pale his breath came quick and short. For a moment I sat stunned am ? wretched; then the tears began to rol down my cheeks. "You must not think of me In tha way, Mr. Heron,"' I faltered. "It is1s quite impossible! Oh, I am ver; ^ sorry to make you suffer?ybu, whi > have always been so kind to me! ? am, indeed!" "You love Sir Griffin!" he said, in i thick, stifled voice. "I wish you would not ask any ques tions, Mr. Heron. You make me verj very unhappy. I can only beg you t forgive me"? "Dear little girl, there is nothing t forgive," he interrupted, growing ver gentle at sight of my distress. "Yo must not cry, and you must not be un happy. I knew that my case wa w^rvolftBo T onnlfo VPt T pnill not keep silent. You cannot be blam ed because I chose to make a fool o myself. I will remember your swee pity. Hazel, and bless you for It s long as I live." He did not speak again till we turn ed Into the gate at Wolfsden. Ther as he gave the ponies to Martin, h said, with forced cheerfulness: "Your grandfather has accepted m ? Invitation, Miss Ferrers?he is comln ftp soon to Heroncroft." ^ I was too disconcerted to ask a ques tlon. This declaration of love, follow ing so soon upon the other, had mad me simply miserable. Heron lifted hi | hat and departed through the gate. I waited till I discovered Sergl dawdling under the trees?alone an ! AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA H 'SWlFE- J S ? 1 W. PIERCE. ' A : AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA pulling the petals of a marguerite, with . 1 a dreamy smile on her lips. At sight i of me she flung the blossom from her. , "What a precious simpleton I am!" < t she said, frankly, i "Where Is Mr. Vivian?" I asked, r "I dismissed him at the last turn in i the path?we had a delightful walk. , Did you think me very bold to inveigle j '? " oMnrt diitv na T did? You i see, I wanted him to tell me about the , t Caffres and Cameroons! How ruffled ( I you look. Hazel, dear! Has my cousin i Francis been making love to you?" , i I felt the blood burn In my face. She , burst Into one of her exasperating j i laughs. j "Yea, verily?he has! Well, Francis ( is not half bad. Did you accept him?" , p * I shook my head, more, provoked , I with Sergia than I had ever been in ( f my life. , j "Foolish girl!" she said, with sudden ( . gravity. "Francis would have been , i your slave?he would have made you i supremely happy In spite of yourself. , s How seldom one knows what Is really j I good for one! Now let us hurry In- , . doors. Everybody will be wondering , 1 at our nonappearance." , 1 The dullness of the dinner-table that i day opened our eyes to the fact that , , our absent host was really the light ( > and life of the house. Conversation i flagged. With the exception of Sir , Griffin, every one looked bored and dls- ( ) trait I "I fancy we could not long exist at , Wolfsden without Colonel Rivers," yawned Serbia. "He Is the sun round which we all revolve!'" sighed Mrs. Van Wert. When would the colonel return? I wondered. How long must my engagement be kept a secret, even from Sergia? Nobody seemed to detect anything unusual either In my appearance or Sir Griffin's nobody noticed the little plain gold ring upon my hand. We were left undisturbed In possession of our secret, and I, for a few hours at least, was supremely happy. His tender, stolen glances, his whispers, his stealthy hand-pressure, his hovering presence, his furtive sighs?what openly acknowledged devotion could equal In sweetness these things? Yet, more than once, I did yearn to electrify dear, stupid Miss CSarbury with the news that Sir Griffin had laid his title and class prejudice at my feet, and that the earl's daughter must find another mate, since I, the little Yankee nobody, had been preferred before -her. ?. As we parted that night, at the foot t of the stair, where we had been left alone for a moment. Sir Griffin bent, i and drew my soul to his In one Ion? kiss. > "Sleep well, little love," he whlsper> ed, "and dream of me." I fled to my own chamber. Sleep? ! Not till I knew upon what basis my > newfound happiness rested. All my life I lived In ignorance of my own name. I went to my trunk, and, diving > Into its depths, brought up the papers t which Patty had delivered 10 me ai 1 i Mme. Deland's school. My heart i 1 thumped against my side, my hands s trembled violently. Only too well I t i knew, If those fateful documents held * i any story of disgrace, any dishonorable i i secret, Sir Griffin Hopewood would fly ] from me as from a pestilence. 1 r The house was still?the guests had t gone to their own quarters. An over- l mastering dread was upon me?a fore- < boding of dire evil. I opened my moth- < f er's marriage certificate, glanced at i the names and dates set down therein. I Then I took her letter, written, as I < i well remember, while her murderer ' 1 stood at the door of Lake Cottage, and, < kneeling before the lamp which burned 1 > on my toilet table, I read as follows: ) 1 1 CHAPTER XII. Hazel Reads. j "I may never live, my dear child, to ] see you grown to womanhood; when you most need me, I may not be near. , r In view of this possible misfortune, I f have determined to commit to paper ( i certain facts which it is imperative e that you should some time know. Bet- , > ter that I should reveal them than anI other. I am persuaded that to leave you ignorant would be perilous, if not ( v? oofnltf oIrnn Imnnrt. UC1. IUU can oaivij iaav nv ? i, ant step In life without full knowledge _ of the shadow which is upon you, and . which will never be lifted. My darling, you cannot hope to escape the destiny ; of your sex. To you, as to all women, love will some day come. You will be 3 wooed?perhaps won?God help you 1 then! "Though my heart prompts me to t leave you ignorant and happy?to con ceal everything and let you drift with y the stream, hoping that you may never 0 discover the truth unaided, conscience 1 and judgment alike urge me to spsak ? to leave nothing to chance. So, .nv a poor child, listen to your unhappy mother's story: T ti.o o Kn rn a? vnti nlrpfldv know. r, in the very stronghold of New Engo land aristocracy. My ancestors were colonial governors and rich East Indian o merchants. 