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SL Vol.XVII. 35 | Wo (luMUbxll , I SCtwl'Jll Of DMM9 Of fl» I -I W« M»» BOi t 1 ib« »ie»» or oorre.'|M)»<lenti«. ( All contract \k t* tried for No adVert iM-ment" wilt l* ,* hatnn*<l nr-itof the week. BAHNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., SEPTEMBER 7, t 893. \. No. 2 AHlance Department. Adopt*! M tfte Comity Organ by lily Couu tr AHianca Jnlyath, 1819. ^ ~ H. J. I’A l’E. Aaaociatk Editor, To whom all Communications on Alliumc Matters should be addtcsaetl. Ey E. M. STEom ) ir Free, W. W. , y.' OHr.rs .f tbs r Alliaars. H. IT. Ontnh President. J. C. Miller, Viet' President. W. 8. Barabt'rjjt, Secretary. A. F. Free, Treasurer. , O. I). Kinsrd, I'liafUain. T. S. Weeks, County, isvtnrer. W. A. All, Stt'ward or Assistant Ueetnrer. W. T. Harley, Ihsir Reeiter/ ' . R. K. Harley, Assistant I)oor Keeper. I>. W. Bodttont, Senreant Bt Arms. F. H. Creech, KusinsxiS'.Vseiit. Executive Cnmmhtee—C. H. 'Patrick, W. A. Faust. Trade Committee—(1. M. Hunter,. K. II. ’ Dowlinjc, d. M "Ulmor, W. A. All. —. : ’ V Cnmmntee (\}\ Hood of tlie Order—«I. C. Mc Millan, c. M. Btletilff ld, W. T. Cave, J. K fnelUnj;, F.. ' Tht| cotton crop VCitf of 1S92 1K1 etulcd at midnight 31 st August. The net te- ceipt* at all the ports for the year amounted to U n.'>h,.'!00 bales. Col. Xesbit, the Georgia (:omniissi<iii- rr of Agriculture; advises the farmers, to prevent the calamity df having to settle their Indebtedness wltli cotton at live or sfx cents, or'perhaps less, “to plant tlieirtfl’ops in.’the hands of thefi 1 merchants, by lnddittg it; then to pro tect the credit of both, atrd Anally tcP break the unjust AnancUl system I which enables a few money . • CHAPTER I. “1. beg your pnVdon, but—j*ou rend Latin, do yon notr” y And (Juy Darrell glanced tip from his work in thrt readiTig nxnn of the Dritish mnsenm at the dried up oljl fossil of a man who, with high white neckcloth ami bloodless, jiarchmeut color'd focc and a *few Wisps of pale hay colored htlr float- | a j on ^y" me how you come to^guro so ugreeubly j “Varley—Gabriel Varloy. Not a com- hirwri™" '■■■. *—— — p^on oama, ia ltf JNar ia^ ho a common 'Whcreufxjn Guy told of his first and in fact only interview with his unknown benefactor; finishing by asking, "But had he no relations, no one bdougiflg ta bimr ' ; "After his wife died, none. Ho was quite alone. His son"—— "Oh! Then then' is a son?" "No, there Was. They could not agree after the wife died, and the lad, who was somewhat of a rover, went abroad. Where lie, too, died.” ——— "So then the old fellow was left quite lug round lyis head, stood eagerly eying higt pvjer ^ho open book ho can iod in his ] hand. 'j “Might*- almost lisye strayed in from one of the other departments. One would hardly bo surprised to see his tickgt pinned to the edge of that curious gar ment. half dressing gown, half ovem-at. t» r » A\-r>M ^ t -w 11«> 1 v,\vi’, •{ 1 <i 11VJ » I i>| vUvrll.^ II If CAaJ Uv7 Kr\J f* * T* courteous assent to the other’s inquiry. "Quite, and that no doubt is why ho thought of yon. Originally the money was settled on the wife, so that had th.o Bon lived" “.It would have gone to him, I see”—— “Yes. Ami wlmt makes it tin; uiure_j pitiful'is that the son left home under enspicion of—no matter what now—it; "wift^a sad" cast) Attfigerhor. The two mes- fellow, cne can ece, B]>ito of his rough clothes; but. bless you! we’ve all eortB | over hpre. And the Letter the claua the j worse the iudividnal nine times out of ten." "No, it is not a common name,” an swered Ouy, "Whnt was ids story?” ho ! asked, ignoring the rest. “Oh, the usual thing, I believe. Left home under a cloud- Been up country and did well until he was sick, whenhhr : manager robbevl him of his pile, arid’ weak and low‘as he wan ho had to tramp down here, where ho finds this letter, ! five years old, Waiting to toll him the olohd had burst and to come homg." i . But Guy had gropeil his way blindly * | to tjre door, feeling suddenly sick and i faint for want of air. l»msities. After no many yearn where j dontly; now. ho ,saw hiu.way, n was tho hurry? IIo debated. Why go they had been lighted and together . many n timo. home-a beggar? Why hot have'one burned. Fateshoulddeeideitafter all!