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The Haunted Chamber. r e BY "THE, DUCHESs." t Au*Ivr of "Monica," "Mona Sc d," t "Phyis,"' etc., etc. CHAPTER HvI. Reluctantly, yet with a certain amount of curiosity to know what it is c he may wish to say to her, Dora wends t her way to the gallery to keep her ap- p pointment with Arthur. Pacing to and v fro beneath the searching eyes of the 1 gaunt cavaliers and haughty dames a that gleam down upon him -from their f canvases upon the walls, Dynecourt impatiently awaits her coming." I Ah, you are late!" he exclaims as she e approiaes. There is a tone of author Iy about him that dismays her. i "Not very, I think," she responds c pleasantly, deeming conciliatory meas- f, ures the best. "Why did you not come I to the libr ? We all missed you so much at tea?, "No doubt," he replies sarcastically. "I can well fancy the disappointment d my absence caused; the blank looks t and regretful speeches that marked my defection. Pshaw-let you and me at e least be honest to each other! Did r Florence, think you, shed tears because c of my non-coming?" r This xnood of his is so strange to her that, in spite of the natural false smoothness that belongs to her, it ren- a ders her dumb. t "Look here," he goes on savagely, "I b have seen enough to-day up in that ac cursed room above--that haunted v chamber-to show me our game is not yet won." d "Our game-what game?" asks Dora, fi with a foolish attempt at misconcep- I tion. h He laughs aloud-a wild, unpleasant, scornful laugh, that makes her cheek ti turn pale. Its mirth, she tells herself, t] is demoniacal. s "You would get out of it now, would a you?" he says. "It is too late, I tell s you. You have gone some way with o me, you must go the rest. I want your 1 help, and you want mine. Will you draw back now, when the prize is ialf i. won, when a little more labor will place I It within your grasp ?"b "But there must be no violence," she s) gasps; "no attempt at-" " at is it you would say?" he inter- il rupts sternly. "Collect yourself; you t surely do not know what you are hint- 9 ing at. Violence! what do you mean n by that?" "I hardly know," she returns, tremb- 1 ling. "It was your look, lour tone, I think that frightened me. "Put your nerves in your pocket for the future," he exclaims coarsely; "they are not wanted where I am. Now to " business. You want to marry Sir Ad- M rian, as I understand. whether his de- e sire lies in the same direction or not?" e At this plain speaking the dainty a little lady winces openly. "My own opinion is that his desire c does not run in your direction," con tinues Arthur remorselessly. "We both l know where his heart would ladl find its home where he would seek a i to lace fhere in this grand old castle, h buf I will frustrate that hope if I die for it." He grinds his teeth as he says this, and looks with fierce defiant eves at the l rows of his ancestors that line the "She would gladly see her proud fair c face looking down upon me from a amidst this g y company," he goes tl on, apostroizing the absent Florence. t "But t s nver be. I have sworn r it; unless-I am her husband-unless--' I am her husband!" More slowly, more thoughtfully he e repeats his last phrase, until Dora, af d by the sudden change that has dilgured his face, speaks to him to distract attention. i "You have brought me here to.-" she zventures timidly. "Ay, to tell you what is on my mind. Ibhave said you want to marry Adrian;g .1 mean to marry Florence Delmaine. To-day I disliked certain symptoms I saw, tht led me to believe that my own machinations have not been so 0 successful as I could have wished. Be- I fore going in for stronger measures, h there is one more card that I will play. h Ibav.younanote. Here it is, e; e i"-an her-a-etter folded in h the cocked-hat fashion. "What am I to do with this?" asks ~ Dora nervously. "Bead it. It is addressed to yourself. it You will see that I have copied Ad- " rian's handwriting as closely as possi-h ble, and have put his initials A. D. at the end. And et-with a diabolical g) smile-"it is no freyeither, as A. D. r~ are my initials as."c Opening the note with trembling fin- s gers, Dora reads aloud as follows: "Can you-will you meet me to-morrow at i four o'cfoek in the lime-walk! I have been i cold to von pehaps, but havelInot had si eause? You ' my slight attentions to ii another betokens a decrease inmy love for ha yobtin this, dearet you are mistaken. w Ia ours heart and soul. For the present tel .-I dare not declare myself, for the reasons- it you already know, and for the same reasons am bound to keupa seeming friendlines with sdme Iwolgaiy break with alto- S But I am hpyonly with you, and 17 too in the tougithat our hearts- n' -eaasone. -. "Yours forever, A. D." .s Dora,baving finished reading the let-, ter, glances at him uneasily. "J "And-what is the meaning of this es letter? What is it written for? What y< am I to do with it?" she stammers, the precious missive against aa teofhler hand, as though in si g of it. t "You will show it to her. You will speak of it as a love-letter written to y youby Adrian. You will consult her as to whether It be wise or prudent to accede to his proposal to meet you* - alone in the lime-walk. You wil, in. f- t put out all your powers of decep- ' towhich"-with a sneering smile-. u "aegreat, and so compel her to beieve~ the letter1s from him to you." "But-" falters Dora.d "There shall be no 'but' in the mat- e~ ter. You have entered into this affair with me, and you shall pursue it to the '~ end. If you'fail me, I shallibetray a~ -your share in it-more than your share --and paint you in such colors as will a shut the doors of society from you. a You understand now, do you?" g "Go on," saysi Dora, with colorless AIhave touched the right chord . -at last, have I? Society, your idol, you hL dare not brave! Well, to continue, you ~ will also tell her, in your own sweet in- E -nocent way"-with another sneer that.s makes her quiver with fear and rage "to account for Adrian's decided and almost loverlike attentions to her in li1 the room we visited, that you had had "l: a lovers' quarrel with him some time si] -before, earlier in the day; that, in his I fit of pique, he had sought to be re-- 01 en upon you, and soothe his ai li feelings by feigning a sudden se in er Yu olowme?" gi "Yes" replies the submissive Dora. Alas. how sincerelv she non- wishes she oI haa never entered into tmls naterul mn- ca aie when you have carefully sown in these lies in her heart, and seen her proud face darken and quiver with w pain beneath your words"--oh, how his yi own evil face glows with unholy satis- A faction as he sees the picture he has t just drawn stand out clear before his a eyes!