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J YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. ? . i m i ii.. | ' '? -..LiHBRsojs. Pa blither.. [ % S^Wl = 4" *M promotion ?)f <h< |oli?([El, Jtyiat, ?gri?nltntal and ffommmiat Jnterests of th< f eojitg. { n""V;o'"Lrv!^v?"c"""" . 88TA.BLI8HBD I8BB. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JA^UARYa'TotS. KO. 1. ? THE AMERIC > ? _j ! By ETTA I > I CHAPTER VI?Continued.. This leader of the h&ut ton, this . queen of society, who rarely indulged in demonstrations of any kind, leaped from her easy chair and kissed her daughter tenderly. She was happy. With Lawrence Harding's departure a * mighty load seemed lifted from her heart She could now remain In peace and safety at Lucerne to await the count's reappearance, and the question he wished to propound to her. Indignant as she would have felt had any one dared whisper that Ethel was capable of a mesalliance she yet experienced a lively relief In finding that this troublesome lover had taken himself out of her way at last. * A few days of comparative quiet followed. The Bradfords departed for Italy, and Alice, in bidding adieu to her school friend, said, with .the spite peculiar to her age and sex: "Sans doute, I shall soon hear lm. porta nt news from you, ma chere. I f hope the count is not* mercenary?these foreign noblemen usually are. Poor Larry Harding! Fred says he Is sure tagpo to the dogs now?whatever that * sA4ae#lAn a# V* I *n in ? tilaj UICCUI. X VUI I OJW VIVII VI. HUM Ml the midst of his other troubles was like Pelion piled upon Ossa. Welt, adieu dearest, till we meet again in Paris." On the evening following the Bradfords' departure, Ethel stood albne at her window, looking listlessly out on the lake. She had just come up from dinner to write letters to her father and Bee. Day was dying. A crimson light, like a sheet of Are, rested on the distant snow peaks, streamed along the broken ampitheatre of hills and flung its splendor over the blue water. Adown the promenade in front of the hotel people were strolling, laughing talking in a dozen different languages. Boat's flashed hither and thither; a steamer had Just arrived from Weggis, and fresh tourists poured into the house. THe shrill American voice was audible ab >ve all others?Miss Sardls wondered - why the tones of her countrywomen should seem so much like their native northeast winds. Lovingly the sunset fell upon her as she stood framed in the window?lovingly it flashed adown hfr lirh dinner dress, touched a Jewel at her throat, kissed the pale Greek face, with its wide, shining eyes and disdainful mouth, and glanced off* the ripples and waves of her chestnut hair, : "? marveloosty dressed by lunette's skillful French fingers. It was small won der that Mrs. Sardis courted a coronet tor that matchless beauty. The room grew dim. The fiery light died away on the distant peaks that thrust their mighty alabaster walls up against the purple of the eternal heaven. Out on the lake some boatmen were singing a wild, sweet Swiss air. She could hear no words, but the music was full of pain and passion?the old, old story, forever new. Ethel!" She started and turned, to find Mrs. Sardis standing at her side, calm and cool Indeed, for who ever saw her other-wise? but with her thin, haughty face?yea, her extended hand the very rustle of her gros-grain dress full of suppressed triumph. "Ethel, go to the saloon?go at once ?the count is there, I have given him permission to speak to you." A certain startled expression overswept Ethel Sardis' pale face. She had scarcely expected to be called upon so soon to decide her own destiny. At once! That was imperative, and nn HqIqv Mother nnri dauerh Ul VA/ACU IIU ViV*U^ . M .... w ?^ ter exchanged one look; then Mrs. Sardls' Jeweled fingers closed around Ethel's. She led her to the door. "You will be envied beyond measure, at home and abroad." she whispered. "You will be the star, not of watering places, but of courts. You will take T^wMJlace among the great ones of earth? "Go! You know my heart; he is all that I can desire. I shall order your trousseau In Paris before we start for home. Go." She hail obeyed that voice all her life. She walked straight across the threshold of the door, which closed softly behind her. and entered a little salon, picturesque with the bare, waxed and polished floor the tinted walls, the wide windows and flower-hung balcony peculiar to Swiss hotels. At a round table In the center of the room stood the count, pale, handsome, his right arm in a sling, the dying light giving to his blond face a sad, romantic look. He advanced to meet Miss Sardis. and led her to a seat with an air eager and adoring. "I fear you have been ill," she began, looking hard at his disabled arm. "Yes," he answered; "nothing les' than Illness could have kept me from you for six Interminable days; they have seemed to me like so many centuries." L She did not answer. The scent of flowers floated "in from the balcony; outside the stars were already coming out above the Righi. "Tell me." sighed the count, "have you thought of me once in my absence?" "Once?" she echoed, with a sweet, slow smile; "oh yes. many times." He flung himself into an attitude of devotion seldom seen of late years, except upon the stage- ? that is, he fell at Ethel Sardis' feet. "Madame, your mother, has given me permission to lay bare my heart," he cried. "I love you?I ask you to be my wife. Do you remember our first meeting in fche forest at Baden-Baden? I vowed that day that, if it were possible I would win you for my own. I followed you to Lucerne for that sole purpose. I desire nothing so much as the possession of your heart and hand. Tell me, may I hope?" Wr >ii? blue eyes, uplifted to the face of the American girl, glowed with eager passion. His kneeling figure was full of grace and strength and utter adoration. Verily, he waa in earnest! With all his