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THE TWO UORPLP-H :Conatinued irom page1 where.' exclaimed .;leuv i-. a augry tone, and with a ment' ture. "I told vou to 2 n y lass. Come v n h e.:m kp whining for this u a another time: comi aCong. I sa The cripote did n are t11M his biother's order- wnen 1 b v wre given in that vmannr: and e t slowly toward hi' mut trn "Ah: if I had anything b:.t water in my veins. I'd d sonething tmore than whine." CHATER XXVI. visITORs. As the door closed upon lr tuw sons, the old womain gravc W1 T IW feelings 0 admi rat ion ior her hand some Jacques. Louise lay on the stairs as rigid as if she had been carved from stone. La Frochard seated heiself byv table, and communed with hersef. "Ah, what a splendid fellow .Iacqucs is! The very image of his dear father. There was a man for you: but they cut off his head. Ah! it makes me sick think of it. I must take something to strengthen me." Mother Frochard had great faii h in the virtue of brandy as a means t strengthenIng herself, and she com menced to search in her capacious pocket for the brandy bottle which she always carried. "Yes-yes. young woman." she saad. threateningly, as she coniinued her search, "I'l1 attend to you in a min ute." She had found the bottle. and tak ing a long draught. she exelaipei: "Ah! that warms mv heart.. Then after another drink, she said. much as she would have said had Louise been before her instead of lying on Ihe stairs in nearly a swoon: "We'll see how you enjoy a couple of days' sta rva tion. Yes, Jacques is right,. we must break your obstinate spirit. Then when you come out you won't refuse to help your friends make an honest liv ing." Another deep pull at the bottle. and the old hag was ready for any work. however wicked. With a fiendish look upon her face, she went to the blind Irl, a taking her by the arms. e her to stand. .-- "Shamming again, you are' Stand up and come with me." and the old wretch began to pull the poor girl up the dilapidated stairs. "Oh, madame:'* screamed Louise, in an agony of terror, as she fully under stood that she was about to be con fined again in the garret, "have you no soul, no pity? Do not kill me:" "I don't intend to. you're too valua ble," replied the old woman. who had succeeded in getting Louise to the door, and opening it.she thrust her in. "There, get in with you, I'll see you safe inside." So frantically did the terrified girl cling to the old woman's garments. that she found it impossible to shake her off, and was obliged to go in with her until she could threaten her into something approaching a state of sub mission. While La Frochard is thus pleasant ly engaged, we will, in a few brief words, explain what happened after Marianne was carried away into exile. Henriettre remained at La Salpetriere until nightfall, and in the meantime the Count de Linieres had received notice that she had embarked in the prison ship. He at once gave Picard the necessary orders for the release of bhe chevalier, and at dusk, he and Henriette and De Yaudrey were to gether, discussing plans for the release of Louise. Picard proved a valuable aid in the matter, and before Henriette had been out of prison an hour, she was on her way to find the blind girl from whom she had been separated so long. They had no difficulty in procuring a warrant for the arrest of jacques and his mother, and a guard to execute it. and thus armed with the power of the law, they anticipated no trouble. The boat-house occupied by the Fro chards had, as the reader will renmem ber, an entrance opening on the Seine which was seldom used, and the only other means of entering the house was through a long, dark passage leading from the Rue Noir. At the entrance of this Dassage the rescuing party halt ed, and it was then decided that Pi card should lead the guards around to the door on the river side, while the chevalier should proceed through the passage, contriving to reach the house at the same time the soldiers did. It was thought necessary that the chevalier should go to the next st reet where he could watch the movements of the guards, and thus time his own movements. Leaving Hlenriette at the entrance of the passage, with many cautions that she shouild not stir from the spot, he hurried away. To the young girl who had thus waited the preparations which were to restore her to her sister, the time passed with leaden wings, and she could not remain inactive. She re solved to enter the house in advance of the others, and thus have the pleas ure of clasping her sister in her arms a few moments sooner. Alone she threaded the dark, noi some passage. Alone she pursued her rash journey, prompted by her great love for her sister, braving all the hor rors of that viper's den in order that she might meet her sister a few mo ments sooner. Mother Frochard descended from the garret; she had left Louise insensible. and having thus performed her duty. betook herself to the consolation which she could derive from her brandy bot tle. Suddenly she heard a knock at the door, and starting in aifright, she hid her bottle among some of the cooking utensils that littered the table, and advanced to the door, askin: "Who's there? What do you want? It was Henriette's voice that said from the outside: "I am looking for some one-for Madame Frochard." "What do vou want of her?" asked the old woman. suspiciously, and mak ing no motion toward opening the door. "I must speak with her." E "Are you alone?" L"Yes, I am alone." - 'The answer seemed to sat isfyv La Frochard, for she imimediatecly unfast ened the door, saying: "Well, if vou are alone, y-ou uiv come in." Henriette entered. and but a single .look at the squalid place frightened her. The whole house looked a tit abode for murderers and thieves, and the appearance of the old woman seemed to heighten that impression. "Great Heavens: can this be the place?" she asked herself. in astonish ment. As she stood in the centre of the room, gazing with fear and trembling upon every object. Mother . Frochardo was favoring her with suspicious looks. "Well, young woman." sie said, a f ter waiting a fewv moments for Heni ette to speak, "you want to se'e Mad ame Frochard-wlhat hax e youj "ot I say to hmer?" Still Hlenriette hesitatedi. and piee( her hand upon her heart to siill its tu multuous beatings. "Come. what is itY'" again asked the old woman. imnpat ient.x. "Wa a'e you looking for? Do you expect to2 :itM any one here?" ''Yes-yes. I am looking for ihe person wfho lives here with you. " What persun'" andi Motner F-rocii ard's metallic voice was harder and shriller than ever. "A young girl." answered Hienriet te. N One 1mof K iniWY l I'r e i c' whIh the i wk i, ,nd f uphrs lidI t is I n!