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In a few moments more Graeme re ived and, gazing about, asked: "What's all this about?" and then -ecollecting, "Ab, that brute Keefe!" I hen, seeing my anxious face, he said rarelessly: "Awful bore, isn't it? Sor y to trouble you, old fellow." "You be hanged!" I said shortly, for uis old sweet smile was playing about 1is lips and was almost too much for ne. "Mrs. Mayor and I are in com nand, and you must keep perfectly ;till." "Mrs. Mayor?" he said in surprise. She came forward, with a slight lush on her face. "I think you know me, Mr. Graeme." "I have often seen you and wished to :now you. I am sorry to bring you this rouble." "You must not say so," she replied, 'but let me do all for you that I can. nd now the doctor says you are to lie till." "The doctor? Oh, you mean Connor! Ie is hardly there yet. You don't know ach other. Permit me to present Mr. onnor. Mrs. Mayor." As she bowed slightly her eyes look ,d into mine with a serious gaze, not nquiring, yet searching my soul. As I ooked into her eyes I forgot every hing about me, and when I recalled nyseif it seemed as if I had been away a some far place. It was not their col r or their brightness. I .do not yet now their color, and I have often ooked into them, and they were not right, but they were clear, and one ould look far down into them and in heir depths see a glowing, steady fight. As I went to get some drugs rom the Black Rock doctor I found 2yself wondering about that far down ght and about her voice-how it could et that sound from far away. I found the doctor quite drunk, as in eed Mr. Craig had warned, but his rugs were good, and I got what I ranted and quickly returned. While Graeme slept Mrs. Mayor ade me tea. As the evening wore on told her the events of the day, dwell ag admiringly upon Craig's general hip. She smiled at this. "He got me, too," she said. "Nixon ras sent to me just before the sports, nd I don't think he will break down aday, and I am so thankful." And her yes glowed. "I am quite sure he won't," I thought o myself, but I said no word. After a long pause she wvent on, "I iave promised Mr. Craig to sing to ight if I am needed," and then, after tmoment's hesitation, "It is two years ;ince I have been able to sing-two 'ears," she repeated "since," and then er brave voice trembled, "my husband vas killed." "I quite understand," I said, having to other word on my tongue. "And," she went on quietly, "I fear I ave been selfish. It is hard to sing he sainc songs. We were very happy. ut the miners like t'o hear me sing, nd I think perhaps it helps them to eel less lonely and keeps them from vilk I shall try tonight if I am needed. r. Craig will not ask me unless be ust." I would have seen every miner and ambermian in the place hideously runk before I would have asked her o sing one song while her heart ached. wondered at Craig and said rather ngrily: "He thinks only of those wretched niners and shanty men of his." She looked at me with wonder in her yes and said gently: "And- are they not Christ's too?" And I found no word to reply. It was nearing 10 o'cloick and I was vondering how the fight was going on nd hoping that Mrs. Mayor would not e needed when the door opened and d man Nelson and Sandy, the latter nuch battered and ashamed, came in vith the word for Mrs. Mayor. "I will come," she said simply. She aw me preparing to accompany her End asked, "Do you think you can eave him?" "He will do quite well in Nelson's are." "Then I am glad, for I must take my ittle one with me. I did not put her to >ed in case I should need to go. and I nay not leave her." We entered the church by the back loor and saw at once that even yet the ,attle might easily be lost. Some miners had just come from slavin's, ev'idently bent on breaking p the meeting in revenge for the col apse of the dance, which Slav'n was mable to enjoy, much less direct. "aig was gallantly holding his ground, inding it hard work to keep his men n good humor and so prevent a fight, or there were cries of "Put him out! ut the beast out!" at a miner half runk and wholly outrageous. The look of relief that came over his ace when Craig caught sight of us old how anxious he had been and econciled mec to Mrs. Mayor's singing. Thank the good God!" he said, writh hat came near being a sob. "I was tout to despair." He immediately walked to the front .nd called out: "Gentlemen, if you wish it, Mrs. Ma 'or will sing." There was a dead silence. Some one. egan to applaud, but a miner said avagely: "Stop that, you fool!" There