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HER LIFE FOR HER CHILD ATRUETRAGICTALEOPNEWYORK AND PARIS. Now a Once Gigdy New York Woman Expiated Her Sins by a Life in After Years of the Noblest Self-Sacrificein the Interests of Her Child. NEW YoRK, August 28.-A gentleman who has just returned from the Paris Exposition tells a story whicti out iv mances romance. It is the story of a woman's life, far out of the ordinary Thirty-five years ago in one of the nne old houses on Second avenue lived a couple who were known to the very small part of New York society as Mr. and Mrs. Scott Richardson. The gen tleman was on the sunset side of 60, but the lady was young and beautiful. He was a practical business man and made all else subservient to that. Society was a bore to him, but he made no objection to having his wife in the very dizziest of the swim. _-The result was just what would natu rally come from such a course. One morning all the city dailies chronicled an elopement in high life. The beauti ful Mrs. Richardson had eloped with Mr. Hugh McBride, a wealthy young brqker, who had been the season's pet in society. If Mr. Richardson cared he concealed his feelings remarkably well. He closed-his house, took apartments in a hotel and went serenely on with his b? siness up to the time of his death. which occurred about ten years later. Be left all of his wealth to the son of a former marriage, and,.so far as outwara seeming went, had entirely forgotten his wife. The lady in question went with her lover to Paris, where they took apart ments in the Rue Troget, and for three yeas lived a very gay life. At the end of that time a child was born, a little girl, who was named Helen McBride. The young father seemed all at once to tire of his love, and with no word of farewell he left Paris and returned to New York, where he married within a year a young lady to whom he had been betrothed before he knew Mrs. Richard son. Deserted as she was, with no re sources and no friends, and with a child to support, Mrs. Richardson awoke to the fact that something must be doge. She was a woman of nerve, and she loved her child with all the strength of her passionate soul. Realizing that the future of her daughter depended solely upon her efforts, she resolved upon a course of action which would enable her to educate her daughter and place her in an honorable position in society. Gathering up all the money she could command, she went to one of the best private institutions in Paris, where she made arrangements to have her child carefully reared and thoroughly edu crted. Sle was to furnish all needful money, and once a year she was to visit her, but the little girl was not to know that she was her mother. Having com pleted her plans, Mrs. Richardson re turned to her native city, where for years she presided over a notorious re sort on Greene street. It was notorious because of its splendor. Millionaires went there, and at the end of fifteen years Mme. Louise, as she was then known, had not only supported her child in elegance, but she had amassed quite a fortune. Then came another crisis. Helen was taken ill of small-pox. Now the strength of the mother love asserted itself. Leaving New York, she went to her child and remained by her side, the most de voted of nurses, until she was stricken 'with the dreadful malady herself. For weeks her life was despaired of, and last she recovered it was only to ~rsHye.n was terribly grieved that her faithful iurse, as she thought her, should be so afieted, and wrote to her unknown guardian in New York, askng that she might be received on her return and kindly eared for. .There were yet five years to elapse before the young lady's education would beflnised, as her mofher desired her to be thoroughly accomplished. Mrs. Biebardson returned to New York, sold out her business, placed her money in bcank and retired into strict seclusion in a ch~eap boarding holuse. Meanwhile money was freely furnished for her daughter, who graduated, and after a sbott season in society was married most adeintageously. There was just one thing more for Mrs. Richardson to do, and that she did unhesitatingly. She took'all that rerpained of her money ex cept $1,000 and gave it to her daughter fora dower. She had never returned toaris,-nor did she everexyet to.- She -had expiated her sin by the escrifice of hrlife; so far as possible she had atoned. For the past twelve years she has managed to exist, going from cheap C odgings to cheaper ones until her last abode was in one of the wretebed shan ties on Ninety-Third street. -This'summer an old New Yorker vis - .ltinig Paris met Mine. Helen Desprets. "You speak English remarkably well, madame," said the gentleman. "I should do so," was the reply. "My -father and mother were both Ameri cans." -"What was the name?" "McBride." 'Ah!" and instantly there flashed into theigentleman's mind the old story. Be fore he thought he said: "I think Iknew your parants.". The lady then began to ply him eagerly with questions. The one desire of her life was to know mere of her parents. The result of the interview was that the lady discovered who her mother was, but not what she was. So far as was known she still lived, and the lady determined if she did to find her. Aec companied by her husband and children sh~e came to -New York and began the search for her mother. Her husband, of course, discovered the truth and told it to her as gently as possible. Although greatly shocked, the loyal woman per sisted in her search. - "No matter what she did, she was my mother, and it was all for me. I will fidher if she iscon the earth." And she -dikfird her-alone, sightless, helpless and almost starving. Last week an out ward bound steamer carried back to . sunny France the reunited parent and child. It Makes a Great Difference. The nomination of three ex-Confed erates at the Norfolk convention has not excited the cry of rage from Maine to California that one might have ex pected. Gen. Mahone, the candidate for Governor, was a leading spirit in the ter rible slaughter that followed the futile explosion of the "crater" at Petersburg -during thc siege of that place. But for him th6 result of the explosion might give been an earlier triumph of the Union cause, instead of the destruction of a great number of colored soldiers. Yet there is no cry against him from Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, nor from Senator Sherman, of Ohio. Ingalls, too, is silent. Exceptional activity in behalf of the Confederate cause is not, therefore, it appears, a matter for denunciation in cases where the ex-Confederate is now acting with the party of high tariffs.