1 was an heiress, a beauty, y and the only child of a father who u adored me. My mother died at my _ birth. While still very young, I was s sent abroad, with Aunt Helena and niv (j maid Patty, to a famous Paris school. . There I remained until my seventeenth f year. Then Judge Ferrers, my father, t unable longer to bear my absence, 0 summoned me fondly back to his house and heart. It was upon the ocean . steamer, during by homeward voyage, (i that I first met the man?a fellowe passenger?who was destined to become the destroyer of all my happiy ness?your father. g "He was handsome, fascinating, young. I knew nothing of men?little . of real life. Aunt Helena lay sick and . helpless in her berth. Patty was both e blind and deaf to the danger that s menaced me. So in those few days of ocean travel?that voyage across the a tossing Atlantic?the mischief was j done. Before the steamer sighted land I had promised Graham Vivian to be ' Is wife!" I looked again at my mother's marriage certificate. Yes, the name of my unknown father was the name of the young preacher at Heroncroft! The letter went on: "When the news of my betrothal came to Judge Ferrer's ears, he was Bimpiy furious. Rich, high-born, famous, his ambition for me, his only child, was unbounded. He commanded me to renounce a lover who was obscure and unknown, and whose account of himself did not In the least satisfy my father?yes, I must renounce him and see his face no more. As well might he have asked me to tear my hpnrt from mv bosom. I abandoned home, father, fortune, friends and fled with the man of my choice. "He carried me to a charming house In a quiet suburb, and for awhile?a year, at least?we were happy. Graham was only a clerk in a down-town office?he had been abroad in his employer's interests, he said, at the time of our meeting on the ocean steamer. Yet, strange to say, he surrounded me with every luxury?I had Jewels and fine clothes without stint. Knowing little of the value of money, my whims were many; but my husband gratified them, and neither questioned nor complained. He seemed possessed of abundant means, and I, a child in experience, loving him blindly, looking up to him as a superior being, never mna jroomoH nf nsktnc the source from which the abundance came. "My father's stubborn anger was the sole thing that disturbed my happiness In those days. After your birth I wrote to him, humbly begging forgiveness for my disobedience and entreating permission to lay my child in his arms. He answered harshly, bitterly, reviling my husband?disowning me- -forbidding me to enter his doors. " 'I wash my hands of you and yours,' he said. 'You have married a scoundrel, Constance, and my word for It, you will yet have good cause to rue your folly!' "The very day that I received this letter, Hazel, the serpent entered my Men. He came In the guise of a gentleman?young, almost boyish, elegant illke in person and manners. Graham brought him to dine, and presented bim to me as Mr. George Langstroth, i friend whose acquaintance he had made In London. It was our first visitor, and I was Innocently pleased, I remember, to act as hostess; but Mr. Langstroth's bold, admiring eyes embarrassed me not a little. " 'Two elopements,' he said to my busband, 'and each time with a beauty! You are a lucky dog, Graham. I see now why you have shunned me so resolutely of late.' "ThMA words were as Sanscrit to me. My husband looked embarrassed md annoyed. "' 'Pon my soul, Langstroth, I was hoping with all my heart that I might never set eyes on you again,' he answered. "Our guest laughed. " 'Don't flatter yourself that you can shake me off so easily,' he said. 'My 3ear boy, I utterly refuse to be laid on the shelf. Hide where you will, I will ilways be able to find you. You cannot escape me?I am your fate! It isn't In the least strange that you should have made a fool of yourself? loubtless, under similar circumstances, [ might have done the same. But I ob|ect to this secrecy?this growing repugnance to old friends and occupations. Get all the happiness out of life that you can. but let It not be done at my expense.' "I did not understand this speech my more than the preceding one, and T ouMtrftth'a hold zlances and JTCUl ftC JUUIIQUVs v*>a w silver tongue Impressed me very unpleasantly. Then and there the deathknell of my happiness tolled. "From that day he came constantly to our home, taking Graham away svlth him at all hours. No explanation tvas made concerning my husband's ibsence or his connection with Langstroth; but by degrees I began to perceive that Graham feared this softvoiced man, and that the latter exercised over him a mysterious and unholy power. " 'You must trust me, Constance,' he would say, feverishly, remorsefully, and you must be kind to Langstroth. He is very clever and an old friend, you know. We cannot afford to displease him.' " 'Why do you desert me for that deadly pale, but tried to laugh the matter away. " 'It was a jest, Constance,' he declared?'not a very pleasant one, to be sure, but a Jest! Think no more of it. You cannot know what I suffer, my poor wife! I would escape from that man if I could; I would turn back from the way I am traveling if I could; but it is too late. Shut your eyes, my darling, and be happy while you can." "I could not shut my eyes?nor ears. In his sleep my husband muttered of things that filled me with terror. Often and more often he left me lonely, forlorn, deserted. Langstroth, whom I now detested, came to the suburban house at strange hours and. in strange disguises, though he kept aloof from me. Patty was the first to give voice man?' I asked. 