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Never Satistied. In winter, when the iigltts are long. And Boreas rules-a cruel king We long and linger for the spring. And dream we hear the bluebird's song. In spring. when days and nights 1re even. And storm and sunshine st : gether, We weary of the cianin wteat And sigh for sumnr's fer e In summer. when the i:ilts ,' br M And days are an. an i glow i heat, We chicle Time s su y m;oin eet. And long for autumun's falling leaf. In autumn. when with even beam. The balance holds both night and day, We sigh that summer goes, and say "The winter come: we sleep and dream." Where is the season of content? Where is the hour of perfc e ' Alas, the search may never ces Till all the days of lit' are ;pent le Twlo OrlInass. By D'EInncry. CIIAPTER IV. THE ABDUCTION. For a few moments after Marianne had been carried away by the guards. the two orphans stood silent. They had, in the few moments that had elapsed since their arrival in Paris seen more misery in one poor girl's life than they had thought could exist. from evil causes, in the whole city. Having been born and reared in the quiet Norman town, they knew none of that misery which arises from sin. and judging others by their own pure and spotless lives. were shocked be yond measure by Marianne's brief con fession of guilt. For a moment nothing could have presented so touching a sight as the two young girls, standing clasped in each other's armsand striving to com fort each other in their grief at Mari anne'ssad fate. ' Although, as the poor outcast had said, they had never before seen her, nevertheless, from out their pure, ten der hearts went a great flood of sym pathy and sorrow of the poor creature who, forsaken in her hour of trouble by the man for whose sake she had set upon herself the brand of infamy, had now commenced her life of expiation. Louise-was the first to break the si lence' Her quick ear had caught the ' d of Pierre's footsteps as he came ack from a neighboring street, and she trembled involuntarily. "Henriette, where are you?" she said, in a voice which betrayed her emotion. "You are frightened, sister," an swered Henriette, looking anxiously at the blind girl. "Yes-yes, I am indeed," exclaimed Louise, as she grasped her sister's arms, as if to receive some assurance of her safety. "And the night is falling fast," said Henriette to herself, beginning to feel seriously alarmed on account of the non-appearance of their relative. During this time Pierre had remain ed by his wheel, busying himself in performing some trifling work, and tening intently to the conversation. that he might know if it was not pos -sible for him to render them some as sistance. Those to whom fate has been unkind are ever more ready to assist their suf fering fellows then they who have re ceived all the gifts a kind Providence can bestow upon them. The unprotected condition of the two girls had to the poor cripple some thing touching in it, and he longed to -assist them; or at least to say some comforting word. "Why does not MIonsieur M1artin come?" exclaimed Louise, giving her self up entirely to her fears. As she spoke, and almost in response to her question, a man advanced -.o * ward them, coming, apparently. frc~m out of the shadow of the buildings. We have no need to describe him. -for the reader has met him before. It was Lafleur. "Here I am, mademoiselle." he said. as if in answer to Louise's agonized question. Henriette gave utteranee to a cry which was at the same time expressive of relief and fear. She disliked even theappearance of the man, and instinctively she recoiled from his approach. wsa infcn -as her sister's exclamation. She could not see the approachling man's form, but she could hear his voice, and she could distinguish a pe * culiar tone which caused her to fear this man on whom she believed that she was dependent for support. Pierre saw that the friend whom the girl's were expecting had arrived. armid taing up the water can from his wheel, he limped slowly down the long flight of stone steps which led to the river, to fill it. -He could not repress a sigh as he went, thinking that he should never again see the fair young girls who were so pure and so holy,that while in their presence it seemed to him he was standing in a bright, glorious ray of sunlight. "We began to be very anxious," said -Hlenriette, as the man waited for her * Laleurcould not meet the gaze of the pure girl against whom he was about to commit so great and deadly a wrong, and holding his head in such a position that his eyes might not -meet hers, he said: 'You must excuse me, for I live at a great distance from here." "A great distance?" exclaimed Hen riette, in surprise. "Why, we wvere told that your house was but a few * steps from the bridge," said Louise, excitedly,at thus receiving such direct confirmation to the fears which his voice had aroused in her mind. Lafleur saw at once that he had made a mistake. He was thinking of Bel-Air, and had, for the moment, for-! gotten the part he was playing. And in his endeavor to rectify his error quickly, he made matters very much worse by the hesitating, nervous man-! ner in which he spoke. "Yes--yes, iudeed it was-that is,.I did live but a short distance from here but you see I have moved. Come. come let us go. mademoiselle." "You have moved?" replied 11enmri ette, still too much surprised by her relative's appearance to be able fully to collect her ideas. "Yes-yes, only yesterday," repiie-d Lafleur, impatiently, as he~ felt he could not keep up the very thin sem blance of honesty which he ha'd assum ed, much, longer before t he searching eyes of these innocent girls. "And you said nothing of it m your letter?" queried Hienriette, as she. shrunk back from any contaict w th the base wretch who stood before her. "No," answered Latieur, (luickly. "I did not mention it because-be cause, in short. I did not know~ that I was going to move, but if you doubt me, here are some neighbors 01 mineC Sood. honest citizens. who will vouch As he spoke lhe mnade a sin wh ih was unseen by Hlenriette, andu at tie same instant three men came out from the same angie of the building at which Lalleur eme-rgei. and came to ward the little gr-oup. It was impossible to see one -in Cf honesty about these nelighbors of LI fleur's: but on the cont rar-y. Ineir ap pearance and manner' prxclaim.