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Klein, the New A ork World correspondent, who is said by the Germans to have led the natives in the recent fight between Mataafa’s men and the Germans, sends his pa per a five column story of the trouble, under date of December 20th, from which the following is taken: On the evening of December 7, the same day on which the United States man-of-war Adams sailed for San Francisco, news was brought to Apia that Suatele, the leading Tamasese chief, bad been shot in the large fort at Lautuanu. Much satisfaction was expressed over the report, not alone by natives of the Mataafa party', but also by American and English resi dents, who believed that if It were true a peaceful settlement of the war was not improbable, as the rebel chief was one of the prime objectors to peace being made with Mataafa by Tamasese. On the morning of the 8th, however, the truth of the rumor was positively denied, snd it was later ascertained that Suatele had not been killed, but was as active as ever. Fighting continued between the two armies, the Tamasese men constantly receiving aid from the Germans in the way of ammunition. Mataafa’s men kept gaining advantages, how ever, being enabled to shoot many rebels from a high tower, built of rocks, erected in one of the captured sectious of the large fort. Tamasese’s loss in killed alone up to the present time had been about ninety. One woman, shot in the arm by a Tama sese soldier, while near the fort, was brought in from Lautuana during the evening of the 8th and cared for at the hospital established by tlie Amer icans and English at the latter con sulate. The Mataafa men were beginning to sufier seriously from want of ammu nition, but through a certain source they succeeded in obtaining 20,000 Snider cartridges which came to them when they were almost in despair as to how to obtain ammunition. There are fully 2,500 Snider rifles in Mataa- fa’s army, wiiich bad been entirely useless for three months for want of cartridges, but this welcome supply of ammunition placed them at once in service. An outrageous price had «.o be paid for these cartridges, 2C cents apiece being at first demanded, but they were obtained for 11 cents each, there being no other alternative than to pay this price or allow the ammu nition to be bought by the Germans and given to Tamasese. In order to obtain money with which to pay for the cartridges the natives were ob liged to mortgage large tracts of land. December 10th it was reported that three villagers in Atua, on the upper end of the Island of Upola, who had been with Tamasese up to that time, iiad refused to fight for him any loug- nnd had returned to their homes, .teveport Grefrf-mrt fled, yet it was well known that Tam asese’s men were becoming strongly dissatisfied with the manner in which the war was being conducted, it be coming more apparent to them every day that the campaign was being con ducted with the sole purpose of ulti mate gain for Germans. As one in stance of the fact that no opportunity was to be lost to give the Germans a chance to enrich themselves, it may be stated that the German man-of- war Eber, which brought 800 muzzle- loading rifles from Jeluit, where they wei^ forcibly taken away from the Marshall Islanders, who were after wards flogged, was said by several natives who had been to Saluufata, where the vessel was stationed, to be selling these guns to Tamasese’s men or $7.50 apiece. The German man-of-war Olsa, filteen guns. Capt. von Erbardt, ar rived from Jeluit about noon on the 14tli, her crew numbering 2G7 men. She iett the deposed King Malietoa in tlie Marshall Islands. His return to Samoa in the near future lias be come almost improbable. A French Catholic priest, who had gone to Tamasese’s fort, at Lautuanu, several days before, to attend the wounded and hold services, returned in the evening. He reported the fort to be strong beyond belief, and added that it was garrisoned by 1,400 men, who had plenty of ammunition. Dec. 15 the officers of the Olsa called on the officers of the men-of- war, Nipsic and Royalist, but follow ing the custom of other German naval officers and the German Con sul, failed to visit the United States Vice Consul, \V. Biacklock. (Here follows a long and detailed account of tlie landing of German sailors and tlie outrages committed by them in what appears to have been a drunken frolicaguinst the American, Sweedish and native citizens and against an Englishman who, however, defended himself successfully. Sev eral native women were beaten and seriously hurt, but tlie Mataafa men who came out of the bush with gnus to rest-lit these insults and were restrained by the American On the night «f tlie IGtii, a Mataafa man received secret word from his cousin, a woman, on hoard one of tiie German inen-of-war, that a number of Tamasese men were on the German vessels and would belauded and help ed to surprise and massacre the Ma- taafu men. Mr. Klein went with the Mataafa people the night of the 17th | and watched from the bush. They saw the German boats, in the moon-' light, rowing along the coast and i kept abreast of them. He acted as j