'wny ao you go ami, with him so often, ard where do you go, Graham?' " 'I cannot tell you, darling?at least, not now,' he answered, gloomily. 'Some time, I dare say, you will know.' "A few months passed. Then carne a day when George Langstroth so far forgot himself as to make open and shameless love to me?me, the wife of his friend! If scorn could kill, he would have died then and there. As it was, he met my indignant repulse with n morkine smile. " 'You will tell your husband of the Insult I have offered you,' he sneered, "and he will not resent it?he dare not! I have him In my grasp, and you also.' "I rang the bell sharply. "'Show Mr. Langstroth out,'-I said to Patty. He turned upon the threshhold of my home and looked at me with wicked, exultant eyes. " 'I hate you for your stinging words, your high disdain,' he said, 'and I love you for your marvelous beauty. This combination of hate and love makes in a person of my nature a sentiment as dangerous as nitro-glycerine. Till this moment I have thought it a thousand pities that you should have thrown yourself away on Graham Vivian?now I rejoice at your fate!' "When I told Graham Vivian of his nntrotromm onndiipt. he errew to the dark suspicions that filled us both. " 'Miss Constance,' she said, 'there's something wrong?I can't pretend to say what It Is, but, my poor lamb, there's something wrong In your husband's life.' "I was not long left In doubt concerning the nature of that something. A bank robbery filled the newspapers one morning, and startled the entire community with Its amazing boldness and skill. A few hours later Graham Vivian was arrested for complicity In the crime. How can I write the truth even at this late day? My husband, the father of my child, was a thief?a professional 'cracksman!' "Vnn wifi wonder how I survived such a discovery. The horror of it still weighs upon me like a nightmare that can never be shaken off. Officers of the law Invaded the dainty suburban house" pointed significantly to its luxurious appointments, and unearthed from behind the bricks of a chimney the spoils of a dozen late robberies. Graham, however, was but a participant in the crime?a tool in the hands of another?the follower of the leader greater than himself?George Langstroth, a young man in years, but already known to the police as an accomplished scoundrel?a defaulter, a forger, and I know not what besides. He it was who had first tempted my wretched husband to evil?who had led him, step by step, along his downward way. Langstroth was English by birth ?the two had operated abroad?particularly in London. From his prison Graham sent me the following: lines? the last that his hand ever penned: " *1 have tried again and again, especially since I married you, my darling, to escape from Langstroth, but in vain. He followed me everywhere, laughed at my paroxysms of remorse? threatened me with exposure and punishment if I dared dream of abandoning our profession. Oh, my darling, do not curse me for blighting your young life! I need not be told that, of all my sins, the deception which I practiced " A rrVia upon you is tne mosi utuiuui;. others may be forgiven before God, but that one?never.' "The very night that your father wrote those despairing lines he died In his cell, by his own hand. A bit of broken glass, procured no one knew how?a severed vein?and when his keepers opened his door they found him lying In his own blood, stark and cold! "Langstroth was still at large, but search was being made for him everywhere. One night, in the suburban * ?u - T ? + lll rnmalhoH with nouse, wucie * ami faithful Patty, as I sat by your cradle, widowed, stunned by an accumulation of disasters, that man Langstroth, disguised beyond recognition, entered, like the thief which he was, and stood before me. " 'You can Judge of the depths of my infatuation,' he said, 'when I take this risk for your sweet sake, Constance. Vivian is dead?you are now a widow? I am about to leave the country?perhaps forever. Come with me?be my wife within the hour! I know of a snug corner in England where I can make for you a safe and delightful home. You see that I love you still, in spite of all your scorn. Witch! under your spell Vivian became a coward and a driveler and talked of remorse and repentance. And as for me, there is no price that I would not pay for you, Constance?no peril that I would not dare, just to stand as I now do and look in your eyes!' "I thought of my dead husband?I looked at the cradle where you lay, overshadowed already by an inheritance of sorrow and disgrace. My heart became as flint. I made a gesture to Patty which she understood. Then I said to George Langstroth: 'Read the letter which Vivian wrote Just before his suicide.' And while he read Patty was flying on her mission of vengeance. "He had not thought me bold enough to deliver him to justice, maybe?at any rate, he suspected nothing till the officers of the law were in the room. Then he turned on me with a look that was diabolic. " 'You have delivered me into the hands of the Philistines,' he said. 