-d t' b, to be men who, for the sake of a. f-w francs, would not hesitate at :myv a tion however v'ile. Had honest Pierre bee~n sent by~ fat .just at that partic-ular momrent, he would h-n-e had no di'Reunt in r -o. nizing them as cut-throats n ho were known to be ready for any species of vili any wh c! promI sed to bring then in ionay. As ILchrstte saw the men advane ing to'a(rd !lr. Alh, looked into their iace. anti in an instant had read their -haracte4rs as plainly as if she were re::ti:;. the pgSe of a hook. Louise felt intuitively that some t' r ' l' imnd(ied. for she caught her b the ai in and exclaimed: 1 iui te, do not !'e ve me!" II nriette had no time toanswer her sisters entreaty, for the men whom La!!eur had called up had approached very- near, and one had stepped l'e tween her and Louise. "What is the meaning of this: sie asked. panting with fear. She receive(l no reply: nut La leur turned quickly to his men. and er:ea: "Come-t'omle. we have lost time enoug. To the carLiai" TIis was evident ly the signal which the sceandreis were waiting to hear. for hey at once sprung upon Henri ,e a:i grasped her firmly. St ruggling impotently in their clutches. she got her head free long cnough to cry inan imploring voice: "No-no: Help-help:" and vainly tried to prevent the villians from coy erin- her face with a handkerchief which was saturated with some pung ent odor. The struggle was very brief. In less than thirty seconds the dastardly deed was done, and Ilenriette was borne rapidly away. leaving Louise petrified with fear. - CHAPTER V. BLIND AND LONE. For an instant the b':nd girl stood in an anxious. listening attitude. hop ing to hear her sister's voice again: but no familiar sound met her ear. only the rushing of the water, or the foot steps of some pedestrian in the dis tance. She was alone in Paris. Blind and anone. wc ithout relatives or friends. No one to whom she could go save to Him who watches over the sparrow. and His ways are rot man's ways. "I hear nothing." said Louise, in a terrified whisper, as she again bent her head to listen. Then, in a voice trembling with fear, she cried: "Hen riette. where is that man! Sister, why do you not answer me?" But no reply came to her agonized cries. "Henriette! Ilenriette: Speak to me, speak one word. Answer me, Henriette!" No answer, no reply: At this moment she heard a half stifled cry in the distance, and recognized the tones of the voice. "Louise," was the cry, and the poor blind girl knew that her sister was be yond reach and in the power of cruel men who knew no mercy. "Ah: 'tis she. They have dragged her away from me:" exclaimed Louise, in a tone which would have thrilled a hearer's heart with pity. "Oh. what shall I do: Alone:-alone! abandoned!" And with the last word the full measure of her situation surged across her brain with irresistible force, and she burst into a torrent of tears. Would that it were possible to express through the cold medium of letters all the in tense suffering which came from the poor girl's heart with that one word "abandoned." The reader, sitting in his or her cozy home, surrounded by friends, can have no idea of what the word may express: no idea of how a loving heart may be wrung when that word portrays their situation as fully as it di , in Louise's position. "Whlat will become of me?" she cried, between her sobs. "Alone in this great city: helpless and blind-my God: what shall I do? Where am I to go? I do not know which way to turn:" The poor child knew that she was standing in the street, and in danger of being rudely pushed about by any party of revelers, or so-called gallants, that might pass her, and her instinct. for her brain was in such a whirl that she could not think, warned her to try and reach some place less exposed. She groped her way around: but her hands touched nothing. until unwit t ingly she approached the railing or wall which served as a guard to the steep bank that descended to the river. Along this she felt her way until suddenly her hands met the empty air. It was the angle formed by the lorng flights of rough stone steps which led to the water, and all unconscious of her danger, she was about to pursue her way. Another step and slie would have been dashed upon the rocky shore be low, when, without having heard a sound, she found herself clasped in a man's arms. It was Pierre, who, having tilled his water-can, had toiled laboriously to the top of the steps just in time to save the life of her, who to him, had seemed little less than an angel. "Great heavens!" he exclaimed, as he bore her to the centre of the small square, "what were you going to do?" "Nothing-nothing-what was it?'' cried Louise, incoherently, as, pale and trembling, she tried to comprehend all. "Another st. o and you would have fallen in the riv r:" answered Pierre, in a tone of horror at the thought of what might have happened. "Oh, save me-save me!" cried Louise, grasping Pierre by the arm, as though fearful of beingseparated from one who could assist her. By a singular chance, Pierre's mother had finished her arinking bout with her beautiful son Jacques, which was paid for with a cr-ipple's scanty earnings, just at this moment, and she emerged from the cabaret just in time to see her son supporting a beautiful oung girl on his arm. It was seldom that Mother Frochard allowed herself to be-surprised by any thing she saw: but in this instance she. was astonished. Had it been Jacques she w'ould not have wondered: indeed, it only would have seemed natural. But Pierre! why the girl must be crazy, was her first thought: and then with her masculine stride she went up to them. and peered curiously in Louise's pale and frightened face. "Why, what is the matter?" she asked. ~"What are you doing there. Pierre?' But Pierre was too much occupied with his charge to make any reply, and La F~rochard seized Louise by the arm with no gentle force, and asked in her shrill rasping voice: "Young woman, did you fal?" IHars;h and coarse as the voice was, it was a welcome sound to Louise, for she knew it was one of her own sex who had spoken. She took hold of the hard, dirty hand, and because it was a woman's touch that met hers. she could hav-e kissed it. - "Oh,. madame,' she cried, in an im plorinvo tone. "1)o not leave me, I beg. i entreat you not to leave me here anil alone." 