soul he desired to have this girl. And she? What did her heart say? What did her ambition say? Would she be a countess or not? Would she at \N COUNTESS ? _ ? ! V. PIERCE. % this moment turn traitor to the school In which she had tieen so carefully reared? "Speak!" Implored the .count; "do not keep me In suspense. I lay my heart at your feet, and with It my ancient name, my ancestral estates, my hotel In Paris, my honors, my wealth, my all! Speak! Tell me that I am the most blessed of men?say that you will marry me!" For a moment the little salon seemed whirling before her eyes. A face came between her own arid the count's?a brown handsome, clear-cut face, full of stern anger and reprotch. And then It was over; her fate, for evil or for good, was sealed. She held out her hand, and 4he count seized and carried it to bis lips. "You are mine!" he cried. Her eyes did not droop before his, nor her cheek redden. In a sweet, even voice that had in it neither tremor nor embarrassment, she..answered. "I am yours!-" - - ? That night, when the placid moon was shining over the Righl, the lake and the two spires of the old Cathedral, Ethel sat alone in her own chamber, and wrote as follows to Beatrix Sardls: "T ?n C + oVil >n^ X am CIIgagcu IV v<vuiu uwaiu, ?uu mamma is very, very happy. Does not your prophetic heart already hear her talking grandly to her dear five hundred friends of 'My daughter the countess?' And think of all those belles with whom I disputed laurels at Saratoga and Newport last sea-ion?how piqued they will be, ma chere, at my good fortune. Shall I like to be a countess, do you ask? Yes, verily!?what girl would not? I am no better than the rest of my kind. If one does not live for society, mamma says, one may as well be out of the world; and she ought to know. I like distncton and homage ?I like to fill people with envy and admiration. Think of rr.e as the wife of a poor man! Would not you pity the man, Bee? Moreover, it would not be safe for mamma's daughter to make an imprudent marriage. Often she has frankly declared that she would leave me to starve without remorse or compassion?that she would direct papa to bequeath his wealth to charities, and disown me altogether, should I dare to disgrace her in that way. Ugh, it was no idle threat, either, for she is a woman of character?fapahle of mkny hard and unpleasant things. Now, however, my future is settled to her entire satisfaction. She is absorbed, heart and soul, in the thought of my prospective honors, my trousseau, and the splendor with which she means to solemnize my wedding. Congratulate me, darling Bee. How can I fall to be happy in the possession of a title, a hotel in Paris, and old castles and estates in Saxony? Of course, you are now at Newport with Miss Vann, catching your first glimpse of fashionable life, and waiting impatiently for your debut. Unsophisticated darling! Take care that you do not lose your little, warm heart to any of Charlotte Vann's male friends, for she particularly affects poor young men of genius, and papa has full control of your person and your fortune till you are twentyone, you know. I warn you, mamma would oppose a mesalliance in your case quite as determinedly as in mine. A marriage de raison, Bee, is the proper thing, the only thing, far both of us. Ethel. CHAPTEI: VII. A New Lodger. Five steady, solemn strokes rang out from the clock on the mantel. Valentine Black, humble clerk li the Boston bank ing house of Sardis & Co., started out| of a mage of troubled thought, and pushing back his chair, rose up from the round table, like a man waking from sleep. But he had not slept. Somewhere in the wee sma' hours, after a long, a very long, talk with her nephew. Aunt AfTry had hobbled away to take a little repose, but not Val. He had been listening to a strange revelation. to the unfolding of a secret, kept religiously for years, and his head was in a whirl, his mind full of amazement confusion, perplexity. All night long he had sat there, unmindful of the passing hours?a most unusual circumstance, for this happy-go-lucky fellow was not given to solitary vigils or midnight meditations. His habits were regular, his conscience clear. As he arcse now from the table, his eyes fell on the newspaper, folded at the paragraph which riad agitated Miss Affry so much on the preceding evening. He caught it up in a hurried, guilty way. tore it in strips and tossed it into the tireless stove; then went over to the window, drew up the white shade and gazed out into the morning. "Strange! 1 cannot comprehend it yet!" he muttered, and his rugged, good-natured face looked five years older, at least, than on the preceding night. "Can I go back to my desk today, as if I did not know this thing? Can I keep my secret as faithfully as Aunt Affry has kept it all these years? God help me! Have I strength. or have I not to be the same man still?to forget all that I have heard, and act as If it was still unknown to me??ah!" The door that opened on the narrow hall was standing ajar. Miss Black's lodgers were scarcely astir, as yet, but down the stair Val saw a stealthy figure creeping?a forlorn, miserable, haggard figure?Moll Dill. Over her unkept. black hair an old hood was tied, a tattered shawl covered her shoulders. She unbarred the door and like an unclean thing, stole nut Into the early day. He watched her vanish down the court?watched the last flut' ter of her ragged shawl in the distance, and something very like a shudder shook his stalwart figure. Mercy's mother!?his own prospective motheri in'law! "Mercy Is beautiful and good," Aunt ' Affry had Said to him on the previous i night, "but you will never marry her? never!" The omnloua words rushed back anew to hJs memory. Did any truth dwell In them? Had the night's meditation wrought any change in his heart toward Aunt Affry's fair young lodger? The telling of Aunt Affry's secret had altered all his life ,in a moment?it