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CAMDEN, S. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1892 >KIE NEWS. , , >> ? t Ja\ I ly South Gleaned and Epito- | mized. t (lews and Occurences Printed re is Condensed From. fcton. S. C., h^s 28-"> barrooms. ?I mill at Barnwell Coumho use. ?te destroyed Tue-Tiy morning 1 iccendiarv lire. Loss $20, <100; fce $15,000. k MomoL'aluof Nashville, Tenn., j nm? Kin^ of the Vey nation [by his lather's death some time | is left to take his s*rit on th-i ! prn weil C mrt lipase, S C , T. W. id a Georgia real estate a<'eot was fctea of breach of trust. Dew ft, 000,000 LV>saw river min jbmpany has been formed. iNorth Carolina Method i t Protes fconferetice neir Greensboro last ),000 worth of property was burn Lynchburg, Va , Thursday. >rgo Partington, of Ashe county ! fiiliza etli Uoyall, of Wilkes county, were tnuiwl last Sunday ? the; 02, tl\t bride 16 c- Lieutenant Governor Antoine, col- 1 I, ot Louisiana, has been convicted of, sziement. le monument to the memory of Geu.1 Hill was unveile-i at Petersburg, * on Tuesday. he General Assembly of South Caro is in session at Columbia. W. J. Morgan (white,) convicted at cnville, S. C..of the murder of L. VV. pp. hu father-in-law. was sentenced be hanged on Friday, Janua^- 20.1893. President-elect Cleveland will spend ernl months before March 4 at the t of the mountains in North Carolina, obably at Newton. The North Alabama Methodist Con trence, which adjourned at Lafayette on 'uesday, decided to ? stablish a collegc n north Alabama, containing, b sides a fossical ? depigment, departments of bedicine, law, theology aud dent *try. | 1 he lady managers of the North Oro ?in a build ng at the Chicago World"? ? Fair, officially announce that th< Elans for the building have fallen through. Knd that" there will he no North Carotin building a- Chicago, lhe reason is that [sufficient funds cou d not be raised. The Episcopal Council for th; new Southern Diocese of Virginia Diet in Sc Paul's church, Lynchburg, last week for [organization. [ Gov. McKinney, of Virginia, is attend i iug the Nicaragua Convention in New Orleans. Tbe "questions being discussed [ there are of great interest to the South. I TV re colored men in the Asheviile i citv prison lor mmor ofTenst s broke out ! Wednesday night and made good their | escape. It is ruvnored at Charleston, S. C., oc P pretty good authority, that there will be a general advance of freight rates on aH railroads with in the territory of the Southern Railway and Steamship Assoc iati'-n. The whe Imeu of Charleston, S. C , " celebrated Thanksgiving Day by a race to Suiumerville. It was a handicap. The ?wheelmen ate Tha- ksgiviog dinner at Summerville. Speaker Crisp was received with great applause when he'appeared on , the floor of the Georgia Legislature at Atlanta. The Lexington, Va , bar has endorsed - Hon. John Randolph Tucker for the place M Attorney General im Mr. Cleve land's cabinet The 43d annual report of the South Carolina institute f r th-: education ot the deaf, the dumb and the blind, shows t'jat there is an increase attendance at the State's home. A lsrge cotton bu er at Athe*<~T*a , made 112.000 on the rise of the stapTt last Tuesday. \ Alabama proposes a curious remedy foi negro suffrage. It is to reliev^ by law everv negro not voting ftoru the payment of taxes Another big fire at Winston! The Hotel Zinzendorf burned Thanksgiving dav. lr< was ju?t completed a few months ago at a cost ot ?!25,0-.0; insurance was $100,000. It will be rebuilt Reidsville, N. C., has again rome for wards as a wiuter resort. Quite a party of 1 dies and gentl inea arrived thrre from Canadi to spend the winter month*. post is tress Gatchell of Wasnington, Ga., has beeu arrested ou a charge af as sault, she having, it is alleged, thrown vitr.ol over a nurse in a fit of anger. A 5- cent postoge stamp issued in Al abama during the Confederacy W:*s so'd in New York Tuesday for f7*0. The Scott Stamp and Printing Company were the pu chasers. Ex-Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Vir ginia. says that he expects no cabinet j appointment. and has no inte ition of again running for Governor: but is silent as to his candidacy for the United Ststcs Senator -hip Iu the United States Cou t at Charier ton, S. C., Judge Simonton the South Carolina railroal to b sold for the bene fit of itajjreditors, atthc suit of Freder icks*. Bo?nd, Henry 1 hocias Coghlan an<&thers. Judge Simontoc holds that the road cannot be sold in parcels, but must be sold as an entirety. Daniel H. Chamberlain is appointed special ma*t r to make sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the United States custom house, in Charb ston.at 11 o'c'ock, on the morning of April 1 Kh next. The special master cannot receive *ny bid for less sum than one mirtion dollars The Louisville and Nashville people will probably bid for the pro erty. me L'nrversity oi virgiuia ? innity College. North Carolina, foot ball game at Atlanta, Ga , on Thanksgiving Day resulted: Univers ty of Virginia. 4*;Tria ity College, of North Carolina. 4. The second of the Southern championship games of foot- ball was played at Bri> brino Pork by the University of North Carolina and the Anburns of Alabama, and ir, was a clean sweep for the Nn?