1t her Frochard prided herself upon not being weak, and she did not deign to answer Louise's prayer. Bumt Pierre hasted to reassure her. "Calm yourself, mademoiselle, there is no danger now," lhe said soothingly. as he gazed upon her beautiful face. "What is it?" asked the old woman, impatiently. ''Have you lost your head?" And in tile last question there was a sneer in the tones of the voice which were growving harderi and harder evei'y moment. "Yes-yes." answered Louise. hardly knowing whlat she said. "'I believ'e I sha I go mad. Alas: madamne, a few moments ago my sister was here wit h me and thley have stolen her away from 'Stolen heri?" replied Pierre. in tones of the deepest conuniseration, which presented 'a st rikingr contrast to his moth1er's remar-k. 'Well, you nmust let your parents know," she said, coldly, as though iavng a child stolen were not hing "dur parents:" exclaimed Louise. sadly, breaking once more into tears. "Alas. madame. we are orphans:" "You have acq.uaintances-rienids?" ( paid Pierre. We llave only just arrived s in Paris. and I know no one here. TO Pierre tis initlfience was sad: but his mo1ither' seeme ato1 vien. the' riatir (iii. :y. eor sihe asked eagr lv No oa no one at all!?" Louise slo': her lams sadly. --e e th people who took your skisme away. gentlemen or common people?" asked Pierre, with the faint hope that he liiit aid her to rind her sister. "ilox can I tell?" asked Louise, moaraflly. :You could see their clothes." said Mother Frochard. impatient at what she believed the stupidity of the girl. "Alas. madame. 1 am blind," said 1 Louise. sadly. "You are blind!" exclaimed Pierre. 1 pityingly. as he gazed at her sightless eyes. 'Mother 'rochiard looked at the young girl much as one would look at some newly discovered treasure. and she saw in a moment many ways of a turning her prize to account. 9 "Ah. ha:" she thought, "Blind. 1 without relations friends or acquain- i tances in Paris: and young and t pretty." "it is true." said the cripple, as he finished his examination of the poor girl's eyes. and turned sadly away. "Soyoung and pretty. too." he said. t half to himself, wiping away a tear. that, despite all his efforts, would I make its appearance. 1 "Go: leave me alone with her," said the old woman. "I'll take care of f her." But Mother "rochard's promise to "take care'' of the poor girl meant a great deal more than the words con- I veyed. 11er care was something to be r shunned, and God have mercy on the r unfortunate whom the old woman v should take under her protecting care: "Yes. mother," said Pierre, signify ing his readiness to obey his mother's commands, "we must help her to Lind her sister." "That's all right!" exclaimed the old woman, in a voice which she meant should be kind and motherly: but at the same time darting a furious look at Pierre. who still lingered. "I know what to do." Pierre stood gazing at the blind girl. who still retained her hold of the old woman's arm, and it seemed as if he was unable to leave her charmed pre- L sence. 'You get out!" exclaimed the old a woman suuddenly, in a fierce whisper, as she unloosed the girl's grasp, and 1 went toward the cripple. t Fearing lest she was about to be de- 1 prived of her protectress, Louise, said, as she vainly endeavored to tou:h her arm again: "You will not leave me, madame:" t "Never fear, my dear, I am here," replied Mother Frochard, cheeringly. Pierre went slowly toward his wheel, s and raising it on his back started to go. He could not resist a last glance at the young girl. "Blind:" he exclaimed, as he gazed upon her slight form. 'So young and so pretty." Then, as he thought of n his own deformity, a bitter smile pass- t ed over his face, which in its bitter ness was painful, because of the misery q which it served to portray, and he add ed: "Pretty: what is that to you, miser able cripple?' And as if he had convinced himself C that he must not think of beauty, or any thing but his own wretchedness, he walked wearily away. while his cry of "Knives to grind:'' was doubly pathetic in the intensity of the despair that seemed to come with it. "Come-come, my pretty child, don't be downcast." said Mother Frochard, as she laid her hand on the I blind girl's shoulder. andl took mental note of the clothing which the poor I girl wore.t "Alas: to whom shall I go for help?" asked Louise, sadly. "To me," said La Frochard, throw ing all the dignity and maternal tone. possible into her words. "I am an honest woman. and mother of a family. t 1 will give you a home until you tind your sisters." "Ah, madame. you are very good to c have pity on me,'' said Louise, thank fully. "But we will find my sister, c will we not?" "Oh, yes, certainly, in time," said the old woman,, thinking that she would take plenty of time to do it- C "come, then, come with me." Louise, without a fear of what she t was to suffer through the old woman's t tiendishness, said, confidingly: "I trust myfelf to you, madame." "Yod couldn't do better, for you t have fallen into good hands." And the old woman led the blind girl to her vile den, and the sister, who C had been stolen, was still in the hands of her abductors.r [To be Continued.] Growth of' Rural Free Delivery. The marvelous growth of the ruralr free delivery system is shown by the ~ fact that Postmaster General Payne will ask congress at its next session to appropriate the sum of $i2,00,000 for its maintenance and extension. c t For the fiscal year 1901 the appropria- ~ tion amounted to but $1,730,000. In the next year those figures were more t than doubled. For the present year a the postal otlicials have available for this purpose the sum of $7,500,000. It 9 is estimated that there will be deticit. of about S:300,000. By July 1, 190:3, there will be 14,000 rural routes in a operation. It is estimated that it will require 8.9000,000 to maintain the service next year and that the other 3000,000 will be necessary in making the extension demanded. The Spar tanburg Journal says there see-ns tu X be no doubt that the service is popu- t lar with the farmers, whom it is de- e signed to benetit. The only question, p therefore. is whether it is not growing c faster than the department can stand. t But in answer