- And tljo tc.ar? ef a^ti ndn llood ^ more dip into the lucky bag to try to . The one tliat went out first ihould settle Varley *-tlu4 i», Patemon’s-eyes at W wrtriercJfaifalkn fortaoen? The aocrot for life or death—for him or "oneed over and wrung the other’s of whhjh change lying In that he had ., against. And straightway, by Bolcum bainl, While Guy. thoroughly beWtt- somo men ho know, adventurers,' oath, ho bound himself to abide by the dcrcl and ecatwly Trottlrtng to trnrt Ms on some new cxt>edit)on. Ostoo- [ Utclsloh. Tf tlio 'right hand light went met bent nibly their aim was ncientiUc, but toally [ first, then would he oWu the truth, ho their quest was gold, and having need cf ; swore by all ho held inost dear, au<l him- ariothet tried-and trusty inan they were anxious be tihould Join the party. He had Ixs-n over a gn'ater part of the ground the expedition would lawer, had proses •Tod for goU/nrhl though he 1ut<T|‘ self bo the only one to go. If the left, then must Varley take his chance, uml full of a new fever of huputienco he waited for the uml. How long would it laflt, lie wondorod, ... . . i * i r sages—the one conveying the news of thought you did, for I noticed i < }j 3( . over ^r;jf tlie son’s innocence and his -but is 'it asking too great-I mean ;U1 a the other tlul account ..f lifs wou d it take you long to-to translate dc;it , 1 _ CTOBBe<l the (W ftn on tle-ir oppo- this? And the stranger pointed to a ^ %v;iys nt one nn(1 time.” footnote on thetq>cn pag*M*f whfltt>rov«Hl ■■IVyrpM Ivoy* uml iinor roring one. to be an ancient tmitise on nstrologT- • too! -for it must have been hard to di “irmP. I should have thought Tillot- ro vwnK _ nn oxil( , . mil in t ii M grace- Bon’s •Sermons,' or ’Early Fathers,’ more in Iris line, but one never knows ” Ami thus reflecting Guy Jotted-down the translation desired, the older man re garding him half enviously tlie while. "How quickly you noeiu to make it ootT he fluid wistfully. "I wish—but tlvav., it ia too lute—now, I snpixm.” lenders to <x>ntrol tlte money of the eotmtry to the ! 8 M W5< ^ ~ . >,— “To leuyn Latlnf inteiposod Guy. nt him again. "Not a Mt of it! ruin «if the South and West and the profileof the eastern shylocks.” *. A • Explrtualory. I have been unable to meet the many demands upon me for lecturing. Al most every county in the State ha* made application for work. This is a highly gratifying Indication aiul serves greatly to increase my regret at having to decline. The reason should be plain to every ■ntethbar of the State Alliance, as I stated publicly tben tlmt 1 bad en tered Into engagements before that meeting that would binder me from going into the Atdd for some time, but. for the 110110111 ot thoae-not present I re- iwat it. here. Resides, who i I might hare found opportunity to do work and did engage to do some, I.have been hin dered by serious illness in my family. I trust this will be satisfactory to all. My heart is in this work. I ’feel tliat all the hope of the farmers, if not of t' e whole country, centres in the Alliance a.iil-this naturally enhances ,my sense of the Lecturers’ responsibilities. J. Wu. Mtokks, State Lecturer. - — WoriNa« — Gurjicople in tlie. Soutli luivo gotinto ftie habit of eaII1 n jf t(.rlinilues t■ jtit11u s. They seem to like the latter word lu st and they insist on calling these small, b>ca\ twisting storms, cyclones. Tor liadocs are generally local. The condi tion" of atmospheric pressure causing them* may extend over several States, but