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I | J The Ninety ! _ BY MRS. ETH A \ V (Concluded.) I asked Vernon what kind of books J she read to them, and lie told me, "Wild West" "Liberty Boys," "Jessie James," etc. Now, I had never heard of the two first mentioned books, but had read the life of Frank and Jessie James, and became alarmed. I knew Mrs. Arthur, and considered her an excellent Christian woman, and wondered if it could be possible that she was entertaining the boys with such damaging literature I obtained several of the stories and read them. They really were intensely interesting, and I did not wonder that the boys were delighted. It was only natural that their young hearts should thrill over such daring and dangerous adventures, or that they should adore such courage, bravery or dare-devil recklessness. But T fell intuitively that Vernon's mind ) was being poisoned and his judgment warped. I began to see a vein of recklessness in deportment, and was always uneasy when he was out of sight, lie began to absent himself from Sunday school and would only L go to church at night. My husband was always a quiet, say-nothing-man, and though 1 knew he was worried about Vernon, he seldom spoke a word to him in remonstrance. Husband often said that I talked I to Vernon too much. "Well, on Sundays the boys, six or seven of them, banded together, and were almost a little outlaw gang. Jt was astonishing at the tricks they played on people and at the mischief they planned and executed, and how they managed to avoid detection and punishment. They would make raids in the surrounding country, steal chickens and go into camp on Sunday night, and have feasts beyond anything ever attempted by IVlshazzar It wasn't at all difficult for these boys to get wine and stronger drink and many a 'toast' was given to 'Dick Sinter* and 'Rob Eslabrook,' \ the names adopted by Vernon and (Fred; but it was a long, time before learned all this. I had been to Mrs. 'Arthur and tried to convince her that she was doing the boys an injury, hf.t, like you, she insisted that anytliMtg was better than letting them lie around the company store every night, listening to all kinds of vulgar chat. She was honest in her convictions, too, and fully believed she was doing her duty as a Christian! T begged her to read Dickens. Scott or K. 1\ Woe's works and she did try. but was horritied s<> have the boys desert her in favor of the compnav store, and to keep Kred inane was her whole ambition, so she returned to their favorite authors, and continued to stuff them with poison. 'Mlii" Sunday niuht -l -hall never fori! el it?I sat on t moon 1 il porch waiting for Vernon to come home. It was lit o'clock?-later than he usually stayed out, and I was in an agony of suspense. A freight train went lumbering by going toward Charlotte, and at the crossing shrieked like a demon. Never in ::11 my life have 1 been so near hysterics. That train seemed to he learing my soul and body asunder. I stopped my ears, trying vainly to shut our the sound. doing in the house 1 waked my husband and insisted that he go with me over to Mr. Arthur's to inquire about Vernon. Man like, he grumbled a little at my 'unreasonable fears' but tumbled out of bed, dressed and went with me. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur had retired. They said that. Vernon had left there at 0 o'clock and that Fred was in bed. 1 insisted that they look in Fred's room, and just as my heart told me, they found it empty and the bed untouched. 