to this objection it is o urged that the postotlice department t is very near a solvent showing and r that in time the rural delivery service b will be pland more nearly on a paying s basis by superseding fourth class oili- lj es, star routes and mail messengers y~ and by bringing about an increase of 'I business. At any rate there is not il likely to be a restriction of the deliv- t ry. The more it is extended the ii greater will be the demand for newf routes. Every part of the country 1 will want t~o share in its benefits. Consequently the expenditures on this e' account will doubtless be a steadily n increasing item for some years to n come. Womuan's L4o'*. They wvere :z'od friends, and in c their eariy days of indifference to Iil feminity had signed and sealed a con tract which directed that the first lh one married wyas to pay $25, to the other. says the Memphis News. Cupids y in a freakish mood turned their atten tion to the same girl and in the end C one of them captured the prize. The friendship that had stood tihe rivalry ' withotut a crack didl not break whern the announcement of the wedding I came from a nearby city. Nothing daunted. the friend andn disappointed lo'ser sent the following! telegram te his stuccessful rival:o "I wiu and you lose, because you NOW FOR THE FAIR. -reat Preparations for Carolina's Fall Carnival. NEW FEATURES THIS YEAR. he Elks Joining With the Agricul tural Society to Make Things Unusually Pleasant for the Visitors. COLCMBIA. October 4.-Special: C'he great South Carolina annual State air begins on Tuesday the 28th inst., mnd the people of the State will begin o flock to the Capital to spend a great ala week. This year there is more n Fair week than the State fair itself ,nd the band concerts and street illu ninations. It will be a carnival week .lso and after the people leave the fair rounds in the afternoon the fun for he day will just be starting up. Down n the city there will be no end of at ractions incident to the great Elks' arnival. The streets will be illumi ated and the side shows of various :inds will be in full blast. Confetti ossers will be everywhere and young nd old will go in for a real good time. ,ands of music and brilliant illumina ions and attractive decorations will .dd to the scene of festivity, and the un will continue until the midnight our has arrived each night. The 'hole carnival will conclude with a rand Elks' street parade in which the ilitia will participate, the fire de artment will be out, ani the queen rill be crowned. All along the line those who have harge of the various features of the reat week are hard at work-and noth ng is being left undone to make the reek the greatest in the history of the state Agricultural Society. The Elks have the guarantee in igned contract from the Carnival ompany furnishing the shows that .11 shows that will form a part of the treet fair shall be clean and moral, .nd that there shall be no gambling rought to Columbia by them or oper .ted under their auspices or control, .nd the management of the carnival nterprise will be held strictly to the ttter of the agreement in this mat er, the first appearance of anything f the kind being the signal for the evocation of all privileges. Among the street attractions will e the electric theatre, the "Statue urning to Life," the "Electric War how,"' "Lunetta," "Big Snake,Samp on," "Old Plantation," "Egyptian nake Eater," Vaudeville Theatre, 'Hall of Fame," "Palace of Mystery" te. There will be several star shows .nd Prof. Gritlins Brass Band will be auch in evidence. The Elks will run heir own "Country Store" and Elks' ail, and there will be voting for the ueen of the carnival and the most opular Elk. A great many features of the carni al are just at present being finally ecided upon. AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. The fair itself promises to be an un sually good one. Col. Holloway is as usy as can be receiving entries. The xhibits in all departments this year romise to be large and interesting. everal large concerns are already ar anging for space for extensive exhib ts. The merchants of Columbia are eing urged to make exhibits from heir stocks of goads a nd if they carry ut the idea some handsome displays f this character may be expected. From all parts of the State comes aformation indicating a very large at endance at the fair this year. Another feature of this year's fair rhich will be an improvr'ment on pre eding fairs will be the races. Good urses have been offered and some ex ellent stables will be brought here or the meet. For the society folk the State ball ommittee is making preparations on more extensive scale than usual and hey say this vear's ball will be one of he finest that they have ever given. The managers of the tneatre are ooking in a number of star attrac ions for the week, and this year pro ose to vary the plays with each suc eding night. Everything is looking far more pro aising than usual for a great gather ng of the people of South Carolina, nd if such is not the case it will be *o fault of those charged with the ork of providing suitable entertain aent for the crowds, and entertain aent to suit all. rich and poor, old nd young. RAILROAD RATES. Account of the above occasion the outhern Railway announces a rate of ne fare plus fifty cents admission to he Fair Grounds, for individuals, and till lower rates for military compa ies and brass bands, in uniforms wenty or more on one ticket, from 1 points in South Carolina, including ahville, Charlotte, Wilmington, Au usta and Savannah. Tickets to be on sale Oct. 26 to 30 aclusive: and for trains scheduled to rrive at Columbia prior to noon of Ictober 31, with final limit of Novemn er 26i. Rural Letter Boxes. First Assistant Postmaster General Vnne has issued a cirdular letter to e postmasters of all rural free deliv ry postoilices, instructing them that ostmasters and rural free delivery irriers are not permitted to condemn de letter boxes used by patrons. The rder directs that they shall continue > serve boxes already erected until a guiar inspection of such boxes can e made by the route inspectors and ecial agents, who will condemn the oxes found unsafe or wvhich other ise fail to meet the requirements. 