*th Curt) ina boys. - The score was 60 to nothing The Southern Catifiers* Association has been organized at Savannah. Ga., with A. H. Kohn. ol Pro*peritv. S. as pres ide t : J. W. K mmer>on, ot Lakeland Fla.. first vice-president, and Thomas Gambit of -.Savannah, secretary. The association irofoses to d-vote itself to promoting thOHpterests of Southern can new. and will hoTTTSSneeMngoext Mar- h. piolwWv n AtlTitar to p rfe t a per manent organization The canning in dustry is spreading rap Oly in t. e 5-outh. and the r.ece*sUy,of such an organ xation as this haa bettn felt for some time. An > estimate ot the number or cans jvi^en last season in the Southern States is giWc i as 85,000.000. The South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met in their <>ee hundred and seventh sessions at Trinity church Charleston. S. C. Bishop Hendrix, of Missouri, opened the confer ence with the communion of the Lord's Supper, Twenty- two applicants foi membership were admitted to the con ference. and a number of deacons were elected, and were ordained on Sunday. Charleston and Vicksburg Pcstoffices. Washington. D. ? There are only two positions, as postmasters, cow vacant in large cities, viz: Charleston, S. C r and Vicksburg, Miss. In the former office A. FI. Mowry, appointed during the Cleveland administration, is postmaster. He was appointed in March. 1887, and his commission expired in December last. Dr. Crum, a colored man. was then nominated, but the nomination was subsequently withdrawn. It is probabie that no appointment will be made and that the P/esident will permit Mr. Mowry to remain. The VxcKsburg postoffi~e is in the hands of the sureties of Mr. IJill, erst while pos master, and is being well con dcucted. There are several" applications on tile lor file position and it is believed that the office will shortly be filled by appointment . Cabinet talk is still heard among the j politicians. They say that W. F. Har rity is booked for the Postmaster Gen era'ship, an<i that Don M Dickinson will probably be made Secretary of State, al though n t hnxious for the office. Officers of the Knights of Labor. St. Louis, Mo ? The Knights of Labor j elected th ?c officers: General Master j Workman. T. V. Powderly ; Secretary! and Treasurer, J. \V. Hays, General j Worthy Foreman. Hugh Cavanaugh. The executive board chosen consists of ! L. V. Powderly, John Davis, T. B. Mc- I Guire, and A. \V. Wright. Previous to adjournment, the conven- j tion adopted a resolution on the Home- ! stead strike, reciting that it was the sense of the Knights of Labor that the outcome of the recent struggle was de plorable, but that4 it has been of li.r reaching result in settling temporarily, fat le st, great economic questions. The resolutions ordered that the general ex ecutive board be instructed to issue an appeal for :?id for needy strikers. OUT OF WORK. L A Despondent South Carolinian Com- | mi's Suicide in Georgia. IIawkinsville, Ga.? R. C. Chestnut J committed suicide in a room at the Pu laska House at noon, having taken three j ounces of ciloral since Lvt night. He { c'aimed Marion, S. C., as lib home. He i had been here only ten days, a perfect ! stranger, and was looking for work. He I liau been -very despondent for several days. lie had $13.30 on his person. A let ter from his mother, received last night from Gallivant's Ferry, was urging him to settle an account he owed there, a< th- party did oot think he had been dealt right with. No work evidently | caused the act wneat Crop Bigger than it Looked, j Minneapolis, Minn. ? The discovery ; has just been made that the wheat crop ' of Minnesota and the Dakota, is millions of bushels above all estimates. The re ceipts yesterday at Minneapolis were j ov, r 1, 100 cars, the heaviest day's busi n S'? of rhe seas >n, but on many other | days during the past month receipts hive | run up to nearly 1,000 cars. Graia men ? have been estimating the crop from j So, 000, 000 to 105,000,000 bushels for the i three big uheat States, but they are all j beginning to hedge now. Th so who put their figures at 100,000,000 have ad ded from 10,000,000 to 20.000.0)0 more, and those who figured higher than that originally have gone up as high a 1 30, ? 00.0001 A Soldiers' Home Proposed. Columbia, S C.? In the Senate a bill was introduced by Senator Abbott look j iug to the establishment of a home for j agtd and disabled Confederate soldiers j in this city at a cost of $10,000 and $150 j per year for each inmate. A bill will also be introduced to am j end South Carolina's general election law known as tie eight box law, the idea j !>c-iug to retain some of its features and i h -orporate some of the features of the t Australian ballot system. Depew's Outline on the BepublicaD j Party. New York.? The World prints an in \ terview with Chauncy M. Depew ir I which he outlines his views regarding j the future policy of the Republican j party. He pays there will be no recon- I struction, and it will continue to be the j pii ty of progress. The first plank in th iiepublican platform for 1896 will be a protective traiff: Mis WUii to oe earned out. New York. - The trustees of the estate of the late Sam- el J. Tilden report that a settlement between them and the rela tives contesting the dead statesman's will has been reached and that the orig inal idea of establishing a library and reading rooii in this city for the educa tion of youn? men, to be know? as the 'Tild n Tntt,TT is now actually