'Well, you will pay for It some day with your life.' "That threat has been sounding in my ears ever since. He will fulfill It whenever the opportunity offers. "Not long after Langstroth's arrest, a woman?a stranger?sought me out, and fell prostrate at my feet, begging and praying that I would withhold my testimony to save him, if such a thing were possible?a woman of birth and breeding, mind you, young, refined, who had left everything that makes life precious to follow the fortunes of that bold, bad man. " 'I know his passion for you,' she 'hA has deserted me?cast me off, because of it; yet I still love him. If you testify against him, It will -be at great peril to yourself. He Is cruel as death?he will kill you at the first opportunity." "The prospect of punishment for her base lover filled the unhappy girl with the keenest anguish that I had ever witnessed. I wept for her misery, though I had neither help nor comfort to give her. "'Beware of him!" she said. 'So long as you live, beware of George Langstroth!" "Then she kissed my nana ana wem away. "Langstroth was brought to trial and found guilty. No fear of the man could deter me from telling the truth. On my testimony he was convicted and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. When the sentence was pronounced a woman In the court room shrieked as though she had been stabbed and fell to the floor like one dead. Through all . the misery of that time Aunt Helena remained my faithful friend and helper. She found Lake Cottage, and furnished it for our occupancy. Hither I came with you and Patty, and immediately resuming the name of Ferrers, entered upon a life of strictest seclusion. "Oh, my poor Hazel, I dreamed last night that George Langstroth had found us in this little hermitage; but it was your life which he threatened, not mine?It was you on whom his ! vengeance was to fall?not me. God grant that my dream may never have fulfillment! "You have been born to a sorrowful destiny, my child. All your life you must walk the world overshadowed by your father's sins. But not alone. Hear this secret, my darling?somewhere there Is another who bears, consciously or unconsciously, the burden with you. George Langstroth had other victims than you and me?I mean"? Thus far I read my mother's dreadful story, and no further. Bang! The deafening report of a gun rang through the shrubbery under my window and brought me suddenly to my feet. The letter which would have told in another line who it was that bore with me my father's disgrace fluttered out of my frightened hand. Then I heard a voice shout wildly: "Help! Thieves! Murder! Help!"' To be Continued piSttltottfous grading. HOUSE DEMOCRAT RAPS BRYAN. Mr. piark of Florida, 8ays What Ho Think*. Washington, April 5.?In anticipation of the bringing in by the committee on rules of an order for the final vote on the tariff bill the precincts of the house of representatives were the scene of great activity and the centre of tense interest from an early hour today. Indeed from the moment that the outer doors of the south wing of the Capitol were opened members began to con gregaie, tuiu uy iv uuuvn a uuec U.? jorlty of the members of the house were in the building, if not on the floor. "In the name of common Justice," pleaded Mr. Stanley of Kentucky, after a speech by Mr. Bartlett of Georgia, "won't the ways and means committee eithef bring in an amendment taking tax off leaf tobacco in the hands of the farmers, or some member who refuses! to do it, have the courage, the manhood, the respect that is due his committee and the people, to rise on this floor and defend his act?" Hfimnrraf. nvpuui.v... w..?. Mr. Clark, Democrat, of Florida, grot a round of Republican applause, when he said that Incidental protection absolutely was necessary In certain cases. "Are you a protectionist or not?" Inquirer Mr. Randel of Texas. Mr. Clark declared that all legrisla41 kabiiH r\f onmnmmlfiiv MT 11U1I WOO LAIC ICDUlt. V4 _ don't expect to write the tariff bill for this majority," he exclaimed, "but I say to you that If they put Into this bill what my people want, what they sent me here to get, I shall not dictate to them what else they shall put Into It." The Republicans again applauded and cheered, and the house was thrown Into- an uproar when Mr. Randell asked, "if the gentleman believes in the doctrine that if a representative here gets Borne of the swag, he ought to go with the Republicans In making this bill?" Mr. Clark took violent exception to the use of the word "swag," and said that as long as the people of the south had to bear the burdens of the protective "tariff system they at least ought to have a division of the benefits. "Call It swag If you will," he said, "but I represent a district equally as intelligent, as conscientious and as patriotic as does the gentleman from Texas." "Are you a protectionist or not?" Mr. Randell still wanted to know. Opposed to Populistic Democrats. Speaking slowly and gradually raising his voice to its highest pitch, Mr. Clark evoked thunderous Republican applause when he declared "I am in line with the Democratic party, but I am not in line with the Populistic element that has controlled it recently." Mr. Clark quoted from the resolution of the recent Democratic caucus, which declared that the members of the minority were left free to vote as they choose on constitutional qunuuiu, and also when Instructed by their constituency to pursue a certain line of action. He called attention to memorials of the Florida legislature, that a duty be put on Egryptian and other long staple cotton coming into the United States In connection with the sea Island cotton; also that a duty be put on citrous fruits, pineapples and the like, "and," he exclaimed, "I am instructed in that regard, and no hawkers and opinionated Democrats can make me violate a solemn obligation I owe." Mr. Rucker, (Missouri,) interrupted - * * * *--4 M11 to call attention to me iaci mm aw the thunderous applause had come from the Republican side, but the chair