-Balimore Xrs. Kaybrick in Prison. LONDON, August 30.--Upon reaching Woking prison, Mrs. Maybrick was ex amined by the prison physician, -and upon his orders plnaed in the infirmary. The Settling Up Is Certain. Y<.u may take the world as it comes and goes, And you will be snre to find That it will 'quare the account she owes Whoever comes out behind. And ali things bad that a man has done, By whatsoi ver induced, Return to him at last, one by one, As the chickeus come home to roost. You may scrape, and to'l, and pinch and save, While wour hoarded wealth expands, Till the cold, dark shadows of the grave Is nearing your life's last sands; 'ou will have your balances struck some night, And you'll find your hoard reduced, You'll view your life in anott er light When the chickens come home to roost. You can stint your soul and starve your heart With the husks of a barren creed. But Christ will know if you play a part, Will know in your hour of need; And then as you wait for death to come, What hopes can there be deduced From a creed? You will lie there dumb X% bile your chickens come home to rcost. Sow as you will, there's a time to reap, For the good and the bad as well, And conscience, whether we wake or sleep, I< either a heaven or a hell; And every wrong will find its place, And every passion loosed Drift back and meet you face to face When the chickens come home to roost. Whether you're over or under the sod, The result will be the same; You cannot escape the hands of God: You must bear your sin of shame. No matter what's carved on the marble slab, When the items are all produced You'll find that St. Peter was keeping tab, And that chickens come home to roost. THE ALMIGHTY A REPUBLICAN. Colonel Shepard Thinks God Defeated Cleveland and Attacks the South. DETROIT, Mich . August 28.-The re doubtable Col. Elliott F. Shepard talked to the National Editorial Association last evening on the "Etbics of Journal ism," and particularly urged the brethren against keeping alive the old animosities. Colonel Shepard is out this evening in an interview in the Detroit Journal, in which he denounces everything in heave~ above and the earth beneath that isn't Republican. He charges that Cleveland intended in case of a re-election to se cure the admission of Utah, New Mexico and the division of Texas, where y the Senate would be Democratic, and that accomplished "The Son of Destiny" was to run for a third term, and otherwise act treacherously. Mr. Shepard said that through "the good Lord God Almighty, Cleveland was defeated" and the great conspiracy thwarted. Of the Southern brigadiers Colonel Shepard was especially denun ciatory. He charged that each and all of them are still disloyal, that they are waiting for a favorable opportunity to make war again, and be closed his dis course by urging the interviewer to quote all the bitter things against the South so that the visitors might know just how he felt. Colonel Shepard is quoted as saying: "I frequently meet General Sherman and he agrees with me that the Southern people are as traitorous as ever, and that there is no patriotism among them. He does not think that they will take up arms again during this generation, but that it is only the sturdy, unflinching, patriotic spirit and superior strength of the North which keeps the country to gether." These remarks do not tally with those addressed by General Sher man to his comrades at Milwaukee to-day, saying: "We have passed through one crisis of our country's history. I don't see any chance of an - other." At a late hour this evening Colonel Shepard requested that an authoritative denial be given to the remarks attributed to him. ~He sayrs the tenor of his re marks were to the effect that he knew General Sherman was very hopeful of se ntinuous growth of -real a jj ~ g th of the South ,.-rything which 'could in any way idered as disloyal might entirely disap f rom among them. Republicans and Democrats alike indignant over Shepard's break. An effort was made to give the visitors a pleasant time here, and everything passed off harmoniously except for the talk from the Colonel. TOLBERT DISGUSTED. Vain Quest of a South Carolina Republi can in Search of an Office. WASHINGTON, August 26.