was a delay of a few moments hen from the crowd a voice called "Does Mrs. Mayor wish to sing?" ollowed by cries of "Aye, that's it!" Then Shaw, the foreman at the nines, stood up in the audience and aid: "Mr. Craig and gentlemen, you know hat three years ago I was known as Old licketts' and that I owe all I m tonight, under God, to Mrs. Ma 'or, and," with a little quiver in his oice "her baby. And we all know hy. And what I say is that if she lees not feel like singing tonight she s not going to sing to keep any drunk n brute of Slavin's crowd quiet." There were deep growls of approval 11 over the church. I could have hug ed Shaw then and there. Mr. Craig vent to Mr's. Mayor and after a word vith her came back and said: "Mrs. Mayor wishes me to thank her lear friend Mr. Shaw, but says she vould like to sing." The response was perfect stillness. wir. 'Craig sat down at the organ and layed the c'pening bars of the touch ng melody, "Oft In the Stilly Night." irs Mayor came to the fronnt nd, upon her sad face an lokirig straight at us wtth her glorious eyes, began to sing. Her voice, a rich soprano, even and true, rose and yell. now soft, now 1 strong. but always filling the building, pouring around us floods of music. I 1 had heard Patti's "Home, Sweet Home," and of all singing that alone affected me as did this. At the end of the first verse the few women in the church and some of the men were weeping quietly, but when she began the words, "When I remember all The friends once linked together," sobs came on every side from these tender hearted fellows, and Shaw quite lost his grip. But she sang steadily on, the tone clearer and sweeter and fuller at every note, and when the sound of her voice died away she stood looking at the men as if in wonder that they 1 should weep. No one moved. Mr. Craig played softly on and, wandering through many variations, arrived at i last at ".esus, lover of my soul." As she sang the appealing words her face was lifted up, and she saw none of us, but she must have seen some one, for the cry in her voice could only come from one who could see and feel help close at hand. On and on went the glorious voice, searching my soul's depths, but when she came to the words, "Thou, 0 Christ, art all I want," she stretched up her arms-she had quite forgotten us; her voice had borne her to other worlds-and sang with such a passion of abandon that my soul was ready to surrender anything, ev erything. Again Mr. Craig wandered on through his changing chords till again he came to familiar ground, and the voice be gan in low, thrilling tones Bernard's t great song of home, "Jerusalem, the Golden." Every word, with all its weight of 1 meaning, came winging to our souls till f we found ourselves gazing afar into those stately halls of Zion, with their daylight serene and their jubilant throngs. When the singer came to the last verse, there was a pause. Again Mr. Craig softly played the interlude, but still there was no voice. I looked C up. She was very white, and her eyes i were glowing with their deep light. Mr. 1 Craig looked quickly about, saw her, e stopped and half rose, as if to go to her, when, in a voice that seemed to y come from a faroff land, she went or:: f "Oh, sweet and blessed country!" f The longing, the yearning, in the see- f and "Oh" were indescr-bable. Again f and again as she held that word and c then dropped down with the cadence in t the music my heart ached for I knew not what. The audience were sitting as in a e trance. The grimy faces of the miners, t for they never get quite white, were furrowed with the tear courses. Shaw by this time had his face, too, lifted high, his eyes gazing far above the E singer's head, and I knew by the rap- E ture in his face that he was seeing, as . she saw, the thronging, stately halls t and the white robed conquerors. He C had felt and was still feeling all thei stress of the fight, and to him the E vision of the conquerors in their glory t was soul drawing and soul stirring. E And Nixon, too-he had his vision, but what he saw was the face of the singerE with the shining eyes, and, by the look I f him, that was vision enough. Immediately after her last note Mrs. Mayor stretched out her hands to her 1 little girl, who was sitting on my knee, a aught her up and, holding her close to t her breast, walked quickly behind the a curtain. Not a sound followed the singing. No one moved till she had dis- L appeared, and then Mr. Craig came to I the front and, motioning to me to fol-E low Mrs. Mayor, began in a low, dis tinct voice:t "Gentlemen, it was not easy for Mrs. i Maor to sing for us, and you know sue sang because she Is a miner's wife and her heart is with the miners. But she sang, too, because her heart is his who came to earth this day so many< years ago to save us all, and she would make you love him, too, for inE loving him you are saved from all base E loves, and you know what I mean. 1 "And before we say good night, men, want to know if the time Is not come < when all of you who mean to be bet r than you are should foin in putting I from us this thing that has brought sorrow and shame to us and to those we love? You know what I mean. Some of you are strong. Will you < stand by and see weaker men robbed I f the money they have for those far< away and robbed of the manhood that no money can buy or restore? "Will the strong men help? Shall we join hands in this? What do you say? In this town we have often seen I hell, and just a moment ago we were< all looking into heaven, 'the sweet and blessed country.' Oh, men," and his voice rang in an agony through the building-"oh, men, which shall be1 ours? -For heaven's dear sake, let us< help one another! Who will?" I was looking out through slit in f the curtain. The men, already wrought to intense feeling by the music, were a listening with set faces and gleaming 1 eyes, and as at the appeal "Who will?" Craig raised high his hand Shaw, Nix- I on and a hundred men sprang to their feet and held high their hands. t I have witnessed some thrilling scenes< in my life, but never anything to equal that, the one man on the platform a standing at full height, with his hand thrown up to heaven, and the hundred men below standing straight, with arms up at full length, silent and al most motionless. For a moment Craig held them so,1 and again his voice rang out, louder,1 sterner than before: "All who mean it say, 'By God's help, I will.' " And back from a hundred throats 1 came deep and strong the words, "Byi God's help, I will." At this point Mrs. Mayor, whom I had quite forgotten, put her hand on< my arm. "Go and tell him," she pant- 1 ed, "I want them to come on Thurs day night, as they used to in the other days-go-quck!" And she almost pushed me out. I gave Craig her mes sage. IHe held up his hand for silence.1 "Mrs. Mayor wishes me to say that she will be glad to see you all, as in the old days, on Thursday evening, and I cn think of no better place to give formal express;ion to our pledge of this night." There was a shout of acceptance, and then, at some one's call, the long pent up feelings of tihe crowdI found vent in three mighty cheers for Mrs. Mayor. "Now for our old hymn," called out Mr. Craig. "and Mrs Mayor will l&ad I He sat down at the organ, played a few bars of "The Sweet By and By," and then Mrs. Mayor began. But not a soul joined till the refrain was reach ed, and then they sang as only men with their hearts on fire can sing. But after the last refrain Mr. Craig made a sign to Mrs. Mayor, and she sang alone, slowly and softly and with eyes1 "' the sweet by and 15y We shall meet on that beautiful shore." There was no benediction - there ;eemed no need-and the men went luietly out. But over and over again :he voice kept singing in my ears and n my heart, "We shall meet on that )eautiful shore." And after the sleigh onds of men had gone and left the ;treet empty, as I stood with Craig in :he radiant moonlight that made the ,reat mountains about come near us, 'rom Sandy's sleigh we heard in the listance Baptiste's French-English ;ong. but the song that floated down vith the sound of the bells from the niners' sleigh was: "We shall meet on that beautiful shore." "Poor old Shaw:" said Craig softly. When the last sound had died away, turned to him and said: "You have won your fight." "We have won our fight. I was ,eaten," he replied quickly, offering me is hand. Then, taking off his cap nd looking up beyond the mountain ops and the silent stars, he added oftly, "Our Aght, but his victory." And, thinking it all over, I could not ay but perhaps he was right. [To BE CONTINUED.] A MAN AGAINST A NATION. 'he Most Curious European War That Ever Was Waged. The most curious European war ever raged was that which in the sixteenth entury, the period of the reformation ad the renaissance, was carried on ingle handed for between five and six ears between a bankrupt grocer of terlin and the elector of Saxony, who ras the most powerful German prince f the period. The grocer's name was ans Kohlhase, and the immediate ause of the quarrel was the arresting ,f two of his horses in the elector's erritory, he being a subject of the lector of Brandenburg. Failing to get edress, he adopted what was then a erfectly legal expedient and declared ormal war on the realm of Saxony. 