interpreter and warned them not to land , whereupon the Germans turn- j ed bach, but a large boat man tied by! natives pushed in to tlie shore and opened fire, a number ot German sail- j ors who lay coneeakd in tlie bottom j rising and helping. They were also i ! the shots of tlie German sailors, | a third lime the Germans fired, k i ing still another man, Tlie German civillians who w< barricaded in one of the houses of t| plantations, were not inactive df ing this time, one of them, it is killing two Mataafa men witli 1: own pistol, and shooting a third mi in tiie mouth. This man was moved to tiie hospital at the Briti Consulate later in the day, where is now lying in a dying condition, this point of the fight the native w! brought us tlie news left the scene> battle. The chief and myself ca on to Apia as quicklv as possible, called upon the United States Cons] As I had anticipated, Mr. Black! informed tlie chief that he could g! him no advice concerning tiie cou which the natives might to pursue their fights with the Germans. That was a matter which they would ^be obliged to decide entirely without counsel from him. About half an iiour after the visit* to Consul Biacklock a number of na tives came running into Apia with news about the tight. Some said tblat' six German sailors had been killed and tlie head of one of them takec*: another that not a German sailor had been iett alive, while others agi said that a number had made th escape in the launch in which they had landed from the Eberon the pre vious night. | Several hours afterward a trult- worthy native soldier came in, frokn whom a connected account was of>- tained. The German sailors, he sail!, after running away from the breast works on the shore at Fangeli, wefit directly to the plantation houses bit Vaiieie. The natives, who were um- ble to overtake them, then scattet^d through the bush and along the shoiye, and advanced upon the plantation houses at Vaiieie from all sides, j a number of men having run down from the bush above Vaiieie and vancing from the direction of Lato, The Germans made a stand on top ot the hill, near the plantati houses, forming a square. When t Mataafa men began shooting from sides, the sailors became panic-stricfc- en and broke their tormation. Some of them ran under the plantation houses for safety, throwing away their guns in their flight. Others stood behind fences and fired wildly in the direction of pulls of smoke ’which they saw coming from the rifles of the natives who were concealed in tlie bush or behind co- coanut trees. While looking in one direction for tlie enemy, the sailors would be shot from the sides by natives whose presence they were hot aware of. Their total lack of knowledge of the wav in which Samoans fight wits self-evident by the manner in which they defend ed themselves. Lieutenant Sieger, of sveral na- THE SPLENDID SOUTH. i AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER'S ENTHUSIASTIC REVIEW. Glorious Empire and People, and How They Have Recovered from Wasting War. Lsndon Telegraph. This is the time of year when sta tistics find favor, and there are few quarters of the globe in which the prospects of the future appear more favorable than in those Southern States of America which once seemed so hopelessly beaten in war and bro ken in resources. “No such advance in wealth," writes Mr. G. W. Curtis, the editor of Harper’s Magazine, “has ever been made in any other part of the American Union as that recorded by the Southern States be tween 1880 and 1888." In 1880, the fifteen years which had intervened since 1885, when the great rebellion under Mr. Jefferson Davis collapsed, had not sufficed to restore prosperity rto one of the most richly endowed countries on the face of the globe. It was in that year, however, that the rehabilitation of “Secessia" began, we may now perceive, in earnest, as shown by the remarkable fact that the Southern railroads covered about 17.000 miles in 1880, and about 36,000 in 1888. Still more notable has been the growth of iron manufactures in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Tennes see and Kentucky, an'd of their collec tive products since 1880, in which year they turned out 200,000 tons of pig iron, against about a million in 1888. Last year there was a decrease in the total yield of the blastfurnaces of the United States, but that de crease was confined to the North, and did not extend to the south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Alabama and Tennessee continued to advance while Pennsylvania fell back; and the prosperity of those two irou-pro- ducing States of the South now is wholly outstripping their Northern (idiferous rivals. Moreover, the iron df the “Warrior Fields” of Alabama fs said to be not only the best but the •cheapest in the world. Turning next to cotton, which many prophets of fYoe declared could only be grown by Mave labor, we find that nearly seven Bullion bales of that great staple were produced in 1888, against 5,590,000 in 1880. The persevering Southerner has discovered, more 'ver, that it is heliindor *fpomv* lore profitable to turn his cotton into 'yarn, and to export it to Europe, than co send it raw and packed in bales. The result is that tbeae are now 300 £ tton mills in the Southern States ainst about half that number in 1880; and already the looms of Geor- Gia, Alabama, South Carolina, North the Olga, was reported by several „ 1 -, T , . . lives to have fired his revolver ainpc$.