-Another Southern Republican, John Tolbert of Abbeville,. S. C., has turned his face homeward very mad and very much dis gusted. He came to Washington with his clothes fairly padded with endorse ments of his stalwart Republicanism and ability to fill any position in the govern ment from President down to a messen ger. He had no sooner arrived than he brcught all his influence to bear for the office of United States Marshal of his district. His hopes in that..direction were shattered in a day. The place had been promised to a carpet-bagger. He caught his breath and concluded that the position of United States Dis trict Attorney was just his size, and so every day for four weeks Tolbert wore out the pave'lent between hs boarding house and the office ot the Attorney General, and the latter's patience as well, in his endeavors to capture that valuable plum. Friday last it was whis pered into his ear that it could not be had. It had been promised to a North ern carpet-bagger. But Tolbert wr-s not to be beaten. To day bright and early, and several min utes before the ladies in the Postoffice Department had adjusted tbeir frizzes and related in their entertaining way the latest gossip, Tolbert was on hand and filed his application for the position of a chief of division. lie said be did not intend to return home empty handed if he got nothing more than a cast-off pair of Clarkson's trousers. He got neither one nor the other, and, as he left the department, he was inci dentally heard to remark that it was some satisfaction for him to know that neither the position nor the trousers had been promised to a Northern carpet bagger. It was with such frigid encour agement that Toibert rook the firtt homeward bound train this afternoon without office, without money and with out anything worth speaking of except his ticket, his luggage au:l his experi ence, together with a profound hatred of the Northern carpet-baggers that . ad done him up so neatly. Paris Green and the Cotton Worms. That one drug house in Vicksburg should receive orders for fifteen tons, or 30,000 pounds, of Paris green ih one day demonstrates thbe extent of the ap prehensio-n felt by cotton -planters~con ernimg the cotton worms in the large area of country tributary to or trading with that city. With the cotton worms apparently s'i formidable in their second generation, the third generation, which forms a vast increase over its p)rogeni tors, may do very serious damage. It is extremely unfortunate, if it be true, that the available supply of Paris green has been already exhausted. It is likely that far more than the amount already used will be needed for a month to come. Where these pests are unchecked by poison, in their third generation, they have been known to ravage cotton fields and leave the stalks as bare of foliage in the latter part of August and Septem ber as they are in early February. before being pulled up and burned, prepara tory to the planting of a new crop. N. 0. Times-Domocrat. It is reported that Baby McKee re marked'to-the President of the United States: "It's a1 ~time between frolics, granda" "' FIVE DOLLARS FOR A TRICK. Where the Feminine Form Divine Is Displayed R-=ai aless of Restrictions. With all of its claims to morality. says an Ocean Grove letter, Ocean Grove is the place on the Atlantic coast where the feminine form is most generously displayed. The female bathing suit takes possession of the streets, and the prac tices of bathers here are in marked con trast to those of the women of other resorts. This is a resort for families, and apparently all of them have brought their bathing suits along. Instead of dressing down at the beach, as is the custom elsewhere, many of the women living away up in the town dress in their rooms at the cottage and walk the whole length of the streets and avenues to the bathing pavilions and back again every morning. Taking a stand at the foot of any of the avenues that run through Ocean Grove to the beach, you may see hundreds of young women in the morn ings in their bathing robes going down to or returning from the beach. Some wear waterproofs-most of them do not. They walk along the avenues a half dozen blocks from the ocean with as little nervousness as a woman at Long Branch would take a header. The ministers are numerous here, and they have frequently put in a word against such a free display of feminine perfection about the lower limbs, and once or twice I believe that an indigna tion meeting or something of that sort came of their repeated complaints. But the procession of handsome limbs con tinues right through the Grove, and the poor thirsty man who is on his first visit says: "Well, if that's allowed, what's the matter with my getting a drink of brandy after my bath or a cigar after my Sunday breakfast?" Every olicial there regards the gay young man as a party to be studiously and well avoided. Does a small boy run loose along the board walk? ".\y dear," says the pious officer, "don't run; walk. You may create a noise or get a splinter in your foot if you run " ' The worst case of officiousness to the average new man is the sallow Jersey man who, as soon as the sun goes down, begins to patrol the beach. He carries a small cane and is so heavily loaded down with importance and authority that be could not well carry a heavy .tiek. Early in the evening this pecu liar character makes its appearance on the beach. Over beneath an improvised hammock are a young man and a young woman, and it is as natural as life that they should sit close together. he looks into her eyes and feels that there is something in the girl that brings her quite close; he therefore rests his head in her lap. "Marjory," says he, "I like you so miuch,"-and then the Jer seyman says, "Brace up there now." This not only seriously interferes with what might have developed into a real love match, but it makes the young man feel that romance, after all, is a sort of insanity breaking loose. He feels ashamed of himself to be so rudely awakened. And then at 10:30 the officer creeps along the beach, muttering as he goes: "Time's up. All off the beach at 10:30." At 10:45 the couples slowly make their way towards the Grove, followed by impudent officers." On Sundays the bathing hours both at Ocean Grove and Asbury Park are be tween 7 and 9 in the morning, and after 9 o'clock no one is allowed in the ocean. Sunday is also the day for excursionists, and most of these have been used to places where a man who hires bathing suits is always ready for business. They hang around the bathing houses to find that they