made him look at the world this morning with changed eyes, but did it overturn his /idol?did It lead him to al-' ready wish to recall the words spoken only a few hours before? And Just then he heard a second step on the stair, and this time It was Mercy herself descending with a little cracked pitcher in her hand?going out, as he knew well enough, for the milk for her humble breakfast. I have said that the stair at No. 10 Seedy Court was narrow and dingy, nrl + V? rtll Kilt ttuu \j\jkji ijr vai |/cicu mui uu-vivu* ( uut as that girl appeared upon it, it seemed all at once to become something beautiful and grand. There she was, with her perfect, statuesque figure and glorious young face, her deer-like head, crowned with rippling masses of golden hair, her violet, velvet eyes looking darker, sadder than ever under their splendid, night-black lashes. Rich she was in beauty, though so poor in everything else. She might be the child of a drunken outcast, a woman who had been before the police court, and served one sentence at least in a reformatory, but what lady in all the length and jfreadth of the city could match her loveliness, her strange unconscious air of breeding, the cold, white Innocence of her heroic young face? He had time to look at herwell^Jg^a^kfe rthinu owii'posinuri and 01 all the 1 Harriers, present and future, which 1 might thrust them apart?as she gild- 1 ed softly down the stair. What did he 1 mean to do? Did he still choose her 1 from all the world?this poor, young banking-house clerk, who had pretended to love the girl a few hours before? i The blood rushed like fire through his veins, flashes of light burned under his i eyelids. He stepped out into the hall < and met her face to face, just as she 1 put out her hand to open the outer door. i "Mercy?darling!" 1 The two words burst from his lips In . a great. Involuntary cry. i The color surged Into her beautiful shy face. She looked at him with a surprised, half timid air. Haggard, sleepless, worn?it was plain that some thing had happened to Val. In a dry, < hot clasp he held her hand as if he i would never let It go. i "What is the matter?" said Mercy, quickly, "are you. ill? Is anything I wrong with Miss Affry?" "No, to both questions," answered Val, how early you are up! Good heaven! what a hard life it is, sewing i from dawn till midnight. Is it always i 80?" I "Usually?but I don't mind it," she 1 replied, evasively, "at least, not much." He took up his hat and followed her lout. '' * -i The pavement glistened with last night's rain. Seedy Court was very still, but in the distance the rumbling of milk wagons could be heard over the 1 stones of the street. As Mercy glanced up at her lover?at his broad shoulders and red hair, and strong, unhandsome i face, it seemed to her that he had put 1 on a grave dignity, a certain solemn, reflective air, as strange as it was new. "Mercy," he said, before he had gone i half a dozen steps, "I wish you would tell me that you love me here In open daylight?I want to make sure that I have not been dreaming." Pursuing a milkman at half-past five ; in the morning may not be a favorable condition under which to talk sentiment; but these humble young folks did not think of that. Romance had little to do with either of their lives. Mercy's violet eyes fell, and her low voice faltered: "I love you," she answered sadly, solemnly; "it is no dream." "Blessings on you!" cried Val, with a tremor of his strong, square mouth. "And I?if I loved you last night, I adore you this morning! It's a blessed wonder how you, with your dainty beauty, should ever come to think of an ugly clown like me?a fellow who has no earthly right to any such good luck." She made a little gesture. "Don't! you hurt me when you talk like that?exalting me when I have cause?such cause!?to be the lowliest of women. Did you tell Miss Affry?" "Yes." She kept her eyes on the wet pavement along which they were walking? very slowly. "What?did?she?say?" The unbecoming blood tied into his rugged face and out again. "It's all right," he answered hastily? "It's all quite right, darling. Did I not say we had nothing to fear from Aunt Affry? She will not meddle with us in the least. She wants me to be happy above all things, and trusts perfectly my Judgment to decide how I can best compass that end." She gave him a quiet, searching look. "You do not tell me. what she said. Vol?" "I really don't remember the exact words," replied Val, with great effrontry, "they were of no Importance I assure you?she wished me to do as I thought best. Have no fear; we shall meet with no opposition from Aunt Affry. Some other time I'll think up every syllable of her conversation on the subject and repeat it to you faithfully. Now, however, give me your hand?nobody is looking?the court Is quite deserted. It's an odd place for a betrothal. but we do not care for that, do we? There! now you are pledged to me, Mercy, and as God Is my witness I will never give you up, come what may." He slipped upon her finger a plain, old-fashioned gold band?the very ring that Aunt Affrv had given him the preceding night. "It was once my mother's," said Val, simply: "It Is now my betrothed wife's. Wear it, and remember that you are mine. Mercy?whatever happens, you are mine." How oddly he spoke. Clearly he was thinking of something unpleasant. Mercy wrinkled her brows in a perplexed way. "I am yours," she said thoughtfully, "till you grow ashamed of me?till you cease to care for me. Val." "Then you are mine forever" he cried. "Ashamed of you! How dare you speak of such an impossible, outrageous thing? Cease to care for you! Let me tell you that I am a very plain, boorish sort of a fellow, but there is some manhood in me, after all?some tenacity of feeling and of purpose. I can no more help loving you than I can help breathing. I could no more resist your beauty and youth, your Innocence and loneliness when you came to us