'he declaration was accepted in due orm, and the war began. The extraordinary part of the story s that the grocer kept the war up for early six years practically single sanded and even went to the extremity f declaring war on his own sovereign a the meantime before he was caught. Ie burned farms and even villages, mployed mercenaries after the fashion f the times and made himself the ter or of the district. He was finally in Luenced to stop hostilities by Luther, nd after he had taken the sacrament rom his hands he was betrayed into further act of hostility by treachery nd, being captured, suffered death on he wheel after refusing an act of -race which granted him the painless .nd honorable death of the sword. The tory is perhaps the stra: :est of all he romances of that romantic agb. lie Saw the Joke. Here is a true story of a curious per onality well known to many profes ional men in London today: He Is a cot, whose business ability is above he average, but everything he does is one with the air pf a man constantly restlng with some problem of the oul He rarely speaks unless spoken a. He never smiles, and his eyes have fixed but intense expression. One lay he was returning to London with everal companions. The whole par y were Scotch, but the ce'npanions ere of genial type. One o:~ them told .humorous tale, over which the rest aughed uproariously. Not so the hu nan problem. He sat in a corner of he railway carriage glowering at his airthful friends. Half an hour after rard, however, when all were standing .t a street corner before separating he ook one aside and said solemnly and lowly: "Ye would obsairve that I did La' laugh at yond' story. Well, I saw he joke. Ye might not think it, but I tave a keen sense of humor."-London fews. An Impossible Task. The committee waited upon the suc essful man. "Your fame has preceded you," they aid as he entered the room. He smiled erenely. "I am rather well known," me admitted modestly. "You have given names to sleeping rs, new cigars, health foods and ~ames-names that have pleased the ublic and your patrons?" The successful man bowed. "Well," said the spokesman, "we have new baby at our house, and we have ome to you to select a name that will lease her parents, sisters and broth rs, grandparents, cousins, uncles, unts and friends of the family and Lersef later on." The successful man frowned stei'nly. "Sir," he said, "I do not undertake he impossible"-Cincinnati Comnmer al Tribune. Telling the Weather From Mists. The motion of mists, rapid or slow, ras regarded as one of the best meth ds of foretelling the approach of rain > snow. When there was ai mist be ore the rise of the full moon, if clouds vere seen in the west before the sun ose or there was a mist In the fields efore sunrise, wet weather was ex iected. When the mists vanished rap dly and the moon seemed to rise fast *r than usual, fine weather was sure o gladden the hearts of the mnerrymak rs on the succeeding day. When the vinds changed and the clouds flew long on "tail," the farmers predicted storm. Railroad Time Folders. The average person who picks up a aliroad time folder does not realize e enormous amount of work which he preparation of such a publication nvolves. The big Burlington system, for in tance, has a general time folder made up from sixteen different division time ables. The folder contains 2,000 names f towns, gives the schedules of over 00 trains, and whenever there is a hange in time 00,000 figures have to e carefully checked and corrected. No smoking. There is one country In the world vhere it Is considered a crime to smoke -Abyssina. The law forbidding to >acco dates from the year 1042. It vas at first merely intended to prevent )riests from smoking in the churches, >ut it was taken too literally, and now tdays even foreigners have to be care ul not to be seen smoking. Conceded it. "There's a burglar In the house, Ben amin," said Mrs. Frctt, arousing her msband in the dead of the morning. 'Hear that?" she continued. "It's sure y the sound of a chiseL. He's a safe >urglar." "You bet he is," sleepily refdrned Benjamn, turning over for another ap.