ia sight ^uTdNreeds only official endorsement. An Awful Little Criminal. Dura nt, Mich ?Herman Greusel, the eight year old son of a prosperous far mer near here, confessed to an attempt to poison his parents by putting paris green into the well because his father had chastised him. His parents and two farm hands ;re serionsiy ill and consid erable stock has died To Lscort General Stevenson. Bloomington III.. ? A specialt train rJ j cars has been secure! by the Democrats : in this vicinity for ihe purpose of escort- j General btevenson to Washington on :he occasion of his inauguration as Vice President. The train will ga over the j A Iton nd Pennsylvania lines via Chicago. designation of Bishop Howe. Charleston. S. V. ? Rt. Rev. "W. B. I iTowe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese * .of South Carolina, has sent in his resig nation to Bisihop William3, the presiding ?'ffirer cf the house of bishops, on ac- j <Ncunt of ill health. xne aomesteaa sstnae off. Pittsbcrq. Pa At a meeting of the Amalgamated Associati -n nt Homestead, the gr.-at strike at ("onegie's works was , officially declared off. . ' ! . ? A COTTON CALAMITY. H. 3d. Neil'a Estimate of the Crop Shows an Alarming Shortage. New Orleans, La., ? Henry M. Neil has ju&t issued his circular on the condi tion of the colton crop. He lowers his estimate to 6,500,000 bales, and says: ''During the last two week we have re ceived careful and complete reports from almost the entire cotton area and the unanimous opinion is that the shortage is so great as to amount to a real calamity. These reporfs do not come from planters only, but also from people who are look ing for cotton for the purpose of buying it and whose interest it is to exaggerate the prospect ot supp'y, not to unaeresti | mate it. We have now readied the per iod when the receipts are always found to be governed principally by the site of the crop, as the time has passed when the lateness of maturity has any effect. The weather generally has beeu favora ble for transportation and the facilities, which are. of course, greater ever? year, and the prices have advanced far beyond what planters would have expected or been satisfied with had they had good crops; there is, therefore, no possible ex planation of a light movement but the one that the crop is very shoit. Per haps the planters are holding back some what, they must be doing so or the crop could not be even 6.; 500,000; but does any one suppose that at these prices planters could hold back if their crops , were large? and yet port receipts to No vember 10th inclusive, are just equal to those of 1886-"87, a 6,500,000 crop, 500- 1 000 bales behind those of 1887 '88, a j 7,000,000 crop. As Seen From Horscbaolf. ? . "If you want to experience a novel sensation," sud a gentleman who sports a Colonel's uniform as member of a Gov ernor's staff whenever said Governoi turns out on parade, "just get on horse back and take part in some great pro* cession like those which marked the Columbian festivities. "It - is the most curious feeling thai you ever experienced, I will wagerahat. It beats hasheesh or opium smoking all to pie:es. It is unlike any other thing that you ever saw or heard or felt. "At first you are all right, and you hear the bands and see the great furrows of humanity on eithet-side of the way a< distinctly as you ever saw anything in your life. But after a while things be gin to grow blurred to your senses. The music dies away and there is nothing but a dull roar in your ears, while the crowd becomes merely a dull and indistinct mass without form or meaning in your eyes. "Cut now you begin to see aingel figures. Men banging from the eave3 o! high buildings, boys perched on chim- j neys or sign boards or in some hazardous place. You watch one of them wifcb j fascinated eyes, expecting every minute to see him fall and be dashed to piece* on the pavement. You are constantly filled with an overwhelming feeling that you are to bo witness to some dreadful accident, but for the liie of you you cannot turn your eyes away from it. After a while you cease to be a human being at all and become a mere automa ton. You are not controlled by human emotions, but by the magnetism of the crowd. It is some such 9ortof hypnotic state, I apprehcud, which men get intc during a battle and which makes thera so unlike- themselves." ? New Yprb Herald. The Shark's Cnriom Ear. Sharks have lately been affording con tributions to science. The biologists have been vivisecting them for the pur pose of finding out about the function? of the ear, which in fishes is made tc some extent on the same pattern as in man. The fact has been known foi some time that the ear is not merely as organ of hearing. It has to do with the sense of equilibrium. Light has been thrown on this matter by removing portions of the auditory apparatus of ?sharks, which are thus rendered unable to maintain their balance in the water. The part on wmch-.this faculty seeais to depend is the "labyrinth," and tha same effect is produced by cutting thi nerves communicating with it. Drank the WHis&ey and Died. Knoxville, Tenn. ? Sam Lancaster, pe r fellow, misjudged his abilities. He had been drinking a good deal for a month or so. He walke i into a saloon and bet with the crowd there that ho could drink six small beer glasses full of whiskey? the bet being against the pr'.ce of