the tornadoes occttrovcr very lim ited areas. They are always natrmv, ranging from l 1 0 feet to bot) yards in •width. Tliey sometime* extend only «. mile or two, anil again they sivce|f7»\oT several miles of country. They an* very.violent and d-stticlive. Meteorologists use the term hurrh ai c and cyclone »ynoiiym nisly to Indie ite a wliirliog “torm of large extent. They are 100 to 4,080 miles wide. In lids Int- iiude they originate aiiout the West In dia Isla ds. or down near the coast <>f South Anierica ’I'lle T-cntre 8 * of Ti.i stormshas a diyeet motion a lid it is-nev- rr rapid, varying front ten to.thirty miles an hoc. r. t>n tlie cai-t of tiie cen tre the direction ol tlie wind is to the north-east; west.of it, it hloivs.froiu the north-east, At any one point, except on tlie ax's, or central line of the storm, notice a man walking n you would see the ci n ■T 1 f yon should ten-foot circle Btantchanges in direction, lie would represent the smhlcU change of wind in tornadoes or liiile whirl \yjnds. I.etthis fame man walk in a ten-mile circle ami watch him a few minutes and he seems to be moving op a straight, line. Thus Ilia wind at any point of tlie circuit moves in a straight line. The duratton of a* cyclone orhorri*. cane depends oiGHs width and direct motion (f one of these storms is 300 miles wide and moves at the rate of 2u miles an hour, it would take, l > hours for it to pass. On*tho extreme*. East and West of tlie ceupre, ti e duration q! tlie storm would be shorter. Tlie reason is apparent;^*® 1 ' ” 'V 4 ” l.i this climate the hurricane or cy? clone is not often very destructive,. The incut violent ones sometimes do great, damage to ships. The storms are more violent on the Islands between Norib and Soutli Amer- iea tbau they are here. There they sometimes last 4? to 72 hours and pros trate trees and houses arid ruin,crop*. We borro y the-terms tornado' ami hurricane from fbe Spanish or Portu guese, just as we get the storms from their island settlements. Cyclone shows it* classlealorigin,coming from a Greek word meaning a circle. ^ August and September "are them o n 111 - for htiriTcaHefl. There Inay* Tio biie or two more before the season is over.— Carolina Spartan. «v — The New York World prints an in teresting amHiiBtruetive aintlysis of the vote in the house on tlie Wilson repeal hill, showing the following figures: « ghmoing \Vhv, seal flotno old fellow’ startoil to lenrn Greek—or was it tlxj flddkq by tlie way? —after ho was 80, whtie you mr” “Barely 05. But I Imd not your ad vantages when I, was young, and it is a uijsfort une I fix*! more arid xriore every day.” And he aighed again. "But 1 am taking up far too much of your time when”—-- "Not nt all,” replied Guy easily, "1 hod almost .finished for the day.” "Ah! I envy yon, I must suy. When ever I fancy I am finding out what 1 want, otic of these passages in Latin roinee To block my way us with a groat high wall." “Must he awkward, very. And you can’t well bny a translation.” “No, I suppose not," assented the strange figure. Then more diffidently he began: n . • "Would yon care to undertake it, lot ting me [»>v yon for your thuo und trou- ble?" Guy fltanxl, Blightly inclimxl tb laugh and even more to fcvl sorry for the old man. who was plainly half crazy to pro pose any such thing, but whoso mariner was so naive and attractive that he hesi tated to sTunv either his contempt or pity ojienly. Taking up the book agaimhe tamed over The leaves. knowing one’s self innocent nil the wluU*. One might almost l>e .’ifrai‘1 ot such a heritage (»f woe—afraid lest 8.Hue of tin; ill might not cling to the old fellow's gold.” . “Why, my dear sir, you. are almost ns fanciful iih old Varley hiSisetf. IIo < - er- tninly was unlucky, while yon—well, yon tnust allow y«*uv inek is-in- the jih- OcndiMit, for you will have the sjsliding ot o loot * on fcJ.oUO a