here, than steel can resist the magnet that draws It. And once giving up to you my whole heart, how can I ever recall it? I could not If I would, I would not If I could. I love^ou! that tells the whole story, and?I said as much to you last night?I count myself uncommonly fortunate In winning you." They had now reached the end of the court, and the appearance of a milk wagon there, cut short the conversation. Mercy, made her humble purchase and retraced her steps. Val bearing the cracked pitcher and walking by her aide as proudly and loyally as if she were a princess. He did love her with a power and passion that startled even himself. "I cannot let you go on as you are." he said, as they reached the door of No. 10?"working day and night for bare subsistence. It is true I have not much to offer you, but I can save you from actual hardship, and by and by better times are sure to dawn for me. With you to work for. there is nothing I cannot do. You'll not be afraid to take up life with me. even at my present salary?will you darling?" "Afraid? oh, no!" she answered in a low, steady voice; "but don't talk of that?yet?don't! You must have time to think well of what you are doing; we'lcome' ln heMhome? and?and my mother?I must have time to think about her, and to do something for her. There! let me take the pitcher now?I hope no one has seen you with it." "I don't care if the whole city sees me." They were In the shadow of the door, and he gathered her to him, regardless of the splashing lactea fluid and kissed her fervently. A moment after, Mercy was decorously ascending- the stair with her breakfast, and Vai walked into Miss Affry's sitting room, humming derisively: "When Adam delved and Eve span Who waa then the gentleman?" Miss AlTry was spreading the table for breakfast. She had not slept either, as her weary eyes and anxious face Bhowed plainly. She gave her "boy" a quick, questioning glance. He went straight up to her and laid his hand on her rheumatic shoulder. "I have thought it all over, as you bade me, Aunt Affry, I have been all night thinking of it, and this is the conclusion I have reached: I love her, and every consideration I have been able to th(nk of, falls dead before that one fact Whether I could live without her or not I do not know, but I shall not make the experiment I shall marry her?I shall take the goods the gods provide and ask no questions of the future." A little shadow flitted across her old face, then she smiled brightly up at him from her vastly inferior height "Just as you think best, laddie! I shall not meddle In the matter at all, only consider well what you are doing ?there may be much, very much Involved In It that you cannot foresee now." He made an Impatient gesture. "I know?I shall marry her, my mind Is made up." "Very well," returned- Miss AfTry, In a voice of calm resignation, "I have had good reason In my day, Qod knows, to distrust love-matches, but I say, very well! whatever you do, you are sure of Aunt Affry's blessing, boy?and of her devotion to you and yours." He knew that well enough. He gave her a grateful glance, as If casting away from him a burden?the burden, DerhaDs. of the secret he held with her. He made a hasty breakfast and went away to his dally toll?to the familiar desk In the banking: house of Sardls & Co., where his fellow clerks would snub him, Jest with him, and exchange commonplaces; never dreaming that the big, loutish fellow who had once been an office boy In the establishment, and was the shabbiest of all the clerks, could have anything mysterious In his life, past, present or to come. Val had always been the butt of his companions at the banking house. He worked the hardest of them all, and received the poorest pay. He wore threadbare coats, and was the unresisting victim of all sorts of impositions from his associates. His poverty was wellknown among them; also the fact that he lived with a decrepit aunt who kept lodgers In a wretched part of the city. Though he had risen from the post nf nfflpo hnv no fnvnr huH pvAf been shown him in the establishment Jacob Phillips, the head clerk, called him the kast efficient man there. "Black is an honest fellow," he was wont to say, "but dull?abominably dull. He'll be nothing but a poor plodder as long as he lives " As for Cullen Sardis, that great capitalist never interested himself In his employees nor pretended to know them ?always excepting Phillips himself, who had long been the banker's confidant and friend. It Is probable that he had never heard the name of Valentine Black?certainly he knew nothing of his faults or his merits. (To be continued.) Ancestry of The Revolver,?Since the Introduction of gunpowder as a propellant and the general use of firearms in warfare and hunting, there has been a more or less insistent demand for mechanisms that would give the soldier or hunter a number of shots at his command without reloading and enable them to be rapidly discharged, writes S. J. Fort in Outing. The first patent for a firearm of this description seems to have been Issued by the British patent office in 1718, to James Puckle, a citizen of London, for a gun mounted upon a tripod, having a single barrel and a revolving cylinder. Strangely enough, one of the claims set forth in this patent appears almost verbatim, 130 years later, In a patent taken out by Rollln White, an American inventor of a revolving pistol. Another curious claim of the patent was: "The mechanism permits the use of square bullets against the Turk and round bullets against the Christians; moreover, so great is the rapidity of Are that ships armed with the gun cannot be boarded by any attacking force." / / MARRIAGE LICENSE RECORD. Total Issue from Beginning to Date Foots Up 690. JXTRA RUSH DURING THE HOLIDAYS. ?omplata 'List of All tho LicsnMs Is* I suad by tha Probata Court during | th# Past Six Months. I Up to the last publication on July 18, qf the list of marriage licenses Issued oy the probate court for York county, tjhe number stood at 438. Since then up tp January 1, the number has been increased to 890. The list is as follows: i JUiy 18?n,rneai o. ureuer auu uwuIne Bell Hyde. July 18?Marcellus Nlvens and Francis Bush. ' July 19?James Robinson and C. Lugenla Sawyer (colored). July 20?Otto Starr and Georgia A. Erwln (colored). July 20?Luther Bechter and Cora Lee St&rnes. July 20?James Nance and Mary Burris (colored). July 20?Willie Gettys and Marie Fewell (colored.) , July 20?James McDonald and Bertha Hall (colored). July 22?Strait C. Camp and Ethel Chat man. July 24?Thos. Vance and Catle Burrtu (colored). 