-"you will affect to be driven byu * compunctointo grantng Sir Adrian-s h< supsdrequest, you will don -.our t] baand cloak, and go down to the lie walk to encounter-me. If I am any n - geof character, that girl, so haugh- m ttoall the world, will lower her uride e orher crushed lover's sake, and will follow yoto madden herself with your meigwith the man she loves. Toher. I shal on this occasion repre- sc sent Sir Adrian. Are you listening?" it She is indeed-listenin~ with all her p mi the master miin~ that has her r "You will remember not to startd when you meet mne," he continues, Lssnghis commands with insolent asupinof authority over the dain- h1 Doa. who up to this, has been ac med to rule it over others int particular sphere. and who now s esand writhes beneath the sense slavery that is oppressing her. "You h - il meet me calmlv, oblivious of thes factthat Ishall be clad in may cousin's e light overcoat, the one of which Miss Delmaine was graciously pleased to say she approved yesterd1ay morning."g tiseve lighat .ar:~i 'with a reventne ul fire a.s he calns to mima the singht raise Florence has bestowed in a very asual fashion on his coat. Every ( mile, e- v kindly word adlre-ssed by h his girl to his cousi, is treasured up yj ,y him and dwelt upon in secret. to the errible strengthemni.', of the purpose e has in ;iew. 01 "But it you should be seen-be aarked," hesitates Dora faintly. c: "Pshaw-am I one to lay my plans so lumsily as to court discovery on even he minutest point" he imnerrupts im- al atiently. "When you itwot mue von hi rill-butt enough of this: I shall be ki here to meet you in the lime-walk, 01 nd after that you will take your cue rom me." "That is all you have to say?" asks a] )ora, anxious to quit his hated pres nee. "For the present-yes. Fol!ow my w astructions to the letter. or dread the - onsequences. Any blunder in the per ormance of this 'arrangement I shall a iv to your charge." ti "You threaten, sir:" she exclaims ti ngrilv. though she temhles. "lef it be your care to see that I .o not carry out my threats." he re rts, with an insolent shrug. n, The next day. directly after lunch- ti on, as Florence is sitting in her own e: oom, touching up an unfinished water- 6 olor sketch of part ot the ground fi ound the castle-which have, alas, J rown only too dear to her:-Dora en- h, ers her room. It is an embarrassed nd significantly smiling Dora that t< ips up to her, and says with pretty - esitation in her tone- al "Dearest Florence. I want your ad- tl ice about something." li "Mine?" exclaims Florence. laying a] own her brush, and looking, as she h aels, astonished. As a rule, the gentle h ora does not seek for wisdom from er friends. sl Yes, dear, if yon can spare me the D ime. Just five minutes will do, and di ien you can return to your charming tl ketch. Oh"-glancing at it-how ex- oJ ctly like it is-so perfect; what a sun- s( et, and what flis: One could imagine I ne's self in the Fairies' Glen by just a oking at it." a. "It is not the Fairies' Glen at all; it al i that bit down by Gough's farm," says fl 'lorence coldly. Of late she has not t een so blind to Dora's artificialness as tj de used to be. hi "Ah, so it is!" agrees Dora airily, not h i the least discomposed at her mis- ly ke. "And so like it too. You are a enius, dearest. you are really, and B ight make your fortune, only that h o have one made already for you, l )rtunate girl!" "You want my advice," suggests w 'lorence quietly. al "Ah, true: and about something im- r ortant too:" She throws into her ti hole air so much coquetry mingled rith assumed bashfulness ihat Flor- h; nee knows by instinct that the "some- la ing" has Sir Adrian for its theme, st nd she grows pale and miserable ao- fl ordingly. p "Let me hear it then," she urges, ti aning back with a weary sigh, C "I have just received this letter," says Ers. Talbot. taking from her pocket t ac letter Arthur had given her, and olding it out to Florence, "I want to now how I shall answer it. Would el Du-would you honestly advise me. e 'lo, to go and meet him as he desires?" "As who desires?" "Ah, true; you do not know, of Jurse! I am so selfishly full of myself " ad my own concerns, that I seem to qh iink every one else must be full of d iem too. Forgive me. dearest, and h ,ad his sweet little letter, will you?" "Of whom are you speaking - to hose letter do you refer?' asks 'or ace, a little sharply, in the agfty of er heart. "Florence! Whose letter would I call tt weet' except Sir Adrian's?" answers er cousin, with gentle reproach. "But it is meant for you, not me," u ys Miss Delmaine, holding the letter "' iher hand, and 'glancing at it with ceat distaste. "He probably intended o other eyes but yours to look upon be "But I must obtain advice from some e, and who so natural to expect it hi om as you, my nearest relative? If, o awever"-puttmng her handkerchief to M er eyes-"you object to help me, Flor ce, or if it distresses you to read-" "D tresse-me?" interrupts Florence hi ui,,ily. "Why should it distress me? aI you have no objection to my reading w yur-lover's--letter, why should Ihes- di ate about doing so? Pray sit down w: ile I run through it." t Dora having seated herself, Florence A, stily reads the false note from be- in nning to end. Her heart beats fu- hi ously as she does so, and her color th mes and goes; but her voice is quite we eady when she speaks again-.f "Well," she says, putting the paper d 'om her as thougli glad to get rid of d ,"it seems that Sir Adrian wishes to fh eak to you on some subject interest 'g to you and him alone, and that m a has chosen the privacy of the lime- di alk as the spot in which to hold your e-a-tete. It is quite a simple affair, _is th not? Though really, why he could at at arrange to talk privately to you in li >ne room m the castle, wilich is sure- ta -large enough for the purpose, I can at understand-." "Dear Sir Adrian is so romantic," Ls Dora coyly-.s "Is he?" responds her cousin dryly. Fp e has always seemed to me the san- nc t of men. Well, on what matter do th y wish to consult me?" it "Dear Florence, how terribly prosaic t~ ad unsympathetic you are to-day," Ls Dora reproachfully; "and I came ha Svou so sure of offers of lav'e and up m.smp: r want you to teu me it > think I ought to meet him or not." "I don't kow"-with a little simper. n 'sit perhaps humoring him too much? a have always dreaded letting a man t aage I cared for him, unless fully, rly, assured of his' affection fra Florence colors again, and then grows D mdly pale, as this poisoned barb pier- th s her tosom. d "I should think," she says slowly, d fter reading the letter you'have just p' iown me. you ought to feel assured." at "You beli'eve