^® r ^ ln ®. an< ^ ri ^ t * ir ^ a 1 ten lessly as rapidly as possible, and was then shot through tlie heart by a na tive who was some distance away. He sprang into the air. his sword fly ing from his hand, and fell or his back. His body was seized by several sailors, who Sought to take it to one of the houses, but were in turn shot. Several wounded men were killed, according to the Samoan custom, no their inhabitants are released from the exhaustion of slavery—the costli est system of labor in the world—and have found in free and fairly-paid toil the blessing that it always brings. Little more than twenty years since the Southerners, with half their adult male population wiped out, with their slaves made their equals, and more than the equals of those who had formerly owned them, with corrupt “carpet baggers" from the North preying upon their vitals; and with out capital of their own, were in the lowest stage of despair. Strange, in deed, is the transformation that two brief decades have brought about. Already the most enlightened ana far sighted manufacturers of New Eug- gland, Pennsylvania, and New York States are beginning to perceive that Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee contain resources of Coal, iron, lumber, turpentine, naval stores and a hundred other products which the rich North cannot parallel, and that the climate of the North and North-Western States can never pos sess. A New County. The Charleston Sun says a meeting of the prominent citizens of Berkley County was held recently at Monck’s Corner to discuss the division of Berkeley into two counties. The proposed county would embrace the S arishes of St. Stevens, St. John’s lerkley, and so much of the parish of St. James’ Goose Creek as lies north of a line drawn from the junction of the eastern and western branches of the Cooper River to the southeast limit of the town of Summerville lyiug in Berkley County. Under this sub-division the new county will have about 1,000 square miles, leav ing something over that area in tlie Courty of Berkley. It was resolved that should other sections of tlie pro posed county agree with the opinions herein expressed. Messrs. G. W. Avinger and J. Calhoun Cain be ap pointed to represent the middle and lower St. John’s Berkeley In an exec utive committee of three from each of the parishes concerned, which is instructed to agitate among the peo ple and advocate before the commit tee of the Legislature the formation of the new county. BUTTONS. ing eru the New England States and low- ng prices in Lawrence and Lowell, Mass., and Providence, R. I. Fourth ly, the lumber trade establishments pf the South at present employ about 100,000 hands, and turned out last year planks and sawn timber worth nearly $109,000,000. Finally, the value of Southern live stock has increased to the extent of about $175,000,000 in the last eight years, while her prisoner ever being taken and wounded sailors, when they saw the Mataafa men approaching them, threw away their rifles, cartridge box es and belts, canteens and all other accoutrements, and, with the purpose of placating, if possible, their ene mies, called out, “Talcfa, Malietoa!" which means love or success to Ma lietoa, the present king. Other sail ors called out to advancing natives that they were good Mataafa men and would fight against Tamasese. The natives, remembering the inju ries without number which they have already suffered at the hands of the Germans, refused to listen to the pleadings of tlie sailors, and decapi tated them, knowing that they would probably receive tlie same treatment were the situation reversed. Several German sailors’ bodies were decapi tated, different statements being made as to the actual number, some saj’ing that only one, wbileothers assert that six heads were taken. The German consul admits that three heads were cut off, and this is probably the cor rect number. This decapitation of the Germans muat not be regarded as an act of bar barism especially toward the Ger mans. As l have stated in previous^lY.’ Georgia, ooutn ant itaafa men take Tama~ orth .. Carol . i,, ®» \«rgnnaand Tenues outrages letters, the Mataafa men take sese heads when the opportunity offers, and tlie latter reciprocate when they are given the chance. After be ing exhibited among the natives in the neighborhood of the fight, the heads, together with several ears that were taken from sailors’ bodies, were buried near the scene of the fight. The accoutrements of many of the dead sailors were taken by tlie na tives, including the sword of Lieut. Sieger and the swords of other offi cers who were wounded in the fight. During and at tiie conclusion of the battle the remainder of the wounded sailors who could not be taken int^l the plantation houses were carried tfT the boats by their mates, and their escape effected in that way. The Ma