'Clone! gone! Our boys are gone!' T cried, and Cod in heaven only knows what my heart endured. Mrs. Arthur was almost distracted, but poor thing, it was not a new experience with her. Fred had ran away more than onco and was an adept, in the art of 'beating' trains. "Sadly we started back home, and met two of the 'gang' who declared positively that Vernon and Fred had gone to Norfolk. T could not believe it. In spite of every argument to the contrary, and without the least hit of , evidence t< bear me out in the supisition, T was positively sure that \v had gon/' to Charlotte. T wrote tier thatfnighl to the chief of poat CljPmotle describing the boys isMhg that they be apprehended . and held for further orders. Cod oless that chief; he captured our boys early Monday morning, and sent a si \ r and Nine. EL THOMAS. message to (lie police air S ami it was delivered to xme at once. My husband went to the mfil as usual Monday, but I could not. ami when the otlicer in blue uniform and brass buttons brought me the news, there were a lot of inquisr.'Jve heads poked out at tlie surrounding houses, all wondering what could be the matter. We had as far as possible, kept our troubles a secret. \ had several calls as soon as the ollieer left, but no one ventured an inquiry am? f ventured no informal ion. Mr. Arthur refused to do anything with or for Fred, declaring he could 'go to | thunder. lie was lired trying to j manage liini. "So the chief in Charlotte was nojlilied to separate the boys?not let one know what lie in'eudcd to do avMIi the/ other?do what he pleased with I Fred, but to hold Vernon; to treat ! hiin well, hut keep him confined until sent lor. ''Fred was given 10 minutes to gel. out ot ('harlotte, and poor Vernon spent the longest, loneliest night of his life Monday night, alone in prison where great rats stared at him with beady eyes from every crack and crevice. Fred got home .Monday, . riding on top of :i passenger train! "Tuesday we sent a policeman j from S after our hoy. ami the.v got home about S o'clock Tuesday night. I'nor, dirty, hungry boy! We were ;it the train to welcome him, ! but broken-hearted and ashamed, he j waited for nothing. As soon as ho j left the train he started for home?I husband and I, and some girls win went with us, hurrying on after him. | "When we reached home Vernon bad tried to get rid of some of the dirt, but his poor little face was comically streaked. We didn't speak a harsh word to him. I had prepared a nice supper for him, and had his room as tidy as could be?all snow white?curtains, bed. table cover and all, with lots of pretty flowers and some nice new books. Tie sheepishly ate a hearty supper and hurvied up stairs to his room. T followed, lie paused for a moment as lie lit his new lamp and I saw the blessed penitential tears come to his eyes. Turning he saw me with the tears streaming down my cheeks and he fell weep| ing across the bed exclaiming belt ween gasping sobs: 'Oh! mamma, Vou could have sent for nie ye-terIday!" Instantly my arms were around ' him and 1 wiped his tears away and j whispered loving word* ot' forgiveness and comfort. Tenderly I ex] plained why we had waited. believj ing it best thai he should suffer a 1'tile then, rather than more later on. i In broken M'litcnces he told me about jibe 1 horrid rats' lhai seemed anxious to make a meal of him. and I related I how all (lie live long nigh; I had ! prayed for him and his redemption. "Poor Vernon, lie was -o sensitive and shrank mi from meeting hi- old I associates, that we sent him for .1 I visit to hi* grandpa's, in the country, where he would be shielded from temptations. I>11 i the same night lie was brought back from C . while lie was in a lender -nsceptible mood. I told him that we loved him far more than he could ever imagine. and would always try te make hi* home a pleasant one. Hut he would be compelled to seek better company, or his life would be ruined, that if he ever again fully decided that any other place on earth was belter than home, if he was determined to leave out shelter and loving protection, to just say so, and we would give him his clothes and what m-mey we could, and let him go. That time lias never come! 1 ought to have stated that Hie boys went to Charlotte with the intention of joining the army?or trying to! Fred said that all a boy had to do was to declare he was an orphan and they would let liirn join, j At that time he was lfi and Vernon 1"). and both large for their age, but T don'I suppose they could have joined the army if that -rood Charlotte policeman had given them the chance. "Well, from that time on, Vernon and Fred were not ro ihiek. Two years later we moved to the farm, where we ought always to have stayed. Fred has served two terms on the chaingnng, and his poor old father and mother have grown old and gray and feeble before their time. Another one of (he gang is at proeni in jail charged with robbing a man of his money. Oh! Mrs. Allen, bad literature was and is the cause of il all.