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lew it all?that Paul Clifton loved -that-he was coming to ask for at the maternal hands the very :t day. "It will be of no use," she thought Uy. "Mother will say no. She sires me to marry Judge Sedley, is bald and deaf and twice my and who only wants me because housekeeper has struck for higher and he thinks a wife would be it economy. But we oan waili, llandl. We will wait." id then they ran up alongside the spectral oylinder of the light for the tide was high and land fas comparatively easy, and Mar* irang lightly out of the boat, look at the fiery eye in the lantern re me the bag and the basket, ly," said she. "Steady with the I'll be back in one min* 3 the orange glow had burned down deep red radiance, and the dusk jws.-off the New Year's eve were ing over all the glassy surface of it Dora was at home. In fact, [pora never was anywhere else, rn society, little as other peo 2d for it, was all sufficient for it's yon, is it?" said Aunt is unconcerned as if she lived land and was in the habit of company every hour in the day. Is darning stockings by her own 1 little lamp, and the teapot simmered on the hob for her anything the matter? Because l't leave the light if it was 3thing is the matter," said have brought you a note |y mother. Something about am of a bedquilt, I believe. chickens and apples and a Jesb. hickory nuts." Dora read the note once, iree. times over. Then she re Muriel in a sinister fashion [ider her thick, black brows, girl played unconoioasly b. ?h!" said she. ''Yes, 111 go le pattern!" gone, some time?half an at, as it-seemed to Muriel, she came back, the girl |early dark," she said. "I haste home." fon needn't be in such a lid Aunt Dora, with a grim "FvV sent the pattern by ikins. He's half way to iis time." ered a little shriek. am I to get home?" 'she ~'. ' ? ,. - ? *t to- get home at all," ora. "You're, to stay and l ew Year with me.' That's other said in her note." not!" exclaimed Mur g her foot' vehemently, ome 1 - I expeot company and be: easy?do!" said "Must is for the king. iow how on earth you're with only one boat at the lat padlooked tight, with ig at the bottom of my [Dora laughed a hard, dis that was like the croak 3nt Muriel gazed wildly newly caged bird, then tears and sobs. . (stratagem of. mother's 1'* [ringing her hands. "I lown it! I might have ?ht at the White Reefs th the melancholy sea of the tower and the around the steady glow was the dreariest that rat in her life. >d company to-night," glancing at her niece ietween -the stitches of have deceived me!" Ton and mother!" Aunt-Dora. "It's Sod. You'll thank Girls -oughtn't on and refused ihe fnptof the Clifton. "It is high time that this system of tyranny was broken up. My little Muriel must be mine and mine alone henceforward. Do you not agree with me?" And Muriel answered: "Yea." Aunt Dora got to the window just in time to shriek an ineffectual sum? mons to the pair in the fast receding boat. "It's no use," said Aunt Dora, drawing a long breath. "When a girl is in love, she is neither to hold nor to bind. I've done the best I could. Mehitable can't blame me!" Two hours later Muriel walked into the old brown roofed house on the shore, leaning on Paul Clifton's arm. "Mother," said she to the amazed Mrs. Vane, who fully believed that she was "dreeing her weird" in the solitary lighthouse tower, "I am mar? ried! And this is my husband. Will yon forgive ns, please? For I am so very, very happy to-day that I do not want a living soul to be at variance with me!" And so Muriel signed her declara? tion of independence, and became Paul Clifton's wife upon this glorious tun shiny New dear's day. ' And Mrs. Yane and Aunt Dora were compelled to confess themselves outwitted and to accept their defeat with as good grace as possible. "Fate is fate," said Aunt Dora grimly. "And I wash my hands of the whole concern," said Mrs. Yane. But Paul and Muriel were serenely happy. And what mattered aught else ??New York Ledger. mm % m - How the Presidents Died. George Washington?His death was the result of a severe oold contracted while riding around his farm in a rain and sleet storm on Deo. 10,1799. The cold increased and was followed by a chill, which brought on aoute laryn? gitis. His death occurred on Deo. 14, 1799.' He was 68 years of age. John Adama?He died from old age, havbg reached hia 91st milestone. Though active mentally, he was nearly blind! and unable to hold a pen steady enough to write. He. passed away without pain on July 4,1826. Thomas Jefferson?He died at the age of 83, a few hours before Adams, on July 4, 1826. His disease was chronic diarrhoea, superinduced by old age, and, his physician said, the too free use of the waters of the White Sulphur Springs. James Madison?He, too, died of old age, and peacefully, on June 28. 