year.” "Yee, one ought to get sorneihing out of life with £2,.">00 a year.” And Guy got up exciteitly tbpiace ther(H>m. "How cramped aiul narrow has my life In on up to now! The wonder is that I have borne it for so long.' WhileT> think of^ poor young Varley-‘-tins should all have boon his—and 1m is dead!" "Yes. it is gn ill wind,” and the solic itor (toughed, afraid lest the other should suppose him callous. Guy Darrell was not callous. lie war Only hnmofi. But I" n po (| i'. hardwork ing scribe-, by courtesy a barrister, the promise of an assured income and tho r freedom from all save voluntary lalxir after his first natural regret could not hut seem delightful in the extreme. Al ready his toil b ut shoulders straightened themselves, und he bog:m to take_a fuller survey of all that lay within Iris reach. Now, bo supposed,, he might venture to. imiPty—n step he bad noviT dared se- faiksl to findithiaexiH’Tieuceundl.-nowl-‘ tliifl new. self imi»osed torture! Thehi J edge oHVc country would-be invaluable was a full Inch yet. he noticed,- and bow to the piety, and therefore he was ifrgikl j slowly, how very slowly, they wasted in to, go nml was offered sjx'cial induce-, the .still night air. And Iris nerves grew incuts in the "nature ( ,f an "extra-share 1 tenno arid crisp. The nxiin, test, felt ahould the undertaking prove successful. There would lie a certain amount of risk, ho allowed, in discussing it with. Guy, hut he did not mind that. What he did mind was having to go back aft«T "IS ANVTIIINU Tin; MATTKII?" llF AsKKII. No need to Iwdster up his sinking eouT agv with fallacious hopes, lie knew as by a sudden intuitiMi who the man was, and how, spite of his hrng absence'and i repirted death, tho real owner of ol<l j Jiicob Vnrh y's mone y had, us it were, risen from tlie dead to oust Jiim from his i new found we alth. It was hardccruelly hard. Neverngatn | could he settl' down to theold life. And it turned him redd and rick to realize r how dex'p and strong a hold tho money | had Upon him. But how did ho know, he eleinnrred feebly, that this was^inde ed—and then he had not patience 1o follow e>ut the thought. How did he* know—why, was not the I hide ons e ouvicVion borne in npbfa him by rienslr to rontemptate ns meaning ruin a thousand mex’khig fiends (Huning tlieiri ^ ( , , nil tiiese years as n proeligril son anTT Bubmit “to Iw provided for.” “But how if you never come back al all?” ami Guy’s face whitened with tho terrible subtlety of the temptation and the wjuldcnness with which, xpkej of iris long debali*, iiiw dreision innsF'lir’nmdc. The' cxpslition wbuhl lx.' fuirof p*ril, lex>k at it how he plight. Malari i, fever, prisoned arrows, snakes ami almost ev- «> sanitary and clintalic condirion would be against Them. Of those who would set out ferrilMy few would ivturii. How then e ould he le t hhp go--go In ig- norance that the' nivesffitv no longer.e’x jsted for jexip.trdizinglris life’ 1 fort he'gold, of which, by rights,*ho ahould liave plenty and to rpaVe'. , ; —j Oh, it Was horrible! It was so easy to stand aside, to do -nothing. He had merely not to interfere, and tlie chane n; were that this menace to his new found, happiness would remove itself newer td trouble him again. And yet oln it wets indeed horrible! IIo hml played with temptation, bad let himself drift, until now Iris will whs pinriyzed, and he could riot- it was hnpissible to decide. Easy to see the right, but how fatally impissible toae'tl To let the *'nun go was little’ sho/f of murder, while, to tel! tint truth, in his present mexxl, the opp>- sito course* WeaiId lie snicido downright, for he could not take np the old life where he had laid it down—could not, in short, give up possession of . the other’s gexxls. And full of self pity Guv Darrell saw and owned the truth—ho had no shadow of right whatever. Almost ho ooitld lx- liovo in a moeking eleevil seeking•j^hus suhtly io destroy him. Twelve month. 