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- voirxvT BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., JANUARY 12, 1893. _ Kate: Alliance Department. Adopted as tlit* County Organ by the Coun ty Alliance Jul> oth, Itfftr. M. J. 1'ATK, Associatk. Kditor, To 'whom all Communications on Alliance Matters should be addressed. OBIr»r« orthf t ountj AMtaur*. W. II. DuncariT PrcsldenL L B. Toole, Vice President. . W. 8. Bamberg, Secretary. ' A. fr, Frcc,'Tteasurer. W. (V Britton, Chaplain. . “ T. S. Weeks, County Lecinrer. W. A. All, Steward or Assistant Lecturer, w! K. Asidler, UiM>r Keeper. R. K. Harley, Assistant Door Keeper. n w’ Wodiford:-Sergeant-at Arms. Kr Jl. Creech, Business «?rrt. „ ~T •> Kxeciutve -Committee—C. B. Iree, ». " • ’t^rTea. WT A Fttnst. ~ „ t . g ft Trada Cbmmtltee—(1. M. Hunter, E. ll. Dowling, J. M rimer, W. A All... - Committee on W^loUlie Order~J-^ • Me- Millau. C. M. Rdeiiireld, W. T. Cave, J. K Bnelling, K. B. (ideas. ^ ; ON. THE. WlBfPMUuiriSSS^S • i distantly forced his way bade, thnjujfh Lcnoly Life That Finally Eroujht heavy snow-drifts, until, with trem- Domostio Happiness. hlinjr fingers, he raised the latch of his . door and entered. # / ~— Oh. the dreariness of the pralrtcl Blinded by the snow, he ^ould see (Idsv vast it-was; never ending it seemed nothing at first, but by and by he be- A. .... - j- came conscious of the coMhearth, the ‘‘MARY JANE. io Clare, a* she stood in the doorway of their adobe cottage and gazed t»iuHy off toward the northwest where a herd of sheep could bo seen. “llow can they live on the dry grass, awful silence and that the little house was empty, corpse. tat 1 It did not even hold a The wearied man sanh down upon a and** bo w can Ch ar 1 ie cvc ii prt-tcudlo dmir and .gazed ^about hha - blankly^,: like it. the horrible, lonely life in such despairingly. * • desolation and isolatioir! Hush! baby The bod was neatly made, the floor dear. I am coming; how the. mosquitoes swept, cverthing was placed m its usual and flicJi do tease, and torment/ him, orderly fashion, and her dre^s hiinj poor ilttlc witf&rT.* Idossom-dur even «Hon the wall near him-thc.old broWn he has felt the blight.” • calico ahe had luul sccuher. , COUNTY MEfiTlNU. BAMBB*0 f 9. C., Hee. 1C. of “ Tlie su harder and. it Scorned to have a touch of llro.'—: - • .'..Ji | “I^vondcr why baby's cheeks are so red; can he be seriously ill? I’apa won’t be in until evening, darling; mamma will do'the best sTie can.” Cliariie Dean wondered why no wife was visible as h« approached horde; wondered why no smoke issued from the chimney as was usual ut supper^ time. Had anything happened, he* his naturally worn the last time ho i +- 'A* To the Secretaries-of Sub Alliances Uhi uwcI I ( otinty ; ' 7 The County Alliance of Barnwell County will meet a: the Court House i.tt 11 O’clock A. til. on the second r ndH> in wondered, hastening SectetArles l','* 11 ***^ ^' irl alow steps. « ' ■ The scene that met his gaze as Irc en- tered his home was one never to bo + forgotten. j HU wife, his pretty, little, girlish i wife he hail brought from her city ' home. lay back in the wooden rocker white and still, while the baby w . the little six-months-old AVniter, was mo tionless wllhtu her arms.au<i t,he sweet faoe wore a look the horrified father understood. — “Clare! Clare!" he cried, brokenly. ■■RaBy^bir. jgY loverl <we»:-'’ “^^TWXTam opemwl-hrr. Aims aad por- ‘tmtteif bmr-to place"the -rbihi in ils cradle—a cradle Im had made out of a wooden box. In a voice ho scr.i-eely recognized she ' ■ i 1. ^ ' *ai&L * : ' ■ “ “You knew the life 1 was to share out here, why did you not tell me?” "Rat he seemed well this morning— well as he has be“n lately. I mean. Oh, I uev( r expected < his! T he ranch la no lonelier than hundreds of others. 1 never^hought—” “No, but you have had to think now. He died an hour, a jo. ' 1 could sot leave him to seek you—it duEvnot nsattcr after that. I’ll never fvrjivi you for “tiooe,” he said, dazedly, “gone, Just then one. pf tlie boys, who Jiad felt strange misgivings and- hud iol- lo’wed him, entered. “IVfrat did you say, Charlie? is stia gone? IV'hy, llrat couldn’t .be, she’d’ never be such a fpol as Uj- venture out If she tM—poor fellow. I h.