I ought, reallvy"-with af fine show of eagerniess. "Now, you e not saying this to please me-to atifv me?" "I slhould not please or gratify any cr e at the expense of truth." "No, of course not. You are such a ce gh-principled girl, so different from h any others. Theni you think I might e and meet him this evening without t ,crificing my dignity in any way?" s, "Certainly." "Oh. I'm so glad," exclaimed little to i-s. Talbot rapturously, nodding herm onorable" head with a beammi he aile "because I do so want to meet th m, dlear fellow: And I value your y inion, Flo, more highly than that of it vfriendlpossess. You are so solid, thoughtful-such a dear thing alto- e ~ther." t Florence takes no heed of this rodom- fa: itade, but sits quite still, with down- de st eyes, tapping the sma'll table near no r with the tips of her slender fingers di: a meditative fashion-.s "The fact is," continues Dora, who is atching her closely, "I may as well let ey >u into a little secret. Y'esterday Sir th drian and I had a tiny, oh. such a ny little dispute, all about nothing. I sure you"-~with a gay laugh-"but to Sit seemed quite important. ie said was jealous of me. Now just fancy lat, Flo; jealous of poor little me:" - "It is quite possible: you are pretty tost men admire you," Florence re- ril tarks coldly, still without raising her N< res. in< "Ah, you flatter me. naughty girl! th el, silly as it sounds, he actually was alos, and really gave me quite a olding. It broughit tears to my eyes. an upset me so. So to tell the truth, we ne urted 'ather bad friends; and, to be ha ~venged on me, I suppose, he rather glected me for the remainder of the Again Florence is silent, though her fo rmentor plainly waits for a lead from v r before going on. y "You must have remarked," she con- 10 nues presently, "how cold and re- mi irved he was towards me when we th ere all together in that dreadful 1.2 unted chamber." Ihere she really udders, in spite of herself. The e uel es of Arthur Dynecourt seem to be . her again, as they were in that hc ostly room. It "No-reallv? Well, he was. Why, my ear Florence, you must have seen how e singled you out to be attentive to )u, just to show me how offended he as." -Ie did not seem offended at any ae, and I thought he was in articu .r good spirits," replies Forence tiny. Dora turns a delicate pink. "Dear Adrian is such an excellent >tor," she says sweetly. "and so proud; a will disguise his feelings, however een they may be, from the knowledge any one. no matter what the effort ay cost him. Well, dearest, and so )u positively advise me to keep this >pointment with him?" "I advise nothing. I merely say that see nothing objectionable in your alking up and down the lime-walk ith your host." "How clearly you put it' Well dieu, darling" for the present. and iank you a thousand times for all the me you have wasted on me. I assure >u 1 am not worth it"-kissing her and brightly. For once she speaks the truth; she is At indeed worth one moment of the me Florence has been compelled to rpend upon her; yet, when she has ipped out of the room. seemingly as -ee from guile as a light-hearted child, Liss Delmaine's thoughts still follow er inclination. She has gone to meet him; no doubt > interchange tender words and vows ith him; to forgive, to be forgiven, out some sweet bit of lover's folly, ie dearer for its very foolishness. Sie stens for her footstips as she returns long the corridor, dressed no doubt in er prettiest gown. decked out to make erself fair in his eyes. An overwhelmino desire to see how ie has robed herself on this particular sasion induces Florence to go to the )or and look after her as she descends ie stairs. She just catches a glimpse I Dora as she turns the corner, and es, to her surprise, that she is by no eans daintily attired, but has thrown plain dark waterproof over her dress though to hide it. Slightly surprised this, Florence ponders over it. and nally comes to the bitter conclusion at Dora is so sure of his devotion iat sie knows it is not necessary for er to bedeck herself in finery to please im. In his eyes of course she is love in any toilet. Soon, soon she will be with him. [ow will they greet each other? Will , look into Dora's eyes as he used to Ok into hers not so very long ago? thur Dynecourt read her aright hen he foresaw that she would be un Jle to repress the desire to follow Do t, and see for herself the meeting be een her and Sir Adrian. Hastily putting on a large Rubens at, and twisting a soft piece of black ce round her neck. sne runs down airs. and, taking a different direction om that she knows Dora niost likely arsued. she arrives by a side path at ie lime-walk almost as soon as her )usin. Afraid to venture too near, she ob Lins a view of the walk from a high sition framed in by rhododendrons. 'es, now she can see Dora. and now ie can see too, the man who comes Wgerly to meet her. His face is slight turned away from her, but the tall ;re clad in the loose light overcoat is ot to be mistaken. He advances iickly, and meets Dora with both inds outstretched. She appears to 'aw back a little, and then he seizes )r hands, and, stooping, covers them ith kisses. A film seems to creep over Florence's res. With a stifled groan, she turns id flies homeward. Again in the pri tcy of her own room, and having rned the key securely in the lock to ep out all intruders,she flings herself on.herbedandcriesasif her heart uld break. * * * * * * * Not until her return to her room does ra remember that siis did not get ick the false letter from her cousin. tthe heat of the conversation she had rgotten it, but now, a fear possessing r lest Florence should show it to any e, sne runs upstairs ana Enocas a; iss Delmaine's door. "Come in," calls Florence slowly. It is three hours since she went for ir unhappy walk to the lime-grove, id now she is composed again, and is aiting for the gong to sound before ~scending to the drawing-room bere she almost dreads the thoughL at she will be face to face with Sir drian. She is dressed for dinner, has deed taken most particular pains with r toilet, if only to hide the ravages at these past 'three hours of bittr ieping have traced upon her beautiful ce. She looks sad still, but calm and gn ified. Dra is dressed too, but is looking rried and flushed. "I beg your pardon," she says; "but y letter-the Fetter I showed you to iv-have you it?" 