taafa men then withdrew', burning no property and doing no further dam age. Some of the men came to Apia and others remained in tlie bush. The German dead were left lying on the ground. The man-of-war Eber, which had been lying at Saluafata, had meanwhile steamed down close to Vaiieie, the Captain having bad bis suspicions aroused hv the sound of t lie vance. These really astonish ug figures, and many more of the same kind, are summed up by a Trans-Atlantic journal, the New Orleans Times- Den ocrat, with the statement that in eight years the available capital of the Southern States has increased by $240,000,000, and their gross wealth by more than $900,000,000. All this has happened in a country one single State of which—Texas— 6 ossesses an area larger than that of ranee and Spain combined—a State wnich could, if as thickly populated as Great Britein, support 70,000,000 human beings. Bearing these figures in mind, we can easily estimate the magnificent prospects of the Southern States of the American Union when it is mentioned that on the 1st of July last year there were fewer than 20,- 000,000 inhabitants in the whole of Secessia, three-fifths of whom were whites and two-filths blacks. More over,>|he climate is equally delightful and plubrious. especially to those who in July and August—the only two inconveniently hot mouths—can afiord to retire to the mountains which overhang the States of Missis sippi, Alabama, Georgia, South and shooting. Internal Revenue in the State. n x- ... . i i-- < /m„ „ i reinforced bv mounted German plant- I be New and 1- irst-CIass Steamships trs and thei ’ negroes vvho lav ii, the ' bush waiting for them. Thev effected ! HYCEIN! A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ! Tobacco ax Aid to Health. A New Tobacco, manufactured by Thos. C. Williams & Co., Rich mond, Virginia, under a formula pre pared by Prof. J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virginia, anti-malarial, anti-dyspeptic, a good nervine and an excellent chew. Try it. No humbug. For sale by all dealers. Call for pamphlet. CHEROKEE. 2.000 tons (new) CAPT. DOANE. SEMINOLE, 2,000 tons, (new) CAPT. KENBLI DELEWARE, 1,500 tons, CAPT. TRIBOU YEMASSEE, 1,500 tons. CAPT. PLATT. who sese men from the Mataafa men, were gathering about. Then tlie account continues) A few minutes later a native soldier overtook us and said that while the Mataafa men were wailing, undecided as to whether to fire upon the Ger- mHFSF Snlcndid P-issen.-er Steam-* mans < tl)e letter had fired Upon them, T .iit form an S- : 11 Tl ‘ e a landing after a sharp tight and made their way to a German planta tion house where the sailors formed a hollow square to protect their Tama- I 1,001.050 cigars. For manufactured < larondon Enterprise. A glance through the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue shows many items that may interest our readers. Tiie aggregate collections in this State for the year ending June 30, 1888, were $102,456.19. Twenty-nine illicit stills were seized and seventeen persons were arrested. Over $300 worth of distilled spirits was seized tor violation of the revenue law during the last quarter of the year. There were 23,990 pounds of tobacco used in tlie inumitacture of ships lorm an unequ weekly line to New York and the Florida ports, with state-rooms all on deck, thoroughly ventilated and sep arated from the dining saloon. There is no pleasanter traveling on the Atlantic Coast, and the trip to Florida consumes only twelve to fifteen hours. For passage engage- men te address, J. E. EDGERTON, Gen. Passenger & Freight Ag’t, Charleston, S. C. father of tlie young man was stand- tobacco 53,622 pounds were used, to which was added 2,778 pounds of lico rice and 800 pounds of sugar, which produced 57,215 pounds of manufac tured tobacco. There were also 39,- 6»7 pounds of plug, 2.691 of smoking, on which $3,850.56 worth of stamps were used. Under tlie head of special taxpayers there were 834 retail liquor dealers, IS manufacturers of cigars, ing by his side at tlie time, and im- 6,545dealers in manufactured tobacco, mediately threw up his gun for tlie 2 manufacturers of tobacco, 2 orew- purpose of taking revenge on the slay- cries, 12 retail dealers in malt liquors, er of his sou. He was restrained by : and 12 wholesale dealers in malt li the other Mataafa men around him,! quors. There were 25 distilleries epe- however, who desired to avert a con flict with tlie sailors [f possible. While the chief was being urged by his men not to shoot, another Ger man sailor drew a sight upon him and fired killing the chief instantly. A second time tlie Mataafa men re strained themselves from answering rated, using 18,300 bushels of materi als, and 173 cattle and 623 hogs were fed at registered grain distilleries. The stills at which spirits were pro duced were located as follows: In Oconee, 7; Pickens, 6; Greenville, 3; Spartanburg, 3; Aiken, 2; Chester field, 2; Anderson, 1; York, 1. see. Once, indeed, in twenty years or so, the yellow fever appears at some little town where the laws of sanita tion have been outrageously neglect ed, and produces fright altogether out of proportion to