1836. His faculties were nndimmed to the last. He was 85. James Monroe?At the time of his death, which occurred in the 73d year of his age, on July 4,1831, it was as? signed to no other cause than enfee? bled health. John Quincy Adams?He was strick? en with paralysis -on Feb. 21, 1848, while addressing the speaker of the house of representatives, being at that time a member of congress. He died in the rotunda of the capitol. He was. 81 years of age. Andrew Jackson?He died on June 8, 1845, 78 years old. He Buffered from consumption,.and finally dropsy made its appearance about six months before his death. Martin Van Buren?He died on Ju? ly 24,1862. from a violent attack of asthma, followed by catarrhal affec? tions of the throat and lungs. He was 80 years of age. William Henry Harrison?The cause of his death was pleurisy, the result of a oold, which he caught on the day of his inauguration. This was accom? panied by severe diarrhoea, whioh would not yield to medical treatment. His death occurred on April 4, 1841, a month after his inauguration. He was 68 years of age. * John Tyler?He died on Jan. 17, 1862, at the age of 72. I have been unable to ascertain the cause of his death. Zachary Taylor?He was the second President to die in office. He is said to have taken immoderately of ice water and iced milk, and then later a quantity of cherries. The result was an attack of cholera morbus. Another authority attributes his death to a severe cold. The former seems tthe more likely. He was 66 years old. He died from a The Northwestern Exodus. Recently when some of the north? western newspapers were warning their readers that the South was not a good place to emigrate to, the public failed to understand what was behind these sermons against the South. But now that the facts have oome to light it is found that our esteemed contempo? raries in Iowa and elsewhere were doing their best to put an extinguisher on one of tho largest and most suc? cessful emigration schemes that have ever arganized in this country. Considering the little attention it has attraoted, the movement is the most remarkable that has ever been undertaken in the United States. There have been emigration move? ments from Virginia to Georgia, and from Georgia and other South Atlantic States to Tezas, but these movements were desultory and without organiza? tion. Whereas, the movement from the northwest to Georgia has been carefully considered, the ground has been cautiously gone over, all the drawbacks have been weighed and measured alongside the advantages. The result is that in Irwin county, in the heart of the fruit-growing sec? tion of Georgia, a town has sprung up in a night?a town that is peopled ex? clusively by white people, and these people are all from the northwest. There are many young men among them, but the hulk of the population consists of middle-aged people who are making a new home for themselves and their families in one of the garden spots of the world. These people have not come to Georgia because they have failed else? where. On the contrary, they are all well-to-do, having succeeded even amid the climatic vigors of the north? west in making something more than an abundanee. But they have cone to Georgia to seek a more congenial climate. They have grown tired of the long and hard winters of the' northwest, tired of the snow and the blizzards and the desolate experiences that belong to such a climate. The movement sprang up outside of Georgia. No scheme or project of speculation has entered into it. Men and women who desire to enjoy the benefits and advantages of a temperate climate?old soldiers resting easily on their pensions and farmers who have accumulated a little money?have formed themselves into a co-operative association and bought a tract of land in Irwin county. In the midst of their possessions they have establish? ed a town which, springing up as sud? denly as any mining town in the West but on a more substantial and endur? ing basis, has already a population of from three to four thousand inhabi? tants. A thousand or more tempo? rary houses have been built, and these will he supplanted in due time by well-built residences and stores. A special correspondent of the Con? stitution told of the movement and some of its results in last Sunday's edition. When the correspondent left the ground the emigrants were coming in at the rate of from 300 to 500 a day, and they were people from Mis? souri and northwestward as far as the Pacific coast. . While the movement originated outside the State the new settlers have been greatly aided and encour? aged by ex-Governor Northen and the association which he is the head of. Indeed it was a pamphlet written by ex-Goyerner Northen that first attract? ed the moving spirits * of the north? western exodus to Georgia. This exodus once begun?and the beginning is already a very substantial one?there is no telling where it will end. Ex-Governor Northen is of the opinion that there will be 15,000 arrivals from the northwest during the next twelve months, while Mr. Fitz? gerald, one of the leaders of the move? ment and in whose honor the new town has been named, says that he expects to see the arrival of at least 25,000 people or more by the end of another year. Mr. Fitzgerald has 54, 000 names on his books, among them several thousand Grand Army veterans whose pensions will annually amount to $600,000. Thirty-five thousand acres of land have been paid for at the rate of $3.50 an acre, 'and 12,000 shares of the company have been paid up. In January a large exoursion from the northwest will visit tbajigflg town and its enthusiao^gitffl ? . believe that all government is a form of tyranny, we now have room for the patriotic Americans of the northwest who are coming here to build their homes and to become a fixed and defi? nite part of our sooial organism.? Atlanta Constitution. Wagers Won and Lost. Betting is a human weakness by no means confined to the wagering of money on sporting events. In all ages, says the Chicago Record, it has been common to settle points of dif? ference by a wager, or to accomplish great feats under the penalty of the loss of a given sum. There's a man down in Kentucky who vowed never to cut his beard un? til Henry Clay was elected president. This was really a vow, but it was also a bet. The man bet against fate, and fate won. A rash young Harvard graduate recently went around