admonished him that he was out of order. "The gentleman can't hurt me by those things," said Mr. Clark. "The people of my district know me." Laboring under the belief that Mr. Clark's remarks about Populism applied to him, Mr. Randell denied that any Populism was contained in his record. Mr. Clark, in reply to that, said he merely wanted to state where he himself stood. "I stand on my platform," he exclaimed, "I am not for protection per se." "Did you intend for the house and tiM/lflrotonrl that tVlP DP trie uuumiy iu uiiuciouiiiii ? mocracy is in any way affiliated with Populism?" was Mr. Randell's further question, but the reply of the Floridian threw the house into a frenzy. A Blow at Bryan. "I will tell you what I want the country to understand," he said deliberately. "We don't Intend, so far as I am I concerned, and I believe the people 1 represent, to follow your Nebraska Populistic leader any more." "Does the gentleman stand with the New Jersey Democrat that thinks Bryan knew too much of the decalogue to be president of the United States?" propounded Mr. Randell. "I think," responded Mr. Clark with some feeling, "that the souxnern democracy never made a greater mista' e than when it turned its back on its Democratic friends in the east that it has driven from the party, and tied up with Populism out In Nebraska.'" Mr. Randell declared that Mr. Bryan needed no defense at his hands, and asked Mr. Clark if he was a Cleveland tho tariff and if he stood for the doctrine of free raw materials. "I am just a plain, old-fashioned Democrat," drawled Mr. Clark, amid shouts of laughter. Declaring that the people who assumed to speak for the south were not entitled to that right, Mr. Clark said: Finley Gets Into the Game. "I am sick and tired of hearing my southern colleagues talk of their poor men of the south.' I want to do some| thing to take them out of that class. The factories of the east are going tc the south, where their raw material If to be found, where living is cheap, sc that we can soon defy the world in th< cheapness of their manufactures." Replying to a question by Mr. Flnley ol South Carolina, Mr. Clark said that 11 the Republican party would put In the bill what his people had Instructed hlrr to get, he would vote for the bill regardless of anything else. "Have you no convictions?" asked Mr. Flnley. "I have," responded Mr. Clark, "nc convictions of men who represent nothing but a short bale of cotton, a nigger and a mule." Thunderous applause on the Republican side interrupted the speaker, and when quiet was restored he continued: "The Democracy ought to be progressive If It Is anything. It ought tc keep abreast of the times. It ought tc meet conditions as they And them. 1 do not consider that you, gentlemen," he declared, looking around on the Democratic side of the house, "repre sent Democracy any more than I do, We will meet at the next national convention, and we will then see who Is to control and who will represent the Democratic sentiment of this great republic of ours," ACCURATE CLOCK. Varies 80 Little That You Would Hardly Notice IL In the observatory of Columbia university is one of the most accurate clocks, according to James O. Fields of New York. Mr. Fields is deeply interested in astronomical research. "This clock," said Mr. Fields to a Washington Herald reporter, "has run for several months with a mean error of only fifteen-thousandths of a sec ond and a maximum error of thirtythousandths of a second a day. That means that it does not vary more than half a second a month, or six seconds a year. "Compare this with the first pocket timepiece, the 'animated egg of Nuremberg,' which required winding twice a day and varied an hour and a half in the same time. Compare it with some of the highest priced watches manu factured today, which often vary more than ten seconds a week, and you will have some idea of the refinement in the science of measuring, time. Tet even this accuracy is surpassed by some famous timepieces. There have been clocks or watches that have varied less than a second in periods as long as ten years. "The clock at the University of Columbia is an astronomical clock. It is surrounded by a glass case, in which a partial vacuum is maintained, and in order that the case may not be opened or disturbed the winding is done automatically by electricity. The clock is set up in a room especially constructed to keep it free from jar or vibration. The temperature and barometric conditions are maintained practically constant, and every possible precaution is taken to minimize the errom of the running rate. _ 'It is not generally appreciated that clocks of the present type, although used as far back as the 12th century, and possibly earlier, were but fair timekeepers until several centuries later. In fact, it has only been within the last few decades that really accurate clocks have been manufactured. Those which the astronomers used in their observations at the end of the 15th century were so unreliable that modified forms of the water clocks of the ancients were often employed as a check upon them. Galileo's discovery of the isochronlsm of the pendulum from the swinging chandelier in the church of Pisa was of great value in its applica tion to the measurement of time. The invention of the mercurial and compensating pendulum has added materially in cutting down the errors of the running rate and controlling the motions of clock mechanism." THE MAINE BEAR. An Interesting Creature That the Hunter Occasionally Meets. Talking about Mr. Roosevelt, wild animals and hunting, Dr. H. Jennings of Montreal, Canada, said to a Wash .gton Herald reporter, that occasionally while tramping the Maine woods in search of deer or moose the hunter