1 l July 27?Dock S. Mosteller and Rlldle Cralge. July 27?Thos. L. Perry and Ida Wooten. July 27?Thomas Miller and Delia Watson (colored). 1 July 30?Henry M. Robins and Maggie Lee Erwln. July ?John Sadler and Marie 111. - ] August 1?John Adamk?x-oulsa Walker (colored). August 1?Adam A. Lentz and Beulah E. Wilson. J AUgUSt Z?j as. a. Liainam aim unmtle Burgess. August i?Thos. Sylvanus Montgomery and Mary Kelly (colored). 1 August 6?Edward A. Turner and Bertha Mae Pruett August 9?Charlie W. Wllkle and Janle Robinson. August 9?Jess Lanier and Mao Moss. August 10?Henry Q. Neely and Fannie L, Sheek. August 14?Terrell H. Wilkinson and Alace EL Beckham. , August 17?John Mobley and Mamie Williams (colored). I August 17?Henry White and Mary Caldwell (colored). August 17?David McNab Mackintosh and Mary Harley Peacock. August 19?Tom White and Eunice Partlow (colored). August 21?Willie Garvin and Francis Joiner (colored). Augusr21?Elliott Gettys and Pearlie McCulloh (colored). August 22?Arthur L. Sturgls and Mary Jane McF^adden. August 24?C. Fred Rogers, Jr. and Nina Barnett. August 24?Eugene Scott and Lizzie Wright August 24?Bruner Hart sell and Ethel Belk. August 24?Fred Bisters and Julia Edwards (colored). August 27?Hugh B. Jones and Ida Allen. ? ?* an<1 Mar. AUgUll w-uiam a un>.i ?? ?garet Ann Win ton. .August 27-yFrank C. Whitesides und IflPam L. Wnltealdes. August 29?John P. Robinson and Mary Cauthrin. August 30?Rasmus McGill and Annie Belle Davis (colored). August 30?Alley Hopper and Janie Ager (colored). August 31?Lawrence Godfrey and Maggie Drury. August 31?Will Wilson and Lllia: Sexton. L Sept 2?John McM&ckin and Sudle King (colored). Sept 3?David M. Parrott and Margaret Barnett. Sept. 4?Vander Robinson and Carrie Wilson. Sept. 4?David Miller and Martha 1 Lindsay (colored). Sept 7?Colonel Mayfleld and Mamie Woodward (colored). Sept. 7?Hugh Jackson and Venla Armstrong (colored). August 7?Samuel P. Benner and Myra B. Workman. Sept. 7?John Floyd and Nola Johnson (colored). Sept. 7?Andy Boyd and Lonie Thomasson (colored). Sept 7?West Pagans and Annie Crawford (colored). Sept. 9?Fred Blackwelder and Lula Gosman. Sept. 9?Jos. Sanders and Mary Bratton (colored). Sept 9?Knox D. Phagan and Annie Roddey Miller. Sept 10?Will Slggles and Annie JamlaAn ( PAlrtPoH ^ Sept. 10?Fred Springy and Anna Glenn (colored). Sept 11?Wm. Sadler and Nannie Bell Erwln (colored). . ^ , Sept 13?Jesse W. Williams and Sallie Ramsey. Sept. 13?Robert McCUnton and Rosa Gill (colored). Sept. 17?Will Jamison and Janie Watson (colored). _ Sept 17?Lee White and Burnett Henderson (colored). Sept. 19?Thos. Crawford and Reina Davie (colored). Sept. 19?John Watson and Annie Lindsay (colored). Sept 21?Sam Carothers and Fannie Erwln (colored). Sept 21?Walter Ratchford and Mary Lindsay (colored). Sept 23?Robt. GUmore and Jessie Latta (colored). 1 Sept. 23?John O. Ormand and Pearle Thomasson. Sept. 24?David MoNeel and Fannie Fewell (colored). Sept. 24?Alonzo Reeves and Lizzie Hood (colored). Sept. 25?Wm. L. Robinson and Blanche Barr. Sept. 27?Claude Johnson and Mary Lee Moore. , ' OO Tnhnnla MftftTP nnfl Pen rl Lawrence (colored). 1 Sept. 28?Sam Miller and Sallle Massey (colored). I Sept. 30?John Russell, M. D., and Gertrude Crawford (colored). Oct. 1?Luther Daniel and Minnie Williams (colored). i Oct. 2?A. W. Whltey and Pearly Wllkerson. Oct. 2?Tillman Phillips and Mary Phillips. Oct. 5?Jack McClure and Mima Riggers (colored). # Oct. 5?Will Barber and Ada Hutchison (colored). Oct. 5?Israel Erwln and Mary Joiner (colored). Oct. 9?Brlson Surratt and Pearle Gill (colored). Oct. 10?John Floyd and Lu!a Wood (colored). Oct. 11?O. Wallace McCarter and Zora Deal. Oct. 12?Sam M. Jenkins and Queen Esther Watson (colored). Oct. 12?Campbell Berry and Orphelia Good (colored). Oct. 15?Edmund O. Hull and Sarah S. Craig. Oct. 15?John T. Gibson and Joste F. Knight. Oct. 16?Pearl Parham and Sarah Jones. Oct. 17?Richard Nelson and Cynthia Speers (colored). Oct. 19?Arthur Davidson and Ida Hagins (colored). Oct. 19?Walter G. Julian and Fossle lifntri. Oct 21?Benj. J. Black and Josle Jolly. Oct. 21?Ja8. E. Merrltt and Mary Denton. Oct. 22?Henry L. Hancock and Lula Taylor. Oct. 22?Walter Neal and Mattle Rayfield. Oct 26?Joe Simpson and Annie Ratchford (colored). Oct. 26?Jas. Walker and Maggie Bell Wilson (colored). . Oct. 28?John L. Floyd and Ida Henry (colored). c Oct. 28?Geo. Rawllnson and Hattle Boyd (colored). I Oct. 28?Sam Williams and Mary Castles (colored). t Oct. 28?J. R. Garyls and Lizzie Mlsenhelmer. 