the world without a cent of money in his pockets when he started. It was given out that he had laid a wager of $5,000 that he could make the trip without money. Tt has since turned out that he was simply the agent of a widely advertised article. The old English law forced bettors to pay their debts. A remarkable ac? tion was brought in 1812 by Rev. Mr. Gilbert against Sir Mark M. Sykes. The baronet, at a dinner party at his own house, in the oourse of a conver? sation of the hazard to which the life re-Bonapart was exposed, offered*, on receiving 100 guineas, to pay one guinea a day as long as Napoleon should remain alive. Mr. Gilbert olosed with Sir Mark and sent the 100 guineas, and the latter continued to pay the one guinea a day for nearly three years. At last he declined to pay any longer, and an action was brought to enforce tho payment. It was contended by the defendant that he had been surprised into the bet by' the clergyman's hasty acceptance*^ it, and that the transaction was an illegal one, seeing that Mr. Gilbert, having a beneficial interest in the life of Bonaparte, might, in the event of an invasion, use all his means for the preservation of ,the life of an enemy of his country. The jury loyally brought in a verdict for the defendant. Another queer wager is the one pop? ularly believed to have been won by Sir Walter Raleigh from Queen Eliza? beth on the debatable question of how much smoke was contained in a pound of tobacco. A pound of the article was weighed, burned and weighed again in ashes, and the question was held to be satisfactorily settled by de? termining the weight of the smoke as exactly that of the tobacco before be? ing burned, minus the ashes. The fact of the ashes having received an additional weight by combination with the oxygen of the atmosphere was un thought of by Elizabeth and.' the knight. ' An amusing bet for the small sum of 5s was laid in 1806 in the castle yard, York, between Thomas Hodgson and Samuel Whitehead as to which should succeed in assuming the most original character. Hodgson appeared decorated with 10-guinea, 5 guinea and guinea notes all over his coat and waistcoat, and a row of 5 guinea notes around his hat, while to his back was fastened the words "John Bull." Whitehead appeared like a woman ol oie side, one-half of his face painted, one silk stocking and slipper, while the other side represented a Negro in man's dress, with boots and spurs. "John Bull" won the wager. A gentleman of the last century laid a wager to a great amount that he could stand for a whole day on Lon? don bridge with a tray full of sover? eigns freq** from the mint and be un? able to find a purchaser for them, at a penny a pieee. Not one was disposed of. Wagers have sometime taken a grim form. It is credibly recorded that in the last century a wager was laid for one of a party of gay revelers [ to enter Westminister Abbey at the hour of midnight. He was to enter one of the vaults beneath the abbey; in proof of his having been there he was to stick a fork into a coffin which had been recently deposited there. He accomplished his object and was returning in triumph, when he felt himself suddenly caught, and was so overpowered byterror that he fell in ai?WiMiiififflfl Wjtfftfnff&M0ikl>e^ng Ad Sign of tholTlmes. It is a remarkable thing even in this day of reconciliation that, while Henry Watterson, a southern man, is going around lecturing about Abraham Lincon, Professor Andrews of Ehode Island is reciting a rhapsody on Robert E. Lee. It looks, indeed, as if time were overthrowing the illusions of sectional prejudice and establish? ing decisions of truth. The second leoture of the Savannah lycenm course last night was on Gen? eral Lee. Tho Guards hall was crowded. Professor Andrews had served as a soldier in the northern army. He had fought Lee's troops more than once. He is in position to give many interesting hints about the war. What he says about the gr*at Confederate chieftain was drawn from the trenches and the field. It is the observation of a private soldier and this is valuable. Professor - Andrews reviewed the ancestry of Robert E. Lee, "the noblest Roman of them all." He came from a race of warriors, a family of conquerors. His generalship was marked from the moment he took com? mand in Richmond after Joseph E. Johnston had been wounded and Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed. The first achievement of Lee was the maroh against Pope. It was a brilliant campaign, for while Pope had located Lee at'one point the latter popped up at another and totally unexpected place. In speaking of Lee's campaign in Maryland, Profes? sor Andrews said: "Fitzhugh Lee says that Lee made a mistake, but he himself believed, that he showed the be&o policy at the battle of Antietam, He gave him no credit for his actions at Fredericks burg. His attack upon Hooker over the Rapidan showed his fighting qualities and of that attack General Howard of the Eleventh corps bore testimony. Hooker retreated. He dropped Lee like one would a live wire." The lecturer did not go into details of the three day's fighting at Gettys? burg. Lee had been blamed for not seizing Cemetery hill, but Ewell had not the men at his comand to do it, and even if he had there was no one who could have foreseen the advantage it would have given the confederates on. the second day. He could not be? lieve that Longstreet disobeyed orders or was intentionally slow in coming on the field, Pickett's forlorn hope was no mistake, for Lee could not have known that over the wall lay Hancock's infantry'andcartillery. In going into Pennsylvania Lee