the mortality which it causes. Last summeraud autumn, for instance, a visitation overtook Jacksonville, in Florida, and tele grams were scattered all over the United States and cabled to Europe, proclaiming the “ravages" of a pesti lence which in five months put four hundred persons to deatli—less than the number of victims killed by con sumption iu this metropolis every two months. More titan a quarter of a century ago the still living Ben jamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, showed the inhabitants of New Or leans, whom lie ruled with a rod of iron as Military Governor, that clean liness and yellow fever stand to each other in the relation of alkali and acid. Last winter the whole area of the Northern States was desolated with a worse scourge than “Yellow Jack”—those “blizzards” in which hundreds of human beings perished and hecatombs of hogs were frozen on their road from the West to New York. For tlie greater portion of the year the climate of the Southern States is as soft as that of Italy and as bracing as that of the Tyrol. When Mr. Cleveland and his young wife made a brief Southern trip after enduring tho hardships of an unusually severe win ter in Washington, the President is said to have expressed astonishment that wealthy Americans should think it necessary to cross the Atlantic and take up tlieir abode on the shores of the Mediterranean, when their own country offers a finer climate, and tlie Gulf of Mexico more attractive sce nery even than the Bay of Naples. At this moment Mr. Jefferson Davis is passing his mild decline iu the ex treme south of the .State of Mississip pi, iu a house culled Beauvoir—be queathed to him in 1879 by Mrs. Dor sey, an entire strauger iu blood— winch looks out upon tlie Gulf of Mexico, and is described by its fortu nate occupant as “the most delightful spot on eatb." If any Englishman desires to have the horoscope of the “New South" and of its prospects drawn for him by a competent hand, he would do well to follow the exam ple of Lou! Roseberry, and seek out the ex-President of the Southern Confederacy iu his Mississippi home. Lord Dunraven ia another travelled authority who has declared, iu a lec ture “On the Making of America,” delivered lately at Waisaii, that the future of the great Republic depends chiefly on those States which, between 1861 and 1865, were iu rebellion against the Washington Government. Nothing, indeed, humanly speaking, 4?an arrest their progress, now that The Augusta Chronicle says: The lawlessness prevalent in Louisiana and Mississippi of late is a disgrace to civilization and discredit to the gov ernments of those states. Tlie tele graphic advices from New Iberia, published to-day, demand prompt action. Sucli outrages must not be tolerated. The Southern states owe it to themselves to put a stop to th ie atrocities. They are a reflection on tlie competency of the states concern ed to make and enforce just law's that must frighten away from them capi tal and immigrants, and necessarily retard their development and pros perity. Above all, however the ne gro is a citizen and must be protected by the laws, Private weather observers in Mas sachusetts and Connecticut have been examining their records to find a parallel for the current winter. One observer in Milton unsuccessfully hunted back (forty years. A Windsor, Conn., man’s memory Takes him to the winter of 1815-’16, whicli he says was exceptionably mild. Dandelions were in bloom all winter, pond illy leaves took in the ponds, while the boys longed in vain for skating and went barefoot on sunny days. The following summer was full as mem orable, there being snow storms which killed all the crops out of ground. The corn was twice destroyed. Snow squalls v/ere not infrequent that sea son, and in the autumn the harvest, made a poor showing. The new Trinity Methodist Epis copal Church of Denver is tho crown ing glory of that denomination, not only in that section of the Union, hut of the United States. No city in the country can boast of so elegant an edifice belonging to tlie Methodists. Its cost was over a '-‘^arter of a mil lion dollars. The superb Roosevelt organ cost $30,000 and is the gift of Mr. Isaac E. Blake. The handsome parsonage on Sherman avenue cost $20,000 and is the gift of Mr. H. B. Chamberlain. The church is a mar vel of artistic elegance, and is rich iu everything known to the uses of the sanctuary. A question is now agitating the public mind of some Floridians about the area of the state. It has been put down as the second in area of square miles east of the Missippi and Geor gia first. But the American Ency clopedia allots 59.258 square miles to Florida and 58,000 to Georgia, making Elorida first, as has been generally supposed. Rheumatism Is undoubtedly caused by lactic acid in tiie blood. This acid attacks the fibrous tissues and causes tlie pains and aches iu the back, shoulder*, knees, ankles, hips and w r rists. Thou sands of people have found in Hood’s Sarsaparilla a positive cure for rheu matism. This medicine by its purify ing action, neutralizes the acidity of the blood, and also builds up and strengthens tha whole body. “It is