«VB tbonght.of Kettlac married When I’ve seen thee, Mary Jane, With thy dalaty silks and satlus. With thy petticoat and train. But a whistler camo acfOMSM, * Like a sign with omen rifo— “Ah, ’tis very well to marry, But; oh! caust tfcou keep a w,lfe?” If the last new bonnet suits thee. Const thou wear it still the Same, Tbomch a-newer psttern tempt thee, Ijateiy handed down to furnef Will a dross or two content theo XVlicn stern fashion order* more. And a solitary'beaddree* do * Instead of half a score? », But they toll me 1 am ravilli ~ To export so strange .a thdig. And tlicy latiKh to scorn my inusings Ami the hopes to which 1 cling. So 1 fear 1 must resign thee And a bachelor'renutin,' •Yet 1 «»v«r can furaut thee. Oh, k>o costly Mary Jane! . —Ixmdon llifaro. No* —•’Tuit. pin DutihtmiW niwdyn winai’L^ Tp-nfl)' i WhmlVif hntjiiisph ion*, i.iahi’y. dnn to a faint “Well, then,Af y>|n follow the same 1 t. , ' ; • \ , , , ,, , , . ,1 ' nh!o in that enddeu flipping away of Bet a tnoim ntV ft-flection Convinced rule and back all the htirseiT, ypu aro ■ttre to win with one of them?” - < -“My dear child, no wom^n over eof.ld understand butting, and F am ^mre, airwomen in the v. or Id, I have no dc.aru that you should.” '-v “But If yon “won’t bet yoV.rsolf, why not glvo others tlivi benefit of your extie- \rienoe? Yon know uvorybody; and I am ■. , ... k torn that, they would Irnglad U> ,ny yfm ton arc on the; eo^t of thd a copnuiMion if.they WouT-^vhlch whulil ; . .. ' 1 be better than Udng robbed ant of com-’ f V™ thopurM»lt of l;t< r.v Bfeiaa* bj- wine morclmnte.” -» V tnro ^ t V‘- { V? ‘ ^ ^ 'The Bon. Tommy eimngod The er.b- you; f'.n'here that iritatAalnaWemont^. j^et, nrn,Oddly enotTghvhw lay a^.ikn ;dl h, ■■i^lurai tho pight thinking over the last words of type, hM’beeujffipstlftViauly loUrwU.ut. bia little wife in- Cor.nection with her from th»t brand path which'you have been nvletakeftly regarding as ra gfttvvl walk. If you urov?;c af the h.-.aha d<.ne.-i of the earth those nnafi moKnAks nny tcanl^ ) All that yon ore near the shore* oftho tiulf of. Mexioo, and, for rtustU llurtt know of such niaU^Ta, may Inform him tlint-ifc v.a'T.l>”urd to enppom that any Olid alionid tv^lT U*,be ri.i qf hta- Mk> cu'ty. end even in tlie umst improbabl*' •iTCbt he frituire that not even ao young a daily R9.,Jdi?3 Alatcp would retort to in !) m L il'id,'Childish r.nd alto* gother tiiipyi w-r nu‘tho?l. 'The diaa;?- |K:drttt)COof thf .■ di;* "ree^lle rnupkdo ia wfc 4 of < oui. . ... i I by the tiiu met r»-T gyi-l aiid s#h>piUhy. ♦''spn’aM-d in a vnlcv HIS STRAIGHT TIP. wjitdl WTU ltd Herd* itro tmgnoliu4, olcandem and all ve made the fortnnieof in r or an netnct-a. * Uf courtc Lhet ends oijr -rowing.'*, said A lice decidedly. “Mr. Btwll can U in UiiiK, Wftiv wv/v* V.sv.. v , rpi Skill V • • a^>-*»s » «»•» et range Tdeo* abont haw to win money r other Kmuu in tn-ts t> « shyu ^ ' l4S r-. VvTha tronarr wiih-v*>U»aad l will row Jby .hacking sH the horses. Ytm next m that r ; rcuof confederal , jav.inne wo ;' lllt liu;1 aaU . Mr. Alcx«n- morudiig he did imtsreler toth«MtftJ«C; ‘ u - but staid away froth busijicto ;;ml occu- ImVb lx e.U lighting BHice daj\ i-ar wdJiJ_. '0 nTin< now thoronghly app«u»d ,.l. , i m .«i;i . .. cverv living thing that, has JHinviached ... u J ** and no in their report* prior to first Friday. ~i The btste d’residont, St.aVa I-' Cturer ' and the I’roTessor <>f Agriculture Pf] ( lemaoji College, will.be with and ad dress «* on that dky Alt Aliia-ieeinen are cordially invited to be present. —— V.’. II Drvo.iN. 1 resident. W tt, IlAwawm, rnH-retary- Alllaaee Addresses. -r~ . —hamw * i 4 Dc-i—-JdiLL.17.,'j .. Tlie lion'. Tommy Arden had never known a day’s luck since he married the eweetest and the best girLiii the world. lie had been a sad rake in a quiet fash ion, and had lived in the best possible way for us long as any of the youngsters conld remember. Nobody qnite knew how he had done it, and nobody partic ularly cared. . lie was always well ■ have tn» riMdkai -’ _iUvs arranged I -r tin scries oFATP - luceriiigs es!k'<E."U the Jtuh, l* 1 ' 1 1‘Jiii Jamiarv u.^Mfi lUru well i-unt are b*r«diy-called in and w.d. not a+tempt^iL- Very truly. -v' G. H.'i-.jr- For C-. •nnittcc7\ . ■/— — T - *^" " “ 7* Good Sense In Oeorgi*. Co). Nesbitt, the Georgia Stata Com- ,ni-4«n?r <>f- AgThnlture, h*ue« * “Monthly Talk with Farmers.’’ from his last w« lake tlie follmving ; 'The commissioner think* the plant- . „ V.g of cotton will be great! v stimubUed bringing me out to t in*. ing or u a 1 ♦‘Clara! You knew 1 owned tlie ranch. OS* v— o Me "'7'l T ;-Ton *ncw 1 foev." kK, »o44*a-a^ent* danger. 1 ue^ pi.in j “] never^uessed what it ♦would hc< t-'f*, -In h.i—rqunion, siiuuld .cw,idin t especially in a ease like this,’* pointing tlieir business, on a sound litsi- and not , ^ h<-r child. “1 l.ttle rc-tLzed. wbut it irtyfrii away bv a ITOte upward spurt of was h>. b e n woman.” i,rices He warns tin in against this | Aftef^hat Cnarlio Dean ws« a yierll. “A sear ag -’ aavallr K«*blU. ) clmt^ed man. II'J felt cross and mean. in that stofiiii? he’s fainted!” ' It was aonie time before Charlie TTea" revived; l;e was, very weary, and the awfulness of what hud been, through his neglect, quite-overpowered him. - “There, you’re lietter, now,” said hi* friend. “\VJiat do you think, could have caused her to leave the hou.