comes upon another animal, the sight of which makes the heart beat faster than did ever the sight ol antlered game and causes him tc bring his rifle into speedy action. "A man often," continued Doctor Jennings, "living in an isolated section, comes upon this brute, the Maine black bear, and the view he gets is likely to be short, unless he brings the animal down, for this big brute with all nis strength and formidable teeth and claws, is no fighter, and prefers running to fighting on almost all occasions. He is found in every coun ty In Maine, except the most southerly ones, west of Penobscot bay, but is, of course, most numerous in those sections where deer and rnoose are also found in greatest numbers. "He is a queer animal," continued the Canadian. "In his make-up there seems to be a combination of the characteristics of the human, the cat, the hog, thj raccoon, the squirrel and several other animals. Though his natural method of locomotion is on all fours he can walk upright almost as easily and steadily as a man, and there is something most laughably human in the way one of the brutes will sit up on his haunches and reach a fat forepaw around to scratch his -ik? o?on ttio hpnr rtisnlavs an al UUS. VIWVII , r _ most human Intelligence In the manner In which he carefully evades traps and dead-falls set for his destruction. "With his forepaws the bear can strike a blow with the swiftness and skill of a trained boxer, and many is the woodsman who has found this out to his cost when he has tried to kill one of these animals with the stroke of an axe. One stroke of that great paw will ward off the mightiest blow and another may send the wielder ol the axe spinning twenty feet from the spot. A black hear will as?cend a tree with the agility ff a cat and does so * *? vanlnna nut; irequenuy iu ?ci mc ??.? which form a choice bit of his diet." Rank Counterfeit.?A show was advertised in Topeka recently with a girl to give the Salome dance. Every om went expecting to see something wicked, and the girl did the dance In a bath robe! The real Salome wears only seven veils, dances seven times, and take olT a veil every time. Real proper people leave at the third veil.?Atchison Globe. > THE NEW ROAD LAW. i > Full Text of Provisions Governing In ! York County. ' While the York county road law was under discussion and In controversy among: the members of the York dele! nation In the general assembly, The ' Enquirer printed the various bills proposed, Including the one that was fl( nally adopted. The bill however, was afterward changed In several minor particulars, and was finally passed and ' approved as follows: Section 1. That the county board of I commissioners, as constituted by law. I shall remain as they now are, execute the same official bond, receive the same ' salaries now. provided for, discharge the same duties, and have the same powers, except as hereinafter provided 1 for, for the county of York. | Sec. 2. Upon the recommendation of [ a malorlty of the legislative delegation In the general assembly, the governor ! shall appoint a man In each township, to be known as the township supervisor, who shall serve for two years, or until h'.s successor Is appointed and ' qualified, unless sooner removed by a resolution or act of the general aaseifibly, or for cause. He shall give bond, either personal or In some approved surety company, payable to the county treasurer for the benefit of the township In the sum of five hundred dollars for the faithful discharge of his official duties. Sec. 3. All male citizens iii the coun1 ty between the ages of twenty-one and 1 fifty-five years, except In the Incorporated cities and towns, and except persons who are deaf, dumb, blind, or wholly disabled, shall .be required an1 nually to perform five days' labor of ten ' hours per day, on the public roads of the township In which they reside, under the supervision and direction of the township supervisor, or of any road overseer dulv aDDolnted and commis- * sioned by him: Provided, however, I That in lieu of performing the labor as herein named a commutation or road tax of three dollars may be paid to the county treasurer by the person so liable on or before the first day of August . of each and every year: Provided, further, That any person liable for road duty, and not having paid his commu1 tatlon tax in lieu thereof by said date, who shall fail to perform all- work so required of him after being "warned out," either by personal notice or written notice left at his residence, from the township supervisor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100, or by imprison- j ment for not over thirty days. 1 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the i township supervisor annually, before the 15th day of March, to ascertain the names of all persons living in his township liable for road duty, and file with the county supervisor an alphabetical list of the same. The county supervisor shall forthwith file said list with the county auditor, who shall file the same, after making any corrections or > additions from information in his ofi flee, with the county treasurer. The township supervisor may let contracts for the working of all sections of roads ''- ? J ??