are left. One of them rudely asked last Sunday, as the proprietor turned him down: "Is one allowed to chew a toothpick Sunday on tbe board-walk?" There iWa sniff of propriety in the de ligtful mosphere of the place which is most ~ easing to people who walk the stra~ t and narrow path. The ozone o s in with a pious clasp of the hands ~fron~t of the breast, and the ocean -cealls with strict propriety. .XKntucky Outlaws. Fo.ur more men have been killed as a result of the Howard-Turner feud in Harlan County, in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky. The last en counter occurred on Tuesday morning last between a posse led by Judge Lewis and a band of about fifty outlaws under the leadership of Wilson Howard. Judge Lewis represents the law and or der side, but he is not implicated in the feud, and only desires to enforce the law. On last Monday he heard that Wilson Howard, who killed George Turner, was hiding in the mountains abont fifteen miles from Harlan Court house, on Martin's Fork. The Sheriff, who was a relative of Howard, refusing to make the arrest, Judge Lewis organ ized a party of ten men and attacked the outlaws on thbeir own ground. The Judge's party were attacked in the rear. however, by a detachment of the out laws and put to flight and three of them killed. The whole County is terrorized, and such is the fear in which Howard is held that he rules it like a King. WVil son Howard's stronghold is in a country where there are no roads, and only a resident could find the bridle path. All around are deep ravines, clumps of woods and huge piles of rocks, behind which the outlaws may hide. It is miles from any railroad. In the camp twelve moonshiners' stills are running all the time, and from twenty-five to forty men are working them. Every mne of the men is wanted by the author ities for some offense, and consequently tey are ready to fight to the death. They are armed with improved Win ees:ers and know how to use them. In the party is Bill Jennings, perhaps t he most desperate man in the whole County. He is an uncle of Wilson Howard, and shares in the leadership of the outlaw.s. An Extraordinary Will. A remarkable will was recently filed in the Probate's office of this County. Two bachelor brothers, Wakefield, lived near Reidville. They were quite wealthy, owning about 5,000 acres of land around that town. They gave the land on which the Reidville schools were tounded. The schools were named for Mr. Reid. It is said the Wakefields never forgave the trustees for not giving their name to the schools. WVhen one of the brothers died he willed thbe whole property to his brother. The surviving brother re cently died. His will leaves the whole property to his sister during her life, then to the Judge of Probate for Spartanburg County in trust for ninety nine years, and after that time the whole estate with the accumulated in terest is to go to his heirs living one hundredyears hence. If his will could be carried> into effect the property around Reiili. would be tied up to a very hurtful extent. But it is not pro bable that the latter clause of his will will he sustained by the courts. The. law in this State seems well settled that a man cnnot direct the disposition of his property after death longer than the life of a person living aiid twenty-one years after the death of that person. Spartanburg Herald. An anti-sewing machine guild has been formed by the Chinese tailors of ~ong Kong. A Chinaman who had joined "the party of progress" and had been using the sewing machine was re rently waited upon b~y a deputation from the guild and requested to pay to its iembers 30 taels as compensation for using the ."foreign devil." He re fused and was instantly assailed. The police saved his life, but lie is not quite a eager now to use the sewings machine. DELICIOUS PURPLE WORMS. Gathered and Eaten by the Ton by the Piute Indians. Mr. Keeler, who has lived almost con tinuously in California, but is now visit ing this city, has brought with him many fine mineralogical specimens. After showing these to a reporter, the other clay, he handed the latter a small bottle, saying, "Do you know what those thinge are?" In the bottle were a dozen or more dark-colored objects, shriveled but juicy looking. The average length was about one inch, and they had the appear ance of luscious raisins. The reporter said he supposed that was what they were. The Galifornian smiled too, as he said, "No, they are. not; they are worms." Then he went on to say that they were considered a great luxury by the Piut.e Indians. "I call them the nut-pine worm, because they feed on the nut-pine tree; what the scientific name is I do not know." "On the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Southern Califor. nia, between Bodie and Bishop's creeks, is a great stretch of these nut-pine trees. They bear a small nut extremely rich in oil. So rich are they that you don't want to eat many of them. In August the ground under the trees begins to be covered with green worms as thick s a man's finger and from one and a half to two and a half inches in length. The worms.soon grow wings and fly into the trees. The worm, which should now be dignified by the name of butterfly, does not leave the tree, but soars around among the branches extracting the oil from the nuts. In about a month the body is full of oil; so full, in fact, that the entrails have been forced out. Then the wings fall off. It is about this time that the Piutes make their appearance and camp among the trees. They come in large numbers and provided with sacks. The worm having lost its wings again, it crawls along the limbs of the tree to the trunk and falls to the ground. Incidentally it falls into a trap prepared by the Indians. To prevent the worms from escaping they dig trenches around the root of the