*' Mrs. Thorndyke p-.used. She went to the window and leaning out, look cd lovingly across (lie Holds ami smiled as .she heard "(lee, Fred," uttered in a ringing boyish voice. Mrs. Allen was mopping her eyes. "Land sakes!" she exclaimed at last, " I never was so upsot! Von are right, an' heron (tor I'll burn ever blessed? <?r cussed?one of them books (hat T can lay my hands on. Jim hain't read so many of 'em as to be toototally rint yet, I reckon. Laud sakes! how you must a suffered. None of my boys hain't never run away yet. an' 'pears like it would jest kir: me it' they did. I'in a goin' right home an' clean up i their rooms an* I ain't never goin' to! pack oil' cracked lookin' glasses an'i smoky lamps on 'em no more. Land j sakes! it do git next to ine to climb I up stairs, an' I don't keep their! rooms as tidy as I ought tor on account of it. An' now you .jest pick I out some good 1 looks to lend me nn' ' . 1 .jest as soon as chickens get big en-; ougli to sell I'll get you to order j some nice literature fur the boys. 1 never seen sicli a critter as you air) no how. Little an puny as you air. yon alters fires everybody with am-i Lit i? id to do soinethiu' t h:. t they hadn't never thought about before!! Il is queer that I mver thought how I wnz neglecting in-- duty toerd the boys! Sakes a live. I've u<>t plenty id' nice <dean curtains an party piller-shams. an" thers lots of flowers blooniin". I'll jest i-ive them boys a eye-o>?ener I onight.'' Mrs. Thormlyke smiled a< the ohl lady hurriedly rose and hobbled after her bonnet. "Now don't rush oil this way, Mrs. Allen! I didn't think of runnig you off. And :'s to your being neglectful to duty - I know belter. Ilere are some of K. I\ Woe's works. 'A Knight of the Niinteenth Cenjtur\* and 'The Karth Trembled." I am sure Jinuuie will like these, and if so. lie can have .-my otlier's that | we possess. Mrs. Allen took the books and tucked them up in her apron. "1 wan my hands free to nether yallcr .jessamine an' vilets along the way," she explained. "An' sav! have I got I to keep all that you've said a secret ?'' "I'd rather you would. Mrs. Allen. It's a painful hit of history and could not possibly do any one any good to hear il repealed."' "It wouldn't?eh? now. you shorely don't know what you air talkin' about, dest look how much good it's done me! Now gal. pocket your findings fur the sake of the good you may do?an write our what you've told nie an' send to every paper in the land-?or to one that everyhodv reads. You've had a or fill experience, an' somebody else may be saved from the same by liearin' about it.*' She went to the little woman and placed her hands lovingly -n Tier shoulders. "Promise me?it is your duty?an' I want dim to have a chance to read j it.'' she replied. "Hut I can't! I coardn't bear to and besides, as I told you, I've los| I lie ability to express myself on paper." declared Mrs. Tiiorndyke. " ^ on ran change the names an' everything so no one will suspicion: an* after you've taken that tea for a week, I 'll yn.iranf< e that your brain will work alri^lit. Promise | me! " "Well, tllell. if ill a Week- I (eel the .old iresistablg lonirim.' to v rite. I promise for your sake and for the possible 'joiul it may do some t Nought less j mo;her who tills her home with poisonous literature. In pen this little personal bit of experience." was the j little woman's reply, dust then a boy of eight came rushing in !'|,oin school, his blue eyes dancing jovously. Looking neither to the rigid or left, like a young cyclone he went for his mother, calling her by a dozen pet names all in a breath, and nearly smothering her in kisses. "Land sakes!" ejaculated Mrs. Allen. As she hurried away she heard: "I Jarling little iuaiiadie--T outran the girls. They said they would beat m*1 here and gel the first kiss but they didn't! Why. I didn't see Mrs. Allen! I hope she will forgive me.