'No," replies Florence simply; "I ought I gave it back to you; but if >t, it must be here ,on the tabled 'ting a book or two from the gysy ble near which she had been sitt~ng ten Dora came to her room early in e day. Dora 'looks for it everywhere, in a mewhat nervous frightened manner, orence helping hter the while; but >hng comes of their search, and ey are fain to go down-stairs without as the gong sounding loudly tells em they are already late. "Never mind," says Dora, afraid of ving betrayed too much concern. t is really of no consequence. I only ited it. because-well, because" .th the simper that drives Florence arly mad-"he wrote it." "I shall tell my maid to look for it, id, if she finds it, you shall have it is~evening," responds Florence, with slight contraction of her brows that sses unnoticed. ro Florence's mortification, Arthur inecourt takes her in to dinner. On eir way across the hall from the awing-room to the dining-room, he esses the hand that rests so :reluct, tly uon his arm, and says, with an ~ection of the sincerest concern You are not well:, you are looking e and troubled, and-pardon me if u wrong, but I think you have been 4must beg sir," she retorts, with ex sive hauteur, removing her hand >m his arm, as though his pressure *d burned her-"I must beg, you will t trouble yourself to study my coun cance. Your doing so is most offen *e to me." 'To see von in trouble, and not long help or 'comfort you is impossible to ," goes on Dynecourt, unmoved by r scorn. "Ar~e you still dwelling on e past-on what is irrevocable? ave you had fresh cause to remember to-day?" There is a gleam of malice in his es, but Florence, whose gaze is red disdainfully away from him, ils to see it. She ehm:.2es color m ed benieath his words, i1 makes him reply, and, when they reach the in-room, in a very nun ted manner e tales i seat far remnoved from his. rhere is a sinister expression in his es and round his mouth as he notes is studied avoidance. [Continued.] AFatal Explosion. \ILKEsBARRE, Pa., April 3.-A ter le explosion of gas took place in >. 4 shaft at Nanticoke this morn . Twelve men were in the lift at e time of the accident. Eight were ought out at noon seriously burned one dead. The three other mi rs still in the shaft, it is believed, e been suffocated. -The production of gold in Cali nia began in 1848, the yield that a being .S9,000;000; in the year fol ving, 840,000,000, and 850,000,000 1850. The total gold product of at State to date is estimated at $1, 5.000000. -Premier Crispi, of Italy. is a mii *iaire, although thirty years ago he L one of the poorest of the revolu A BRUTAL MURDER. GuN *oennis Killed byhis Wife and a Ne% it3 &ae- Ma11, W1itb Whom nhe Became l. fataed. On Sunday night, 23rd of March, a fo most brutal murder was committed ce near Tradesville in this county. About se 10 o'clock that night the neighbors of Augustus Hennis heard him begging C, for mercy. They would have gone to his rescue, but his pleadings soon ceased and they supposed he was wrong. The following day some one of the neighbors in passing the house inquired of Hennis's wife why her ve husband was begging so for his life th the night before. She protested that te she knew nothing of it and that her husband had left home early in the p morning for Brewer Mine. Her ae- ti( tions aroused the suspicion of the party quizzing her and by Wednes day it was ascertained that Hennis was not at the Brewer Mine nor was he expected there. This made suspi- ar cion of foul play very strong and some fo of the neighbors determined to make search for the body. Roxy Hennis, the wife of the murdered man, joined 1 in the search or pretended to. Shortly after noon on Wednesday ch the body was found by a woman by t the name of Wright. It was lying in ta a ditch about 300 yards from the to house and covered over with leaves p, and trash. The body was taken out and it was discovered that a most foul murder had been committed. From the waist up was beaten al- ti( most to a jelly; part of the scalp of S the head was removed. one ear was M gone, half the nose was cut off, the cheek bone was scarred up with a knife, the throat was cut and there were a number of stabs in the breast so and back. A gentleman who saw the it< body told us it was the most horrible sight he ever saw. On Thursday Justice Funderburk summoned a jury of inquest. Mean- e while the wife of Hennis andabright mulatto negro named Rachel Cato, s who lived five miles distant but who lii was seen in that neighborhood on Monday morning, were charged with SE the crime and arrested. At the in quest the woman broke down under c the questions and related the whole h< affair. tI By an agreement with the negro a she was to serve him one year if he would kill her husband. On Sunday c night Cato went to Hennis' house, m carrying with him half a gallon of whiskey. He and Hennis took seve ral drinks when Cato proposed to go. tl Hennis insisted on his staying all night. Cato induced Hennis to go w out with him and show him the pub- w lic road. Hennis went and was there upon assaulted and slain. His body was concealed as stated above. Cato claims that he had help in his foul work. That Wm. Clybun, colored, was in waiting on the outside and n that they together despatched Hen- c nis. Clyburn fled after the inquest e and has not been arrested. The sheriff r has several deputies out in search of T him and if he has not left the State I be will likely be overtaken. Cato and the woman were lodged ti in jail at this place Friday. The wo- e man is about 19 years of age and was t married to Hennis about two years P ago. The negro is a mulatto about 27 years old. cJ Hennis the murdered man was from New York. He was a painter b and came to this country about tE three years ago. He has a father and P brother living in New York. They I have been written to and informed of a his death.--Lancaster, S. C., Ledger. J BLEW WHEAT OUT OF THE CROUND. Tricks ei the Late Terado Is southbern Illinois. S-r. Louis, April 7,-Information c( from parts of the tornado-swept re- lo gion of Southern Illinois and Ken- tl tucky is to the effect that fifteen ( families in Bay Bottoms, near Gol conda, Illinois, were rendered home less and most of their members injur- sc ed. The storm literally swept grow-- gi ing wheat from the ground. Ten g dwellings were totally wrecked and r all barns and other outhouses de- le stroyed. Several hundred head of N cattle were scattered and killed. In N Livingston county, Ky., directly or across the Ohio river from Golconda, er Jacob Schwab had his farm house blown away, his barns and threshing ~ machine wrecked, and was himself s carried two hundred feet, dashed against a tree, mangled beyond rec- d ognition, and died instantly. The house of Wiliam Bell was torn to pieces, his furniture blown into the river five miles away, his barn a demolished, stock killed, and of i his family of five, every one had an w' arm or leg broken or was otherwise injured. y Eli Bobbett and family were at t supper and although his house was carried away and demolished no one was hurt. Some of the dishes on the s supper table were found on the oth er side of the Ohio river. At Hen- a derson, Ky., it is estimated that over forty persons were killed or fatally ju~ injured in that vicinity, and twice as w many more wounded, but no names 5 are given. On Friday men went over to Circle ~ in skiffs, and transferred people from m trees and roofs to gin houses, which are generally substantial buildings, q These houses are now packed with th people, hundreds of people be- m ing in some of them. Mr. Coombs m took to Helena one hundred and ju thirty-one persons and one hundred y and ten cattle. Many of the planters w in the Circle are utterly ruined, and it; the remainder have no seed to plant, g even should the waters subside in time to put in a crop Suffering has been and will be great, and aid of all kinds will be necessary to carry. the people through their affliction. -cii ST. Louis, April 7.