tree, the trenches having concave sides. I have known of a bushel of worms being taken from one of these trenches. "When the crop of worms has been harvested the Indians build fires on flat stones or the hard earth. Wnen the bed has become hot, not hot enough to roast, the worms are spread upon it and dried. They are then placed in sacks and carried to the Piule camps. A friend of mine once told me that he had one season estimated that fifty tons of these worms were gather and dried.' "How do the Indians use the worms?' "In soups. The Piutes seem never te tire of soup. They have it almost every day. A buck is allowed two worms and a squaw one for each dish of soup. Sometimes a gallant Indian gives a pretty.or popular squaw one of his por tion. The worms are not eaten until the soup has been consumed, they being reserved as a final tid-bit. I tasted the worms, and found them rich and oily, like the nut upon which they feed." New York Tribune. DEATH PE1NALTY COMPLICATIONS. New York Murderers Stand a Pair Chance of Not Being Punished At AlL NEW YORK, August 26.-What seems a sudden outbreak of murder and violence, added to the wholesale hang ings of last week, has started a general chorus demanding more and imme diate victims to vindicate the outragel majesty of the law. The brutal murder of the Grocer Luca in Brooklyn, in the presence of his wife and family, is specially exasperating to that law-abid. ing community, all the more so as the perpetrator was caught red-handed and admits his crime. Numberless calls have already been made by the press and in dividuals on the authorities to see that this midnight assassin pay the penalty of his crime within a month or sixty days, at least, as an example of swift, certain and severe justice. That this man McElvaine richly deserves the severest penalty the law could inflict nobody doubts, but will it be believed he stands a fair chance of not being punished at all? Owing to the technical mess into which the gush of the sentimental reformers of the mode 01 capital punishment has got the law, not only McElvaine and three other Brook lyn murderers, but fourteen out of the eighteen now imprisoned in the Tombt in this city have the same prospects be fore them. The law says that they must be sentenced to death by electricity, yet there is now a great probability that, Oil the appeal of the first sentence under this new statute, the Court of Appeah may decide that the electric metljxd of execution is unconstitutio~nal, being "cruel and unusual." The sentence, therefore, could not be executed. If the penalty is changed the lawyers will con tend .hat the culprit cannot be resen tenced under a return to the old method of hanging, and must, perforce, go free, since the present law states that mur ders committed since January 1 must be punished under the electric execution code. If the highest court says this way cannot be used then there is no way in which the death penalty can be legally carried out. The Maybrick case, in London, seemed to show the hardship of the Englhsh law in not providing a court of appeal to revise capital sentences. We reverse the experience, and exhibit the mnalversion of justice in a Court of Appeals that stays the execution of crimmnals for whom even Koko's "some thing .lingering, with boiling oil in it," would be none too gentle. Thrilling Adventure of a Somnambulist. Residing on the South Side is a man whose physician has strongly advised him to indulge in a regular exercise. This young man has been troubled with insomnia, and is'-occasionally afflicted with somnambulism. He believes, how ever, that he has the making of an ath lete in him,. and when lie received his physician's instructions he resolt'ed to bring it out. So lie had a horizontal bar ('rected in the back yard of the house. and upon this he prac-ieed daily. His principal feat was to grab the smooth bar with both hands and swing around with great rapidity. One night last week the young man's mothter was awakened by the noise of a door closing. She arose and tiptoed toward the back part of the house. Looking out of the rear window she saw her son, clad in his nightgown, revolving on the horizontal bar with lightning rapidity. Amazed at the spectacle of the gyrating son and his flapping night garment, she aroused his father and told him about it. The old gentleman arose, donned his pants and went to the rescue. When he sue ceeded in stopping the revolutions of the flying boy he learned that he was asleep and that lie posed as a somnam balistic athlete. He awoke him with some difficulty and led him back to his bed. Now the young man has his pa rents lock his doors and windows when lie goes to bed. lIe is anxious to reg:din his healthb, but lie will not go so far as to (do a horizontal act in his nightgown. -Chicago Herald. Mr. Cleveland and the World's Fair. NEW YoRK, Aisgust 29. -William Mc Murtrie Speer, secretary of the World's Fair committee, to-day received the fol lowing letter from Grover Cleveland, dated at Saranac Inn yesterday: "I acknowledge the receipt of the no tice of my appointment as a member of the committee on permanent organiza tion for the International Exposition of 1892. I shall be very glad to co-operate as a member of such committee with other citizens of New York to make the FIVE DOLL.ARS FOR A TRICE. How a Clever Barroom Trickster Fleeced a Crowd. "You see this dollar?" said one of a company of men in front of a rosewood bar in one of the leading hotels in Phil adelphia, and be handed a dollar to one of the group, who examined it and passed it around among the company. All decided that there was nothing unu sual in its appearance unless is was coun terfeit. "No, it's not a counterfeit," said the first speaker, "but I will let you take that dollar, spin it on the bar. I will turn my back, and will