worth its weight in gold," is a common expression. But, while the value of gold is easily affected, the worth of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, as a blood purifier, never depreciates. It will eradicate scrofula from the sys tem when everything else fails. “Where’s Buttons, Mary?” said little ‘ 1 In a her friend, Mary Alice Smith, the cash girl in a Fourteenth tol Croup, whooping cough, sore throat, sudden cold and the lung troubles peculiar to children, are easily con trolled by promptly admistenng Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. This reme dy is safe to take and certain in its action. Baltimore is the Jerusalem of American Methodism. In addit'on to the hundred or more churches for its native population, there are now four German Methodist congrega tions, with property valued at $70,000. Dr. Matthews, Secretary of the Pan Presbyterian CouuciL‘'"'te down the Presbyterians of tue vorld as num bering iu eighty organizations 22,000 ministers and about 20,000,000 mem bers and adherents. Attractive young women were em ployed to pass the contribution boxes on a recent Sunday at Rockland, Me., and the receipts proved the experi ment well worth permanent adop tion. People do not appear to take as much stock in lightning rods as they formerly did. There are now only three lightning-rod factories in the country against ninety-three a few years ago. A Lewiston man has invented a de vice for stopping runaway horses. It blinds tlie animal by clapping some thing over his eyes. The mechanism operates from the driver’s seat. street dry goods store Simmons. Mary blushed and looked guilty, al though she hastily disclaimed any knowl edge of the person alluded to. “How should I know where he is? 1 don’t even know his name. I can’t im agine why you girls are always teasing me about him.” And Mary petulantly went on with her work of rearranging tho disordered showcase and with femi nine tact displaying the newest goods in the most conspicuous places. But, despite her disclaimer, pretty Mary was thinking more about “But tons'’ than she was willing to confess. In fancy she could see his broad shoul ders and the half bashful, half conscious smile on his face as he appeared before her counter on the previous week. He certainly was a strong young man. She could tell that by his brown, muscular hand. And besides there was such i n honest look in his eyes. She recalled his hesitation, too, when he asked for the buttons, from which the girls had nick named him, and Mary argued from his ingenuousness and his respectful manner that he must lie entirely different from the young men whom she encountered on her way home at night and whose bold glances of admiration always made her blush. A hundred times a day Mary found herself looking down the long store toward the door, expecting and even hoping, although she did not confess the hope to herself—that he would come again. Twice he had l>een there already, and, to tell the truth, he had taught enough buttons to keep him in those use ful articles for five years. What he could want with so many buttons was more than Mary could divine. In anticipation of his coming Mary ar ranged anti rearranged the buttons in tho case. There was an almost endless variety of buttons. China shirt buttons, bone coat buttons, wooden buttons cov ered with cloth; glass buttons, iris tinted, reflecting the gaslight in gleaming rays. But not one of these shone so brightly as the eyes which had met hers over the counter for one brief moment and then had been hidden by the long lashes which dropped over them. Tlie chances of his coming hack seemed very small indeed to Mary when she re membered that he had taught two cards of slurt buttons and enough trousers buttons to start a small store. “I wonder if he is going to sew them on himself?” said Mary to herself, a smile indenting two dimples in her cheeks. “If he docs, he will "have but tons all over him. In fancy Mary could see him sitting in his shirt sleeves with a slender needle between his clumsy thumb and forefin ger, trying to fasten a button on ids shirt. She could see it all. The com pressed lip, the slip of tiie needle as it stole under his thumb naii, the muttered imprecation; and she laughed at her thoughts in such a merry way that the floor walker censured her, and she re sumed her work with a conscious blush But the memory of “Buttons” gradu ally faded from Mary’s mind as the weeks went by. He did not put in an appearance again, and as the girls stopped their cnafling there was notliing left for the interest to feed upon. Then came the anti-poverty fair, m which a many of the girls were interested, sympathetic heart “ itdEn- Ti earts were attracted 5f~ pT Ixxamrg’eld tffe goiaeh hoi when all want, all misery, all would be done away by tho new theories which were so rife in this city. What comforts, new dresses, unlimited ice cream and peanuts were contained in those magic words “anti-poverty!” And so, urged on by her desire to help the community at large, and perhaps honing just a little that she was going to be benefited personally by the movement, Mary entered into the fair with all the zeal