>. />n??tm,ntUn on appoint not over four road overseers in his township, at not exceeding $2 per day for each day actually worked, to superintend and have worked those : sections of roads which he has not i worked himself or which have not been let to a contractor to be worked. He mow after thft first dRV Of AUgUSt Of each year assign any person liable to j road duty, who has not paid his com- t i mutation tax in lieu thereof, to the t ! control of any of said road overseers \ to work upon any sections of roads In s 1 the township which he may direct. He 1 may also hire hands at not exceeding t , $1 per day to work on said sections of i ] roads either under his direction or un- a der the direction of his overseers. The a township supervisor shall when so re- i i quested Rive his receipt to all those 1 persons who may have worked out their 1 full road duty, and It shall be valid in t the county for that year. a i Sec. 5. Bach township supervisor, c jointly with-the county supervisor,11 shall expend the township road fund, | < belonging to his township, herelnarter provided, for the Improvement and maintenance of the public roads In his township, for the construction of such bridges as do not cost over twenty dollars, and shall contribute the sum of twenty dollars from said funds to all bridges in his township costing not over fifty dollars. He shall personally 1 inspect all work done on the public roads of his township by contract or otherwise, and shall vouch for and approve every claim against his township road and bridge fund, and where the amount exceeds twenty dollars he shall submit same to the county supervisor for his approval. No township suI pervlsor, with or without the approval of the county supervisor, shall expend * annually more than the amount of funds belonging to his township road . and bridge fund, and no township supervisor shall present any claim, dl* *- 31?-Al" 1*10 torlo 1 a recuy or inairecuy, iui an; 1 hands or teams furnished by himself: i Provided, however, That the contracts , for the construction and repair of all bridges in the county costing over 1 twenty dollars shall be awarded as now ' prescribed by law, and that all such bridges costing over fifty dollars shall be paid for out of the county bridge fund.^ Sec. 6. Each township supervisor may purchase for the township from ; the township road funds hereinafter , provided for, such machines, road plows, scrapes and tools as may be 1 necessary or hire teams, for the purpose of working and maintaining the [ roads in a good condition: Provided, , He shall make no purchase or let any contract for over twenty dollars, with1 out the approval of the county super - iks visor. He snail De responsiuie iui ms c township, machine, implements and . tools, and shall render an itemized j statement April 1, 1910, and each year s 1 thereafter to the county supervisor for ; file in his office, showing: the amount t expended and the value of implements, I etc., on hand. Sec. 7. The township road fund shall ' consist: (a) the funds arising: from the e 1 two mill tax levy now provided by.law 1 and hereinatter mentioned: (b) the s commutation tax for said township; y (c) and any funds arising from a local i 1 or special tax, or otherwise for roads and bridges in the township for road purposes. 1 Sec. 8. Each township supervisor e shall receive for his services the sum s 1 of $3 per day, not exceeding sixty days, : for services actually rendered in each 1 ; year; the claim for such services shall e ! be itemized by him and approved by j tho pountv suDervisor, and paid month- r , ly out of the township fund by the " ; county treasurer. 1 Sec. 9. The county treasurer shall ? | from time to time as collected, place { ! to the separate credit of each township, i in a ledger kept for that purpose, any 1 and all funds raised In said township t by the two mill tax levy for roads and 2 bridges, except that part of same de- c I rived from said two mill tax on Insurance companies, express companies, r : telegraph and telephone companies, 1 railroads and other like companies, c 1 which do not return their property by ? , townships, which shall be kept as a separate county fund for the building 8 1 and repair of bridges, all sums recelv- 1 ed from the commutation tax, special 1 , tax for road purposes, and all other sources for road and bridge purposes. Each township road fund Is to be kept * separately and paid out as hereinafter provided, and the treasurer shall make monthly settlements with the township supervisor and county supervisor for the fund belonging to each township road and bridge fund. Sec. 10. The salary of each township supervisor, and all labor hired by ilm, all moneys due on contract for he purchase of materials and mash ines, for contract work for the malnenance and Improvements of roads, ind building and repair of bridges, as lerelnbefore provided, shall be paid by he county treasurer from said townihlp's road and bridge fund, after the iwom itemized bills for the same have >een approved by the township supervisor and audited and approved by the :ounty board of commissioners, and ipon the county supervisor's warrant or same drawn upon said township's -oad and bridge fund. Provided, That 10 claim for work done under contract >n any section of road or bridge shall w approved unless accompanied by a certificate from the township supervisor and county supervisor, that the vork has been done according to plans ina specifications under which the conract for said work was awarded. Prodded, further, That the county board if commissioners shall keep a separate varrant book for each township road ind bridge fund and for the county iridge fund and -shall issue all warants for the payment of claims on aid township's road and bridge fund iut of said township's warrant bock, md shall issue all warrants for the layment of claims for building and epair of bridges due by the county, in said county bridge fund. Sec. 11. The clerk of the county loard of commissioners shall keep. In lies specially provided for that pur>ose, all approved bills or vouchers vhich have been paid by warrant up>n any of said township road and ?ridge funds, each township's vouchirs to be kept in a separate file and lumbered so