-Information :th from what is known as Laconia Cir- iCC cle, a section of country between iev Helena and Arkansas City, which is Pt practically surrounded by the Miss- th issippi and White rivers, is to the ef- a fet that people there are in a de- pl~ plorable condition. Water poured th over the levees on both sides, and in three hours the Circle was filled even fo with the surface of the river. The st< water averaged eight feet deep. This ch occurred so suddenly that the people m~ had no time to do anything, Their ti houses, stock and everything else ce they owned were in the water, and in a. some cases swept away before they hLis realized what had happened. ins PEOPLE LIVING IN LOFTs. t The citizens of Helena sent the bu steamer Houston Coombs down there me last Thursday as a relief boat, to aid ho the people. A correspondent on ex, board writes that when the steamer wi arrived at the Circle, a number of 3 houses were found blown off their wi blocks or stilts, and others were ca- i reened. The peple had been living is in the lofts of some of the low housespi and when these careened they could en< only escape by knocking holes in the. roofs. Several people were blown - into the water and swam to others, ab: where they remained Thursdaynight, an, nd a number of cattle were irowned. in COLONEL COlT DECLINES taten that fie )oes not Fuill E.ndorwp the Pintrorm, Col. J. C. Coit. who was nominated -Lieutenant Governor at the re at convention in Columbia, has Lit the fol1owing letter: "CHERAW, S. C.. April i 2.90 -ptain G. W. Shell. chairman, and others, Executive Committee of the Farmers' Association: "Gentlemen-Having waited a rca nable time for an oflicial notifLca m of the action of the March con ution in placing my name before e people as a candidate for Lieu nant Governor, and not having re ived such notice, I deem it not in oper to address this commuiica M to you. "While I fully appreciate the unso ited compliment which has been; id me and desire to express thanks r this evidence of confidence. yet I i satisfied that my name was put rward under a misapprehension. "It cannot be doubted that the! trpose of the convention was to %ce upon the ticket men who were full sympathy with the letter of the airman of the Executive Commit a of the Farmers'Association (Cap- i in Shell) in calling the convention gether-men who fully endorsed the Atform adopted. and who could and )uld canvass the State upon the ues therein made. "Without referring to any objec ms I had to the letter of Captain Lell, or my views as to the policy of %king nominations at this time. it 11 be sufficient for me to say that I > not fully endorse the platform, .d for this and other sufficient rea ns cannot enter upon a canvass in ; support as required by the elev .th section of the platform. "In justice, therefore, to myself as All as in justice to the body whose ecutive you are, I beg leave to thdraw my name from the ticket .ggested. This action will also re ve you of all embarrassment in Lbstituting a man who will repre nt the views which prevailed in the nvention. "It is but proper for me to say re that I am wholly identified with be agricultural interests of the State id am in full sympathy with the rmers in their effortsto better their ondition, and to this end am heartily favor of their taking an active part the control of legislation, both Fed l and State. But all must admit at honest differences of opinion as the means and measures which ill furnish the needed relief may ell exist between men actuated by Le best motives and seeking the ac mplishment of the same ends." A RUMOR ABOUT CAPT. TILLMAN. CHAR.ESToN, S. C. March 31.-A ru or ran like wild fire through the ty to night that there might be some ange in the Tillman tactics. The imor is to the effect that Captain iman may withdraw from the race r Governor in certain contingencies id that the executive committee of e late convention will substitute ,-Mayor W. A. Courtenay to head te ticket. It is said that if the op sition to Captain Tillman which ts been developed continues to in ease he will be willing to withdraw which event some other name will selected by the executive commit *e. It is impossible to say what im rtance, if any, can be attached to Le rumor, but it is said to come from newspaper man connected with a urnal that supported the Farmers' :ovement. Captain Courtenay is in Alabama d doubtless knows nothing of the Lmor. There is no doubt that he iuld command a large vote in the w country if he was nominated by eregular Democratic Convention. reenville News. Stopped His Paper. Nowadays, when a subsrciber gets mad, because an editor differs om him on some trival question, at he discontinues his paper, we mind him of the late Horace Gree y, the well-known editor of the ew York Tribune. Passing down ewspaper Row, in New York City ie morning, ho met one of is read s, who exclaimed: "Mr. Greeley, after that article you iblished this morning, I intend to op your paper." "Oh, no!" said Mr. Greeley, "don't >that." "Yes, sir; my mind is made up; I tend to stop the paper." The angry subscriber was not to be peased, and they separated. Late the afternoon the two met again Lien Mr. Greeley remarked: "M. Thompson, I am very glad u did not carry out your threat is morning." "What do you mean?" "Why, you said you were going to op my paper, didn't you?" "And so I did. I went to the office ed had your paper stopped." "You are surely mistaken. I have st come from there, and the press is rnning, and business was boom 'Sir," said Thompson, very pomp sly,'"I meant, I intended to stop y subscription to the paper. "Oh, thunder!" rejioined Greeley, thought you were going to stop. e runing of my paper, and knock e out of a living. My friend, let a tell ou something. One man is' t one drop of water in the ocean. u didn't set the machmnery of this >rld in motion, and you can't stop and when you are underneath the ound things upon the surface will Lg on the same as ever." Clemson Colleae. GREE~vILE, S. C., April 2.