the waiskey. His wager was taken, and he drank the six glasses of whiskey. He fell to the floor aftci drinking thi last, and in a few minutes was dead. Alcoholic poisoning was the ve diet He was twenty six years old n n ( 1 a treman on the E. T. Y. & G. roa l. White-Tie Races. Race meetings in India generally in clude some comic feature*, and the latest novelty is a "white-tie race," in troduced at Kirkee. Tiie competitors ride a certain distance, dismount, and kneel before a Jady while she ties a white tie round their neck in a neat bow, then they remount" and start for the winning pest. A Much depends on the lady's deftness. -^-Chicago Times. The County Court Houte at Yorkville Burned. Columbia, S. C\? At Yorkville Moni day mon ing, the dry goods store of Hunter & dates, the second floor of which contained the opera house, together with the county court house, and two small wooden buildings used as law offices, were burned. Total loss about |34.000; insurance J lilarriage of a Methodist Minister. Fi5ETX-S;x, S c. ? Hcv. a J. Cauth en. Jr., of Monticcllo Station, Fairfield county, and Miss Mattie Anderson, a diuigh'er of I)r. and Mrs. W. L. Ander son. who live aborit five miles above here, were united in marriage by the father of the groom. Rev. A J. Cauthen, Sr., of Beaufort. Both father and son are mem bers of the South Carolina Conference. TT.RY KEW CA^f. Algy ? There goes the ? aw ? most i: 1- j telleciual fellah in ouah .-tt. Choliy ? Ah! / 1 j Algy? He eft 11 di-tinguisti the differ- I enre between t'ain yeah'.- Derby hit an i j last yeah'a Derby hat. -[Good News. Governor elect. Pet et Turney, of Ten sessee. is repoite t'j l>.- i?ju h beitejand will soon be out again . ? ? -r ? j . , . ^ SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Got. Tillman Says in His Message that the School System is a Humbug. 1 Columbia, S. C. ? The General Assem bly of South Carolina convened and will continue in session thirty-one days. The make up of the two houses show that rotation in office has taken hold of the veters in South Carolina in earnest. Much of the "driftwood" of which Gov. Tillman complained has been set afloat and newer timber selected. Out of 125 members in the House of Representatives, only thirty six of the old members have been returned. The former officers of both houses were reelected. The speaker of the House is Ira B. Jones of Lancas ter. In the Senate the* caucus system was inaugurated by the Tillmanites, who arranged the officers beforehand . Gov. Tillman's message was transmit ted to the Legislature and read. The message treats entirely of State issues there being no reference to Federal mat ters. The Governor pronounces the present school system a humbug, says that the slight increase of the assessed property during the sixteen years the white people have had control indicates that we are a very improvident and non progressive people/' or that there is a great deal of tax dodging. He calls up on the reformers 4 'to keep their pledges and support the South Carolina Col lege, not abolish it, as recommended by the State Superintendent of Education. He declared that the adherents of the old regime have largely withdrawn their j patronage from the college because they could not have their way in controlling it, and the county of Charleston, which has always supported the college zeal ously has at this time no student whithin its walls.'' The Governor pitches into the Judges for according what he terms "specif consideration" to banks, annd accusesv; them of having overridden their power and interfered with the Executive branch of Government. The National Farmers' Congress. Lincoln, Neb. ? The National Far mers' Congress held its final session. The laxity of tne inter-States commerce law was condemned. A resolution was pas sed expressing sympathy for the Farm ers* Alliance and kindred organizations. Savannah. Ga , was selected as the place for the next meeting in December, 1893. Death of a Prominent Carolinan: Charleston, S. C. ? Col. W. II. Evans died at Darlington, S.C.,of paral ysis. He was a graduate of the South Carolina College and served in the Legis lature. For 14 years he held the office j of school commissioner of Darlington j county. Dangers of Too Muc h J ubilatitn . Jackson, Miss. ? At a Democratic dem- i onstration, Lee Daniel, a well-known j young man, had his arm blown off and j his face badly burned by the premature i j discharge of a cannon. XuTentions of the Hoar. A machine for imbedding wire aetting in glass. A tailor's measuring square with a plumb bob attachment. A printing press operated by au elec tro-magnetic mechanism. A pneumatic cushion to be placed on i the ends of telephone receivers. A process for makiug artificial mica ! sheets for electrical insulation. A paper knife that is especially adapt ed to cutting the wrappers on rolled papers. A stop for window shutter blinds, so that they may be arranged at any desire 1 | angle. An electric branding stamp, the type j being kept red hot bv nwans of an elec- ! f trical resistance. An electrical light hanger that is ad juetable to any angle by means of a ucii versal joint. A door lock so constructed that whec. | the key 1 is turned it switches on the lights in the room. A mat formed of sections, each section having a loop of rigid material with 1 rings of rope surrounding it, the sections being clamped together. A gravity motor for pumping pur poses, the weight being lifted to the top of a derrick, whence, by a clock wor.