1 Nov. 2?Frank Adams and Annie Plexlco. C Oct. 29?John W. Anderson and Annie L. Johnson. n Oct. 29?Will Smith and Winnie Sterling: (colored). C Oct 30?Charlie H. Anderson and Alma Lesslle. J Nov. 2?Smith R. Blgrham and Nannie Hammond. E Nov. 2?Frank Adams and Annie Miller (colored). ? Nov. 2?Lewis Davis and Miss Collins (colored). F Nov. 2?Rufus M. London and Johnnie T. Moore. B Nov. 3?John Nash and Ella Black (colored). I< Nov. 4?Edward Robinson and Irena Massey (colored). Ji Nov. 6?Charley P. McGraw and" Emily E. Norman. t< Nov. 7?Palmer M. Roach and Fannie L. Duncan. G Nov. 8?Ernest Good and Azlee Montgomery (colored). II Nov. 8?Charlie M. Steele and Lottie Conrad. a Nov. 9?Jas. Archie and Rosle Reid (colored). V Nov. 12?Geo. L. Lambert and Sallie Palmer. p Nov. IS?Jas. Doster and MaJjy Ramsey. ' (< Nov. 15?Mance Mills and Francis Hicks (colored). H Nov. 16?Dock King and Lizzie Horseley (colored). ^ Nov. 16?Lum Craln and Delia Williams (colored). C Nov. 16?Joe Gladden and Mary White (colored). . B Nov. 16?Fred Murray and Lula Miller (colored). M .Nov. 16?Alonzo Adams and Fannie NoT v. C ibeth D. Clinton. T Nov. 16?Walter Q. Wallace and Margaret E. Farls. M Nov. 16?Wra. Rtnehart and Irene Hemphill (colored). m Nov. 18?Alexander Turry and Callle Wright. HI Nov. 18?Perry Chlsolm and Mary J. McCullogh (colored). " Nov. 19?Rich Tims and Lula Carter (colored). v Nov. 20?Newton Burrls and Annie Crawford (colored). ri Nov. 20?Martin L. Smith and Lonnle Miller. A Nov. 20?Jos. Cunningham and Caroline Dee (colored). K Nov. 21?Jaa. F. Farls and Daisy Burton. tc Nov. 22?Dave Miller and Sarah Boyd (colored). r Nov. 22?Richard Smith and Annie Walker (colored). v Nov. 23?Ralph S. McKeown and Flonnle V. Sullivan. w Nov. 23?Amzi Gaston and Mary Geter (colored). Nov. 23?Samuel R. Mitchell and Rena Mickel. D< Nov. 23?Clarence C White and Daisy Klser. ' Nov. 23?Jno. F. Love and Emma Ferguson. A Nov. 26?Sam Sibley and Lessle McNell (colored). H Nov. 26?Thos. A. Bratton and Mamle Ramsey. 8 Nov. 25?Pat Robinson and Barby Pharr. w Nov. 26?Algernon P. Guess and Rosa D B. strajt. Ntov. 26?John M. Robinson and Leona Knox (colored). K Nov. 26?Arthur W. Thomas son and Parllne Lowry (colored). A Nov. 26?John Meadors and Alice White (colored). ** Nov. 27?'Will Hunter and Francis Burris (colored). B Nov. 27?Wm. N. Simril and Tammle El Hayes. ( Nov. 27?Oney Grler and Alice Thomasson (colored). Nov. 27?Franklin Jackson and Daisy O Alexander (colored). Nov. 27?Charley Garvin and Tilda Hemphill (colored). . Nov. 29?GUlus C. Clyburn and Mat- 01 tie Strait.' ei Nov. 29?Jas. A. Reed and Mary Tur- p< ner. o( Nov. 29?Ralph Pride and Loutza Belton (colored). Nov. 30?Devonla Gibson and Trlcol- w la Rlppy. In Dec. 3?Zeb B. McGuirt and Minnie _ L. Ronyan. Dec. 3?Otis Kee and Llllle Culp w (colored). t) Dec. 4?Tom Hardy and Virginia 8( King: (colored). _ Dec. 4?James Hall and Ella Cur- ^ rence (colored). w Dec. 4?Walter Currence and Mattle pi Wright (colored). ^ Dec. 5?Taylor Alexander and Mary Joy. el Dec. 6?A. J. Pruett and Vashte B. Yarborough. 8) Dec. 6?Joe Gather and Sadie Mc- . Clure (colored). Dec. 7?Ollle Cook and Ada Sanders. 01 Dec. 7?Willie Thompson and Belle U Crawford (colored). It Dec. 7?Russell Beaty and Mary Mc- . Clenen (colored). Dec. 7?Frank Montgomery and Ma- m mie Stowe (colored). Ir Dec. 7?William Alexander and Jessle Brown (colored). Dec. 8?Mat toon uarvin ana ire no ? Caldwell (colored). Dec. 9?Albert T. Mosley and Otto ai Anderson. . Dec. 9?John Herndon and Agnes 01 Jackson (colored). P Dec. 9?Wade Buchanan and Lonle a Hemphill (colored). , Dec. 9?Martin S. Whitesldes and 18 Sallie C. Turner. w Dec. 10?R. B. Price and Sarah Har- la grett. of Dec. 10?Sam Philips and Janle Pres- w ley (colored). . Dec. 10?Edward B. Austin and Ber- u tie Yandle. ni Dec. 10?Ephriam Harris and Sllvie Bell (colored). Dec. 11?Harvey L. Steelman and Alma Reece. el Dec. 12?Leroy Lowry and Ivory Ji Currence (colored). Dec. 12?Hope Setzer and Sonny Craig (colored). Dec. 13?Jake Brown and Antentt ?< Smart (colored). M Dec. 13?Raleigh Brown and Janle fl, Alexander (colored). d) Dec. 14?Charley Clark and Margar- , et Helms* Dec. 14?Jas. E. Ooddard and Lena . Blanche Love. t, Dec. 16?Jos. Howard Patrick and ? Mabel Brandon. Vj Dec. 16?Claude Harris and Annie White. Dec. 16?Horton Thomas and Bessie Ashe. , Dec. 16?Willie Grler and Pearl By- J ers (colored). . *? Dec. 16?Caesar Dunlap and Belle . Gist. J] Dec. 17?John Wltherspoon and Venle Hughes (colored). Dec. 17?George Shehan and Docla .. Cornwell. Dec. 17?John McCameron and Belle fl Denton. B Dec.' 17?Mert Love and Christine b] Campbell (colored). g Dec. 17?Alfred Roberaon and Annie g) Saunders (colored). d E>ec. 18?J. Johnson Hunter and Nancy W. Craig. Dec. 18?Jason Hartsell and Mary ( Wallace. " Dec. 18?Jesse J. Crawford and Car- tl rle Sadler (colored). _ Dec. 18?Samuel E. Sturgls and Mary , E. McCarter. v Dec. 19?Fate Barnett and Adeline Gist (colored)^ v Dec. 19?Win. Hoyies ana uarrie Robinson (colored). Dec. 19?Robt. J. Brown and Mary Alice Clark. . p Dec. 20?Hazel Wright and Lizzie nr Spake. o Dec. 20?James Kee and Mary Mc- "< Cree (colored). ei Dec. 20?Arthur Fewell and Amanda v Watson (colored). li Dec. 21?Ben I. Wllllford and Carrie d; Lee Craig. 1! Dec. 21?FYaser Johnson and Luclen- < la Cornwel! (colored). t Dec. 21?Paul Bigger and Jeannelte larrls (colored). c Dec. 21?M. D. Ratchford and Clarl- e lei Harper. ( Dec. 21?Lawson Gill and Gussle r Nichols (colored). .. 1 Dec. 21?Brooks Smarr and Gaseie s Jood. t Dec. 21?Isaiah Thomasaon and Ma- 1 nle Burrls (colored). t Dec. 21?Andy Mills and Mary Jane c Irier (colored). ) Dec. 21?Walter L. Good and Mary leek (colored). J Dec. 21?Homesly Rose bo rough and r losa House (colored). I Dec. 21?Arthur Stewart and Eunice J lobtnson. 8 Dec. 21?Jaa. R. Waxmouth and t Dannie Belle Campbell. ? Dec. 21?Andrew Hill and Frankie o llnehart (colored). a Dec. 21?James E. Toungblood and li la J. Johnson. P Dec. 21?Walker Dunlap and Mary s ane Mobley (colored). u Dec. 22?David Allen and Eflle Et?rs. Dec. 23?Wm. Oaines and 8allle {( -rler (colored). d Dec. 23?Lafayette Harris and Wlle Miller (colored). n Dec. 23?-Charlie Black and Mary ^ [obley (colored). . Dec. 23?Anthony Nash and Mary tl /hlte (colored). Dec. 23?Osslan McMIUian and early Hensly. Dec. 23?Alex Archie and Lilly Reed g, colored). y Dec. 23?Andrew Hlnton and Cynthia m emphill (colored). ? Dec. 28?Walter Bratton and Mary JJ. Williamson (colored). e, Dec. 23?Allen Nichols and Eliza t) ouser (colored). Dec. 23?Moultrie Bowens and Annie a, elle Parks (colored). Dec. 23?Lee Edwards and Mary Williams (colored). Dec. 23?Charlie Thomson and Mary ralg (colored). m Dec. 23?Julius Dickson yuiL.Martha b ate (colored). IT "***?.. ti ite Dec. 24?John 11. Wpner and Ma- q ie Lee Warren. m Dec. 24?'Willie Wilson and Carrie White (colored). p, Dec. 24?Eliza A. Putman and Vlda Ineberger. ]0 Dec. 24?Robt. Saye Riddle and Sara p irglnla Barnett. 