^b, and where did she go?” . , , ,, , . , ,, , , , “I don’t know, unless to the stable, dressed, always well P have<l atnFbrnshfed I iiad left a little corn there.” . np. alwtiys rode in the best hansoms, “(Tigrlie!” snip his friend, sternly, always dilled at the Cafe Royal with “you never left your wife in spcli a somebody, and went everywhere, conditio:;?” " “Everywhere” meant tho Empire till Hut Charlie only nodded. closing time, afterward One smart “1 exjiected to be home, you know— dunce, and then a (laah club—he-mode but donH look at, me like that I’m a point of never going to a rcapeclabl^ bbed enough. Slvcls dead some- eliilrKfterdinner. where uh'der the stiow,, xaj poor little : ln~tlre EM.in.ei' l>e--alwaya4ooka turn Clare!” in tho row; wua seen in the lobby of the They failed to find Wr no corn was opcriMflflff on» act; was generally t« missing,, it is true, but thejTfTmid bo met at Sundown and Kenipton, atiiT nothing to so_ much r.s point the way occasionally at T?"iilli'ln Sundays; ss hither she had gone. utrollcd about the lawn atCoweslnr Charlie Dean was a changed man (ll0 reKatta W Lek. and in the off season once more. To his boon companions ho Wl , s |ie ^ tT w . eiJt bnt said he was “shisit- said good-bv, and many of them never iu i(1 )ho north t: n i run over to Osti nd forgot the silent pain in his e3'(\ tho. f ur n f lUltor •• pielil his entirt day by in:.king ortblo g • Cv, '0' living tning that t-.i* rfppnuM.iicn I nn ,j ,y 0 t ovtr anxious #<>r uilsyiui>atbetitf 1 ' ^ i t ;, ? ilo co-bpitnioWhip i.. ills rltlmrAb. curd condition, demufn d emphatically, the contdiu-ion was reacted lie into which he earonuiy . — ”"Z ’. *.“•'* nt-Ver fsaetlv iiadeMtooil, Imt "oonretmr .ft'it hi* work, jmta ' ftnUdodmm architectnre. anathnfuro yor " ‘ i* the hlj-.est water in tho world—’emlo (-rf)*fto 'w‘iio l,hvo wm 1 t’ne A- iriu:ic Ita Ik'isuty is me listk—of hU rich raciiig anjuainUne \i j and\ compiling e!als>ri!« caknlition*. | Toward •vening he went out and bought ' f^ a Isitlng book, into which he earofnlly , roofuil mntHmer ctThb Tm^tpippnrreib j - Copied the rasuft'it hi* work. .Tin* nutel^iin! ; arelutivDav, i.iHbbexore you Aunt, lie n ad It all over and smile-l. ! Belhen closed the book, :/.«'* Ida dinner , , ., , ' comfortably, r-tl^J to KM early taidd n " d the CaiibKim re^ : slept like a top. | murpU by long dihqada ed piers, but ! Thjo tioxt day ho war, cut and alsmt 1 ^«9-t cmnpKm of thou, when the i bellies, but instead Of mico .norw-ttoii,'’ ^osqmtoca swarm m from the Lom* .ana ! ning| hi? ntatomerr. f„r tho commisaiornl wnnh^nud dnvo you out into the sea ! wliit|h they < wod hitn, ho paid a visit o j ail tho starting price bookirakers, nek.-j . , , . U , . , i ing i|ho prifed of one horse at t^di , hve. 1 t ‘"', *" :l , ll ’“ 1 ?* th “ ’ msnng &n entty in hia bpos my at eriona*-] y’’ 1 -’ ,l ' > ssherh thfl p.ne foie: t : K. «tid chatting wittrVnisKwf tho hab- '"timds-v,,,* ngniM*t thos::y. It waa not j i-nea b.i ho wsa acquainted with. H,T tnmiy hionins-agu, that:: partythrw- lunehed «t the fafe .Royal;"*wltero le inet nioie fneuds with whom he d!*- r ru*oe<1 ibe day’s fixhnea, n 'xfd- d 1 io breeze. • From whero you itapd yon can M 1 head ominously .Hid «rtnil«d knowingly, -aud-whisti ]... sjtod to eipreM an opinion —to me at that ttae.a top 1 int 'reding jinrly—mado that hall their assemhly room and temple for their househbld god*. Indeed, it was qfteil their hattlo* ground, for in' tho long leisure of snni- raid. "1 can't sap;!’, ivnd wKn aihuj^anain Ifie-rduv-'Thf* eeivtrmrof-iHxuwuUirfnalit afiguish that his whole face expressed. “It’s not going to kill him,” said the friend who Lad been watching him to see that he did nothing rash. ”No, it's going to make such a man out of him ns we never dreamed of; tho one thing that now has possession of 'him is work, in order that he inay forget. IC* a good medic-ice. I think I’ll try some 'myself." Three years later, well-to do, with money to spare, for none of it was ever Hindered row, Charlie Dean once more sought the far away city where ho had fiitt met and won his wife. A strange lyujing came over him to on to more see that place, and travel- w»» «• ■•eni* vou cult! find f'' 1111 '* ^ hc 00 41 t CTta ' I ] r, ‘ K v-w .ei • fc t, u ined aw'dbronauil.i.a walkftd bj the lowed. CXto,ry■>» n.V,i.- u t .S.j "to, u ‘° LO '*”'''' r . Now w hemtie pft* ** : it. Anj’v.'cy, TTl llnr i.rln/odH'I H eor.t. you; Atidhe did. WwhoHMt'ra*yii»ii ^ i W'K Where ho Jived waft known to no ono. On what he lived was known only to in dividuals separately to whoni'he §Aid ho had tiip dwil’s own luck^ 'TtitFdid not mean ho made a book, or if it did it was false, but the general impression was that lie knew tho inside of everything, and that df ho were not so sernpulons ahont secrets and would only let his friends stand in oftener he would make tlfeir fortunes aud his own. His own explanation was that he never made a Kt unless he “knew something,’’ and that was how ho always won. The re- snltVaa that his advice was always r.sk(*l, rtnd when ho ipive it always fol- The real truth was that the . Tommy had never made a bet In when he tnrn,' i up r.i u; • oiuj.ire, rrom sa\i!