of a zealot. She was assigned to take charge of a stand containing articles of vertu and bric-a-brac, and in addition to these was an assortment of sleeve buttons, a.most beautiful array, made of gold, peart onyx, and some inlaid with precious stones. Every night after the store closed Mary hastened, sometimes very tired arid footsore from standing all day. to Madi son Square garden. There were prettier girls than Mary behind some of the counters, but none with a more demure and winning manner, none with a more sunshiny smile or brighter eyes, and so the table over which she presided had no lack of customers. One night when tho band was playing and the bunting shining in the gaslight Mary looked up and found “Buttons” confronting her. As their eyes met he stammered: “Oh, excuse me, miss. I didn’t know it was you I just called around to see if—if” “If what?” said Mary, kindly, anxious to relieve his embarrassment. The young man fingered his cane un easily, and carefully averted bis gaze from Mary, for he could feel that she an ticipated his want. Then ho mustered up courage and blurted out: “If you had any buttons!” Before she could reply ho added has tily: “Tlie fact is that those shirt buttons I bought of you down at the store had such small eyes that I could not get the thread through them. It may lie that the thread was too coarse. But, con found it ail,” lie continued, bis embar rassment melting away before her as suring and sympathetic smile, “I've had to pin my shirt collar together ever since I came to tlie city. Besides that, yo’ can imagine what a job it is for me to pin one of these stiffly starched col lars around my neck!” “But I thought gentlemen were in the habit of wearing collar buttons,” said Mary, with a reassuring glance. “So they do here in the city. But when I left Otsego county my mother made me half a dozen new shirts in the old fash ioned way, and perhaps I—I—I” Here he colored up again, and Mary came to the rescue with: “Of course, you like to wear the shirts because your mother made them. I'll tell you how you can (ix it. Bring the shirts down to the store to-morrow and I'll get a poor woman to fix button holes in the shirt so that you can use collar buttons.” He stammered out his thanks and, bewildered by the glamour of the bright eyes which beamea so kindly upon him, Did Mary send tue shirts to the poor woman whom she had spoken of? Oh, no; as tired as she was on arriving at home she sat up until IM making out* ton holes in “Buttons”’ shirts. And while she was snipping with her scissors, and her needle was flying In snd out. her lover was pacing back and forth on the opposite side of the street, his heart on fire with the delirium of love. Those were pleasant days for Mary. Her eyes took on a new luster, her dieek assumed a more roseate hue. The elixir of love had animated her with new life. All day she hummed under her breath: Just s little sunshine, Just a little rein; Just s little happtneae. Just s tittle pstn. At last, one night just before the fair closed, “Buttons” mustered up enough courage to ask If he could accoiiqtanv her home. His excuse was t hat tlie night was wet and she bad no umbrella, and she consented, so shyly, oh. so shyly, and suggested that os the fair closed early they should walk. As they went down the Bowery with its brilliant shop win dows and the sidewalks shining in tha light it was necessary to walk close to gether because the crowd was so great and the umbrella was small. It was curious, but neither had eyes for tlie dazzling scene along the route. “Buttons” beguiled the way with the story of his life. He told her—and she listened carefully fearful that she might lose a word—how he iiad come to tho city from Otsego county and was fortu nate enough to secure a job as a black smith in a railroad car shop. His namo was Tom Murphy. He had a good trade, and one of these davs he intended to get married if he founa a girl who was wil ling to take a homely fellow like him. Here Mary archly said: “Why, I don’t think you're homely.” Tom gave her hand a squeeze, just a little one. and then they walked m si lence for awhile and at last arrived in front of her father’s house. “I can’t ask you to go in.” she said, in a deprecating manner, “because it’s too late. But can’t you come around sumo other night?” Could he! Could the stars shinol Could a duck swim! Well, he should rather guess he could! But there was a little matter he wanted to mention. Here he became strangely silent, and held her hand while the rain fell with a slow drip on the umbrella. “What is it? she said, palpitating like a frightened rabbit. A big lump came up in Tom’s throat and a mist swam before his eyes. He turned pale as he placed bis hand be neath her chin anil raised her drooping head so that he could look into her eyes. “I was wondering,” he continued, in an unsteady voice, “if you would be willing to give up selling buttons and devote your whole time to sewing but tons on my clothing!” “Oh. Toml” she said, struggling to get away. But ho held her fast ana for an instant the Irish frieze overcoat and the waterproof were pressed close together by a sturdy blacksmith’s arm. A gust of wind came around the corner and car ried the answer away, but it must have been favorable to his wishes, for Tom as tonished the Italian chestnut vender oft the corner by buying out his whole stock and otherwise acting like a good natured lunatic.