( . s d h o hi 'ie . T.hai ii I h shaw l and soar ich e oM xei oin I ameii tron roie, -and ai-o usnd un arssfr r"~ W hat '- is ~ 11 1, *..i ,I?*Zke l , 1l it 11 i I t '. i it :' rp I - ' i ~ 1. -,!. it is. hors. I tvi !ioial:- Ar' o len :iettr'sz,;athprsad :emels f hi her uind. "Not a bit of it: it ismine," holdi asredi a iFrochard. , hinking s could make the young .girl helieve her --AI this ser arouIndI yo.r neek? "Weil. what of it?"* "It wa" mtade for ler by my owvl hand,.: exMaimey! ienriette. learis it fromi tho old voian's neck. -( )] wreth: vou have lied TO n v For an instant La 'rote'iard was a, 01'ihed. Sihe hal thon h "o p'I1 sIud lnritte hat sh' knew not h ing ahoult hersir:ittwa uo sihle. ler rount. wicked fAc grew perfio' it tiendish with rag. . as sh li s I' rough her set t NOWii. the singl word " Cauht T hen. after a iiomelnt's thought she tur"ed to lienrwite with a smIil that w as intended I o be sypi:i htet ie. "We:-well,' she saim. in a sorro.' I l voice, "if yoi Imust know I le I ruth '1 F t elI you. When youl came in. yo! Iwere so excited!( and( frightenied, (i' (Lae to tell you all Al--all Iiwhat?" interrupted iHen riette. in an agony of apprehension "Speak quckly.' *One evening about three month ago," continuedi Mother Frochard. met the girl you are looking for wandering about the streets. I hac pity. on her, and brought her hom with me. where I took care of her. The old woman stopped to wip away imaginary tears,. but the agoniz ed girl exclaimed: . t0 on. for leaven's sake. go on." "Well," whined the old hag. "sh knew I was poor and coludn't afford t keep her for nothing. so she sung some times in the street-just to help ie aid she sung like a little hird.'' Again the old woman's feelingsover caie her. and- she was obliged to stop. "And tioen, what then?"! "And then. why. you see the poo child vasn't very strong, and wha with the life we led, ann the sorrov she felt. she couldn't stand it. and th poorlit tle !rd broke down eut i rely. Sh said she couldln' sing any more, an< that was the end of i~. For two day: she has been dumb. She'll sing nu more-- no more." As Moher Fochad tin ished. he fessional whine in) it. sunk almost to; whisper, and seat ingheirself in a chair she cov'ered her face with hei' apron and simulated an agony of grief. "Dead:'exclaimed Heniette. wxhil, every vestive of color left her face. an< she stood like one petitied. "dead, m. sister imy Louise is dtatd:" and over come by her intense s.orrow,. she suni insensible on the tlr ''"Fainted, eh?"eried the old woman 1unjfl:ingi up guickly. and gazing at th prostrate girn "What am I to d' with her? "Ohu ilues were on)1 here: I must go for him." She star'ted towai'd the door: bu the thought flashed ovet' her that sh had forgotton to lock the garret (100 and she ran back and peformed tha duty. 'rhei'e,"' she said. with a sigh 0 sat isf act ion ' "theire is nothing to fea now. and IUll go and call .1 acunes."' The old woman departed in seari'c of her son. leaving H~en'riette lying up o the fioor. To be continued. Free Delivery and Good Rtoads' freot be true. the Postmaster Generai is soon to be asked to con sider a pretty promising plan for th( betterment of the highways of' thi: country. submitted to the superinten dent of ttte free delivery system by Icitizen of Pennsylvannia, Mr. Josepi W. Brown. It is based upon the fatc that only one seriou~s obstacle stand: in the way of developing thie fre( deliery service, namely, the presein conitioni of our' country roads. Mr' Brown's idea is that if a certain roat is repor'ted as practically impassabbi for the carriers, the highway authori ties of the town wherein it is foiim Iare to have a reas'inable length o Iof time withbin which to repair it and the penalty for their failure so to d( is to be tha cessation of free deliver) in that localily. In is recent report IMr. Martin Docdge, Director of' thi ureau of Publie Roads Inquiries 0 the Department of Agriculture, marh some interesting co)mments: "The circumstance that over SO. 000000 was appropriated by our las' Congress largely to be buried in ou mudy roads in the delivery of eu: rural mails, while only the small sun f &20, 000 xvas last year devoted t< meeting the road pr'oblemn indicate: the great need (f education regardini. the uresenit necessity and demand foi vigorous and intelligent road work "As mun ofii these iarge appr'opria tions tor ruir'l mail delivery' could hti save'd if we nari good r('as. it is oi~Votu: th an) amoiunt equal to a consider ae porti'>n of these sums coiuld b< spent toi a good advantage in educat ig the people in the work of i mprov inr our country roads, and thus foril ee close. a large drain on our nationa eahblx. If the introduction of fre< mail~ deliv ery results in the improve met ol.or icouitry roads, our rui'a find.s AA have occ'~asion) to bless thb ''rt of iletter wvritin~g and the Pocs1 Oim'e twice ox cr. Au i:you helping' yoir past ir thes< ays. D ou e'r havi e a fr'indly tall, with himabo u te wotrk. letting hiia knwx that yo art'te interIested ini whal he is doing. D' yvu listen attenitivel his sermo" A. undj listener is Il great enc'ouragemeniC t to a preacher. Did v'ou knowx that a little discr'imi fatg prais~ e heps a pastor' mu1.ch. T 1hee are ch'iur'ci members who w) t a pie:n'her i itl on-i' e now andi ~i~ then. T?r over a :;ew leI' and lxour ias fruitea.in me i ' tnd no't 'a dead irch) r'eadyV to droi p ' atan tm. TH Mi0 oiC doctine dn' se'm toII h ranattc' o ' r zuel.