< system, it operates a pump as it slowly descends. An automatic medicine stand for the homoepathically inclined, consisting of two cups, two spoons and an index that automatically marks the next cup from which medicine is to be taken. A Da )'i Nations for the World. This is a question tnat can only be answered approximately, but at the same time a fairly ac curate estimate can be arrived at. The average healthy man cats nearly two and a half pounds of solid j food in a day. Some races eat much j more than others, but against this we can set the smaller consumption of chil dren and the delicate members of civilized communities. Now, as there are, according to the most careful coraputictions, 1,497,000,000 human beiDgs on the planet, we may conclude tii at 3,607,070,000 pounds, or about i 1,610,612 tons of aolid food a^e eaten every day the world over. With regard to the drinking capacity of the human race, as the proper individual allowance is nearly two and three-quatter pints a day, we may take it that the above Damed quantity of food is washed down with about 4,017,888.000 pints of liqui d in some form or other/ that is to say, enough to fill a reservoir 144 yards long, 144 broad and 144 deep.? Yankee Blade. A Cot* in a 15ear Pit. A comic scer.VTook place a short time a^o .it Berne. Switzerland. A peasant from O-termun Jin^ea was driving a cok into the capita!, and had arrived at the Muristalden when the animal belted, and, jumping tue rails round the weil known bear pit, arr.ved at the bottom without injury. The proprietor thought that his c >w was lost, but he wa3 mis taken. She attacked the bears bravely, who, utterly routed, retired into their den, into which she would have fol lowed them had she not been prevented by the keeper of the amccals, who let down the trap door. Then the cow svet.t the ?laocrl"t'>r house and fulfilled her uesiinv. ? New ^ ork Timef. Siberia is said to be a country of enor mous natural wealth, which no effort i has yet been made to develop. ? <i happy lives. She tossed the curls from her blush tog face; Bhe softly s _-,hed with a girlish gnue, "I'm weary of 1 if?? it's no comrmoix^'ace. ''Weary of music, forever sweet: Sick of rose leaves beneath my feet; Tired of the days that themselves repiit." Faded the roses, the music stilled; ChaDge has come, as the maiden willed ; Sorrow the pulse of her life has thrilled? Sorrow too deep to be sighed away . "Where is that wearisome yesterday, ^Bright with beauty too fair to stay. Into the silence that sits apart, Keeping watch o'er the aching heart, Steals a thought like an arrow dart. 'Through thefcwift cycles of time and space One is the fata that befalls the race Happy lives only aw> <*>mmonplace." ? Hattia Fay Townley GATHERING APPLES. - r BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. , LOWERING sun rise bad turned into a bright day after a'.I ; a brisk October wind was shaking down tlTe red leaves on the hill, and Lisbetfi Lockwood stood at the door, looking thoughtf u I 1 y around, while Bar \fcara, her sister, boilgd the break fast coffee on the stove. "So," said she, wilh a curve of her lip, "this is the baronial hall^-this tum ble-down old farmhouse, ~%*ith a few .acres of stony soil!" , r? "And this," crisply retorted Barbara, ? "is the banquet ? a baker's loaf a week old, a pipkin of oatmeal and a pot of Rio coffee ! But you'd better come in and partake of it." , - "Bab,'' cried Lisbetb, flinging back her tawny yellow tresses, "I never was so disappointed in my life !" Bab shrugged her shoulders. , "My opinion exactly, Tib!" said she. "Here, all our school-liveS-long," tragically uttered Lisbeth, "we've heard of our Uncle Hopkius and Hopkins Hall! We've look'ed forward to Qotping home to an elegant place, to d^j?ll in luxury. Well! We got a telegram on gradua-, tion day that our Uncle ' Hopkins has1 paid the debt of nature, and we hasten , to take possession ? " "OC.our inheritance!" laughed Bab, serving out a blue-edged saucer of coarse oatmeal and deluging it with milk. "The tumble-down farmhouse and the stony acres, the old red horse that we neither of us know how to drive, and the cow that we're both afraid of.". "Bab," tried the elder sister, "what are we to do?" ? "Tib," solemnly responded the younger, "I haven't the least idea." Lisbeth reflectively sipped her coffee. "If we hadn't put on such airs about being heiresses," groaued she, "and boasted of going home to Hopkins Hall to lead a life of luxurious ease, we might have secured ono of those nice situations to teach, that Miss Primrose got for the other girls." ' \ "It's too late for that now.!" sighed j Bab. "We've got to do something," said Lisbetb. _ "Yes," admitted Bab; "but what?"