-[Spe l]-The executive committee of board of trustees of the Clemson >llege met yesterday at Pendleton, ery member being present. The rpose of the meeting was to locate a place of the respective buildings propose and prepare suitable ms for them, to be submitted to Sfull board of Trustees. Et was decided to recommend plans -the main college buiding three >ries high, 90 by 112 feet. with a spel attached, 50 by 75 feet: the .in building to contain twelve 1ec -e rooms, two society halls and offi-. for the president and treasurer: complete laboratory two stories h, 50 by 80 feet, tobe built accord :to latest designs from Germany: > dormitories for 150 students, a ss hall and a kitchen; a two story iclding for the mechanical depart: nt, 40 by 100 feet; ten professors Lises with from four to six rooms.. :ept the president's house, which 1 be much larger. lt is estimated that the cost of all I be 8100,000, and all builings I be built of brick andl rock. There Lundant clay for brick on the c.ce and also stone and nearly >ugh timber for the woodwork. --The Hon. S. JT. Randall is now Le to attend to his corre'spondence :l hopes soon to resume his '1uties; TIMELY TOPICS It is said that vearly s!! the postal in eit and carrit who -come thievez! 1. v by s'eslii letters addr-ssed to t er: :pus, bich bey no A cre a nh -urte to cown':a. ..oney. u A Ri-pub'lianss commi - eof eR - 1n pm Bo.:- I Re'ireirentsiivea has " ~ad mitd th;A ibereisa color line and La.$jr,-wn% ir deep and dark. It has c re-p- d favorably a bill gi-ing J. S. n Asbury, a egro, the right L :rect on 1 the sovernmei.t. rei.ervation at For- 1 trt-s. .I'lo Io a otel to I:e run "exclu- r sive% h"r cilored gues s a S p H e is a piece of h -m:- news taken rr..:n a Nrhertn paper: r "In !-ornb Carolioa. iecenty twNo I s; p:-rst zit ius colored persous. so it is r.-poried, beconing frightened by the tlara-aci- which preceded a storm, r s!4nt t" fhe gr awl and expired almost t instantly." When and wh-tre diW this h:lppen? It cvhts Solethi:tg to defend a mionopohy, especialy when it, re:ts ( upon a patent the validity of which is V disputed. The litigation expenses of I the Bel. Tek phone Company in 1888 were $222,000, and last year they were E $144,000. As there was a net revenue I from the busine.- of t.be company of t numerous millions in each of these years it managed to proceed in spite t of law',ers' fees. It has - een said that the money al ready saved to the commerce of the t United States by the use of Mathew F. Mury's charts would erect a monu ment of precious stones sparkling with diamoads, and yet it is doubtful if Congress will vote the simple sh ,ft which it is asked to erect to memory of this great and useful man. The Congress of the United States, at least when coutrolied by a Republican ma jority, doesn'tcare much for sentiment -except the sentiment that is absorbed in the desire to keep control of the government. The German companies which hoped to r-val in East Africa the success of the British East India Company are about bankrupt, and the colonies thly have founded will soon be transferred to the German States. This will les d to consolidation and perhaps to a more energetic administration than has heretofore marked the conduct of aifairs. Still, it is very doubtful whether Germany can build up an empire in Africa. Her government has begun to deal with questions of domestic p >litics that will, for a long time, absorb most of its energies. Mr. Richard J. Dodge, statistician of the Agricultural Department, is ac cused of overstating the values of the annual agricultural imports into this country by $100,000,000. As Mr. Dod!ge prepared his figures su as to bol ster up the protectionist claim that there is not an over-production of farm crops in this country for the home market, his work is probably satisfac tory to the powers that be, regardless of the actual facts. Protectionists stand constantly in need of something to bolster their position. When facts cannot be had, missatemefis answer almost as well. Making Paper from Cotton. The increasing demand for paper for printing and writing has induced in vestigation and experiments, with a view to utilize as many different fibres as possible in the manufacture. The latest suggestion on this line is to use the short lint taken fro~n cotton seed by re-ginning. The fibre of this short lint is unfit for gem ral use in fabrics, and has heretofore been n-ade into bat ting. It is claim'ed, however, that it can be utilized in making paper of a good quality. On this point the Bos ton Journal of Commerce says: "There is a Western company, be lieved to be more or less controlled by those connected with the cotton seed oil trust, which has been conducting a plant for the last two years for taking cotton seed hulls and separating from them the short lint that clings to them ater the ginning process. The clean hulls are converted into a meal, while the lint is sold to paper mills. The ale of the lint has become an import ant and growing branch of the busi ness. The machinery for obtaining these products is very complex and is th e result of much expense and patient 1 experimenting. We have, for the in-i spection of any one who may be inter- i ested in this matter, samples of the crude lint as it is delivered to paper mills, and of the lint after it has been bleached at the mill, also of two or r three grades of paper made from it. g The texture of the paper. or one grade s of it used for correspondence purposes, E we have ha-d tested and find that it ~ compares very favorably with many t American makes of so-called linen t paper. It is about half the average lI strength of genuine linen paper. That s is to say the breaking strain is thirty 1b pounds to the square inch." i The Journal is mistaken in the idea that the reginning of the catton is t~ something new. This has been going a on for some time. The use of the pro duct in paper making is of recent in-c troduction.t The Atlanta Constitution pertinently si asks why the cotton oil mills in the tU otton belt may not combine in a mill. o manufacture all their short lint intod aper. Why not? it everal years ago the legislature of rennesee pa.