~ n a. t .o enw oe3uiea it c' ott ia: i hi xee thii Iion 'tiZC'i nee ocdsem.t . b mWrei u . iuit t.) be, !niid, I e ;rilk, hid V I'b i wlling Iwi. . t to le cheel *Ahen' tilinii is J1 to-i drive i~ln s away with s 11. W t it-r the h our isdark ir bright. .!ust to : o*Ca! Wo(;i and right: .iNt t !ivN that God knIws beit .in1 in is t prOmises ever tI rest: .is lot - ive e our daily key. T iis i., M;i' w i!. Vr "y . and mie. - Exchanige. How ca:n you help it. if thinirs o wrong. alter you have done your Ibcest~ What's the use of fretting for what vou cannot hlp:- If you can't L.eip it then let it go. Whether the hours 1e1 hlark or 1briiht the I'ftt ing (oeS nlolt lighten the urdLn or make the time go fas ter. A friendwho i as brne ma and deep .riefs remarked to me soIMet ime sine '' Work is the pana!cea for troubiles that you cainn t shake ol (I (Irive awaV. II is dreadfuil to be har rowed wit. h sleeplcss nights -which i brini ominous forebodinugs despite our resolve not to think of yoursor ro ws (or indul'ige your griefs. These forebo(ding~s wilIl aunt you. plague yOu, tor1ment you ii the weary night im. but with dayli ghilt you can g'i to work-can do busy work for yourself and for others. You can even work yourself into surcease of sorrow for the ti bneing. Work is the prime -d It will bring fatigue. of couIrSe, but fatig.ue sleep. 'God giveth his beloved sleep'--ancd the comfort will come if voui are loyal to (41d and right.~ Of course, useless work for yourself or others is not compensation in re suits. but genuine labor-the sort which adds comfort to the home, and is sweetened by the knowledge that economy and thrift will give satisfac tion to all concerned-is here meant as a remedy. There are thousands of people in this world who would die in insane asylums if it were not for the healthy atmosphere which industry provides. Persons who have waded through deep waters of atfliction. or passed through I fiery trials of disaster, have frequent lv testilied to the saving power of ( real. constant occupation as a panacea 1 for ills that cannot be avoided or driven away by any other process. r It is the natural compensation the force that restores the equilib rium and which supplies the mental balance-which has been strained and distorted by grief and shock. Constant occupation-the kind that is helpful-and unfailing reliance up on God and his promises have brought many a suffering soul into a sweet. haven of peace and spiritual comfort aerthe waves and billows have gone over them. Some of the most cheerful persarns 1 have ever known have horne heavy griefs uncomplainingly to the grave. They stemmed the tide by a steady1 walkf in the piath (of duty--loyal to GJod and the right.-Mrs. W. H. Fe] ton in Atlanta Jouirnal. A Daiy for Childiren. Christmas seems to be the only fes tia of the year wflich rightfully be- 1 longs to the chileren-thie time when 1 the Christ-child camne into the world, bornu in such a lowly place. that no II child, however humble, but should I share in the joy of his birth. If wet have tch~ildren in our homes, says a witer in the Farm and Fireside, let us ivest the Christmas-time with all ( the beauty and brightness that is 1 possible. Teach them I he sweet. ild I Christmais soiigs, such as 'IIoily I Night. "Once in IRoyal D~avid's City." "O L ittle Town of Bethlehem" and 1 Joy~ to th e World." Tell them again the story (of the birth of the Christ.. All children love it. and is ever new. I Tese talks are made more interest-t ing by looking at pictures. Good copies of old masterpieces illustratini the lifeI of Chriost arie very cheap now. 1 and should be in every home. Sich pitues a.s Corneggio's 'Nativ.ity. "Thie WXorship oft the Magi."I ''he \In'donna anrd Child." v:il nn irke a h ist 1 ingr impression) on a child's mind. As I Christmas commemorates God's great- ( Iest and best gift to the world, it is a(I sweet custom for friends to give somne 1 ifit to each othecr symboli:'ing thir loe In too many homes tihe children are in dianger of having their own ida of Christmas one of getting sonme thing, instead of sharing in the joy o1F iving. In this way ther lose tihe bes.t part of the Christmas joy. He sure tI let ev en tie little onies have a shale in the Ch ristmas preparat ion: teach them tat theC best part of every gift is the loe thait goes with it. arid to try to make a happy Christmas for as manyx as hey catn. It would be a good thing if all children wvould commit to to mmory these lines, by Phobe Carey.I and practice them:1 Chlde whose lives are blest with Whose ifits are greater mani your alims Th.ink of the ch.ildI who stand's r ITo-day '~ with emrpty hands: Go till then up and you will also till t Thir emip;y hearts. that be so cold !1 and(1i1iii. A nd i biten longing eyes K W it Ii igrtefulI. giad surprise. 4 Mayj all who have at this blest seasoni F I Ils preciouis lit le one-thle poor and ( weaik: I In jovful sweet acc:ord.1 Thuis lending 10 ole Lori: THiE captain in charge of a light s ip situated at the entrance (if San F rancisec haro r recently reported to te U'nited States light house cerm-I n missioner that a large numnber' of I and ~ids tiok refuge (n board tile yesseL. .denise smoke from noirtherni forest ires hung over tihe licalityv and com-iii pe tely obscured sea an~d land. Evi denty the birds had lost thir~ wa' and.