-g thrif'-u ee.nir.y hr.d had a good dry —morn especially r.* pi every dno who ! had lost or won hoaai 'l. “I could have | told you f.s much, only I was bound not i -to ray a word to a s-ml.” During all ' that week the 11,1). T mniy pur*hed i very much the same tac.b'*, merely re- jien -d to be Iris paniculnr divini and like other priests.bf Baal, he s«-n'v tinn-s appealed long. Iondly’itud inya'ii It whs- after fr.e of the long:-it and [ warmer,t of those debates that a!) three sat ostcnribly deep in their luoming’* mail. John Dunn, tho huio cliampiou of . . . , ,I theri’Oimnrir.’^;ice, bne-throtigh n sm it tnerkuig over eight, when • tho-rcsnlta . ■ ... . . pdoef l«UerH\with an n'r i i mysterious were known, - “-If au-u lUi. to tfil BPLiJ . . r-t » . , , i • , v , -u , i’IwtiOTtsnce^ which ho. hnl been early rtand in a conpla of hr.ndriKln I will i-1 1 1 . . ’ . - i ‘ - -r . tlaugiit it v.aa tux-essary to assnmo in or pm know a good thin*T, r Kenipton m - ’ • « . - * ,, , ■ dor to rttain Imsiuem success. A* he tfutwr-Kv. i-iovidod you givo i..- )onr' ~ , . . . ., , .. , ’ . r , >, ,,-i .hud attained that great and i.o, ludesid aiuied woi-l of h.ui-'-r uevor t-u t>reaihe , ‘Aild.*- iny i. una as j'- ur i’lforiuuut v. :i ciiihes, o.f or not. a* I J;h'? g son.-, whi-.l. vou ii. i.il i l rxdi.tau thej it | a ron- I to ex- eratn.r.i, aifll In no small dogre‘, *li miglft bofuirly credited v.'ftl||a knowl One of n!c;:u'' A11 \ \ - spoiling world v.-iil r< a-i,iy i(f t-'-v-. so trifling ft couditl.'.n was r.-u-hly plied with. * Before !ia 1 iirdav <'amo rpTii^l-.a 11 those who had g-ti.fiit- d ! pry Ve.ininy In the event of hi* tip coming off, nt:d had pledged their solemn oaths never ,1 •1y who kt’.owr-the f ,’ii wfl planting, baft-,ii i* in the neig can Jiardlv meet >qe w ho pi 'H'hat’s the ieusc ©sie* 1 ^*, i.a*t year theaale* of f*rHlj/.e: about S3-per cent. 1 predict year thej'will jump up agatn, approxiuiating 1,’t.e figtirw* *»f tlr* \<’bi before last, all on account .of tun- recent r;ag io the value *>1 eatt*>n,an4 the con waquent reaction iu the mind of planting, id other .friends. ” He secured tho rervices care he loTt the. fh -i it. Add he did. whose corn?’ Ri, cep, aAtl went off almr.&t daily to a r qi i Tr ' ^ ttl T town, a, pleasant ride for him of , n j only aljout fifteen miles. When there, 1 , hia place -of lounging can easily bo rhy EravOr.eil. • 1- ir,ai one larinsr wilh which a ye: : giuosed. T “ill’s (dare’s doings,” he tmisca; ’Wdmcn like to send men to the dogs.” IfjHarc saw anything more Oian t j l( , i ur-ujil she^remaiacd silent.^Sometimes, j wh<tn he e:Hnc home almost tbo stupid - ’’ - glimpsft of ~ ~ coacarniu^ cotton K'* U V" > '' to talk, ho ciiqrht a gllmp*& of con- ir ago he felt so .nearly tempt in titc cold eye of his wifo. Her. Tlevvildered, ar.mzed, half helioving hiniself out of his head, he did hear her voice onoc more. “There’s a muu drunk leaning on tho fence," ha- heard a strange voice ox- ilaiua. , v Then the playing ceased, and a voico that almost caused him to faint a sco- on4 time replied: “D.-uuken nen are only too common. Let him alone; some policeman will ha along pre ^cut-ly. ” Then the music struck np aga’n, this tirre into u wild galop as if tho player’s .Jgeof tl:o nects: ary ihelrjoils. ... . ' j Lis fair rr.tagrmistn, Cmrdance Alston, v. in 1 h4 ; !.-vsyl" a heated, i ni hie ius, i-; i\nd a!!,.>) bui f mih r i .. -..-.•ur ♦ion, bad forgo:.',: n the whole jii ii ter in a bulky -k-uer adores*! I in a bioa 1 in;..-: after considerable argument and proLs- tution he found himself damply on his vr.ay toward the honse, while Miss Al ston and Mr. Beall had departed on a hut jcenicd to him nt; utterly nselses seatx’h for tho remainingmeiniicr*ofAlie imrty. , I The tVi’b'rowrii on in silence until thd j sound of Mr. Duuu’j creaking step* had vdicd'awftj', then Beall broke.tba-ailoncar ; 1.C-* an imdtcct '.nl olfer to changu hi* s»-at i toilioittm. *• ’ ; .J "Thift tgHt i* fur enough eft to balance the boat,” i-aid Alice, wiih umonscions bchuiculity. "And you may npwt her r. \ icg wbotit. We di.n’t v.not any more lucid nto. I ant scrrjr Mr. Dnuu fcli over," she aibled, after a slight.] anne. If sho uni.ed her fato was tnmod away . , , , from Ik-all und he codld not taso its ox- b.aonvt'utt-uulii^^^ ..j llk<J ] nat wr y latter, ala, hta Alice , ' ( ^~TT* p h11 mi^M Imve rejilicd that, c onsfd- 11 ’ ; ering the j*' cnH i ccurrenve, lu.