-sed a law making it aS elony to keep a gambling room in that Sate. A striking illustration of theh iure of mere statutes to*effect reforms ~ furnished in numerous communica ions to the Memphi-' papers which a eare that the city is honey-combed r~ wit h a variety of gambling institutions. The diffiulty. well recognized in t nss of t his kind, lies in what may be termed the inactivity of public senti went Whats we call the community a honestly condemn a practice and ti earnestly desire its suppression, yetd neiher feeling is strong enough to in- c due individual init-rveuion. Aml :u the law very rarely moves except: U ,.TRICKS OF A TRAPPER. i Which Ie Was Very Ab~ly Assisted by Iiis Mille There were tirty of i*' il (:111) 01 spur of the la:k liii ing fr )Id. says a writr lar :h N. '. hen one afternoo ked do. Pon the Iu leveL plain alid saI for iounted redskins hain a whi.m an ou a mule He wa makin fo s, but they were rapiyi overhauling im, and it was plain enoug'h that ve >uld render no assistance. The forv iost Indian tired a shot. and man and kule fell in a heap. The Indians ressed forward, velling and exulting. ut the faint reports of a revolver lached our ears., and we saw redskins nd ponies tumbling over at every re ort. Some of our inen slid down the eep niountainside to take a Mand in, ut it wNas not ieedtL. Whein thi -ached the man he sat on the ground tughing as if lie would split. "-To think!* he shouted. as soon as e could control his voice. "tiat these re Sioux, who are rated sharp as zors, could be fooled by that old ick-iat ha! ha!" And he laughed ntil he had to wipe away the tears. n the ground near by were three ead Indians and another about to die. hile two of the poniecS were ilead and ie other two .badlv wounded. It had 11 been done with an old-fashioned olt's revolver, loaded with powder nd ball and carrying a percussion cap, ut the work had been rapid and sure, he Indians had closed in on him, sup osing him to be dead or badly wound d1, while neither man nor mule had een touched. After a bit the man, ho was an old trapper. went over to he wounded warrior and said to him 2 the Sioux dialect, and chuckling be ween the words: "Say, did any of you fellers ever see , white man before?" "Many of them," gasped the war ior. "Didn't you -ever hear of that old rick before?" "Isn't the white man wounded?" "Not by a dozen, Nancy Jane. That >ullet didn't come within a rod of me. g-ave my old mule the signal to squat, nd down we tumbled to draw you oii. [he other three are dead, and you are bout to go. Say, I don't want to hurt dyin' injun's feelings, but-ha, ha, a-but it was 'nuff to kill a fellow to ee how you four opened your-ha, ha, -eyes when I began to pop. Funniest hingI have seen in a year. Durn it, . won't need any qui neeii for a month. 7'm just sweatirg the chills oif with aughing." The Indian gazed at him in a trou >led way for a moment, seemed to ealize that lie had been duped, and e closed his eves and died witbout yer raising the lids again. "Me anI Jim." Half a dozen of us stood at the door f the Erie passenger depot in Buffalo, hen we saw a tramp hearing down ipon us. There was considerable omment on his looks,. and some nessing as to what excuse he would irge, and as he came up one of the )oys said: "Come, now, but you want to get on :o Cleveland to see your wife die. don't , ou?" "Ah! I recognized him at a gianee: dded a second. "He is the mani wit! he ossified liver." "No lie isn't." put in a third. s the man who never recoveredl fromn :he Chicago lire." The tramp looked from one to) thle ther with v'ery serious face. andl when ;he laugh had ~died away hie said: "Gentlemen you are all oti. If you ave five minutes to spare please come with me." We followed himl through the depot md out into the yards, anid there on a latform was somnething covered with tarpaulin. He raised this. and .we saw the crushed and mangled remains f a man. "My partner. Jim." he explained. "We've traveled together for many a rear, me and Jim, but this is the end. WVe came in on the bumpers 1:st night, nd he got a fall under the whe(els Iown here in the yards." "Say, we didn't meanl to hurt your eelings,'.' replied one of the boys. "Oh, of course not. Poor old Jim! oor, ragged, and ignorant. but true is steel, and he never done no man arm. Gents, I'm a tramip, buit no >eggar. I don't wanlt any help, but if rou feel like chipping in a bit for p)oor >d Jim I'll get hini a white shirt to be duried in, have a barber shave his face, mud when the coroner orders him off : pauper's field I'll throw a few ilowers .nto the pine box to take the curse off." And mayhap the poor old1 tranmp in us pauper's coflln sleeps the better for what we gave.--K Y. Sn. Girls In the Schools. "The girl would make a better itudent in our public schools and ~olleges" said one of the prominent aducators of the city recently, 'if she 1d the same incentive, the same mo ive, that the young man has. The rouno man who goes to the public .choos and colleges feels that he is to be breadwinner. He has this for a clear >urpose in getting an education. But t is not so with the girl. With her notive is everything, and not having he motive she does not study to her al capacity. She looks to "getting narried some day, and having some e else provide the bread for her. "Of course, this is generally speak ng. We hear a good deal about wo nan's power of application as com lared with matn's, but my experience las been that if a girl knows what she after, if she has a distinct putrpose, in me cases out of ten she will display teadfastness of aim that is qtiite equlal o that of any boy. "Much has been said about the ca acity of the female intellect for athematics, but I can say that the rl excels in p)ure mathematics. Girls re exceedingly fond of history and lit rature and invariably stand high in diose studies. 'The best students arc Hebrews, at is they carry off' the honors. But mis is not always a fair test of intel ctual cap~acitv." The scholarship of a ~udet is dleteruined qjute as much by er home influence, by her surround igs and associations~ as by her text ooks or instructors. As a rtule the ealthy Hebrews avail themselves of ie advantages of the pulblic schools ad colleges for their children, while, enerally speaking, the children of hristian parents in similar linanlcial :rcumstalces go to private inistitu ons. This makes it partenilarly dif ult to institute race comparisons ia ie pubillic schools. "The colored girl has great imita ve powers. She does not evince or narily a high degree of intellectual , but in all subjects ill which the mitative faculty plays a par~t inl pr'o ess she usually does exceedingly well. me is especially quick at drawing and mmanship, and the like. Bat when comes to such subjects as require the gier faculties of reason or jusigment i is frequently below the atveraige. "The artistic-that is. the natuirally' tistic-student is the grirl of Celtice .ce. But the girl of Anglo-Saxon de ent is the one who generally diisplays e,best-developed 'all-round' intel lcet. .Y. Times. Mrs. Haggard of Brdn'lun, Eng. .e mother of Rider Haigard. lately ed at the age of G19. She was an ac mnplished woman of literairy tastes, id was known as tih' :ttuhoir of vol ns and verses. Oin' of these wvas a MISSING LINKS. Over aw00 R111Siuanii, have settled in and :ru01:nd1 r ( al.. within a vear. .John W - ti n mnaing ed itor of tie .