-Richmond Dispatch. Couldn't Improve the Method. Mrs. Chugwater-I'd be ashamed to leep in church the way you do. Mr. Chugwater-I can't help it. It's e only .way I know how to sleep. nhlca Tribne. WONDERFUL BROECK THE ORIGINAL SPOTLESS TOWN IS IN NORTHERN HOLLAND. A Neatness and a Brillinncy That Are . solutely Painful Pervade the Whole Place-Rules Which the In habitants Must Observe. Far up in northern Holland among the dikes and canals of the little king dom lies Broeck, the original Spotless Town.. The palings of the fences of Broeck are sky blue. The streets are paved with shining bricks of many col ors. The houses are rose colored, black, gray, purple, light blue or pale green. The doors are painted and gild ed. For hours you may not see a soul in the streets or at the windows. The streets and houscs, bridges, windows and barns show a neatness and a bril liancy that are absolutely painful. At every step a new effect is disclosed, a new scene is beheld, as if painted upon the drop curtain of a stage. Every thing is minute, compact, painted, spotless and clean. In the houses of Broeck for cleaning purposes you will find big brooms, little brooms, tooth brushes, aqua fortis, whiting for the window panes, rouge for the forks and speons, coal dust for the copper, emery for the iron utensils, brick powder for the floors and even small splinters of wood with which to pick out the tiny bits of straw in the cracks between the bricks. Here are some of the rules of this wonderful town: Citizens must leave their shoes at the door when entering a house. Before or after sunset no one is allowed to smoke excepting with a pipe having a cover, so that the ashes will not be scat tered upon the street. Any one crossing the village on horse back -must get out of the saddle and lead the horse. A cuspidor shall be kept by the front door of each house, where it may be ac cessible from the window. It is forbidden to cross the village in a carriage or to drive animals through the streets. In addition to these established rules it is the custom for every citizen who sees a leaf or a bit of straw blown be fore his house by the wind to pick it up and throw it into the canal. The people go 500 paces out of the village to dust their shoes. Dozens of boys are paid to blow the dust from be tween the bricks in the streets four times an hour. In certain houses the guests are carried over the threshold so as not to soil the pavements. At one time the mania for cleaning in Broeck reached such a point that the housewives of the village neglected even their religious duties for scrub bing and washing. The village pastor, after trying every sort of persuasion, preached a long sermon, in which he declared that every Dutchwoman who had faithfully fulfilled her duties to ward God-in this world would riud in the next a house packed full of furni ture and stored with the most various and precious articles of use and orna ment, which, not being distracted by other occupations, she would be able to brush, wash and polish for all eter ity. The promise of this sublime recompense and the thought of this extreme happiness filled the women with such fervor and piety that for months thereafter the pastor had no cause for complaint Around every house In Broeck are buckets, benches, rakes, hoes and stakes, all colored red, blue, white or yellow. The brilliancy and variety of colors and the cleanliness, brightness and miniature pomp of the place are wonderful. At the windows there are embroidered curtains, with rose cob ored ribbons. The blades, bands and nails of the gayly painted windmills shine like silver. The houses are brightly varnished and surrounded with red and white railings and fences. The panes of glass In the windows are bordered by many lines of different ues. The trunks of all the trees are painted gray from root to branch. Across the streams are many little wooden bridges, each painted- as white s snow. The gutters are ornamented with a sort of wooden festoon, per forated like lace. The pointed fa cdes are surmounted with a small weathercock, a little lance or some thing resembling a bunch of flowers. Nearly every house has two doors, ne in front and one behind, the last for everyday entrance and exit and the former opened only on great occa sins, such as births, .deaths and mar iages. The gardens are as peculiar as the ouses. The paths are hardly wide enough to walk in. One could put his arm around the flowerbeds. The ainty arbors would barely hold two persons sittingr close together. The lit tle myrtle hedges would scarcely reach to the knees of a four-year-old child. Between the arbors and the flower beds run little canals which seem made to float paper boats. They are crossed by miniature wooden bridges, with olored pillars and parapets. There are ponds the