~ exhauisted lby their ilong light. thC wandcerers alighted oin the ship uneerd by th e presence oif the cr. At Xlone time sixtyv of the fea th- t re guests were counIitedi n vartio ji, .ar S Lii lhe siip. (>)wls, eranes.hum i migL ?.rds and ether non-m na rine sp- a ie werVicie not iLcd du1 rig thew time. T'" h1l neCvil is to bei exterminl ed In Texas iI a1 e''nlierted cous of15 -ia ait that re suit. At a eionfifeie held un' ler theC* auspices (if the C'm li L mtercial Clubof liilla s and: to whih t mebe;.rs of the - tate legislature State oils and' er sresentativets 1' commecialbodis an frinig iner d. ests were inii'iai tie preiilminaryi s t -ies wre tae for wagingi an~ activ p atipa ign a ainst the pest. The leg- ti Islatur ie is to be calle 21u pon to make a il ibe.rl appropriatio~n tii bei usedC for s .OVE TRAT KILLS. . v woarn Shot !o Death on the Ster. \ .h ::irin LeCleyre, a noted an reist and a teacher of IatnuIages. v nvsteriouslv shot and mortally vouniIed Friday in Philadelphia by lerman IIscher. a former pupil. lie womila(n is dving in a hospital and I elscher is in custcdy. I requited love s s;id toi have prompted the deed. Wh1-en arrested Ilischer's only ex >lanationi wast- Ihe following-:'T vCre sw.ethea rts. she and 1. She )irI ke my heart and deserved I) Ie Silled." Miiss LeCleyre is 1; years of aige and ter issailant is 24. The shooti ng ci :urred on the street in broad daylight Ind was witnessed by a score (if per ;ons. Miss LeCleyre was standing at street corner awaiting a car. I Hels -her. who had cisguised h-mself by neansol a false moustache.npproached ier from the rear and ac( osted cr. .\mst at the same moment he irew I revolver from his pocket and )ointed it at the woman. who turned md attempted to run away. She had fone only a few steps when IHelscher egan liring upon her. After discharg- I ng live shots at the fleeing woman. hree of which took eiect. he replac d the pistol in his pocket and start cd to walk away. He made no effort escape and was immediately arrest dn. Miss LeCleyre ran a short distance Lmd then sank exhausted upon a door tep. She was carried into the house Lm1 from there removed to a hospital. n her statement to a magistrate she enied acquaintance with Helseher, it when he was brought before her ninus the false moustache she at once -ecognized him. She declined, how ver. to accuse him of having shot ier, but asked the police if he had ad nitted it. Neither would state the mature of her relations with Helscher. [wo bullets took effent in the woman's -ight side below the shoulder. and an >ther embedded itself in the right de of the chest. The physicians iold out no hope for her recovery. Miss LeCleyre has attained wide pread notoriety through her anarchis ic utterances and intimacy with eoma Gold man and other Anarchists. ihe is an accomplished linguist and nusiian and has written much ana-r histic literature and many erotic >ems. Ilelscher is a cigarm kar. le vas born in Russia and came to this -ountry fourteen years ago. For a ime he lived in Boston. but during :he last eight years has resided here. 1e is an avowed- Anarchist. Foolish Talk. one of the African Methodist bish ,ps who spoke in 11ichmond Wednes lay nighl. has evidently lost his head. [n referring to the movement inaugur tted by Hon. .Iohn S. Wise. of New irk, to have the new constitution of Virginia dclcared illegal. this negro isoo cailled on all negroes in the United Staites to "tight for their -ghts" and not suffer themselves tO > disfranchised. The colored preacher 'ok occasion to refer to the assassina ion (f I'residlent 31eNinley as the act > God, who was displeased with him ecause of McKinley's tardiness im giv ng negroes all they wanted. and God caled him home." Mr. lloosevelt hould carry oni the work of abolh,h ng .Jim Crow cars and providing so :l equality for the wives and (daugh ers of the colored race. according to his negro bishop's policy. The At anta Jiournal says this colored bishop tas assumed a big contract if that is ls mission, and no better method -ould have been devised to divide the lepbl~ean party in twain than this egio preacher's outcry against the lead President. MIr. McKinley had he greatest opportunity of any Chief sxective knowni to the American pec eI laid before him. if he had res ~utely put the negro aside. as his government had previously set1 side the aboriginal indian and the longolian, many think he might have mad a formidable iRepublican party in he South for the past six years: but ie held on to the negro and the South 'emained solid, it is the irony of fate hat he should now be reviled by the ery class he clung to, as Bishop Wal er's speech demonstrates, if the ight against Jlim (.row cars is inaug irated indeed and in trtuth by such eaders as Bishop Walters, then the olored people who behave themselves' vill also sutfer. TVhe bishop should >e retired by his own people for rea ons that are plain. The Morphine Habit. A wife and mother who lives in ergia asks the Atlanta .Journal vhy the legislature does not place ,tringent restrictions on the sale of norphine and laudanum to the poor reatures that are enslaved by the abit. "It is worse than the whisky abit." shte writes. "'I know five amilies who are in dire poverty be ause thle parent. sometimes male. ometimes lemale. will sell the last 1uit in the house t-> get the drug or he liquid narcotic." The use of narcotics is far more eeral than can be0 supposed by tihe mon-users. it is a sly sneaking habit. t is uniformly secretive in its nethods, and until the poor victim is anded in an insane asylum the ex et of this secretiveness is not to be mderstood. This distressed woman urther writes: " My own husband is 1 ddicted to it. and he has nearly be ome illeapable of attending to b)usi-j ss. Is there nlo way. no provision; n I he law that will prevent the sale 1 a confirme~d victim ,jf this awful i ahit? We will be ruined unless lhe n be kept from getting it." in commcenting~ on the above piti ble story Tihe Journal says "'this is< n old. old story. and0 the dvoswy hat are used to get dope devius byahe itims and the prolits made by the ale (of the dirugs' *o those who will a any price to secure them. forbid he hope that prohibition of the sale vil be easilyv providedi [or by suitable gisation or -that viations of such law will not be constantly occuring,.