as to conform with the lumber of the warrant by which It Is >aid. Sec. 12. The chalngang shall not le used exceDt on nermanent road ind bridge building. It shall be aligned as equitably as possible, by the ounty board of commissioners, to vork In each township of the county, luring a schedule period of two years, aid assignment to be subject to such ules, regulations and requirements as he county board of commissioners nay prescribe: Provided, That in seeding roads to be repaired they shall lave in view the greatest good to the rreatest number of the people In each ownship. The work of the chainrang shall be done under plans and pec locations made by an engineer, 'rovlded, further, When macadam, ana, gravel, or ciay is apecmea 10 ue ised, the county supervisor shall lave the same properly placed on the lighways, If the said material Is furilshed by the township supervisor or itherwlse. Provided, further, The vork and control of the chalngang hall at all times be under the exclu* live supervision and direction of the :ounty supervisor. Sec. IS. The county supervisor vhlle so working the public highways hall ro-onerate with the townshln upervisor in each township through vhlch the highway may pass, and vhen said work is completed by the haingang the township supervisor for hat township shall keep the same ht epalr. Sec. 14. The county board of comnlssioners may employ an engineer, >y contract, for such time as in their udgment may be necessary, fix his :ompen8atlon and prescribe his dales and powers. Sec. 15. The county board of com- > nlssioners shall have erected on the ilghways in the county where bridges ire to be rebuilt, over streams of thiry-flve feet or over in width, stone or luntrcic yicio ui auuuucuw, wiu he same with an Iron or steel or renforced concrete bridge, erecting not iver two annually unless made absoutely or providentially necessary, rhey may let contracts after public lotlce, for the erection of the ple/s >r abutments or reinforced concrete trldges, or use the chalngang for said >urpose, if In their judgment It can >e cheaper done; and all contracts for ron or steel spans shall be let to the owest responsible bidder, as per >lans and specifications furnished by he engineer. They shall let all conracts for other bridges or public vorka, after notice, to the lowest reiponslble bidder, when the amount is ikely to exceed twenty dollars; and he county supervisor and engineer, vhen employed, shall personally lnipect all work done under contract, ind unless the contract Is fully cornfiled with the claim shall not be vald! And all claims shall be approved >y the county supervisor, certified to >y the engineer, when employed, and ipproved by a majority of the board >f county commissioners, before being >ald by the county treasurer. All such :lalms shall be paid out of the county >rldge fund. The county supervisor ihall thoroughly Inspect the work of >ach township supervisor once a year md report the progress of the work >y sections, noting the deficiencies, If my, and incorporate the same In his tnnual report, and file a copy of the tame in his office. Sec. 16. The county supervisor is lereby required to publish an annual -eport January 1st of each year of he operations of the chalngang, showng the total expenses, number of niles and kinds of roads constructed >r repaired, cost per mile, the time imployed, and the value of all stock, nachines, and the equipments of the ihaingang. He shall have made by he engineer, now employed, prior to ruly, 1909, township maps of each ownship, showing by sections, num>ered, the location of roads, bridges, >tc., for the use of the township sujervisor. Sec. 17. The county supervisor 1 11 1 u I - nnan at loo at nnA III ill I IVCCp XIXO UIIIVC V|^|| M% .vw?. w..? lay In each week. He shall keep on lie all of his reports, and the reports >f the township supervisors, in a sysematlc order, for the inspection of he grand jury and the public. He ihall call a meeting of the township lupervisors the 1st Monday of April, 1909, and 2nd Monday of January tach year thereafter, to be held in his tfflce, for conference, interchange of riews for working the roads and makng suggestions for the improvement >f the system. .Sec. 18. Any person or officer vioatlng the provisions of this act shall >e deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, tnd upon conviction be fined or im>risoned, or sentenced to labor on the ihaingang, in the discretion of the :ircuit court Sec. 19. All acts or parts of acts nconsistent with this act be, and the ame are hereby, repealed. Sec. 20. This act shall take effect ipon its approval by the governor. Cure For Smallpox.?A correspondint of the Stockton (Qa.) Herald writes i8 follows: "I herewith append a recipe vhlch has been used to my knowledge n hundreds of cases. It will prevent ir cure the smallpox though the pltings are filling. When Jenner dlscov:red cowpox in England, the world of icience hurled an avalanche of fame ipon his head; but when the most scl tntiflc school in the world, that of Par- ' s?published this recipe as a panacea or smallpox, it passed unheeded. It s as unfailing as fate and conquers in svery Instance. It is harmless when aken by a well person. It will also :ure scarlet fever; here It is as I have miro amallnni! SulDhate Of IOUU It IV VU? v m sine, one grain; foxglove, (digitalis), >ne grain; half teaspoonful of sugar; nix with two tablespoonfuls of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either lisease will disappear In 12 hours. For l child, smaller doses, according to ige. If counties would compel their )hyslclans to use this, there would be 10 need of pest houses. If you value idvice and experience, use this recipe or that terrible disease."