'he entire force of rural free delivery ispectors is now investigating peti ons for such service, and these box ispections probably can not be made r a month or two. There will be 1,000 r'ural free delivery postal routes' ioperation on July 1 next, and the timate for appropriations for the ext fiscal year provides for 12:000 tore. New York Democrats. The New York Democratic State jnvention after a stormy session nom lated the following State ticket: Governor, Bird S. Coler, of Brook -n. Lieutenant Governor, Charles N. uhrer. of Oswego. Secretary of State, Frank Mott. of h atauqua. Comptroller. Charles M. Preston. of Ister. A ttorney General, John Cunneen, of nle. State Engineer. Richard W. Sher an, of Oneida. State Treasurer, G.eorge R. Finch, Warren. Judge of the Court of A ppeals, John An Honest Confession. It seems from the Southern policy of the Republican party that negro domination, negro influence, negro presence in the councils of the party are no longer to be tolerated. In this ignoring the negro the Republican party indirectly endorses the policies and measures which have diminished the negro vote in the Southern States. As The State puts it "the subordina tion of the negro is accounted right because conditions justify it. The Republican party can no longer use the negro, and he must take care of himself. The enfranchisement and the backing of the negro were right so long only as they were effective means in the hands of the Republican party for the perpetuation of its power over the southern people. Such is the attitude of the party towards the negro now-a position easily explain able by reference to the course of the party when it undertook by a single act to enfranchise the negro and place him in power over the white man. "Henry Wilson and James A. Gar field were entitled to speak for their party. Wilson declared that the en forcement of the Radical scheme of reconstruction would make the south ern States Republican for all time. Garfield, actuated by like motives to those of Wilson, advised his party to put civil governments-meaning ne gro governments-before the southern people and bayonets behind them. This policy was carried out. Civil governments were erected, and these were supported by the bayonet. It was Daniel H. Chamberlain-scholar le, intellectual, professedly sensitive -who declared that the government of the United States, and the Republi can party as well, had been untrue to the negro because federal soldiers were no longer used to maintain his negro government in South Carolina. It was Chamberlain's avowed ambition to make South Carolina as safely Re publican as Massachusetts--in other words it was his wish to perpetuate negro rule in this State. The use of a political name for the organization which ruled in the south was a blind. The Republian party was, during the entire period of its domination in the south, becoming more and more a negro party. The negroesOwere claiming all the power and most of the offices. Negro ideas, negro standards negro rules of conduct in private as much as in public life, were ruling the party and ruling the white men who publicly acknowledged their allegiance to it. The history and the consequences of negro rule in the south need not be recounted. Of its effects the Republican party had ample warning before they undertook its enforcement. They were duly warned of its dangers. But these warnings were scouted as the ravings of disloyal people who, lately in active revolt against the government, even now yielded but an unwilling obedi ence. The negro was put over the white man, and federal bayonets were employed to sustain the negro. All this was done when the negro was yet but three years a freeman. Well-nigh 40 years have passed, giving liberty, opportunity and every inducement to progress along the lines of responsi ble and reputable citizenship. And the negro, at this day and time, is in formed by the party whose boast is that it gave him freedom and fran chise that he is there no longer want ed-that he is neither worthy nor competent to have any part in its policy or its acts. "Such confessions, such avowals, ought to be noted for the reason that they constitute the highest evidence of the truth and justice of the position of the southern people~ when they de clared to the world that the rule of the negro meant the ruin of their sec tio-when they declared that the effort to put the white man under the rule of the negro was an offense against civilization-when they de clared that negro rule could not be maintained in the south, even at the point of the bayonet. Garfield and Wilson and other recognized spokes men of the Republican party thought or affected to think to the contrary. Their~ successors in control of their party now acknowledge the criminal folly of their policy and of the means employed for its enforcement." Pointed Paragraphs. A lie is often told without saying a word. The chief burden of a woman's life is her neighbors. Time is money to the man who has a government contract. The "smile" of the summer girl is usually ice cream soda. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth while the donor is present. A very poor sort of man may be wealthy if he has the money. When a tramp sees an axe it always gives him a splitting headache. An epitaph on a man's tombstone never indicates that he was a bore. Wise is the man who can distinguish between his friends and his enemies. A man's second love nearly always owns more property than his first one. No matter how tight a girl's shoe are she never likes to acknowledge th corn. If you are nor, satisfied with the world you should hire a balloon and get out. When a married man falls down stairs he is sure to blame his wife ft. r the mishap. A man likes to hear a woman say she has never been kissed, even if hie doesn't believe it. After reaching a ripe old age some men have nothing to do but sit around and nurse their frostbitten aspira tions.. Perhaps, after all, babies do under stand the language women talk to them-and sta awake nights to get Unless a man can see a slight im provement in himself it's imp~ossible to convince him that the world is rowing better. Largest Sale of Portland Cement ever made in the South. Mr. D. Van Smith, Secty & Treas. > the Southeastern Lime & Cement lo. Charleston, S. C., reports having ~iosed a contract to deliver 50,000 bls. of high grade American