~ o matter how perfectly it may be one at the time of passage. WXhen lrphine is added to the whisky hiabit le dule dose is even nwrl'4 fearful aits eilects on the brain of the vic i. but the end is surer ana quicker, ' s to time. There is an epidemic of alide'( allI over this (countryW. H ow mhl of it is traceable to tile Opium id whisky haliir. it is impossible to all. but it is reas'nmable to inifer that - is a wvav, thai wil! surely take hold n death. as a remedy for the horror t at is ent it led by the drug.' -r is said that forty tihousand clii en under twelve years of acre are in red in one inadustrial insurance com-1l any~ in i'ennsylvan ia. We believe at these insurance companies are l indirect cause oIf thle death of WILL GIVE IN. Leading Citizens Advises President Castro to Yield to Force. FULL POWER GIVFN MR. BOWEN, Mhe American Minister. to Effect a Tcrniination of' the Present I)ifliculties Will) Least Harn to Venezuela. The news from Venezuela is more tranquil. It has been decided that the Venezuelan dificulty shall be ar Aitrated. and the discussion of terms >f settlement is now going on. United tates Minister Howen undoubtedly vill be one of the arbitrators. The ovemment fears that coercive meas aires will follow the establishment of Lhe blockade. Tifc leading citizens of Caracas have iddressed a joint note to President Castro asking him to give full powers to United States Minister Bowen to ,ffect a termination of the present dif culty. Tihis note was transmitted to President Castro at 1 o'clock Wednes iay afternoon. It is signed by all the eading merchants, bankers and agri :-ultural interests of Caracas. it re lects truly the consensus of current >pinion among the business element of his city. The men who signed the iote will meet again tonight to dis ,uss ways and means of obtaining money with which Venezuela can neet her obligations, as well as the uarantees which it will be possible to >irer to creditors. The not is as fol ows: Caracas, Dec. 17. 190:. ro the President of the United States of Venezuela. Sir: The undersigned having met ith the purpose of offering their aid :o the government of Venezuela in he present conflicting situation, which has been created by the aggres ;ive attitude of Germany and Great Britain and upon your request to give ur opinions in writting we address ou in the following terms: In view of the acts of violence al ready commited and of the absolute impotence of Venezuela to meet rorze with force in response to the illied forces of Germany and Great Britian and in view of the fact that Venezuela has exhausted all the meatis required by civilization and iplomacy to put an end to the pre ;ent situation, and the government nd the people of Venezuela having somplied honorably and worthily to the emands of national honor, we con ;ider, with all due respect, that the oment to yield to force has arrived. We therefore respectfully recom end that full powers be given to the minister of the United States of North America, using him to carry )ut proper measures to terminate the resent conflict in the manner least prejudicial to the interests or Vene tuela. The note is signed by about 200 rominent citizens of Caracas. PEOPLE DESERT HI. During the last ten days President astro has acted with extraordinary anergy. He has transformed the en ire country into a vast camp, having raised more than 40.000 men, wvhom Lhe has well armed, equipped and rasported from very direction to La Guayra and Puerto Cabello, in the 3xpectation that the allies would at :empt to land at one or both of these points But there has been a change f feeling, and the prominent men of Venezuela who were at one time ready :o lead the people in the defense of heir country, now consider that justi lation to take the men of the repub ic away from their families and tneir vork does not exist They have re olved to discover a means to bring ibout arbitration, or at least treat with the allies. The means sought is shought to lie through the United tates legation and satisfactory re ults are on every hand expected to ~ollow. A member of the ministry ;aid to the correspondent of The As ociated Press: " The United States las not prevented the allies from as ~ailing us, but it has obliged them to iccept our terms." ITALIAN 3IINIsTER LEAVES. The italian minister left Caracas Wednesday morning. At 8 o'clock iinister Bowmen went to the italian egation in a state carriage, accompa ied by Secretary Russell and took the Italian minister, Signor de Riva id the itaiian consul. Signor Gaz urell, and conducted them to the ailroad station, where they were met by the leading Italian resi ents of Caracas. Mr. Bowen then tcompanied the minister to his coach ;hok hands with him and handed iim. papers and cigars for his journey :o La Guayra. Tne Xenezuelan newspapers are til ignorant of the fact that tne talian minister presented an ultima :u to tile Venezuelan government iuesday afternoon and therefore there vere no crowds at tihe railroad station md no hostil demonstration. The :ity is quiet. A sCHooNER CAPTURED. The German cruiser Falke. whichl 1as been anchored for the past two lays at tile entrance of Lake Mara maibo, Thlursday, captured the Vene :uelan schooner Victoria. After cut ing down her mainmast. thus disa )ling 1her, the Germans abandoned tile ~essel. This action has caused great ndignation among the Venezuelans md excitement runs high at Maracai >O where the people have been parad ng the streets utter cries against rcat Britain and Germany. THlE TROUBLE sETTLE'D. A dispatch from Caracas says Presi lent Castro has clothed Minister Bow n with full powers to efiect a settle nent with Great Britain, Germany .nd Italy. Minister Bowen simply waits the consent of tihe state dec artment to undertab e the task. as uming that tihe nations named will e willing that he shall undertake the or'k. It is believed the critical phase f the Venezuelan situation has pass Cic.w;o police are battled in an ef ort to find the writter of anonymous atters withl which society folk have een bombarded for nearly four years. 'he writer evidently keeps close ~atchl of the society columns in the apers. Announcement of the en agement or prespective marriage of rominent young persons has been fol wed closely by letters addressed to he bride-to-be or to some relative, nd containing charges of immorality gainst the prospective bride-groom. TrilE .Iapanese need ne further praise >r their up-to-dateness. Tile Tokio overnment has just ordered several ~ray machines from this country to e used for the purpose of detecting lit timeve who swaowoldn coins. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. Laud cannot be too rich or too mel low for fruits. Manure for the garden should be free from weed seeds. The head of a tree needs to be fairly open to admit sun and air for full growth of fruit. The dahlias will never disappoint you. Pink, white. yellow or crimson, tall, dwarf or cactus. It is bound to flower. In the fall after the leaves have dropped is generally the- best time for taking cuttings from quinces, but they may be taken later. Heliotrope should not be mixed with other cut flowers in water. They de cay quickly and have a harmful effect upon the other blossoms. Myosotis (forgetmenot) needs partial shading. but not the shade of a tree. Plant among taller flowers or around rosebushes, nd it will do well. Plenty of yellow blossoms should be secured for places which lack sun shine. Yellow is good in almost every situation and.is the cheeriest of tones. Good cultivation causes an abun dance of fibrous roots to be made. The growth of any plant is largely meas ured by the number of its fibrous roots. Too Smart. He was one of those men who are constantly trying to beat down prices," said a bank cashier, "and had evident ly been looking around for bargain prices for his bill of exchange. When hl.' presented it to me and asked the rate, I replied. 'One-tenth of I per cent.' "'Now, look here.' he said. 'You are too high. I have done business in this bank for ten years, and yet you charge me a higher rate than I can get from the Farmers' bank, over the way. They will do it for one-eighth. If you don't do it for that. I'll take my account over there.' -All right,' I remarked. 'We will do .t for the same rate, considering that i ou are an old customer.' "The bill of exchange cost him 6111 :-ents more than it would had he kept Iulet."-New York Times. Needed For Other Purposes. A Georgia.justice recently married a runaway couple who drove up to his house and went through the ceremony without descending from the carriage. When the ceremony was over, says the Atlanta Constitution. the groom fum bled in his pockets and fished up thirty six cents. "Jedge." he said. "this here's all the money I got in the world. Ef you've a mind to take it. you kin, but I'll say now that I done set it aside fer the honeymoon expenses." Her Opportunity. "They say she isn't happy," com mented the neighbor. "but I don't see why." "Oh. some people never are satis fled." "That's right, and it's her own fault !f she isn't happy, because she's able #o by clothes that will make all the other women envious."-Chicago Post. An Insinuntion. Doris--Yes, she was furious about the way in which that paper reported her marriage. Helen-Did it allude to her age? Doris-Indirectly. It stated that "Miss Olde and Mr. Yale were mar ried, the latter being a well known col lector of antiques."--Chicago News. fIMPORTANT TO FARMERS. What Texas Fever is and How it should be Treated. The appearance of Texas fever among cattle at Blackville malkes it important for our farmers and others who keeps cattle to know something about this disease, that is so fatal to the bovine race. Texas fever was not well understood uutil about twelve years ago, but is now known to be a specitic disease of cattle similar in many respects to human malaria. The primary cause of it is a micros copic protozvan (animal germ) which destroys the r&l cells of the blood. The animals become infected by beingr bit ten by the common cattle tick. for merly so numerodus in all cattle in this State. All native cattle that carry ticks from the time they are calves. acquir ing immunity to the disease when very young, but if cattle have never had ticks on them they readily take the disease wvhen they are exposed to tick infestation. That is the trouble with cattle from the northern .States as well as western North Carohlna, which.is entirely free from ticks and aboe the government quarantinc line. I.hose feeders who ship from there I.::ould be very careful never to ship efore frost, to load cattle into clean ars. not to .unload into stock pens where tick infested cattle have been kept during summer, and to scrupui ously avoid driving the cattle over roads or through woods where seed ticks may be on the grass and leaves: also to avoid the use of straw or leaves for beddidg if taken from woods where tick-infested cattle have used the past summer. If. however, it is found that the cattle have gotten the ticks on them. begin at once to remove them by oiling the parts where they are found, using cotton seed or cheap lubricating oil. A good way to build a chute consistmng of two slatted fences sixteen feet long and two feet apar t and so arranged that the cattle Imay be shut in with bars as driven through. Put the chute in a cross fence so that cattle may be driven from one lot to another, making sure that all of' them are greased. If any are taken sick. they refuse food, stand with head, hung low or lie with the head stretch ed on the ground in front, have high fever, and in bad cases red urine. Af ter death the most noticeable lessonC is that the spleen (melt) is very much r enlarged. black, easily torn, and tilled S with black clotted blood. A good. treatment is to give a pound of salts every 24 hours till bowels act freely a and 'twice a day given half ounce of t quinine. All who are interested in this disease should write Dr. Nesoma at Clemson college for Biulletin No. t 72 on Texas fever. t Ti-: D~arlington Messenger says "3r 31e'lver. Williamson recently I sold a load of tobacco on the D~ariing-f ton ~market for somnething~ over $.0L. 00. Of course the tobacco was of ine quality. but this was a line price. c also and shows what can be dlone on 't Darlington soil." Earthquake Victims. T hrce of'iicials. two~( senators and 15 * t naties. mostly children. were kiileda by the earthquake which destr'oyed I the town of Andijan. Russian Central n A sia. Tuesday. In addition :800 na0 tives and 17 senators were