* "We used to rave about art," said Tib; "but who would buy the sort of pictures we could paint?" "Then," added Bab, "there was your examination comp<ftition. Miss Primrose said it showed great talent. If one could take up literature ? " "I sent that to three different editors," ' interrupted Tit), saidouically smiling. "Not one of 'em would have a word to say to it. It's up stairs in my trunk now, in case we should need kiudling paper." Bab whistled? a soft little whistle of dismay. "Evidently," said she, "we're not calculated for a career. If we were boys instead of girls, we could lun this farm." "Oh, if! Don't let's have any more 'ifs,' " impatiently ciied Tib. "What caD we do' There's the question." Bab passed her pretty nia'i fiuger around the blue edge of the plate before j her, with downcast eyes and just a tinge of lisiug color. "Well, siuce you ask the question," said she, half smiling, "X thiuk one of us could perhaps ? marry." "For a living?"' scornfully demanded Tib. "Not that, of course," paid Bab. ! "Merely in the co.useot humau events. ' j "Vcu mean lluil Woburu?" "I do." - "He's a nice fellow cnotuTi," said Tih, indifferently. "It lie really mean? I business!'' "Lisbeth!" cried indignant Bab; "how cau you speak so coarsely?" "I'm only regarding tilings from the career point o: view," said provoking Tib. "To-be-sure, the fact that he has followed us out here ?6iqht be construed to m$&n something. At first he natu rally 8ikppo6od us. to be the heirtssesj that we supposed ourselves. But,? wfth a comprehensive wave of her hand, "he has seen Hopkins Hal? He is undeceived by this time. If ever - there was ^ dis interested passion his is one." "Tib!" Bab's eyes sparkle } wrathfuily "Have some more coffee, Baroa?*&? Not a drop? Well, I don't biame you; it's poor stuff." "Tib," almost sobbed poor Barbara, "if you don't like Rolf, I'li give up the idea." Lisbeth rushed around the edire oi the table to give Bab a hu^j and a kiss. "You darling!" she cried. "Do you stvppiise I'm such a jealous monster a< ail that? I do like .Rolf Wob irn as well j as I can like any one wno wants to take my Bab away from me. But as for thinking him good enough for you, why, the President's son wouldn't by that!" "Of course," faltered Bib. wiping her j eye-, "I've no rea-on to supj>ose ? " "No, to-be-sure not," nodded Tib. j "That's one of the disabilities of womn.^ She s got to wait until she's a^Kei. Weli, wait, Bao, de:tr. But in tiie i:ea-r time, I've an idea t.i it l p.cie i up iu ui)1 before-dinner walk.'" ' , "A money -making idea?" said Bab, ; & J. : ner blue eyes shining wistfully through 1 their scarcely-dry mist of tears. "Yes, a money-making .idea. There are those big sweet apples up in the or chard dropmng down like a red rain? nioe table -apples, too; not the poor stuff the/ pick up to make cider of feed to the pigs. "Why shouldn't we put 'em in bar rels?there are lots in the barn ? aud sell 'em at Baker's Falls? Miss- Primrose used to pay three dollars a barrel fur apples no better than those." "Are there many there, Tib?" "Thousands of em!" responded san guine Lisbeth. 14 And picking up apples is easy work ? work that women can do. We'll pack them soc-trefully that we shall be able to command the very best market pricc. They're not common, cheap fruit, but round and rosy and full of rare, sweet juices. Get your hat, Bab, we'll go right to work." . In the cool, frost-touched air of the old orchard, gathering ths lovely red spheres ot sweetness into crimson heaps, both girls soon forgot $IU)ut their occu pation. <?* ' " ? Their eyes shone, their chceks were rosier than the apples, and the v/tn l blew the silky tendrils of their hair t> and frO as if bent or* a frolic. "You're never going to climb the troe, Bab?" "I muit?"cried Barbara, lightly swing ing herself into the forks, "or else I must lose - those beauties up at the very top. Reach me the basket, Tib. Oil, you can't imagine how perfectly lovely (it is up here?"' J Tib laughed. ? ^You'd have made yvir rmane as one oftaroum's acrobats," said she. . "But it you are going to take oar only handled basket. I've just got to tun to the barn for another." Light as Atalft&t&'s self she sped over the hilly sloped cown the bowery lane, across the plank bridge which spanned ithe little brook, to the dreary old stone barn behind the cedar tree*. >a "How provoking I" ahe cried. "Not a basket here! Well, it's only ? step across the iheep pasture to Mrs. Haw ley's, and she'll lend me one* I'm sute. Mrs. Hawley is aiways ready to lead, everything." While Bab, up in the breezy tree-top, was forget'vujf heriasic in a sort of diy dream, she overheard these words: "Just exactly here!" said a deep, and not^unmelodious ?oioi. "See that old stone stile? And the well-curl) beyond ? Well, that's where the line 'is project ed." Bab's heart began to flutter. Would she^iothave known Rolf Wo burn's accents; had it been in the Desert of Sahara? "You ? don't? tell ? me so!" drawled an unctuous tone. "And. the station ? they'll have to put it pretty ueir here, of course?" Woburn laughed lightly. "They can't put it anywhere else," said he. "Whew!" whistled the o thdr man.-. "Iu that caSe, we uiuU somehow matzage to get hold of the o!