size of a bath, which are almost concealed by lilliputian boats tied with red cords to blue stakes, tiny staircases and miniature kitchen gardens. Everything could he reasured with the hand, crossed at a leap, demolished by a blow. More over, there are trees cut in the shape f fans, plumes and disks, with their trunks colored white and blue. At every step one discovers a new effect, a fresh combination of hues, a novel caprice, some new absurdity. The rooms are -very tiny and resem ble so many bazaars. There are porce lain igures on the cupboard, Chinese cups and sugar bowls on and under the tables, plates fastened on the walls, clocks, ostrich eggs, shells. vases, plates, glasses, placed in every corner and concealed in c :ery nook, cupboards full of hundreds of trifles and ornaments without name, a crowd ing disorder and utter confusion of colors.-Public Opinion. Queen Elizabeth's Amulet. Queen Elizabeth during her last ill ness wore ar-ound her neck a charm made of gold which had' been be queathed her by an old woman in Waes, who declared that so long as the queen wore it she would never be ill. T1he amulet, as wvas generally the case, proved of no avail, and Eliza beth, notwithstanding her faith in the charm, not only sickened, but died. During the plague in London people wore amulets to keep off the dread de stroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worn near the heart. Quills of quicksilver were hung around the neck, and also the powvder of toads. The Absentminded Professor.. At ai session of the German reichstag an absentminded member. Herr Wich mann, created no little amusement. He wvas calling the roll, and upon reaching his own name he paused for a res)onse. Naturally none came. Then he called the name more loudly, waited a few seconds and roared It out at the top of his voice. The laughter of his collagues finally aroused him to a: sense oft-the ludicrousness of his act, an e joined in the general hilarity. A RESTORATION BEAU. Daily Programme of a Dandy In England During Charles' Time. The history of an ordinary day of a restoration beau was something like this: From about 10 till 12 he received visitors in his sleeping chamber, where he lay in state, with his periwig, thick ly powdered, lying beside him on the coverlet. Near at hand, on his dress !ng table, the curious visitor might have noticed some little volumes of amatory verse, a canister of Lisbon or Spanish snuff, a smelling bottle and perhaps a few fashionable trinkets. As soon as he deemed proper the beau arose and with incredible diffi culty proceeded to put on all his charms, to perfume his garments, to soak his hands in washes for the sake of producing whiteness and delicacy, to tinge his cheeks with carminative in order to give them that gentle blush which nature had denied them, to arrange a number of patches upon his face so as to produce the effect of moles and dimples, to dip his pocket t handkerchief in rosewater and to pow der his linen so as to banish from it the smell of soap, to consume a quarter of an hour in the attempt to fasten his. cravat, so long again in the en deavor to adjust his wig and to "cock" his hat, as long again in the contem plation of his charms in the looking glass and as long again in the practice of such smiles as would display to the best advantage the ivory whiteness of his teeth-these were the processes through which he who desired to fig ure as a beau of the first magnitude was compelled in that age to pass. The character of the beau, so far as his outward and personal appearance was concerned, was now complete, and as in those days fashionable gentlemen used their legs to a much less extent than they do now our imaginary beau would have directed his valet to order a sedan chair without delay. Into this he stepped and was borne to the fashionable haunt-to the mall in St. James park or perhaps to the more ceremonious parade in Hyde park where, like a butterfly, he dclghted to fiutter in the train of some jilting l beauty, who gloried in nothing so much as "an equipage of fools" and who was perfectly willing for the nonce to furnish him with an excuse for toasting her in a tavern at night. Gentleman's Magazine. APHORISMS. You never lift up a life without being yourself lifted up.-Emerson. To ease another's heartache is to for get one's own.-4braham Lincoln. It is ever true that he who does noth ing for others does nothing for himself. -Goethe. 'Tis far better to love and be poor than be rich with an empty heart. Lewis Morris. God doesn't care for what is on the outside; he cares for what is inside. Rev. M. Babcock. Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more.-flishop Horne. The next time you are discouraged just try encouraging some one else and see if it will not cheer you.-J. R. Mil-] ler. Sin Is never at a stay. If we do not retreat from It, we shall advance in-It, and the farther on we go the more we have to come back.-Barrow. Kind looks, kind words, kind adts and warm hand shakes-these are sec-t ondary means of grace when men are In trouble and are fighting their unseen battles.-Dr. John Hall VOLCANIC REGIONS. The Five Active Group% of the West ern Hemisphere. The active volcanic groups of the western hemisphere occur in fiye wide ly separated regions: First.-The Andean group of volca noes of the equatorial region of west-* ern South America. Second.-The chain of some twenty fie great cinder cones which stretch east and west across the south end of the Mexican plateau. Thrd.-The Central American group, with its thirty-one active craters, ex tending diagonally across the western ends of the east and west folds of the Carbbean corrugations, fringing the Pacific side of Guatemala, San Salva dor and Costa Rica. This is separated from the Mexican group on the north by a large nonvolcanic area, the isth mus of Tehuantepec, and on the south from the Andean volcanoes by the Isth mus of Panama, where no active vol canoes are found. Fourth.-The chain of volcanoes of the Windward islands, marking the. eastern gate of the Caribbean sea, standing in a line directly across the eastern termini of the Caribbean moun tains, trending east and west and paral lel to the Central American group sim ilarly situated at the western termini. Fifth.-The volcanoes of Alaska and the Aleutian islands.-Professor Rob ert T. Hill in Century. Circumlocution. A young Yorkshire coller, anxious to pop the question to a girl whom he hon estly admired, but not having the cour age to ask her straight out, adopted a method of sounding her which roman tic people will be inclined to think rather too pract'ical. "Jessie, my lass," he said nervously, "Ah've insured my life." "Has ta, lad?" said the damsel indif ferently. "Aye, an' Ah'm thinkin' Ah'm a fool for doin' it." "How's ta mnak that art?" "Why, supposin' Ah get killed in t' pit, where does ta think t' money'll go?" "Why, to thy feyther, for sure." "True enough, an' it ain't fair, It ought to be paid to my wife." "To thy wife! Why. tha hasn't got one, Bill." "That's just it," cried Bill In a burst of confidence. "Tha're a nice lass, Jes si, an' Ah want thee to have that mon "Why couldn't ta say so at fust?" cried Jessie joyfully. Then the happy couple embraced and trotted off to break the news to Jes sic's mother.-Pearson's. 31an's Greatest Enemy. "Fatigue is one of the greatest ene mies of the human race," says a writer in Ainslee's. "Modern physiologyshows that it is the cause of nearly half and p~erhps more of the several hundred catalogued diseases that prey upon man. In our age, with its high.pres sure, its not and bitter competition and I the unrelenting struggle for survival, its moral and physical ravages are sedily increasing. Cities, in which an ever larger proportion of our peo ple dwell, are biological hothouses and, for some, furnaces, forcing develop ment prematurely and encouraging late hours and excitement and consum n nerve nd r1anin." STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Clarendon. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.' Esther L. 31oise, Plaintiff. against iliza Jones. Alice Taylor, Fannie Jones. Robert Jones, Ellerbe Jones. sometimes called Ed die Jones, James Bones. Benjamin H. Jones. James Montgomery. Emma Montgomery, Thomas Montgomery, James Montgomery, Junior. Jesse Montgomery. Hugh Montgom ery. Mary Montgomery, Malvina Jones, sometimes called Molly Jones. Junius Jones, sometimes called Isaac Jones, Azilee Jones, Sabine Jores. Leila Jones, John Francis, Isaac Francis. Eliza Francis, Toney Taylor, Eliza Taylor, Mary Alice Taylor, Thomas Taylor. McLeod-Wilkins-King Company," Marion Moise. J. W. McLeod, D. W. Alder man & Sons' Company. John S. Cole and J. D. Blanding. Defendants. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. o tne Defendants above named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and re uired-to answer the Complaint in this action, *f which a copy is herenith served upon you. nd to serve a copy of your Answer to the said omplaint on the subscribers at their office in he City of Sumter, S. 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