1 before and he would have laughed at the close, horribly, Unbearably close, er was it. himse lf, In* womb nxl next,*All he lis tened to tlio labored booling of hlo Iicart, Nor-eluye t lie stir Id op n elex»r or window nor to fan himself lest he should affect The isBUP^-thenigli now he would have barteKd the entire forfmia for a single breiitli of air. But already Olie^-the fatal one—to -Iris strained eyes see'med gaining’^oiT'its fellow, and through all his agony of preocnipitinn lieeoiild hear tick Ipuelly and re- Oarfl, breathed agnln hb hovrafetaod cloud afte r tTond of misapprehension—afl of his own creating—roll harmlessly away, for had ho not ftt tho outset given wnt .lx'fore; temptation «o Weakly as lie hnel he might have known till he knew then alxmf tho stippoaed Varley two months •|R| . _ v . “■ Yes, it bad lx-enhis own fault entirely. Ho raw that clearly now. The only crumb of real comfort to bc drawn fr.nn tho whole trying exjierienci* lay in UmJ fact that he really had made nphisnriad to own the truth Ix forCCToc he learned it.—II1 ustrated Magazinc, -4— t inorselt'ssly on as the; lights sank lower auel lower. . Presently VarJcy, whom bo had al-. most forgotU'ti, fidgeted auel oogali to move alxmt.. Oh. how lie lonjfjed to bi«l him with An oatli Ix'stilll Yes, !>■ must ring the bell anel order ffesh lights. Would theold one's last until the new ones came? bruodeel tlie fascinated Guy, watching on ns e»ne jxesscssexl, forgetting to spralo? to smoke, almost to 1 treat lie, • ns in came tht) waiter bearing the light- | ed candles on a tray. i Might lie to call out or interfere—or Natiinil Artinrl.-il I'lewvra, We have all read in our mi nary HasiiicB the grapea which Z •mis i».iliit«'el * so ckrrerly that the 1 birds canijB and pecked at them. A funny paraphrase* of theold tale ex.'onrred at One of the Well known Lon?: Island watering place* th« other day. The artist »iu this case Wax Mine. —t- e.f Paris, and the; masterpfccit WM “a iKirFcct lovset-oTraluif—dIfFt'irt sliAdy leghorn most artistically twisted Into 8 picturesepio sliajxi and eloeora’cel with jxrf.'ct summer lilossoms. Tht'y weri» so p'i'fect that It Was no woneict tlmt to a ]>oor man's social and preifessioniil cnrtx'r. But first lie would take a trip to Australia Just to freshen lrimseTf up anel blow away the dust of musty studies. £ CHAPTER II. Really being rich was-very delightfttlv ■ Wlarcver one went\t-> sc!- oilicrs grind -4»g away vclie ilie r- they liked it or jio! se rved but to put a ki-cncr e'<lg*‘ to the. -pleasure^ u£ one who uuwMittaiaiciilur toil nor spin.’ This was indeed a h il ; - day, the first he laid ever had worthy of the nanii*.’ Tims ran Guy Darrell’s me'ditationspn the day. tlie ever t<> lx* remembered day, at ijydnoy on which he Ixriixik himself tn the agent's otiice of tlie chip by which he had.traveled. He was in no hurry; had all the long, bright day before him; could revel in the glorious sunshine mid the* bwri, o.\!ii!a- rating air, and—finding anothe r man in jossessionof the' inefuiry window—could wait with a kind of pleased patience for his Hum. •* What was half an hour or so inarmor less to him? Time might be money; but, orv st .\ nun, suoiiti.y incun i:n tot,.won. ”1—I can slmw yon tho, passages-^ ’ T?lHiB l T"VPttiir IfitWT 1 tTrtiidi'rgfirfRTr ilfid f o« t lw.’ot hi r hand, was not nnmey rime .• the old man ionk-out a list of sortie li;df dozen paragraphs, whereupon Guy said gexxl nntnn'dly: \ "If those* are art. we can soon put you right.” And taking a fresh rlicet of .pa- ix>r in about in hour ho imd written a the wind blows in the same iHmnhmv ^trly accurate voraiou of the not over He conbl atlord to stand ashle and lexi'e oh, a«e he; did now, ;ct the ixior fellow, * irtiM. , Democrats \, lUspublicans i’opiilUU.;.. For-Ilej»cal, ... 138 .... 