& place ? " "A farm!" interrupted Woburn, "Seventy acres!" "What is it yaived at?" "At pretty much nothTng," chuckled Woburn. "It belongs to two wonieu, and they've no idoa what it is worth. Nobody has, and nobody will have, until the new railway is heard from. Wc can buy at our own terms, for a month or two at least ? and I can buy chcaper than any one else." "How's that, eh?" The oily voiced man was lighting a cigar. "Young womeu, are they? Oh, you sly dog! You're at your old tricks, eh? making love to the girls? Is it one of them or both ? hey? And what will Miss Vate inar say?" Woburn laughed a low, amused lau^b. "Miss Vatemar will never know," said he. "All this, old fellow, is in the way of business. The Lockwood- girls are very pretty and agreeable, aud if they choose to draw false interferences, 1 can't help it, can I? You don't need your measuring line, Hale. I cm tell you the number of feet to a uicety. Just, here, you see, and ? " The voices died away, under the slope of the hill. Barbara Lockwood, nestling up among the boug'is like some fair human bird ling, drew a quick breath. Her eyes i shone like stars; her cheeks blazed bo* i scarlet. "If we choose to draw false infer ence?," she murmured, under her breath. "B it I don't think we shall choose to do anything of the sort, Fib and I. So we ' are to be used to help on a speculation, j are we? i'erhaps there may be two opinions on that subject." Aud to the last day of her life, Barbara Lockwood never knew quite how she drifted down from that tree among the red apples that coverc 1 the short ::r;t^s below. She was there. That was all sIk- could tell. "I've brought the basket!" called Tib, from the stile beyond. "Never mind the basket," said Bar bara. "I've soinethiug else to think of just no*." ^ -J Aud t\^> inspirators in the days; of ' the Gueiph^ni rihibrlim? could iot* have held their hetdt! closer together than did iiab Mid Tib oa the way back to the old farmhouse that day. When Mr. "Woburn sauntered in, on the edge ot the eveniag, the sisters were ! packing red apples carefully into a row of barrels on the kitchen floor. He smiled that soft, caressing smile of his, aud proJered assistance at once. "No," taid Bab, iu a business-like way; ".ve're just turou^h now. Mr. Adams is to take tl:?-n to town for us to- | morrow. It will probably be the i money we shall ever make out_of the j Hopkins Farm." "Really i'} y ^ Mr. Wobnrn lifted his brows. "We have s.)!'.l it,"' said Bab, "to old Doctor Kua-cll for twenty "thousand dol lars. It seems that a ne ;v railway is to run riuht through tbe old sheep pasture" she ^vc'l him keeuiy as she spoke ? "and they're thiu'^mg of locating the depot at t:ie north end of the orchard. Doctor Kusselt is a good business man, an i thinks he cin make a fair financial arntrrieftieut out of it. And we are quite sati-'ie-i with the terms. Don't look ao ain\7.eu, Mr. Woburn. You see vou were mistaken when you believed that you get this place _for 'pretty much qothjnc;' because it belonged to two wo rn^ wrio didn't knuw what it was worth. " Asu?" ga?ped poor Woburn, in aore amaremegt. _ if' u Yes," wickedly added Tib; "and no* the best thin# you can do is go btflk to Miss Yatemar, whomever the may bt? and tell her that the Lockwood girls are not in any danger of drawing falsa fn* 1 Terences from your agreeable attentions. A shallow knave, Mr. Woburn, is the silliest sort of a knave. Oh, no ex* planatious, please t We ^ish you a very j good evening!" And so Rolf Woburn'# great railway land speculation fell through, and < Bab Lockwood escaped heartlree.. "And \t we're not heiresses, after all,*1 said cheerful Tib, "we'ro independent, and that's quite . ae good." ? Saturday tILL AWS LETOB. ' ? ? . ?'> The Philosopher's Visit to the Lone Star State Temijates ? ? ! .jiE ???????? ^ And He is Once Again Among His j Family and Kindred* It is a very old-fashioned thing to say, bui will say it again, "Tuere is no plaoe lik borne." When I had filled my last appoint ment in Texas and had boarded the .tram wit my fa ce turned homeward I vu happy? r spirits buoyed me up and I aat lighter on tl velvet cuabion and every cliok or th*j wheel* over the jointed rails gave a welcome sonnd, for it meant that much nearer home. It war ' after midnight when I left the nice little town of Frankbn, tod that midnight basinets has been the most serious drawback upon mj com* fort and happiness. Most ever^jnigbt mv teat Has brwkon, for i have to leave a\ plaoe in tot dark and isle* py hours or arrivfc one, and il made me tired; very tired. One night I reached my fown It 2 o'clock while it w?* pouring down rain and tho little bridge over the ditch by ?h? railroad hadjYashed away and a timber aboot six inches square had been thrown across as ? substitute- The hindlosd bad a lantern and led a woman across very carefully. It seemed to me that if she could walk it I could, bot I had a bear} valise in oue hand and a light OM in the other added to my abundant ( * aud raised my center of gravity "bej ^reason, and worst of all, just M the lady bad put lier fovt ou tho ground thepoUte ; landlord swung his lantern before and l^ft nie in the dark shadow. , Hpasmodic leap I made a last s'ep for the bauEr? and missed it about a foot. I saved my bag*s gage, however, and only got in about deep, but it scared "me awlully and I never M over it for an hour.' I wish I bad a picture ofj., that fcene. The ybxt nigjit I left at thesami hour and by morning 1 was sick? rcltwnft threatened pneuuionia ? and when I reached rov damnation I btu rendered and went -to bed am I dreamed I was in & coffin and was bciug shijk ped home in tho express c*r, and itdUtreascd me beyond measure to think how grieved family would be to receive ipy morl u remain? and how tli^y would weep and sob andJtfW*tB?" other < f u!i" ray virtues a^ never nrtnuo# | fault? nary fault. But the good landlady gd> hot wa'er and bathed my feet and Kit? quiuice nad nursed me uke a mother, and ? survived and got better and shook off my 'fears and k<pt out of the coffin, and here I am.in tbs liud of the living where rriercy may be sough* and pardon found. It was a long, long ride coiuiuf? hojue, but the drummers kept thinga ljvslv, for thejpget on aud off" at every ?