Port and Cement. This cement is ts be sed in the construction of extensive ~lectrical development on Chatta oochie River, near Atlanta. Ga. The LEEiIGH BRAND) of high grade Xmericanl Portland Cement will be sed. This is the largest single con :ract ever given out in the South. An Assassin Lynched. Walter Sullivan, a young negro, was ynched Wednesday at Portland. Ashe y county, Ark. Sullivan was charged v'ith shooting D. J. Roody, a wvhite nan. in the back. Elected Mayor. Capt. Evan P. Howell, of the tlanta Constitution. has been nom nated for mayor of Atlanta after one f the hottest races that has ever en run in tha city. XTRA SESSION Of Congress May be Called t7 tha President. THE PRESIDE1NT AND MORGAN. It is Said That There Was a Stormy Interview Between Ioosevelt and the King of Wall Street. The Washington correspondent of The State says the "failure of the president's effort's to end the coal strike has caused keenest disappoint ment in the national capital. Throngs of people surrounded the temporary White House throughout the confer ence waiting and hoping that the words of the president would avail. When President Mitchell of the mine workers came down the steps shortly after 3 o'clock and announced that no agreement had been reached the crowd melted away. It was as many feared. but all hoped for better results. What will be the president's next move?" This is the question upper most in every one's mind tonight. While the streets are yet ringing with the cries of "extra" announcing the failure of Mr. Roosevelt's first effort to bring relief to the country, there i nothing official on the subject. but the belief is strong that Mr. Roosevelt is in favo.r of calling congress in extra session to enact legislation that will end the strike. This he will, of course, npoi do without consulting his cabinet. ig the tarif oi coal the op por:i :orces might be furced to re lent: at least the country would be re 'A.. sL1GnT D. Washington is interested in the cut direct which the president hi ; an:in istered to J. Pierpont Morgan in not asking him to todays conference at the White House on the coal strike. While Mr. Morgan is not president of the railroads controlling the coal fields, he nevertheless holds all the railroad peesidents participating in today's conference in the palm of his hand, financially speaking, so that should it have been the wish of the president, only Mr. Morgan and Pres ident Mitchell of the United Mine workers, need have constituted the conference today. For this reason the absence of the great financier from the White House assumes at once a significant phase and the question is being generally asked: "What made Teddy mad with Mr. Morgan?" Friends of the president explain the action of Mr. Roosevelt in not con sulting Mr. Morgan by pointing to what they claim has been the indiffer ence of the latter toward the success of the administration's policy, but it is said to the stand Mr. Roosevelt took in the suit against the Northern Se curities company. When that suit was inaugnrated Mr. Morgan came to Washington and spent some time at the White House closeted with the president. While there was no stenog rapher present to take down just what was said and who hit who, it was known at the time that both the pre sident and Mr. Morgan discussed the question with gloves off, and that al together it was one of the warmest conferences that ever occurred within the White House walls. WHAT ROOSEVELT SALD. When Mr. Morgan suggested to the strenuous chief executive that the ac tion of the administration might pre cipitate financial disturbances with grave consequences to the country, it is said that our president came back at him witb the following, accompa nying his remarks with the finger shake which he so'vigorously adminis tered to Gen. Miles on one occasion: "I am neither a bull nor a bear in Morgan stock. I am president of the United States, and am sworn to exe cute the law. I would proceed against you or any of your combinations as quick as I would against a striker, but not because I am opposed to either capital or labor except as either of them be violators of the laws of the country." Mr. Morgan did not tarry in Wash ington after- this interview. 'it is even claimed by friends of Mr. Roosevelt that the financier went back to New York with the determination of weak ening the Roosevelt administration and that -one of his recent efforts in this direction is the stirring up of the Gold Democrats in New York city to take an active part in the Democratic con vention at Saratoga, all of which Dem ocrats in the city, indignantly deny. Mr. Morgan is also accused of enjoy ing the discomfiture of the administra tion over the financial panic in New York, one result of which -was to necessitate a formal denial by Secre tary Shaw that there was friction between himself and the president which would cause the former's re signation from the cabinet at an early date. In the light of these alleged facts about Mr. Morgan's attitude to the administration friends of President Roosevelt point out that there is every reason why he should not select the Wall street king for participation in a "heart to heart talk,'' and that he has never for a moment thought of consulting Mr. Morgan about the coal strike or any other public question that has arisen since the inauguration of the Northern securities suit. Is IT ALL A BLUFF? But there is a sly belief among Demorrats that friends of Mr. Roose velt, r'ealizing the dissatisfaction that is growing in the Republican party nd that which has attained consider aple size in the minority, are endeavor ng to send abrond the impression that he strenuous rough rider president is t present doing battle with Wall treet and the trusts instead of stand ng pat with his party leaders in their efusal to touch the tariff or take ac ion against the trusts. A Swell Mfail Carrier. The sweilest rural fre-e delivery oute in the country is to be establish d between Pleasant ill and Burgin, n Kentucky. Gen. Breckenride Cas ieman, who owns a splendid stock arm at the former place, has put in a bid for the contract and will probably ~ecure it. It is his purpose. he says. o carry the mail in a coach drawn by our thoroughbred horses. The coach will be attended by two outriders and footman. all of whom. as well as the river, will be in uniform with cock des and brass buttons. The service will cost Gen. Castlemnan many times its earnings, but he is in a position to nap his finers at the expnsnc. SC1EN2CE AND INDUSTRY. - The New Zealand government is /ai::ing -:w .y.es of its rnilway em ploy, . .: i. extent of $1L'%,000. WI:, t is :,::'d to e f r-t factory for t.e mam::.cture of or...iic acid is being built near Cheboygan, Mich. In the year 620 the mulberry tree was first cultivated in Greeee and the Lcva::t for the benefit of the silk wue .us. The nest of the wasp shows a de gree of engineering skill and adapta tion of means to end which rival the same talents of the bee. Exports o: steel rails for the first eigi.t mitrths of 1901, though less by tLan in 1900, wa s j0,:14 tons gret. than for the period in 1i 9. rr-ri on has converted the South Amr:.::: desert valleys near the city of \i--.'oza into some of the most pr- .