*r Ul‘*as of i hospitality wero't gtwmely recent and a trifle sus|»u:ious. But having no ubso- j lute proof of the calico of tliat happy r.n-iiiout ho refrained, utidoitnpljf aaked; “He Imp atooCKr claim to yi»ar cousalei’- ation, hasn’t ho?” x Aiien di. iaiued ciuivocation. ”1 sniv- P> <nn :a:d, “yiiu mean to qsk •whet-ht-r I hs* rt-)>ni t of my on jagemeut ftt. him true.” Bt abl layflwm.n ntid. c....,-.. . . “Aud by wlmt tiguf/? site asked. “1 h id tlu* right oucu," lie i-«id sad’y,. “jjiviifcose we do imt Talk nl>out_w it you oivo had,*’ said Alice. ’fYon diua’t seoni to care much uoo:it H.thou.” r : Juris startling = peTverBOB oi’ tho fiH-l * hen he married ho gave it all np. Ho was truly attached to his wife a: 1 abandoned everything for her. Ho was no more seen at music t nil is and il u-h clubs,' and ho dined at home and never went out alone afterward. Everybody thought it would all come right, iHid-hey j to divulge ].<* nnine a* t’i-- called it, in six month*; Imt it did hot, U( . r odniv placed in pos*cv *ion of a nam,- j '' , ' r ‘ t \ AtKy |,e , 1 , w rili si hat .to will bq h< vntn ths fidlpwlng sage cmi;^ I; “Tho way you chaps lose your-monoy x i*-. ♦- ' rn.co Hi'ojlng. by cry rnro, an' l •iformant, thoughts were rmpiingavway w itti her Bilepee was fairly maddening. *• f . i • But he’satiR there,” continued tho “U'ky don’t she howl and storifa like^ strange voice. “He’s peculiar looking; th/> H<riin-« furuiv’ied by a w.-li 1 oth^r women?” ho muttered. “Sho do look out, Clare. I declare 1 feel -^•^u-^xrrer t^ bal,y v 1M norvlKuc” iji»^u»ied.” in hi* monthly talk Mr. NcshHt 1 . - ; ,, ‘ T ^+grivo a.^j^od deal to aco iicc-«ry JnaA ... Uwudie. otoad -np wq llKau^ th.Knb 3 «a,rW^»^SK^S ' pun’oed^r; hat Mek *!,;:•., bveause of their short sale.-, la^t Ji'-or, summer had gone and winter full and straight into tl the 1'miUeer inadufoeturtrs in tlmjioe- ; tion are, now unable-to supply the. do- ! m*lutw'liieti wilt <H»en Ir-furc-ilicm—III the near future. T!ie farmers will, thersfora, be forced Jo buy, this writer aays, from the «H*t. The railroad* w ill Tooovcr luucii of. iheir lost business this year; {FD astiuoied froin the increase ol lertllizer shipn.cnts. To HeflBM (’oltoa lcronge. ■MitMi’nis, Tenn,. Jau.7,—B. G. B est, “v-fgfrretsrynrf-ijie.cotton bureau of the J’tbdbky. —Nationa! I' Anuerk’ Alliance, lias isaneit; ,1 here aquarcly nisnawr,- rhtly and looked the eyes of. his come; as usual on. Saturday inorK wifc.'^X ing, Charlie had ridden away iu tho di-' bi>e fell l>ack with a cry, tho place f-ciion of the town,; without a word of tv a* empty, and scarcely knowing what (Tufy wc 11. • he did Charlie was'turning av.-.-.y wheu “Two years “ago," sold Clara, bitter- some ohe came bying downAhose ateps ly, J"he sought me in that cozy homo and’—and, N yoe, had her hambin his, and of m.v aunt’s, with its soft carpets iU t in a tearful Voice was saying; T’Char- lovjng friends, and he permiadtfd me Uj He, oh! (Tmciie! You’veeomo at last!” marry him and come out to this-dreary “I, want to know,” he said, whcaia , plaie, where ho has even forgotten tc the cozy ..parlor, sti)V clinging ‘Hr her had arrived at this pas? whon be humane.” hand, “i want to know how yon got thc?bcQkers were put in for two qnnv- T|hen glancing toward the northwest .away from the ranch during Hi at awful tors’ rent. During the five day* allowed she saw a masTTtff blitelt clouds lyin?f "gtona.’ I •“ byTaW Tommy had flown about to try a threatening ^spect growing Aarcr all ( hire flusheil but answered unheal- and collect Che commissions due to him, *• tntinrrir: '' ^ N with which to pay the fifty pounds thst and to the .fnrprbc of even-body Tor my got shabbier and shabbier in apjiea-- anoe.'and was se-u on omnibuses and in the underground railway nr.d other sTiiexpbjiHive and bourgeois places. Tho result was his- former firionds said he had inarriod a ^Ifrew, and that ha would ^;ick over the traces some day. Tho truth was Tommy ws.s in lovo wi:h his wife, and cho was neviT so hapjiy as in his company, and nothing was so re* peiiaut to hiinfts his old- associates amh "TiiaTird ways. But virl'neTs’Tia ElYn"TO-' v.-anE end the re-w«*l- of- virtue w’nieh the Hon. Tommy experienced was a per petual 'shower of county court sum monses, for 'his commissions for recom mending stock ljrokei-s, advertisements, wine iirerclj*rits, Wiiora, pictures and other recognized forms of livelihood by which he hod tried to earn what be Jcalled a respectable living had not proved i is dr.’ going to every backing a horse in every race, ail ly putting yjnir pal* on. nn l thr.» arxilMng tho mai kct-. j\ hot! yd-u really d’< kiiow anything gdot. Nhw les.k ».t mo! I always v,in money at racing. “l-LuvS'd me so ft")aflily for year*, but l ncwT go nedr a tn'^’.i ig nnloss 1 know son.eihing, and 1 never have a sixpence cmnorn than one race, whelh ! 'r 1 win m- L-uHiTO ! ~ .