*a*lpn and are a'vajs cheerful. !^e all talked politic# and banked on Cleveland.' At Trinity station a man got on the train to go seven miles to tbs next station and tendered the conductor 20 cents. Captain Jlitclielh told hhn 'politolyti V'uld take '-i$ cents, iw h'e had no ticket. The ? matt -ttM cr< sj and dt flint, and said he wouldn t * pav it. ^W^yero hardly out of towu when ths captain i'Ullc<ta^> bei?,rope and gently Jet him down on tirra _ _ small change fo?^re wanted to get a lawsuit. He de wouhln t pav but 3 c-.nts a roiHt ticket or U0h ticket. Of course h- will fiai a mwyer to take his case, and a'd for V ceuts in mo?y and.a big lot of lacerated feeliugs, There was a poor, Kid -f need woman *i h two children sitting not far from nic, and as the butobcr boy w*.nt to and fro -with his basket of fmiit the little ohape lo?-ktd wishfully, but their mother, ?hook her head. Thev made no complaint and seemed to und( rst aud that they were not is it. while the rest of in were enjoying the grapee and bansnas. I didn't like that, and so I whisper, ed the boy to jjive them each an avple ana a bana ia and?u pajxir ^ grapes atA some to the mother and make IK) sign and pais on. It didu'tcost n.e but 30 cen's, but it was worth a | dollar to see tho sufpiisi ?tho timid looks of wonder and of pleasure a* they glanced around and ate of their -fruit. It was a little thing but i iwmade the miles shorter to th-m aud tome. Try this on torn-time when you travel, i I arrived homo just before daybreak and found the house all ^ark and still, and the old I dog asle-p on tho piam. I pattef him into | silence and then etepp<d 'into the parlor and ' ' tumbled down uj>ou a sofa and was soon dream* ! ing, but not of coffiu* It was 8 o'clck before | I was found and suddenly I was awakened by soft arms around mv neck and a shower of kisses ou my old rcfogn face. Mrs. Arp and the . girls yelled and screamed their heart's delight, ! for it'was the kingest absence- 1 bad made since ' the war, and I wi 1 never stay a war so long i again- 1 felt something like our big-mouth I I Job when Le had served oat his two years in the chaiogang fotf unintentionally killing ; 1 another m*?r.>. ? -? I Colonel Tower* toli li'm goolby and said, ' "Bob, v u unibt conw snd sec us again some I time." * Bob opened his big [ '?Colonel *i\)Wcrh, dis here is de longest visit I i ever paid auybo lv in my life, aud if you wants to see me any more I reckon you will have to cuae totuv house.'* liu' it is all over now and I am basking in tin \ puushilte of hom-? ami k nked. On top of U | nil comes the glorious victory? a victory iliat U the harl'ingei of p ace aud -good will l)?tweer the sections. Th**onth :Kb;-ing vindicated _ la-t. I d n't know that con' ederate mone will l>e goml a?,'?i:i <r thati Mre. will be paid f'?r lrtr barrel of ur tliat our ciqm'.c^l ^oidiera and* federate widow* will L-o |?usiopcd, but thing is certain: the south will get !?er of the i>ftices and th? patronage of the men'. I think I ^liall take a sinecure or <jua nou or a sine di 1 mta*-!/. i .... and now to r ti/y on half won't te enough fti^w* go alLmah?, "J know, but we tan ;;ko a f ? mo|c an&tftt down tho ?;,!ar ?-s an 1 do pretty ffife?Xil''y on^ ? cl udt v. r Hi u ii r?j hilavUflppwj tbat i-? ? | tvih.i^of >?>!! p t I ; 2>a;4f*f'bfreave*\ It hurt? ; my feeliuH liiWiilttrti a ra>cal out,|eep^> "g!a*ffcb<sn nu 'tri^r rascal is turned in to AH j his plact. But such is polities- pojUiaR is a Kciencevand is something b>th f unhand fan tastic. V1 lrear l the other. d*y about a caudi date riding a hundred 'mil?j to get prootf that h s optK)n(n' d'sertcd fio*n the confederate. j my. IK- fou d his witness away oat in the cooutrj' ao?l he sai/l, yes, he knew'all sbMit it, I for they belong* d to "the tame company, and '? he waS sorry to ' ay that Bill did desert and . kepthttout nn'il :he war wxs over- So the candidate r>r? r,jred take h * afltdavit. but ' did not iwem willing it. Ho talked and ' ta'ked and acH rted that Bill was a- deserter and ? he would swetr to it if be was obliged to, bat 1 j i il he wouldn't a^n. When finally presswl for a reason whv, ho said: 'Well, stranger, I i don'J want tn si^n tliat document for you seo . the fact is* ^erted with him." But Mr. CIe\x*:and is all ?ight and will re form som" thin;:*, for the people have sj oken ; and sa d he must. This great upheaval mcaus | porn^ thing. Why there i-?n > tel'ing bow manv : j-tatr h and territoriothe lian c iri ei. I wouldn't { 1 snrprise?l to hear 7 hat he Ins carried Canada | and Mesijao and L q .-"sn^.wich^islands. T"ne : nqftfi and south are Win iu together and pet--| ting solid dl r m l. - Ifnirah fr?r Grovei ! I'm | going :o ?enil M !i uh ;?-hQv?(!red dollar bill j in confederal tn oi. i. It l a- U en d awing in- j ter?St for t?enf us* yoara aud he iiit r*^' j k^pfl mar"iniig 9:1. , Kiu Ai:rMn A' bnt* Convention. 1 t? \ The house whore the r>oct Lon^feiiow was l^irn, corner of Kore and Hancock streets, Portland. Me., has been pur chase.) by Jojin Musgrave of that city, "wdo,^ refnode:iii tlje interior. He is boti^gred a ^oo'l^Jcal by relic hunter*, ?<u? ntjr.irw of L' jn^fellow going so fai tte otjieisdaj- as ta^lk off with ? man ^Sr