0 Dec. 25?Geo. W. Pleasants and Car- tl e Adams. oi Dec. 25?Jessie Brasxel and Mamie c] nderson. g, Dec. 26?Arthur Haley and Jessie 01 oss. b Dec. 26?Wm. R. Be Ik and Ella Sutm. Dec. 28?James Barnett and Laura erguson (colored). P Dec. 28?Thos. Miller and Clarice T Wilkes (colored). Dec. 28-aChas. H. Smith, Jr., and " !ary R. Davidson. c< Dec. 28?Jam+s Gwin and Lula Good colored). Dec. 28?Haskell Cobb and Cora Go- T el. n Dec. 28?Jas. D. McConnell and Jes- a e Lee Latham. Dec. 28?Jas. P. Gardner and Helen * . Roach. a! Dec. 28?Wm. O. Brown and Bernle ? elle Wright 11 Dec. Sfr?John Short and Nettie 0 prlngs (colored). Dec. 30?Charley Woodward and a] [ary B. Blake (colored). . a IVu. ?A U'llllorna aiul Qallla a' avis (colored). 11 Dec. SO?Hamp Mackay and Adelaide rich (colored). - - Dec. 31?Craig Philips and Mary 8. J* nderson (colored). Dec. SI?Sam McKnight and Lizzie anders (colored). Jan. 1. 191S?Jim Wood and Alice ,r oyd (colored). . - _ n: ' - >2REAT DYNAMITE -CONSPIRACY, rr ne of the Most Important Trials in Criminal Annals. h< What probably has proved to be one b ! the most important criminal trials 01 rer held in America?a trial which ex- ? >sed the intricate machinery of a band ti ' labor leaders organized for the dls- * imlnatlon of violence?comes to a close 0 1th the verdict of the jury sitting in 01 idianapolls in the dynamite case. Or- ti inlzed labor was not on trial?? fact jj h<r>h vol nnlntwl nut monv tlmPM In le course of the trial by Judge Ander- aj >n and the agents of the United States lc overnment, but the hands of Justice as raised against those men In high a laces who had abused the trust re- le osed in them by the millions of labor's whom they misrepresented. The government's exposure of a con- * jlracy which resulted in the wrecking jr r buildings, bridges and construction tl iachlnery In nearly every state In the ri nlon, a destruction which carried with a considerable loss of life, had been p, efore the court more than three a lonths. Legal talent of national prom* ? lence was arrayed on both sides, and /ery point In the case was contended a Itterly. tl The dynamite conspiracy hinged " bout the operations of the McNamara w rothers who confessed to their master tl urt in the dynamiting of the Los p ngeles Times building and other slml- Cl ir operations. Fifty-two other men si ere indicted as partners in the great cl i.bor conspiracy, and It was the part J r the Indianapolis court to determine p 'hlch of those on trial were guilty of si le charge preferred ln?the Indict- ? lents. e Operations in New York. it Twelve of the men indicted were 0: llmlnated from the case before the iry's verdict was brought In. Ortie 0 IcManlgal and Clark pleaded guilty p rid McManigal was used as one of the jvernment's strongest witnesses In the ^ [cNamara trial and the .other trial just nished in Indianapolis. One man inIcted never was found; another was icapacitated by a broken leg and C ght men were discharged in the course si t the trial for lack of evidence against y tern. In this muster was included ' ? "C1 rvnnaeo 1 fifcya nlvap tarcxit c -O. i/v n u, V. s?,...v. f the machinists' union. It was upon ci le guilt of the remaining two-score a lat the Jury was forced to pass. OI The heavy hand of the labor conspirtors first was manifested in the course * f the strike against the American ridge company in 1905. As the result f trouble between the company and a ew Haven union local a general strike as called by Frank Buchanan, now a XT jngressman. but at that time interna- nr ona! president of the iron workers. j, Dynamite first appeared in the conIct in December, 1905. The American p ridge company was constructing a n ridge at Miller's Falls, Mass., and at c< lis 8pot thirteen sticks of the explo- w ve were found. A fuse attached eviently had gone out and saved a gi- ? antic explosion. si Early in the same month a series of ttacks was begun in New Tork as a , " '* otwilfA . Tha nnmKos a# rouu %ji uie oviiac. & itc iiuuimvi ?? iese had run to three score before the nd of 1906 and murder had been In- tl luded In the crimes committed. The u lolence went on almost unabated, almugh several Iron workers were conIcted and sent to Sing Sing. P Newark Has Taste of It. P Eight times in 1906 dynamite was b ut Into service as a result of the tre- y lendous struggle to force the Amerl- a ui Bridge company to give up its . apen shop" policy and to unionize ita ntlre operations. The outbreaks of a lolence extended as far west as Cleve- a tnd, where an attempt was made to ynamlte the Hotel Franftfort on March J. Several employees of the Amerl- 1 tan Bridge company wre stopping at hat hostelry at the time. The conspirators, however, did not tonflne their operations to attacks igalnst the American Bridge company. )n May 31 of the same year a dynanite attack was made against the Pittsturgh Construction company of Newirk, N. J., and In August an incendiary Ire was started in a warehouse the dcCUntic-Marshall company?destined o be later the particular butt of the conspiracy?was putting up at ConSholoeken, Pa. A dynamite" explosion at Detroit in rune, 1907 brought to the forefront two nen who afterward were to figure argely in the labor conspiracy. The ob was engineered by'Ortle McManiral, the subsequent informer, and Herbert S. Hockln, designated by United States Attorney Miller as the " . ptaln f the dynamite squad." Tfi. outrages t this point also became more national* n scope, many of those previously p<rt viraieu naving ueen uie products or efregated malcontents among local nlons. , Th# Crowning Csnspiraey. The four years aftei the plot took on k larger scope saw nearly a hundred ynamite attacks against