—New York Evening Sun. ; Good Being Dons Cor Women. Already has the kindergarten. the thought of Froebel, left its impress upon the womanhood of this generation; and thrht*> AftiiferganXm now iSemg intro- duccd by generous hands into our large cities for the education of the little boys and girls of the poor, will save to good citizenship, to seif help and culture, many a poor girt Twin sister to this, so far as women are concerned, are “Women's Industrial and Educational unions,” the concep tion of Abby Morton Diaz, of Boston. This takes the woman adrift as it wore, g ives to her shelter, culture and bread; nds her work adapted to her education, and competent pay; inculcates self re spect, and gives to her companionship and surroundings worthy of respectable womanhood. When these unions be come established in every city, and LT every considerable town, the objection made by the editor of a New York jour nal, that “women are of little value aa reporters because they cannot go into the slums," will be overcome, because there will be no slums.—Beiva A. Lockwood in The Cosmopolitan. Factors In Colds. In every case there are two factors, aa irritant and a susceptibility of the sys tem. Among the irritants are micro scopic germs taken in from without, as in influenza, and certain |>oisoris which are developed from bad nutrition or im perfect assimilation within the body, and which it is tlie office of the liver to de stroy. Indeed, the effects of the two causes are essentially the same, for the germs act by generating certain violent E oisons, which irritate the mucous mein- rane of the nostrils, pharynx, lungs, stomach or bowela.~ Youth’s Com panion. he tau; which ht a $3 red Iiad no gn be use velvet and album, for which sag- i gested each time he looked at it as it la; in his bedroom the dainty hands whic had wrapj>ed it so deftly in the paper E arcel, the string and the paper of which e had hidden away in Ids valise. Mary was not aware of it, but that night when she boarded a Madison ave nue car to go home, a tall, swarthy young man, with a bundle under bis arm, stood bv the driver on the front platform. When she alighted at Grand street she was unaware that behind her, dodging along in the shadows, came the young man and the bundle. How her heart would have fluttered had she known that when she lit the night lamp in her chamber its gleam was watched by a pair of dark eves in the street below, and that only when a Physicians Confess. All honest concientious yhysiclans who give B. B B. (Botanic Blood Bairn) a trial, frankly admit its su periority over all other blood medi cines.' Dr. W. J. Adair, Rockmart, Ga., writes: “I regard B. B. B. as one of the best blood medicines." Dr. A. II. Roscoe, Nashville, Tenn., writes: “All reports of B. B. B. are favorable, and its speedy action is truly wonderful." Dr. J. W. Rhodes, Craw fordsville, Ga., writes: “I confess B. B. B. is the and best quickest medicine for rheumatism I have ever tried." Dr. J. S. Farmer, Crawfordaville* Ga., writes: “I cheerfully recom mend B. B. B. as a fine tonic altera tive. Its use cured an excressence of the neck after other remedies effected no perceptible good." Dr. C. H. Montgomery, Jackson ville, Ala., writes: “My mother in sisted on my getting B. B. B. for her rheumatism, as her case stubbornly resisted the usual remedies. Site ex perienced immediate relief, and her improvement lias been truly won derful." A prominen physician who wishes his name not given, says: “A patient of mine whose case of tertiary sypbi- aiis was surely killing him, and which no treatme" seemed to check, was entirely cure with about twelve bottles of B. B. B. He was fairly made up of skin and boues and terri ble ulcers." South Carolina ami Japan. the pavcmentln the * and r for l t ‘ ,e manufaC ' H turing of fertiIio<?r from it. puff of breath from her rosy lips put out V ' „ the shimmering Iincrprincr fnnfc- 1 _ *tii steps die away upon direction of the Bowery. But the next night found “Buttons” at the fair. This time he brought the shirts with him, and was even bold enough to ask Mary to go to supper with him. But he had not courage enough to ask if he could accompany her Ijome. Mr. J. Sakamiue. tlie Commissioner of Agriculture for Japan, who was so well pleased witli tlie South Carolina exhibit at tiie New Orleans Exposi tion, lias made arrangements to have slupi>ed phosphate rock fro.u South Carolina to Japan and bring in return fish scrap, which is used in manufac turing ammoniated fertilizers. Notice : lias been received by the Department of Auriculture here that the bark Belie of Oregoni nd the ship Lizzie have arrived at Yokahoma, a lead of phosphate A sensation has been caused in New York by the action of the Players Club, an organization composed chief ly of actors, iu blackballing Boh Ingcrsoll, who applied for membership ./‘Vi* ■•ML* ■ '■X % >, ,■?: s-J .iVjj . J Mmzli