tell you whether it turns head or tail." "Impossible," said one of the doubt ers, "unless you,'use a looking glass." "No, I don't use anything, and I'll bet you drinks I'll tell it every time." "Done," said the doubter. The man turned his back to the bar, the coin was spun, and, as it settled, he called out: "Heads." It was "heads." "Make it three out of five times for another round," said another of the group. "Certainly," consented the stranger, accommodatingly. Again the coin was spun around and "tails" was called. The third time it turned "tails," and a third time the stranger "called." "I can keep it up all night, gentle men," he said smilingly. The drinks were paid for and the stranger. under the genial influence of the liquor-and the urgent requests of the company, said: "I don't often give my tricks away, but it will leak out sooner or later. You see. gentlemen, the coin on the 'head' side is nicked very slightly by a knife, the nicks being about an eighth of an inch apart. The nicks are so small as to be scarcely perceptible. When you spin the coin, if it turns on the nicked side it settles quickly, whereas on the other side it slowly settles, taking twice as long to 'die' as on the other side. By the difference in sound, you see, I can tell which side turns up, or, rather, down. It's all told by sound." The coin was handed around and spun again, and what the stranger said proved true, much to the delight of the group, who were glad, apparently, as is usually the case, to get hold of a trick which at first seemed inexplicable. "There, fix me a dollar that way," said one of the group, handing out the money, and the other four requested a like favor at the hands of the stranger, who, taking out a penknife, obligingly did as requested. Then, bidding them a polite good night, he gracefully retired, leaving the group spinning their coins. Suddenly one of them picked up his dollar, examined it, and quickly flung iton the bar, the sound given out being the unmistakable dull, dead sound of a counterfeit. "Done for $5," said he, as he looked ruefully at the door where the stranger had disappeared. "Well, we've learned a trick well worth a dollar," said another, philo sophically. A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT. How Ed. Heilig Stole H Lady Love from the Greensboro Female College. DURHAM, N. C., August 29.-The Globe has information concerning a ro manitic elopement which took place at the Greensboro, N. C., Female College a few days ago. Ed. Heilig of Mt. Pleasant, N. C., - was the suitor for the hand of Miss Mattie - Kindley of the same place. Objections seemed to have been interposed by the young lady's parents, who dispatched their daughter off to a boarding school, hoping to break off the attachment. Heilig went to Greensboro, procured a ladder, mounted to b.'s lady love's window, and in the darkness of night carried her off to Salisbury, where they were married. The last Legislature of this State granted this institution special police powers for the prevention of such dis turbances and making it a misdemeanor to enter the grounds for the purpose of interfering with or inducing any stu dent to violate the rules of the institu tion. As this is the first violation since this enactment, it is thought that suit will be instituted against young Heilig. A QUABTEE OF A MILLION. Is What a Columbia and Greenville En gineer Comes in for by the Daath of an Uncle of His Wife~. It is not often that a freight train leaves auy city with an engineer at the throttle worth a quarter of a million of dollars. Such was the case yesterday when Engineer W. H. Dorsett drew out from the Columbia and Grreenville yard with the mornmng freight for Greenville. Mr. Dorsett has filled the position of engineer on the Columbia and Green ville Railroad for some over a year past and has made his home in Columbia during that period. His wife, a Miss Pope before marriage, is the daughter of the late Superintendent Pope of the Vaucluse cotton factory, and is a niece of Mr. L A. Pope, who, as the owner of extensive silk manufacturing business at Paterson, N. J., amassed a large for tune. By the death of this uncle Mrs. Dor sett falls heir to one-fourth of his for tune, estimated at over one million of dollars, as she is one of the four heirs; among whom the estate of the deceased is to be divided. Mrs. Dorsett yeste day received n-otice of the bequest an' sent on an acknowledgment of the receipt of the information. Mr. Dorsett yesterday received a telegram requesting him to come on at once to attend to the busi ness.--.C'olumbia Register, Augujest |d9. A Young Man's Shocking Death. Josiah Lliott, J1r., of Round 0, Colle ton County, a young- man about 25 years of age, met with a hori-ible death last Monday. He left his home in the morn ing andI camne to town for the par pose of carrying a boiler to his father's place of business, the conveyance being two tim ber 'carts, an which the boiler was placed, and lie with othe-rs started to return home-. When passing out of town he tied the sweap of the ceart, the cart beinig reversed, to sonme poles on which the boiler rested, and seated him self on the boiler. He had beeni in this position hut a few nminutes when the rope with which the sweep was tied broke and the sweep- flew over. and struck him on his hack, hi-caking his shoulder and ribs, and mnjr-ing him in ternally, causing death in about half an hour.--Walterboro Pre.. Valuable Discovery Near Pickens. Colonel J. E. Hagood has had some men at work in a mica mine necar this place. and went out last Monday to see how the work was progressing, when lo, they had unearthed a valuable marble quarry. Right under their feet was a mine of untold wealth. The marible taken out rivals in purity and texture that of any of the famous quai-ries of the East. It is whiter than that pro duced by the famous Beaver Dam quar ries near Baltimore, andl will compare favorably with that put on the market by the noted Proctor qu:trries of Ver mont. Colonel Hagood says the supply is almost inexhaustible~.