■ ,, Frenently ih.u It;-: Led up. “Whul-s t<> I day the day of the month I mean?" iho ' a: kid. Aiid rhcii, without waj.i-ing for 1 ait aiiswer; t^itlcenl h, wi xtceuth, revru- ntlv, They will be i.m) to^ay. llo ro -tomorrow tljat ir- today of course; and lie is going-- to bring a-fdend with him.” {>!»« Inirb I. .her.*«If ifgnin fli the letter nnd eyu rg. i; with fnrthi r iottlliifoi : “Hi* frieuU’s, tiame—1 am not rurc: how to jirononnc- it. Al'cy,”T h'- laid, turning to In r conn in, tho last of tho trio, with a luiachiev- bewickVed Beall too v:iicl» for any a-t- trmpt nt defense. Ho rfocld only oak iiucu more for an cnsVver to bis question. • “Anit iF T i*44- yoft.” auid Ai;ce, yl tijjip ,yr you wool 1 do as you did on a si mil.ir occasion oticobefore—threaten , to do somet fling des])- rate, mnl then not do it. Abd I r’nonld bo sodloappointe*!." Ikadl Took lids ratfler r^ravating v«- nmik ratfler gootl luiturodly. “No; Fve learned lometliing t ince then." lie h.i';d. “I wisiu d to know ul'out this simpljr o- rame if y<,u are not engaged to ^r. Dunn I have an important pieco of news toteil.you:” " \ “1 Mipitoso you will jvmlon my raying that 1 don’t take a* uiuefl iiiteivhi hs of out look, “how do you pronounce i . . - , • , . * I mo t jxdsons m ini]sjrtnut jueeej of 1 iv‘ ■ i ,. ' ■ . . ’TiiTvosaid Alice. “Bat it i«dne to Mr. If her oujcct wild to create eituer tur — •, , n ,, .. , s Dmin for i se to tell you that tflv reitort r.na:* or Ooiifu*i>.n <n the part (f 1. i i J * TKxC’ replied Bcujl, “1 can tell yon my news. But if you don’t mind I would rat-iei not tell it to tho imek >>t I mors money on T. itn market; and 1 *.:n pledged to i A iqforr;, K'MKiUikiLSLaca im t winter.’’ n of ./> saying he calmly took haif of the rowing Kest. Was he a.J-hr.'i li a-kcl Dunu v. il •pklu.i man—nTf. L- n ititercst. . »ntt:ot to persoua”” ba-'k the h-rsc fc-. _ more than a certain surj or the bo,It- ] , i.i. .. , “\c*, v.-o knew him at Laitimore, - makers would tninblr, xnq If ths * «.■ o _ . ; . were forestalled 1 should never get tbe , '* u 4 '^' v ‘,V‘ , , , n ,, , „ * MV ell, hi- s a'opp* 1 all that, said 0 to Let inarrw-d urcS And to office'again. It is by not b*4»i® iHsercMr » — s a iftorm coming and I’m “1 was a good walker, iftltnnfehr . werAso expedient to the quieting of his an a id re** u> ihe order rl\ i*iii* r .^re- ' Fl n ^'> oncot the freaks lu'ruy make up orf the storm. Y'mr had left mo almost bine eyed and brown haired little wife. N 1 : is tliat I like storms, particivlariy novy^ nothing to eat, and I really Thought I Buctlon of the acreage nf c-otto.i pl.uit- | j| a( j j k een a timid lass I would lob,] sliould lose roy mind if I remained thers Ing. He says lhat the Southern States B i DCt . have died of fright. . 1 have felt many more.days a’l nlcnic. prodTrefeV* |-Vi c^rHe-of fhe cotton gnrw u | ooineUfties oven a bear coming in at “1 took the little money I still pos- and S2 percent of the staple av.iiialds the door would btr a c’nange,” an<j sersetL and started soon after you (Fid, who. though sadln troubled, had taken his.wprd for it that it would be “all right.” Mils tflorts were alluoxt in vain, and ho wehtj'iseo the agent “to explain th«Mtnation’Ntnd ark for time. He wtia athetic clerk. Imu tURt W The nil viu ion of the Southern farm er is diversification ofu-rops and living at home Instead of depemlm^ on the pork, packer* of the North for food. He portrN—ok-tMu support of th is argument tha^the reduction (if the crop this sea son rcknlted iu a marked increase hi price, and insists that,the cotton plant ers can secure fair price* every senseii by keeping the pro'duvtton w ithin rea- oonabie turn mis. hoinef “tlmpossible In such a storm as this. You’d l>c dead in less than an hour. Take things qoolly, Charlie. \»Tiy, it’i tlfd ttTst time I ever saw you Anxious. Yofir wife’s all right; being snowed ia a few days don’t surprise folks in these parts." r “Rnt—she’s—oat—of—flour; she ma<l« biscuits this morning, and there worq only: enough—and slve—” “Oh, ho„ she’s got other things, trust of .some things.” fr\t“ ihaf. - /l dlOilIfllt VOU (k •extension of learning this position to Mrs. Tommy, • and snatched me up before I could say whom her own sweet way^hejievrhg ‘by your leave,’ and away we tore like a i )fi0 i at „i y inUer own love and tho lovo ma*L Ihe horses wore very strong of her Unsbaud, raid: and swift, and we seemed to outride w hy bother, Tommy, darling trying to earn the money7” the stPpm. )Vc reached shelter at last, just .AiMorc* its fury broke, and I . , , . it , • , “How else can.I get it, my dear girl thanked, him a* best I could: then, .i _ , when the roAds were clean"! Started- m ' n" V i i u fc.b my old home, but* had UKstop and ^ou aro bo clever and h-ivu worK awhile bef^ri>qt l/i\ Aunt 6n , ch 1 ttm 3 ' 0 " TVOuM U has never heard ail the 1 a ‘ l ,n »^ st that fellow* spoil ttieirpulrrs.