*' ANNUAL REUNION OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS , The Men Who Wore the Gray arc Gathered at Birmingham. Birmingham. June ft.?Amid great enthusiasm and before .">.000 people on the lower floor and two thousand at least in the galleries of the Birmingham Hippodrome auditorium, the annual reunion of the Coiifedei ate veterans was called to order by General Geo. J. Harrison, commanding the Alabama division of the Confederate veterans. The invocation was delivered by Wov. If/. J. William I Jones, chaplain general. A children's chorus followed. Two hundred chilband sang soul hern airs while the veterans cheered. General Harrison, on the stage was surrounded by General W. L. Cabell, of Texas, General Clement Kvans of tieorgia, General Tiler ami other 1 prominent officers and by representatives of the local veterans, sons of veterans daughters of the Confederacy, local citizens's committees and the children's chorus. Decorations in j (lie hippodrome were inspiring. Sons of Veterans acted us ushers in the l>iii" auditorium and every consideration was given to the veterans. The program of the opening dav follows: Called to order by General Harrison. Invocation hv Rev. Dr. n Jones. Children's chorus. Opening address. bv Ma.j. Cieneral Harrison. Southern airs, band of chorus. Address of welcome on behalf of the Stale, by (low Coiner, "Should auld Acquaintance be Forgot." Confederate chorus of America. Address of ! welcome on behalf of Itirmiughnm by j Mayor (!eo. It. Ward. Song, Miss! 3 Mary Addie Harrison. Address of R welcome on behalf of the Confeder- i R ale veterans by (Seueral J. W. Rush, ill Address of welcome on behalf of the j B Sons of veterans. (!en. Rufus N. : H Rhodes. Ad<lress of Welcome ?>u lie- , ra | half i>f I lie Al.'ibaina Daughters of , I'll he < "onfederacy. Mrs. Charles '' jij I lirown. ' I .- -?? (Iwine I tack l<> Dixie." | |j | Confedorale chorus. Reading of addre-s bv (ieneral Slephen D. Lee. ? (iov. ('oilier extended Die welcome ! of the Slate. In conclusion he said:) ( . I "I will burden you with a message i of love. As each of you cross over J to Slephen 1). I.ee. tell him that we love him st ill in Dir.io." I The address prepared by com* , mamliug ollieer (Sen. Lee before his I deal h was published and will be cir- i ciliated among Cue veterans. When I he children's chorus rose I and waved small Confederate flairs j j singing ".Maryland" and "Dixie" I the cheering lasted several minutes j The annual reunion of the Sons of i i Veterans bev.au in the Gaiety theatre! ! \vi111 (Icneral Appersou of Memphis | j presiding. The welcome address look , | place in l ho a ft ernoon. At the Stale fair grounds touighi i the visitors assembled to witness a ' [grand fire works display. Among I those whose names are menlioned j for Commander-in-chief, are General I ('lenient A. Evans of the Departinenl of Tennessee. (Ieneral Cabell of Tex- ? as and (Ieneral Cordon of Memphis ! ('hattauooga, Atlanta and Houston are contestants lor the next coiiI vent ion. Tonight I lie streets of the city are i crowded with veterans and their j friends, it being estimated thai no J less than strangers are here, about eight thousand of these old soldiers. I COUNTY INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS. A leachers institute will lie held at Newberry, beginning on Monday, June I ! >, and "out inning for two weeks. The institute wil be conducted by i j Prof. S. .1. Derrick ami E. O. ('oiinls! i in the graded school building, i 1'he following subjects will be j j 1 *!? _ lil : Civic. I'ed.- g.t.iy. Algebra, | J Aril hemet ie and Drawing. i lie colored school will be held at I I he same time in the I logo School! building ami conducted by Rev. 15. | I i.c'Mer and Ella \. Scott. These subjects will l>e lanirhl: Civics, Ped av _y. A I'i I lieinet ie and English! | (iiMiniuar. No cert i I'icale will be renewed ex-i j ccpt upon allemlaiice at this inslillute. All leachers and those who ^ j expect lo I each are urged to attend. 1 f .! S. ! jliVf Id Co. 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