injured and t 9,000 houses of natives and 1:10 lus- p sianresi~nc~s wre estryed LEARNING A LANGUAGE. It is Cornparatively Easy to .rquire a Working Vocaba!ary. "It doesn't require any great length of time to learn a language if one has patience." said a mnan who Las ma tered several ianguages. "and when I hear a man regret that he is not able to speak French or German or sp:nish or some other language unknow to Lim I cannot couceal my aunmsemjent. In nine cases out of ten I iight say that the men who expas a re:;ret of this sort hiandle' English very poworly if that happens to be their language. -The chances are that their votnbu larios are extremely limited, and it would probably ;urprise them to knotw that d-spite the advantages of birth and education they co;uld n:ot command more tlh:z a G(:1).or 700 words in English If their lives depended u; cn it. Yet they are a ble to carry on intelligent cou versation. a:d many of them may be come forcible and even axiomatic in their savings, and they plunge into dis. cussions of literature, art, music and other subjects of such fine elegance and do it rather successfully too. "Now. how long ought it to take for a man to learn 600 or 700 or even 1,000 words in any lauguage? Certainly it ought not to take any great length of time. and from my own experience I know that it does not. Of course I am not speaking now of mastering so that one can get the full benefi-t of all the refinements -of speech in a particular tongue. "But I have In mind the idea of speaking intelligibly in a given lan guage and being able to understand perfectly what is said in return. I have a system which I have worked out, and it has been of vast benefit to me and has enabled me to learn a number of languages. It occurred to me while I was in Mexico a few years ago on im: portant business. "1 coubl nct speak a wor:d of Spanish and coui not unCe:-stand the Lunguage. 1 concluuld th::t I would rarn Iea gulge. My pln was simply this: I made up y mind that I would not re tire :t the cio. of 1-y day as long as I wa; .tazr. w::ihart learning'at least nouse uh a a wiart the me- ant. That would give me ninety words per month, or something over 1,000 in a year's time."-New Orleans Times Democrat Look Out For- Your Pate. A contemporary says "pate" is slang fr head. It Is, eh? Wherefore? Sure ly the word Is used in a trivial or de rogatory sense. as noddle, noggin, cra nium, brainpan, etc., but Its origin is eminently respectable. Shakespeare says "the learned pate ducks to the golden fool." Pope's epigram is good: ou beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. We have "bald pate" and "shave pate." Why, the word is used once in the Bible, and by David, in Psalm vii. 16, "His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate." Ac eurately, pate does not mean the head, but the crown of the head.-New York Press. A Forbidden Topic. "There Is one topic peremptorily for bidden to all well bred, to all rational, mortals," says Emerson, "namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have headache or sciatica or leprosy or thun derstroke, I beseech you by all angelsI to hold your peace and not pollute the1 morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans. Come out of the azure. Love the day." The quotation suggests that, hard as it is to be an invalid, it may prove al most is paInful to be an invalid's friend. Love and Business. "Dear," she said during an interval of comparative sanity, "promise me one thing." "Anything," he answered, with the recklessness of love. "After we have been married a rea onable time if we decide a divorce is desirable promise that my brothers, who are struggling young lawyers, shall represent us." - Philadelphia North American. Open Road to Fame and Fortune. "My boy," said the old gentleman in a kindly tone, "there's only one thing that stands between you and success." "And what is that?" asked the youth. "if you worked as harl at working," explained the old gentleman, "as you do at trying to find some way to avoid working, you would easily acquire both fame and fortune." - Chicago The One Qualfifation. "What position will our friend take n this momentous question?" asked the gradiloquent man. "Position ?" echoed Senator Sor ghum absentmindedly. "Oh, he'll take pretty nearly any position that's open, provided there's a salary attached to it."-Washington Star. Too Cool. "Oh. Major Bloodgore," said girlish gusher, "they say that during the war you were always cool in action." "Cool" declared the major. "Why,~ my dear girl, I was -so cool that when I shivered people Insinuated that I was treblng"-Baltimore Herald. Assisted. Sarah-Mr. Rippler says that be Is a onfirmed bachelor. Susie-But he didn't say that every girl in town had nssisted in confirming alm. did he?-Indianapolis News. Some men take pains naturally. -ano some give them the same way.--Chi eago News. Should be Paid. Te so-called Lord b)Ond case will C time up again before the le-gislature ~ ext month. it having been up before everal egislature-s in the past few ears. The case is as follows: in eruar. 18$->. the assets of the tate bank (a. private 'orporation, not he State institution known as ''Ther lank of the St'ate.' were plundered nd rtted and stolen by the federal a roops of Sherman's marc'h through a he State. Among the assets of the nk were 100 bons f the State o V.000 each. issued under act of i4 i ad o the lue Rsidge liajiroad C>.. >r which the bank had subsc'ribed nd paid in grold at not less than ;:ar. mmed iately Upon the reopeni ni of )mmun ations -- . e. in .ll., % > t de president of the bank "ave noticet the treasurer- (of the State warann b) im not to pay these bonds t(o any one p resenting them. All of these bonds ae been recovered and paid exce.ptt bou ':T.00. and t he elforCt has been have theii State pay them. it is d iitted that it is a valid debt of 'he. Late. but because' of the fear that . t lost bonds might turn up and be t tid the second time. the legislature P RHINOCEROS HUNTING, he Killing of a ig Rhino on the Banks of the Nile. I was