^an 1 !f 1 war* to knock the betting aVmt tTls ss likely a» t n<.> that Theywmd i pay me out by Inniberin^me on to a wrong ’r.n next time, and as 1 hav.y never taken the , L’niV'k l don’t want tostart row.-” . This very cxorller.t advice was giv- n to aoine thirty-six of Ihe iBrn. Tommy.! Ardon’s beat, a-afl jjnoct “oofy'-‘ rj-ot tlr-g friend*. -Thescp were si*, races «m. the ! following Soturdsy at Kemp?<m, few which Feme thirty Ir or*** sta’t-ed.' It would l»o «U]KirfluoG.* _ for the purposefuf this rtory to give i he ran:e*. f the horse?, t'hatr ng**. weigiits or the GAir.rw cf their riders. All that remains to say is that tbo Hon. Tommy Ardch -hwl £2o0 to DOthii'g on every LorseThat *ta'Ted. Needless to say, only.six horsey worry With thirty of his friends Tommy h is condoled and **’.-l s'lTii.-'ining nb-mt “th.f j. luck of the: devil.” With eix of liJ.- ' friend*-, who believe in him ns a propVt . Dunn, presnpiably'rcferriiig to tho j-.r- | *nit tf know le< I go byrmaiis of follow ships. “One of ids rich rdajivi* dit-l 1 lii!s *i ring, and lie’s preMy tvell fixed.” | “I rtT]jpr;?c wo know all AUbuLjiiin now,” said Alice, a tntlo wearijy,“and ; rising she ftrolled out to tboedge of tSb wide gaUery, whore sho flood j-cusivcly | looking net, a clear cot- }i«nre agniiint 1 tte trlAxe of light froiij without. “That’s a grii'.'t fnl p*cnirv, : ”tai-l Con stance warmly. “ Yes, aK’a a very pretty young girl,” I finswered Duiigindiflyrcritly. llepr- ved” the gersuin ’.ucfta .of lii* rudii'creiico T.y^j carrying on a v< ry abstracted ccnvcrca tion-with. Constance for a Icy? mom and thin wandering ’oat with u cur ird-tinireiieH* to whero Alice stood. To “Xylie.t l wb.hc.t to t«ll yon.’* tic contin ued. ’TuThAt^Fmir j^ohi iu rv few-fuoiith^-” Alite rthiul. “Yon whom’/”. “That’s jo-Y tho ,4+fihulty^" he said conteinpi.,: uvly. "Fve fipfnagoil cvPry* tliiTi-; (i -o t-ati.-ifactor iiy. My bn in*--** affairs aro : ’l rt^lit—rijlit enough for me t.> marry soVi M g'r ciglit girls if ths law p; I'MhLluI. 1’vo. thought of evei/- thing else. I lukven’t spoheu to the mf- f* mit j edpb', but 1 t-trppoae tii-re will be t:»troubi-. Thtf only iiguMcm is, as yon a v. ggesf.ali’Hi t Th a brldo: . tib 1 chum orcr in-.mly to ;...x you to bebupy tuat po.itioii.” Alic i tnnied snddenly. “Mr. Beall.” sili Ali i, “tL:.; is ll -..lauL mip! ?;:s:int fui in dj’dc:-.” “ft i :ut a joke at all.” he rxwwere*! pl.cidly. “You laughed at my velu- 4 ' a rmMtiv? n tl manner m was receiver! vy luM Tiav-i a lent to it U denunciation na.an r.;;- ’ J j. q 1 maace and miiu.net* about snch tlikigt once bploiar, eq 1 thought 1 won id try » . , Myle you would like. But, oi) my ho hi. ,i he . • - - —r—» - I m .\r w.u more in camt;t{ tu my oqun a* ^ i„ ever after to be followed blindly, he he* t bet as yon need to do? J ^.joick.-more oEi*eially on tlv* Mou- day. wtww lhev each hxudefl hint a Ai to drew tha Ll.idcof li#- oar blftwly through the water for a moment. There y_<‘.csaat irt, nijp!ip;t,- but. Mr. Dan::’* in ai i Vb-. ic n, i ea- at tx'il) u tod much of hi* . . , - . tests every.rea^eu in tho worUl why ba» ^ iiMii ~ i sy; I couldn’t ’?1''Thought you dead,” said Charlio. Tlie Alliance iu Texas. Dam.is, T’kx., Jan. f.,—Tite countv orgAiiix-itmn*oi the KKrnwr,’ AlliHiieo a woman for that; there's ’canned : fruit, dried corn, there's beans , and— “I—if you could know how 1 have suf no danger of her suffering. Anyvvay f er ®d. Oh, Clare, I don’t cuppose you 1 you can't help her; an army coi\id.nol conld forgive.” , ^ , ‘ r,f '’ “1 forgave you long .ago. I was some ail invest to no tltneH’ .."Oh, Lfiavo given -*Bp all that sort ‘ thing, and hate it more than 1 cun tell yon. It Is not to bo thought of in jeon- R | ehy<-k fov TSskl, inxking in nil' £1.20lg *• f with which hc oai-l oivj^tho broker* a* he liwi inomwvd tho agent. and ly play.-i this force ita*Way over those miles. H<jn- Tommy Arden game throe tnnas in ta»'h s '5r*^«i'. Other men would be more greedy. - Tommy c uiico. ... „ - o— only make* some £4,000; but heiacoS- Tltttlri lit Cljailln tQ K un: l e -. I omrlit to hare tried to have P 1 ** P*^'**? Kt- rarin% t^t*d with this, as ho it?A* iho Tq-o Ob, nonseuao. Tommy! Yon ‘must not let me rain yon; and r»m sure all It i« dne t< Lis saga<*ity to say tba’ the en^QB] are holding riiuH'quarterly me<>tiiigs.a4l-' ‘'.Uod forgive me; xnougnt-vnoriiv ; —r' - V b"*;"''—hr-r ^,1., /i..! *' ' ' .T-’ Z~ •'—" ItiKnl Dean, his face in his hands, “and God been happier; 1 wrote to^dur old home, ls and. t)mn A fii yoVi n*i ■ j: I ^ . cf bi* cfirming witn, w):o I > • it» x J ^ w.tiC, r f -1H j \ t...A * 1 11 t j sa nt vvi ♦ c'.cu 1 r tr\ vvxrx x'/wt ^nxicr Ixuvta inrulrt a « i* _ i » * V. over the titate. J. \V of tlie-Stttc Executive Committee, says the AHiauee ‘J* nnniericaliy and finan help her, for I Imow how precious lit- but }}*? toU me ^ liad gone away.” «>nfe«8 it te,me. you must have made a Turns tie the small . inso containa Fvc seen 1 ' Shal L w ° begin over, Clara-for , - i her hunting among, the' weed* for when you were^wnc jtfpufidout how l cialfy stronger than ev>r heforc, and something.green to Jhelp out tho salt lot of mqney at it.” “My dear child, it can’t be don* now. slicccsa to Lis kphiom mUjrjng such di covtrU.