-Pkens &en tinel. Ertent of the Johnstown Calamity. The full mnagnitudA of the calamity at Johnstown has '>een carefully cal colated. The losses in Pennsylvania alone fro~m the floods of May 30 to June 1 amounted to $t0,000,000 and 6,500 lie - Phladerisiki pre. . HOW IT CAME ABOUT. The Way a Popular Play Was Written and an Old Custom Revolutionized. In "Leaves from a Dramatist's Diary," Dion Boucicault relates how he came tg write one of his most successful plays. It was toward the close of 1859 that Boucicault entered into an engagement with Misi Laura Keene to perform five months at her theatre, the Olympic, in New York He opened in "Jen nie Deans," which me; with great success, and was followed In time by "Vanity Fair," a comedy in three acts, which failed. Mr. Boucicault, who writes his reminiscences in the third person, so to speak, continues in these words: "This work had been relied on to carry the engagements prosperously to the end of May; twelve weeks of disaster lay ahead, in which all the profits of the season and more, too, must inevitably disappear. "Have you nothing-no subject, no play half writtent Can you think of nothing to replace this unlooked for collapse?" pleadel Miss Keene. "'1 have nothing,' replied Boucicault, 'ex cepting a very poor sketch of "Little Dorrit," and another of "Bleak House," but let us meet to-morrow and talk it out.' "It was a bitter night, and the sleet, driven by a northerly blast, lashed the author's face as be turned up Broadway. A few doors fromi the theatre a dim light in a cellar showel that a thrifty little Italian, who sold chetap publications and small stationery, invited the belated pedestrian to buy a home made cigar. His name was Brentano. Descending into the den, where he knew he would find the usual display of ten cent literature, Bouci cault asked for two novels, over which he in tended to spend the hours of the night. Bren tano pointed to a shelf where a scanty row of cheap novels represented his stock in trade; from these the visitor selected a dozen at nazard, and with the pockets of his overcoat stuffed, he pushed his way through thi sleet and darkness to Union square, near which he resided. The following morning Miss Keene receive: this letter: ".My Dsau Lw'a-l have It: I send yon sevi-u steel engraLvings of scenes around Kiliarney Get your sc.ua painter to work on them at u:xe. I aiso s-ua.l a book of lri:;h mekdies. with tb-. marked I ,esin, haker to score fur the ort.hestra I shall read act one of my new Irish play on Fri day; we rehearse that while I am writing the see ond, which will be ready on Monday; and we re hearse the second while I am doing the third. We can get the play out within a fortnight. "Yours, D. B. "Among the books picked up at Brentano's was, happily, 'The Collegians,' by Gerald Griffin. Throwing it aside Boucicault evolved 'The Colleen Bawn.' These incidents may appear too trivial for such particular record. but these results will be seen to have a signal importance. The least important was the revolution effectel by this play in what may be termed the Irish drama and the represen tation of Irish character. But the adven tures of the Colleen Bawn in England will be seen to have contributed mainly to a fun damental change in theatrical affairs throughout the world. In September, 15G:), it was produced in London at the Adelphi theatre, and its success enabled Mr. Bouci eault to carry out the plans he had vainly endeavored to put into operation in 1852. He refused to allow the 'Colleen Bawn' to be played on royalty or fees. He engaged four comedians, Mr. John Drew, Mr. Sloane, Mrs. Slnaneand Mrs. Hudson Kirby, and instruct ed them in the principal characters. He of fered the play as the star, supported by this group of American comedians. He expe rienced much resistance on the part of man agers in the provincial theatres, but at last his terms were accepted, the play became the thing and the author received half the gross receipts. A second and a third company were organized and sent out. "In the following year he sent out 'The Streets of London,' and in 185 he sent out three companies with 'Arrah-na-Pogue.' The leading dramatic authors, perceiving the very large profits accruing from this new method, began to secede from the Dramatic Authors' society, and to follow the nnw method, under which the name of the author of the play was starred and his importance recognized. The provincial theatres became so overrun with these new companies that managers proposed to the authors to send out, not groups, but entire companies of comedians. By such means the mnanamers could dispense with local companies ato gether. This suggestion was accepted, and thus 'stock companies' were swept away. "At a meeting of the French dramatists and composers, held in Paris in 1866, Mr. Boucicault described this new methods of arvesting the provincial theatres. The shrewd andl practical Frenchmen adopted the idea at once. But It was not until after 172 that the United States finally gave up stock companies and adopted the new sys ter." A Small FamIly. An old lady cff 75 or more met an acquaint ance in a Boston horse car, and imparted to her the information that she was intending to start shoi-tly for California. "My only daughter lives out there," added the old lady. "and I want to be with her. You know I'm an orphan." Moro surprising even than this woman's case was that of a "contraband" who came into the Federal lines in North Carolina, in 1803. Hie reported himself to the officer of the day, and the following dialogue ensued: "What's your name?" "My