101 AgHlllflt. e e 24 0 who Bixmicel so full of a half suppresse d anxie ty; could feel quite a ph^usurabk interest in—Imt what was that the ejerk wfisiwjdn^?—r————f———*A--- '*1 inn really very sorry.Mr.” "Yurley^iahriel Varley,atiswereel the man weakly, and the words wer. followeal by n cough, quite as weak. Qnv ’was watching the ufcrk and hi- visiforin an ineliffercntwayg miil though r not trying to In'iir tls' conve rsation lx‘-. tween them lie started slightly as the man. told his natneT Tlw latter’s ve.ie< was weak, nml his wonls were pro- notmee'd in an tmdertoue, but yet Darrell was sure that ho distinctly heard the* name gtve'n in resjKinseritn tho clerk’s im- pl’.ed mo-cry. What was ecniing? What did the next few mifmlefl hold of vital interest to Gny, Darrell, who up to this ’ moment hr.d, Ixh’ti so free from care, so fnll e*f nsatistiexl feeling wifli Iris com dition ami his prospects? Theclerk w.c ftSMO’ be at all likelyleffbrged J Bpoakhlg iigniti, ftml Darrell tnelilied lii* hcaebto hear what further wqstrr beVcaid. | "Yes. yours does appear a very hard case, Mr. Yiulyy; but, then, if we took all the hard cases in—or allowee] them to lake us in—why, we she.nM have* no end e'f passengers, and that’s a fact.” “But 1 could pay yon my passage twice either at the other end,” urged tlie jx-titioner, but hoix lessly, as having lost heart. “^o you hnVQ sj.ld, but it really won’t do. It nmy be epiitc as you say, but wt' Totfl.lft... ... 239 - 110 Tint vote was^ divided grand divi sions of States a* foilowB i f •” -s tMrf«iou». Yeas Nay*. New Kngland State*.. 27 — MidelWSftlW*^^,,.; ft!> Soutiieru States fst Mblril^VVaaL •» . tf ! Jhif VFeat T<»UU ...... i 29_^ TdiT clear original "Tliore you aret”.ho cxe'lalined. hand ing it over t.i the patient amj nhsorlicel watcher. -“Oh, dear no; not at all,” he objected; putting aside the, proffered hand with curt decision. "I am olilV tex) glad, if yon—think they will be of nfle*," ho added, Btill regretting t^lio un profitable naturo of the subject. "But surely you will allow me to”— "Certainly not,” nud Gijy closed hi* writing ease with a snap~Ri>ymph.Hio ns effectually to ptft an end to tho discus sion. "Them nt 1 exist yon will tell me your name,” urged the other cnrhestly. "You, have done me a very great serriee. f have not met with so Hiueh kindness i i this life it." Here thp old man's eyes positively filled with tears as he wont on, "And some day, you know, I may be able to return it.” Ami after Guy had given him his card they shook hands almost with effusion und parted—as it happened, never to ipeet again. • • • * • er • "And a vary pretty fortune it is, as yon will find.” "But who hi iho meine of mystery is •iftvO 1/ v never hearel the name in all fore." "N-o?" re'joineel tha Rolieitor, with (he noncommittal caution iff his qirofes- rion. “But he must have heard eif re*n *nd to flomo purpoee to make him re niemlicr you so satisfactorihr nt his death. Just consider, tho will savs; To you. Gny Darrell. In tliat you rendered him a certain very great and entirely disinterested service.’ ” “The only man 1 can at nil call to mind—but that is too alwnrd! • What «ort of a fellow was he?” “A pale faced, light haired, old .fash- j ioned man of about Go,” replied the bo- Kcitor. , , derisive message in his ears? How did ho know—was it not just the situation and the'.hour that a malignant fate would 1 choose to play him such a trick? How \ did he Ifnow—and he woke up. startled by a eh'i'p and hollow groan, to find liim- ; Self outside and facing tlx* man whose 7 return fq life or falsely reqxaXtxl ebaitli W^ 8 the cause of all his present misery. Could it have been ho; ixieir wretch, 4 who had groaiHxi, ho wondeml. Oft he; stored at the hollow cheeked, needy lexik- ing man. Appnrmtly not, for the stran ger had Ix'cu. stmt led in his turn. "Is nnything the matter?" he asked sympathetically. "Are