-: e vineyards in the iorld. The broom must go! A French hygieruie jmurnl states that in Tunis the c: y rtaitv from tubercuisis is 11.3 per tY00 among the Arabs. and only 0.7. per 1.;00 among the Jews. who It:. prt:: much the sane life as the A!:i-s. t.eept that they daily clean all t:ir furniture with moist cloths, anti rever stir up the germinfected dut-: with brooms. Tie ,skunk first appears in history fir the year 1636, when he was de serbed in Theodat's History of Can ada. He had been a long time on the earth before that time, however, for thr re are species of fossil skunks. The skunks of the genus Chinca range _ over the greater part of North Amer ica and as far south as Mexico. Oth er skunks are found in Central noicth America. PRAYERS FOR A STIPEND. - French Abbe Who Has Made a Tows Prosperou by -a eovel Trams. There is a small village in the de a:-ti::e::t of the Sarthe, in France, that has arisen from poverty to af ti.2 or by means of prayer furnished on cc'a:and ft r a consideration. The cure t the vi:'age, a certain Abbe L'ugu t, w as as poor as his flock.' But he was nut content to stay that way and, being a man of imagination, h'e looked around for some means by which he could better the condition of his people and inciden'tally his own. He fin:ily hit upon an idea, sa'iIon den exchange. Be learned to set type, bou-ht a secondhand hand press and se: up. printed and published a leaflet in which he' discoursed upon the efW cacy (f prayer. Then he made a buss ness pro position to his flock. He would. pray for them, for their children and for their dead for an annual subscrip tion of one sou. In other words, he would take charge of all their prayers for one sou a year. The idea appealed to his parishione.rs and all of them subscribed. With the little sums thus acquired he printed more leaflets and distrihuted them throughout the neighboring country and every leaflet seemed to bring in a new subscriber. To-day he has many thousands of . subscribers who live in all parts of the world. an d Montligeon. which was once little more than a collection'-of hovels, is a prosperous town. It has a churea th-t is a e'n:hedral. ,It has wide.streeta lig h t d t-y electric lights, a post of-. fiee. waterworks and cab service. And in the center of the town is a large whi:e building where Abbe Buguet, with eight alImoners, -15 interpreters, 20 secretaries and a crowd of clerks, proceeds with his work of supplying prayv '-s. More than 1,500 letters come. eat-h day, each of them containing at least the required sou, and most ~of: t-hemi having a miurh larger sum. A. part of these letters ask -for prayers~ and threse are divhded among various. credy priests in the neighborhood,. who thus are able to add considerable to their meager incomes. All the vol antary' offer'ngs go into the general. treasury rand are used for the benent of the town and the valley in which it is siuated. The mayor of the town. is th~e cashier and the principal coun e!,rs are the secretaries or chief ac countants and Abbe Bugunet is man ager of all. It is the most profitable prayer factory in the world. flit by the Recoil. Lawyer (examining accused piek pocket, testifying -in liis own behalf) -You deny this special charge, and yet admit that you have committed similar offenses. Perhaps you'll be good enough to tell the court just how long you've been in this busi ness? Pickpocket (nonchalantly)-Oh, not more than two or three months. Lawyer-Only t wo or three months, eh? How do you expect the court to believe that statement in view of the fact that it has had police testimony to the effect that you are an expert? Pickcpocket (smilingly)-Oh, well, you must remember that I had the benefit of a three years' previous practice in your profession.--Rich mnond 'Dispatch. Building in Stockholm, Sweden. Only two-thirds of the area of the lot can be covered in Stockholm, Sweden, except on street corners, where three-fourths is allowed. The remiairder of the lot must be reserved. for courts, for light and ventilation. All chimney flues muast be 12 or 15 inches and must be swept once a month from October to April by of licial chimney sweepers.-Chicago In ter Ocean. Wotaan-Like. Tess-She says she can't under stand why people call him a flatterer. Jess-She does. eh? "Yes; I giss it's because he never said anything flattering to her-." "More likely he did say something flattering and she's tzyirng to make herself believe he was in earneat." Philadelphia Press. Ran With the Corpse. T. R. Vickers, a prominent north rest Louisiana cattle dealer. and Ed r'ard Coglin, a public ginner residing t Hlartso, just across the Louisiana tate line in Texas, quarrelled at Cog in's home Thursday. Vickers was hot dead. His body fell in bis wagon, od the horses becoming frightened an 12 miles to his home. Coglin sur endered. THERE is a story afloat that Sena or Quay remarked to President Baer hat unless the coal strike was soon ettled "Pennsylvania would elect a >emocratic Governor." but Bear omptly replied, to Quay's amaze 1ent, that he was a JIere Black Demo rat, "and anything that can help the arty is in my way of thinking." This aows up another kind of Decmocrat. THE Chicago Chronicle says "while [unter Roosevelt was watching one ole for the Trust wolf the Tariff bear aeaked out of another hole and got ito the Republican sheepf old, whence rieouns bleatingse now proeed. The Way to Stop It. i::e tiein:11 I'X'e:al ion c-i C ic Rhgi ts. a.1 a (/ i.: t i incoip .r :ed under the laws of Indiana, the object of which i.; the a.nellrati(; (' .: i ordition aad fort he protecti::: f t!