name's Sam." "Sam what?" "No, sah, not Sam Watt; I'se just Sam." "What's your other name ?" "I hasn't got no oder name, sah! I'se Sam-dat's all." "What's your master's name?" "I'se got no mass now-massa runned away. Yah! yah l I'se free now." "Well, what's your father's and your' mother's name?" "I'se got none, sah-neber had none. I'ne just Sam-ain't nobody else." "Haven't you any brothers and sistersP" "No, sah-neber had none-no brudder, no0 sister, no fader, no mudder, no massa! Noth in' but Sam. When you see Sam you see all dere is of us. "-Youth's Companion. Uses of the Phonograph. The phonograph seems destined to play an important part in the future, and It is being utilized in all sorts of ways, both "useful and ornamental." If half of what the inventors. claim for it comes true, the children of the near future are going to have some wonder ful toys. Inventors are now at work on a long li.-t of nursery wonders, in all of which the new mxechanismn.is to be the main featu're. Te phonographic doll will talk, laugh, cry and sing like a human being. Noah's ark will contain a drove of neighiug, braying, lowing, barking. igewing, hissing, cackling creatures that will rival a menagerie. The song notes of flue singing birds hav e beenu preserved on metal slips and the results com bind, so that one may have a papier mache canary which will require no attention arid which wvill sing with many tues the volunie and at many times the length of any birdl that ever lived. Mothers, too, have the prom se of a phonographic cradle, at the bend "? which the wonderful me~hanism is placedi that will sing sweet lullabies by the hour to tihe fretful infant, soothing It and its tired parent to sleep at the same time.--Frank Leslie' Newspaper. - Stealing Democratic Thunder. The St. Louis 6tlobe-Demnoc-rat, the leading Republican paper West of the Mississippi River, in an editorial article, under the caption "The Tariff Out of Politis," says: "The Republicans have n opportunity to take the tariff out of politics and keep it out for the next ozen years at least. They can do this by making an honest, intelligent revision af the customs schedules, coupled with suh a modification of the internal taxes a the people desire, or as soundt( con iervative potlicy dictates.' This is ex ectly the position assumed by thn' plat Form of the national Demnoern:ey m.~ the Last campaign. for which the' party was lenounced os the advocate of.- fre ~rade. But the concession is inevitabhle, nd io the Democratic par'ty is duec all :he credit of the battle foir tariff refornm. .daltimor'e ,Sun. Raising Buffaloes. A mnan named Jones in Kansas, who s widely known as "Buffalo" Jones, has Ievoted twenty years to the study anti earing of buffalo calves, and has an mmense range in Utah atnd one in Kan as from which lhe supplies parks and rivate individuals. He says thlat his arge, fine brutes are free from the dec ected appar-ance noterd in circns ani The ManningAcademy, M iv rxr3r , S. C. A GRADED SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Twenty-Second Session Begins Monday, September 2, 1889. PRINCIPALS: REV. '1'. J. ROOKE, MRS. E. C. ALSBROOK. hiss Marie Graves, of Virginia, a skilled and experienced teacher of Music and Art has been employed as assistant Thorough instruction given in Hebrew, German, Greek, French. Latin, Book-keep ing, Calisthenics, and Kindergarten. (No extra charge) The Department of vocal and instrumental Music will receive careful and systematic attention Special attention will be given to Reading, Spelling, Singing, English Composition, Penmanship, and Drawing The Department of Fine Arts will include Charcoal and Crayon sl-etching, Water and Oil Painting, Lustra, Kensington, and[ other ornamental work. The school is non-sectarian. Boarding pupils are required to attend Sun day-school and Church at least once every Sabbath. 'he most approved text books are used. The blackb.>ard is leetlied an es sential in the class room. The meaniiny of an author is invariably required of each pupil. In all work done, in whatever department, and whaitever the ex tent of iground covered, our motto shall always be Tmoo)r-GHNF.s. To this end we shall require that every lesson be brneed, if not in time for the cliss ree tation, then elsewhere. No real progress can be made s") long as the pupil' is allowed to go on from day to day reciting only half perfect lessons. TERiMS PER MONTH OF FOUR WEEKS. Priuary Dep:rt'ment (3 years' course),................. . $1.00, $1.5), and $2.0 Intrtiediate Department (2 years' course) .... ............... .... . ... :( Hight-r D--particmit (" years' course),...........................$3.00, :mit 3.50 o.ll egiate -epartmient (3 years' course),.....................$41.0), ail .'0 Musie, i nidng use of instrument............................. ..--- - -. Painting and I irawing,.................................... .... ... .) (ontingenLt Fee. per session of 5 months, in avance,................. - - . . Board, per mnti...... .. .............................. ..... . (() hoard frot Monday to Friday- (per month),............................. .1:0 Before deciding to what school to send your children consider the superior advantages of the Acadanuy for a thorough business education andt Ietra tion for 'olleges and Universities. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Deaer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery. Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad,. Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. 46-Velis e'reented with promptness and Dispatch. &ndf/or price lists. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. R. C. BAtKEILEY, President. C. BISSJL .rLrss. Gen't Manager. RICHanD S. GA'rT, Sec. & Treas.. The Cameron & Barkeley Company. 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