- u ; i n 35 Years 0 age. In Rus-;a in1s 1there were pub lished 5.31 k . of which 17,395,050 copies wtr pnd English cnlers who used to pay $3, 000 a ton for ivory have recently had to pay as high as $10,000. Mrs. Lizzie Weaver of Bridgeton, N. J., has. a:fterforty-seven years of labor, finished a crazy-quilt of 30,075 patches. Noah Armstrong, owner of the great race-horse Spokane, reports that his famous steed cleared last season about $28.000. Mr. Hamilton Disston, the saw man ufacturer of Philadelphia, gave abut $17.000 in Christmas presents to his empnioves. The man ufacture of oil of roses is to be-in on a large scale in the Crimea, whre the roses -grow in great pro fuision in the mountains. It is saild that one of the English novelis:.s s able to repeat from memory every word he has written, and he is the :author of many books. Quinc Stodder, who died in Ring ham, Miss., the other day, aged 91 years, has hee: fifty-two years a fisher Man 1 ad was never ship-wrecked. Col. Bob Ingersoll is real mad. A New York tobacconist has seized his genial face and is using it as a colossal chromo advertisement of a cigar. Miss Amelia Edwards has announced that she will not write a book on Amer ica. This is a great innovation on the part of a visitor that will be appreciat ed. Stepniak, who is coming to this country, is described as a blac"k-haired, bristlv-bearded, vigorous-looking, six footer, with gentle-manners and kindly ways. Last year Germany granted only 3,921 pension. against tngIlnd's 9, 779 and the U nited States' 20,420. The number g1n -Led in Germany has fallen, ofi 927 in live years. A Philadelphia undertaker who has much use for his telephone, has had it rigged up on a dumb-waiter arrange ment so that he can answer a call from any part of the house. The largest and best paying graphite mine in the country is in Warren county, N. Y. In the same region are also extensive garnet mines, the ore from which is worth '40 a ton. Mary Routh Ellis of Philadelphia, one of the beneficiaries under the will of the late Jefferson Davis, is the grandniece of the testator on her fath er's side and of Gen. Meade on her mother's side. Collis P. Huntington is preparing to erect a palatial mansion of granite in New York. Few millionaires can afford two such expensive luxuries as a genu ine German Prince and a New 'York palace in the same year. For several -.-ears the receipts from the sales of public lands in Canada have not been sufficient to cover the expense of surveying and manage ment. Last year there was a deficien cy of more than $81,000. President Eliot says that Harvard is the only college from which a profes sor wasi ever taken for President of the United States, John Quincy Adams having held the chair of rhetoric and oratoryv in that institution. Kansas raised 34.000,000 bushels of wheat this yecar. If made into bread,. re(-koniing IL bushel to sixty pounds of Ilour, it wouild give each man, woman and child in the United States thirty four two-pound loaves of bread. Herman~ Merivala, poet and dramat ist, prints a card deriving teword --m-asher" fr-om masha, a Roumnanian termimeningU1I "fa-cinatifo othe eye." Hie trives as his authorihy Leland's bio tion'ary of the Roumianian Language. Where hot retorts are plentiful-In a gas-house.-BIoston Her',ald. Eternal vigilance is the price of an oyster at a church social.-Texas Sift. mfgs. Silence is golden; when the gold is coined, however, money talks.-Texas and 180.000 horse-power. In the past year the fleet had steamed 2,500,00C miles "without accident or delay." While the increase in marriages be tween English people in Great Brti has not kept pace with the population, being only 4 per cent in nine years. marriages among the Jewish inhabi tants have grown no less than 65 per cent. Here are a few definitions given by pupils of the Gardiner, Me., grammar school at a recent exami'nation: '"Exile, a part of a wagon; byword, a word that has gonle by; mci-maid, a kind of a maid; turmoil, a kind of oil; repast, to pass by." The British boat Brisk has given the most conclusive proof that a torpedo may be etl'ectiv-e. She fired one of hers at a buoy whic-h had been towed out as a target by her- steam cutter, and, missing' the buoy. hit the cutter and sank her. Indian .Jim, daptaiin of the Washoe baud in sierr-a Valley, California, laid in 100 p)ounds of flour and a can of bak. in! powdier for his winter supply. He then killed 1.000 rabbits for fresh meat and settled dlown in his camp with a liht heart. In Georgia. when you ask a man how far it is to the next plantation, --- will answer that it is " a peep and a rihit smart screech.'' He means that it is as far as you can see from where you stand and then as much further as a strong voice can be heard. A coimpany has been organized at T1 acomai. Wansh.. to build a flume to a huige g!acir on MIount Ranier, and to slide ice to ofa ciy The glacier is 700 feect thick, oftile purest quality of ice. and the expense of building the lme is estimated at $75,000. A Bc-aver Falls man says he caught a -at by liacing an apple-core with a stingi tied to it near the rodent's hole. ~n he waited and wvatched until the rat camie out andl swallowed the core. stri and all. The man then pulled ou the string and kill the r-at. A St. Louis brewery has erected the lagest brie-k chiney- wvest of Boston. It is 23G feet in height-almost, twice as hihi as the water tower-and covers 1.L.81 square feet at the base. The walils at the base are 5 feet thick, taper in! gradually to 13 inches at the tp This is the age of disco very. In the tack~ of an old looking-glass a deed was foud which wvill make the owner the proretor of a big sliee of the State of Newv Yor-k. And now 200~ letters writ ten Iy theC mother of Goethe to her son have conme to iighlt in a library at Weli mar. An Alientown hoteikeeper, while working in his barn, disturbed a colony of rats. Aided by his hostler he began aking war on tihem. One of the big rodents r-an up the gentleman'sleg, in side his pantaloons. and before he could be expelled bit and lacerated the limb terriilv. Born and raised in a Chinese tes irin kng establishment, a Chinaman in Phiadephia says the only way to make tea is to potur the boiling water on the l-avs, stirring them briskly at the aine timle. ft should be served after ilownlg merely time to settle- The f