-e Ared rac'. has iau3 an ! pe. , t the people of the L'nited States. .'e document was prepared by a commit tee headed by Bishop George W. Clin ton of North Carolina. The add Tss says: "In this republic within the lait ten years 1.500 colored persons have been brutally mur'%re: by mob vio lence upo)n the accusation of crime merely, without trial by jury, with out any judgment of a court of com petent jurisdiction, in utter cikre gard of the constitutional rights of ac cused persons. As late as September a negro accused of crime was burned at the stake. pitilessly tortured and roasted to death by men, who call themselves American citizens. The cruelties of Nero, the massacres of innocent religionists. and the brutali-. ty of cannibalism as chronicled in hit. tory. sink into insignifiance when contrasted with the wnolesale slaugh ter of the colored race, in the repulic of Washington. Jefferson and Lincoln. ' This all sounds very well but it will not stop the lyncoing of negroes for the crime for which they are lynched, and for wtich they should be lynched. A very sensible negro preacher in speaking to his people the other day in an Alabama town, among other good things said that the way to abolis.h the Jim crow car was to abol ish the jim crow negro. Tnat is the truth. arid we say to the National Federation of Civic lights, which seems to be so much interested in the negro. good and had. tnat the way to abolish the lynching of iregroes in tnis country is to abolish the black tiends that commits the crime that makes lynching necessary, and creates the only ground upon w h ick it can b.: de pended Thre negro.'s car stop te lynching of negroes if they want to. But there is but oi.e way t. do it. an' that is the o:ie we h.e pointe c'ut above. Ite Told the Tt.h. A Nissouri editor ar.ounxd tCat for just one issue he would tell the truth. Here are a few items from that edition: "John Bonin, the laziest merchant in twon, made a trip to Beliview yesterday. John Doyle, our groceirman, is doing a poor business. His store is dirty, dusk and noxiously odoriferous. How can he expect, to do much? Rev. Sixty preach Sunday night on charity. The sermon was punk. If the reverend gentleman would live up a little closer to what he preaches he'd have bigger con gregations. Dave Sonkey died last Saturday at his home in this place. The doctor gave it out as heart failure. The fact is he Was drunk and whiskey is what killed him. Married-Miss Sylva Rhodes and James Cannahan, last Saturday evenining, at the Baptist parsonage. The bride is a very or dinary town girl, who don't icn9w any more than a rabbit about cooking and who never helped her mother three days in her life. She is not a beauty by any means and has a gait like a fat duck. Tte grcomn is well knwn as an up-to-date loafer. He has been living off the old folks all his life and don't amount to shucks. They will have a hard life and we have no congratula tions to offer, for we don't believe any good can come from such a union. POWER OF SUPERSTITION. New York Worker Among the Ignor ant Finds It Hard to Combat. Superstition is a force to be reck oned with and not despised by those who labor for the good of the poor on the East side, as all college set tlement workers will testify, says the New York Tribune. A philan thropic woman tells the following experience: A poor Italian housewife, living in Mulberry street, had a swelling of the knee. She told me of her trou ble, and I gave her the address of a free dispensary, where she wvent for treatment. The treatment did not cure her, and she drew out from the savings bank a large part of her lit tle hoard of savings, and in spite of all my protests paid it~ to a gypsy woman on the outskirts of Brooklyn for a charm. This charm consisted of a piece of parchment, on which were written some queer characters. The whole was tied up in a little bag and was suspended by a string around the patient's neck. When she showed it to me I laughed the thing to scorn and tried to show her how foolish she was to pay hard earned money to a miserable quack. I could not convince her of her folly, however, and so gave up the effort, trusting to time to prove mne right. The neighbors of the woman with the swollen knee soon heard of her gypsy charm, and one of them who had an eruption on the skin which had long defied the power of medi cine to remove it begged for a copy of the charm. The first woman was ready to do this favor to her fellow sufferer, and as neither could read nor write they used a ten-year-old son of one of them to make the copy. This boy had been attending, a public school, and his parents were exceedingly proud of his ability to read and write "American." But the lad could make nothing of the gypsy writing on the parchment. He was equal to the occasion, how ever, and showed he- had the making of a true American, for he would not acknowledge defeat. What he wrote was: "This is know good." It was not until some time after ward that I heard of this, when the woman wvith the skin trouble was showmng me the copied charm. When I saw the trick the boy had played on both of them I thought my vin dication had truly come. But when I explained it all to her, she met me with the knockdown arnrument: "'Well, miss, it cured us both." What could I say to that? stuffed Turnips. Choose turnips of a uniform size, I peel them, cut off just enough of the s small end to make them stand firm, a then cut off the stem end and scoop I out the inside. Chop fine a Bermuda onion and enough mutton to fill the turnips; add two tab!.aspoonfuls of well washed rice, a tablespoonful of minced parsley and salt and pepper to taste. Mix all together and fill t the turnips, replace the tops and put 5 them into a saucepan that will not I rowd them; just cover with broth, p season with salt and sinimer gently f ntil tender; then add two level C tablespoonfuls of sugar and a third 9 f a cupful of malt or good cider S inegar. Heat and serve.-Washing on Star. . -Her Comment. Dusnap-Did she say: "This is so udden? Bertwhistle-You forget, she was a ' idow. She said: "You've been dead ow"-Brooklynl Eagle.g