dashing along, confident that; h hino must be far ahead, when Zo anji, xvhistled. I could see nothng til b' ponded out the -brute lying quitel lose to mo. The sun beating on her' n1d cak'd bide made it blend so per eetly with the red earth and yellowish' :r:ss that I should have walked righ up without seeing her. - She sprang-to her feet. We 1:oth fired. She made a zbort dash toward us, but thought bet :er of it and rushed down-a small slope' an to a flat bed of short reeds. Here* .he turned again and defied us. Again. :he h-a vy guns roared. She spun round iud round several times, staggered, re covered and dashed off only to stop., bowever, under the next tree. The .303s, racked. and in a wild chorus of thank Cul yells she toppled over, rose again,i spun round and finally subsided into the grass. .We went up quite close to Inish her. She fought hard to rise and dave a last-charge, but the lttlepencl. ike bullet again sped on Its sad errand,' and the game old relic of prehistoric imes breathed her last. We were sad men as we gazed upon her grotesque, misshapen form. Somehow one feels uch a blatant upstart. in the presence )f the pachyderms when one thinks of the unbroken line that dates back un 2hanged into the unthinkable ages of the past.-Ewart Grogan in Outing. The leadsman's Perquisites. Strange and unreasonable laws guar inteed to the headsman his full 'shard )f emoluments. He was well paid, for, is work and never suffered from a lull season. From the towns he re !eived poultry and fodder, from the monasteries fish and game. The Ab baye do Saint-Germain gave him every year a pig's head; the Abbaye de Saint Nartin five loaves of bread and flve bot LIns of wine. Cakes were baked for him n tha eve of Epip'iny. For each leper in th, comnmuntcy lie exacted-heaven Knows why-a tax at Christmas time.. Les !T:es de joie were his vassals. It wans hi: nrivilege to seize in the market much corn as he could carryl r . i:n his hands, and the peasants tus freely robbed submitted without a murmur, crossing themselves with fer vor as he passed. He had the power to ave from death any woman on. her. way to the. scaffold, provided he were ible and wiling to marry her. He was the first -official called to the bodyof a sicide. and, standing on the dead an's breast, he claimed as his own !verything he could- touch with- the oint of his. long sword.-AgneS Rep ier in Harper's Magazine. All Sirloin. Holman F. Day's 'Tine Tree al ads" tells in verse a number-of sto -ies that actually happened "down in !aine," and are remembered there to lay by old narrators. One relates to 3arney MeGauldrie, a landlord of that tate, at whose house famous men iked to stay, that they.might enjoy a nerry joke. Bdrney was always loyal to his rends. At one time a new meat lealer came to town and tried to se ure the landlord's trade. "I have- always bought meat 'of Jed Easkell," said Barney, "and I guess won't change." "But," said the other, "old Haskefl loesn't know his business. He doen't ten know how to cut meat" "Well," drawled Barney.. "I've al vas found that he knows enough tout it to cut sirloin steak clear to the iorn, and that's good enough for me.' The Pens~ins Bump of Locality. On shore the penguin is an awkward :reature. Water is its element. When . munted on the Ice floes, the birds gen rally try to run away In an unright position, but just as the hunter thik m has got one the bird lies down on its white belly and paddles along over the mow very quickly, the hard, smooth uills slippin~g over the snow crystals ilmost without friction. A remarkable' ~haracteristic of the penguin Is his >ump of locality. Both on shore and * n the water he never loses his way. Lo human eyes one Ice floe Is precisely ike another, but under that roof of imilar ice floes I have seen a penguin f the larger species find its mate on a ie after diving and swimming for a. al mile under water.-Leslie's. An In fallible Result. Briggs-My wife has had a wonder ul cure. She has recovered her voice Lfter being unable to utter a word for early six months. Griggs-You don't mean It! How.did t come about? Briggs-In the most unexpected 'way. We happened to call at a neighbor's where they were playing cards. We. - hought we .ig"ht as well take a band. ihat was the result? rn less than fite inutes my wife was asking in a ;trong. clear, voice. "What's trumps?' -Boston Transcript Eternity. An unconventional preacher under- .4 :ook to give his hearers a vivid con ,ption of eternity. This Is the way o did it: "If a little sparrow were to lip its bill in the --Atlantic ocean and! nk&. one drop of water and then take me hp a day across the counfry and' mt that drop in the Pacide~ ocean and1 hen hop back to the Atlantic, one hop' day, until the Atlantic was dry as a - >ne, it wouldn't be sun-up in hades." -1 sad Be:;inning Make. Quick Ending, "So the engagement's off?'" "Yes: she advised him to practice conoy, and he started in bygetting ter an imitation diamonld."-Dtroit -'ree r'ess. nussins who are religious do not eat >Ig (:s loeause of the sanctity con erred on the dove in the Scriptures. Gab is nine 'points in an argument.-s 'ortland Oregonian. aid. The receiver of the bank and thers interested have offered and are illing to enter into a bond to indem ify the Stat e against all loss: but still be legislature refuses to pay the onds. Last session the legislature assedi a resolution -instructing the tat treasurer to mark off the bonds ront, his books. G;overnor McSweeney, ecognizing the validity of the debt. nr beli~' ing that the resolution mounts to repudi;:tion. will send in a t' to the senlate when it meets next innth. This is am valid claim against eState and it seems to us that it __ ulbpid. A Washington dispatch says guinido has become a convert to e beief that the American occupa on (f the Philippine Islands is the st thing for the interest of his peo le. No doubt his conversion took lace when he allowed him:'elf cap zred. It was a part of the bargain. Tm-: United Statesmay be involved Swar with Germany on account of 1e Venezuelian trouble. Let us