-c. .- * ’ .- * Half n ddy later aud Cunolunce her c'c : :'rf*T)jn-l»‘i)t had r.- o’iivd them-' selves into r. faint sphirh of i^r* an-' a murm’.'v'i f Vole.-a rcarccly :»:aiibl .* fra n tho pier where Alice was liradcned with an embarrassing waaltb of companlc - *hip. The whilom learned follow was * . f not obtrusively apparent iu a qub’^ yoqng man leiiurely half reclining in the bo.v-of aamall flilt of wirich Alice tld tho oar*. Dumi I'ri.-d uii sil I'm -Teading down to the watet, hs>k- ' v-' prupow.l made in tlria and i;Tiiatjn:; manner. mg dv-l'ftn'.intly at u dark gap bet\?c* u ^ " r - * • - s . . owxmx^ x«iai x»|^. u kjukj lixu i a that the fiuancla! (llfca^tcr* iiiat befell" pork . and bread. 1 know how slicSS theorganlr.ation in 1S88 taught, them an tried to important lesaoii that they should let when I business enterprise* alone anil coniine’ inar ’ '^,' e n !? 7 , ha J,? B ^ :Tlc,hin L r a * .i*,,,. . . , per—after that—Qh f heavens, boys! - 1 ** P t ? or rttther to the i must go home!” he cried, elqud. one of the preHiest and Kst droased women in town. * In each year he also . makes some eighteen fart friend* of the -k ~ ■ “1 do not know how, or 1 WHuU-gn I jnenlojwhom he bug glven-the straight' ^-^^and tiiv ^ Oh, yes, and wherever you go I’ll and win you a fortune. IJpw do’yotJ | tip which has come of;' Tlte othert “n nn’t t^ing the Uiat auy c.t>*erqn Kt?” ! Tommy coir ole* himself by saying, hare r *^ 0;,ut 3^** “I don’t l»tr * . - . ^ a* good a chauce a« any one ebo, and r ' 1 J >u r: ' ,i 1 “Don’t be dll}*! How used you To . they all have their turn soondraor siai’t.fui.y. di uld i-.diito a cool, confident Co. bding a wotaan, she mnwere-l ii>.'.illj. •"Well, 1 s.in:HJtw it would K u pity to break up all your rnrhugemtiutfi.** . a As Beall sat Into that uignt iu Mr. , Alexander's room T t njoying to tlie ut- f-mwt ibe bitter end of a long kdack' cigar, lie -aid charitably, “Now there’a Dunn—l don’t think he’s such a bad sort cf fellow 'ter all.* - Ah rainier looked upia hnmoronssnr- pri -t from Vue valine he w«s juickiugT “Why,” ho esciaimet!^‘Tro said th» vaonnngoTi tho train that you lutu spent i.n.a imyq ut..v;ou>imTUS hdw Dunu bad .. home hi Charlie, j with a tremble in his voice.—A. C. Me- bet? 1 alwaj-s wanted to know. Doesn’t . effort .«tft diffuse among the people » | ^ “You’ll not go» quarter of a mile be-1 —Tliey TYon’t Harmonl^-- 1, !n^, Keever, iu Yankee Blade, know lydge pf ihe economic problems fore youTl be dead, and then your wife Matilda.” said the caller, “your baby is deemed ol greatest importance by the will have no help from you,and by and j„«t too sweet for anything, tud the Alliance. He says the wisdom of this . b y th ® ®*P eT1 ‘-e oi burying you-if the T ery picture of his father*” “Yea, I “couiie-U alt own h^ the‘Tact that the ~\i. ' w ’^ l<w dt»x , t'lad j - - | knew/'- eobbed»theyou»g liitncohas a large surplus in tlie Tread- n • tortn not lieeh known ury and that the greatesthamonypre- that country where gaUaiulurauki.. fretful xtorma were couxbjoa. .... the bookmaker lay agaiuet all the horeesP “Yes.* “And do yon back all the hoi “Good heavens! No. If^-ou did that how could von win?" dro, and T lafcri- two_/iI throe ex]>eriouce* of Toininy's straight . , . .. . t »iu-. j escaped the penitentiary. ‘„ 'V 1 -D’OiqUis mnnTTug,” AjisweredF Beuli. yuow, sue -‘To toil yoa .b-iTuth. i ■ M , -i., '~T 1M ya , ynif v* • rv There are :a few who. after two^nr Thb Persian*, I belUM^, liaye a mying- i „ ^ k * that contempt w il] pderV^Dtrough tb© wttaiy. tips, havrbecoma slightly ©older toward ihtell ofa tor-t-.i.-e. Jn^MH-t^hde tho at-i i»rua Store K - - tempt wfLt ttm success which xusmillv * ' , * - - - - - x • i Cur.tcmet; (at old mm. 1; “bat—but be has got red hair, and I « u - i ». » > -r-•> . Just had thunurserydeooratod in pink.** tUe^horgw, au^, Jie always, vms, : be makha It ht/biMiiMSa to cJuaUT*:.'. ; ™ - Brooklyn Eagle. , dooeat ht-r ♦ I St. Jaom Budj^t, ?, v —• - i U 1 him; bat Tommy makes u«> fuss. He ♦rthemont bWqUietlv h: ;viug~ them ontT^tha next "grxxl thing; fOT tl > himj-le reason tlmt there are uiw x,. j Haail vmms'jf o»i aii of whoua. attenda leapt, in the dark. 'There Vaa a . _ sudden movement ef the skiff, m uichTri ^ ^ “ “ l ',. LisTooler m ijin n^ fc» irtlfribnted aoldyx “:^ rtc V® r t:» his awhwarthietva. For as he stood, a fN.w ^