had determined upon defensive strategy and offensive ntactics; that is, he would not attack unless attacked. It has been charged that he fought offen? sive tactics. That is a mistake. "I think," said Professor Andrews, "his form of defensive was offensive." Lee did not oonsider his army whipped at Gettysburg. The lecturer called attention to the fact that identically the same tactics were used by the Prussians at Sadowa that Lee had tmployed at Gettysburg. The Austrian lines formed a smaller fish-hooked the Prussians lay about them, as the southern army did, in a longer line or "fish-hook." It was by the sudden arrival of the crown prince with his army corps that victory was secured. It was when Granit took charge of the northern army that Greek met Greek. Grant pounded the gray columns of Lee, but they stood the shock. The southern army was with? out clothes or food. It was constant? ly melting away, but it was a splendid fighting machine still, a veritable engine. He showed himself at every point the superior of General Grant. Lee was never outgeneraled. He was never outflanked. He was 10 years older than any of the northern gen? erals, being 53 when ^he war hegan. It has been supposed that ydutlTTs superior in boldness and dash, but Lee was always more alert, more cun? ning, more bold than his younger an? tagonist. His work at Chancellors ville was finer, Professor Andrews said, than any battle Napoleon ever planned. He had not only personal, physical bravery, but that higher bra? very which did not hesitate to; take .when the time came, pinching that Utilization of Wind as a MoUto Force. For many centuries wind has been used in the countries of the old world as a motive power. In some of the low lying lands of Central Europe tho lumbering old windmill is still one of the characteristic features of the land? scape. In this country the windmill has of late years been greatly improved and brought extensively into use. It is estimated there are over half a million windmills now running, and the an? nual increase in sales-is estimated to be upward of 50,000. They are main? ly used for pumping the domestic water supply; in many of the Western States a farm is scarcely considered to be complete unless it can boast of its windmill pump. In some cases the mills are put to such work an cutting feed for stock," grinding corn, and the various lighter mechanical work of a farm. The suc? cess of the improved windmill in Am? erica has encouraged the manufactur? ers to push tho trade in European countries and there is to-day a grow? ing demand in the old world for these very useful and economical machines. The chief drawback to the use of wind-driven motors is that the power is intermittent and uncertain. It has often been proposed to store up this power, so that the supply can be drawn upon in calm weather. This can undoubtedly be done; but whether such storage can be accomplished with economical results is open to question. Water might be raised a certain height and stored in tanks prepared for the purpose. But' on the basis that one horse power would require the lifting of 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute, it is evident that it would require large storage tanks and .much time to lift enough water to provide a supply of any practical value. To this must be added the cost and care of a water motor to uti? lize this stored-up energy. A simple calculation shows that to furnish a oonstant supply of one horse power for a day of ten hours would require the daily storage of 47,000 gallons of water at a height of 50 feet. To ac? commodate this would require a tank 20 feet square and 16 feet high. To the expense of such a tank must be added the cost of the strong tower which would have to be built to carry. at such a height this load of nearly 200 tons. The cost of receivers and motors for the utilization and storage of compressed air would in like man? ner largely neutralize any apparent utility of such device. To store up sufficient electrical ener? gy to run a one horse power motor for a day or ten hours would require a set of cells whose, weight would be fromv 1,600 to 1,700 pounds. They would occupy some 20 cubic feet of space; and with the motor, belting, shafting and general fittings complete, the plant would cost about $500. There would be a certain amount of drawback to the use of this system in the fact that the handling of a battery necessitates some technical knowledge and skill; a consideration that must necessarily limit the range of its ap? plication.. Of the three systems of storage, the last mentioned would seem to be the best; and with further improvements in the way of automatic devices for regulating the oharging and discharge of the batteries, we may look for a more extended use of this system in the future. ? The finest yield of corn in' the South is reported by Mr.^-JIairigoB Butler on his j>lace near \ Hamburg. On one plat of twenty acres, he claims to have averaged 98-bushe?V.to the acre, and on two other plats of^eqraal acreage more -than 85 bushels to the acre. / ? For a pain in the chest apiece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on over the seat of the pain, and another on the back between the shoulders, will afford prompt relief. This is especially valuable in ca"3es where the pain is-< caused by a cold and there is a ten? dency toward pneumonia. Tor saJeJy^ Hill Bros. ? Towels at $20 apiece are among the luxuries shown beneath glass cases in some of the linen stores. They do not seem very distantly related to the heap of huckabaok and damask which the fingers of the multitude handle on