non-union rork. This period also marked the ?ore prevalent use of nitroglycerine? ie less deadly explosive having provd hardly efficacious enough to satisfy ie fell designs of the conspirators. a The crowning work of the destruclonists came in th- wrecking of the os Angeles Times building, which reulted In the death of a score. With lis culminating catastrophe public mtlment was crystallised against the ten whose operations were becoming tore and more manifest, and the Fedral authorities brought every force at leir command to bear on the sltyatlon. lvestlgatlons resulted iu the arrest ad conviction of the McNamara brothrs and the startling confessions of the -apped McManlgaL The forty defendants brought before ie bar at Indianapolis presented a trange spectacle. No effort was made y any agency for the defence to prove uit no organised conspiracy hM eximlnally i miiih i Ii il u liii fTTl'VTii flfi Among those to whom the eyes si all ersons In the court room wars con nuaiiy turned in tne course or tne ing trial was Ol&f A. Tveitmoe of San ranclsco, secretary-treasurer of the allfornta Building Trades Council and >e biggest man in the labor movement n the Pacific coast. The government i&rged that Tvettmog was the guiding enlus behind the bloodiest of all the utrages?the wrecking of the Times utlding. Loader is 8aroastie. With his 270 pounds of brawn comosed in a posture of stolid indifference veltmoe sat through most of the trial 1th a sarcastic smile playing over his tee. In fact he was moved from the Dunsel table by Judge Anderson betuse of the continual smiles of derlon while witnesses were testifying, hroughout the trial he took copious otes which formed the basis of bitter rticles which appeared from time to me in Organised Labor, a paper of hich he is editor. At other times he pparently would forget all about the tse at issue and would lose himself i deep study of the ' Rubaiyat" of mar Khayyam. Frank M. Ryan, who succeeded Buch nan as president of the Intemation! Iron Workers, was another man who ttracted marked attention. As the mi progressea nil race iook on an un ual pallor and on the witness stand e proved most excitable. He was cauoned again and again by the court ecause of his outbursts of temper. A third prominent figure was Hoeki. The government charged that he iduced McManlgal to become a dynailter and coerced him into continuing Is deadly work. In addition he was nown as the traitor of the cause, the tan who had "double-crosied" his fei. >ws and made revelations which led > the McNamara trial and the greater ial to follow. When the court opened e appeared in the court room on ball, ut later he was sent to jail in default r a great increase in bond. When this ccurred Judge Anderson took occasion > declare that Hockln "could not be ~usted by any one on any proposition t any place in the road or at any time f the day." McManigal's confession formed one f the most interesting chapters in the ial. Plans which the conspirators had i view were shown to be even more endish than those which they had arrled out. The informer told how deigns were being laid to dynamite the >cks of the Panama Canal and thereby trike a blow at the McClintic-Marshal ompany. Other plans of vengeance nd violence of terrific import were iid bare by McManlgal. Disclaims Resoonsibiltv. Papers and letters which the Federal uthorlties had seized In the rooms of ie labor leaders on trial formed an nportant part of the proof against lem. About one thousand letters were ead to the jury, and many of these eemed to carry an Import which was nmlstakable. The Federal attorneys ontended that there could be no doubt bout the criminal character of the orrespondence. v*7? Other items called to the attention of lie jury included the $1000 a month rhich John J. McNamara drew from tie union from the latter part of 1000 ntil hs arrest There were also many ther payments to McNamara, for rhich no other accounting was made tian "expended for organization puroses by order of the executive board." No money could be drawn from the offers of the ironworkers without the Ignature of Frank M. Ryan on the hecks. No denial was made of the act that his name was on the checks sed in providing dynamite funds, but lyan contended in defence that he Igned the checks In blank without nowing for what use the money was ) be put Every other member of the xecutive board who went on the stand lade absolute denial of any knowledge f the use to which the funds were put. Dramatic Interest increased as the rial neared its end. Union men all ver the country were in a fever of exectancy. Little else was talked of In idianapolis and those cities where the rorst of the outrages had been perpe ated. Had Given Him Wrong Banner,? barles R. Holden told the following tory at a banquet given to some lawers and their wives at Chicago: "A prominent educator of a co-eduational institution told with evident ppreciation the following experience f a prominent professor of a celebrata university in New York city: "The professor Is blessed with a parcularly energetic and progressive rife, who is a leader in ^he suffraette movement When the recent delonstratlve procession was organized l New York she insisted upon the rofesaor adding his influence to the lovement by participating in the proession. He yielded and set out. The Ife's prominence in the movement ave her a place in the reviewing tand and she was mortally chag-rlned > see the professor, shame faced, traggling alone, carrying his banner 1 such a drooping and careless way hat she could not even see what was pon it , ' "At the first opportunity her reroaches fell fierce and fast on the rofesaor, who finally managed to reak in with, 'But my dear, my dear, ou really must not blame me; I had n awful time. What do you think hat banner was? Imagine! It was most horrible cartoon of a whiskyoaked and bedraggled bum with the lotto, "This man can vote, why can't fN t M V