you ill too? Caul | do am thing for you?” Guy shook his head, but raaelo no St tempt at reply. Sv» then it was he? himself who had groaned, lie concluded, after,all, and let' turned aside, casting about heqx'lessly as to what lig hail ix-tter do and haunt ed disagreeable and jiersistently by the niun’s pallor and terribly forlorn air. to gethe r with the darker suggestions that so inevitably followed. “Looks fearfully weak and low. Not mueh -of a life—to -atuuffi.Jietimai--IUi_ and"— He broke off with a sTIueTder tri" find where'he was being canied; then' quite as sudehiily caine the'l uggestjon: Why not temporize? Why not gain time to think over tho xil nation? j “You—yon are anxiuHa to got back ti i —to England, so they tell hk-.-Mi** Ixegan tentatively arid foiiiiulatin;' his plans a; Tie went along. { "Yes, I want sadly to g > back.” Du’ tin* speaker did not turn, bo higx lesadid r he a sUhatinn warping him asitle from the plain path of dirty. Now ho turned anel twisted and wavered, while his foinpeinion filled in tlie detail:! of tlie propoaed exploration. (Mice, but weakly, ho urgoel him to reeonsbler. “Wliy not n-st contented lien ? You have had one narrow squeak for hfe. DufeTy you nee‘d not”—— •‘But you forget—the> indiirem»nt, the patie nt Dohhih, Fanner Hayseed’s rfid horse, stretched out his huso longingly toward the; lovely eloirm» t daisies and grasses tlmt Ixdrixxl so temptingly bn thfl head of a pretty girl just beyond his reach: wheru he Mood before tlx; poutof-* fice wiriting for his imister. Just ntHhat moment a tall youtli with w. »te •niris racket engaged tin; attention of .w«uM that imperil tho true; fuiniess of' the pretty girl, and-fcoh, Joy !-t he tempt ing bit of tneadowland cume? Iieatet and nearer to the wistful; outstretched nos trils of the* longing brnto until, with ono final reaie li of Iris long iKs k, lie aitaimsl tlie covetesl 1707?^'‘TPT’ilTr-ttill HlllUj" ' what absorbed young jieoplo realixod the feitmithm he had wreneS-d off tlie entir# garniture of the Itexiutiful Fr»*nch hat,, and umiel the lurightcr of the* aportaUm iMcked out of reach to enjoy Iris fyast, leaving the ixxir girl with a completely denuded, ridiculous looking pin mil up affairj its erstwhile "cachet” lost forever. 9—New York Trijmnp. t Ire Ii»C*l?)ii^ It’ile llynunlte. Tliere htM; been divided opinion* a Lout (he twpedlency of ushig dynamite tho ordeal? Ami fora moment or’two he sat on in nil agetny of doubt. "There', put tliean down, man, rnn’t you?” tric'd Varli’y to the* waiter, where-- ujxin the* fltiijit'fiesl Guy awoke to the no- i cessity for prompt decision. "No, no, ‘leaVe tliem nloiie"—ho was Ix'giniring, hut text late, for alreakly tho man hml laid his sacrilegious hand on tho j fatal light, and—puff! it was gone. Yes, the right hand light had ili.snj*- penre'd, und at the sight Guy groaned , aloud as from a blow, then turned his eyes to the; left, when—wonder of Won- | fiend—it must have' Ixx-n the elrnft—«bnt I tliat, iexi, was gone?! Ami the twin spi- i rals eif light blue smoke curling up as though in mockery were all that was left j after half an hour's long drawn agony erf susix'iise*—a Mispemae’not over (’von fbon. For wlrieh had been* exlingnisliOel first-^- who couhl s;i> ? And in the face of this new elisaster Guy-frtx?w ele'^ix*rato and nshlttiK'd. All that was manly wol»e within him. Was he a cliild to leave; hiunsdf and his whole T splendid stake for which we play. A man itiuot brft Lk>1 not te»y4sk hH <>h that. for ice hreakhig, and it bn* berqj bfcen usc'd for this purpose trt ftny extent. Practical experiments last winter at tlie Hungo harbor in Finland Beetu, how* ever, to have given very satitfm tory re^ knits. Tlie powerful ice breaker of tho |x>rt was helpless in the fijee? of n belt of somo 1,200 feet of very thick ice, the future at the in.Tcv of ■every chance; wind | tll,ck "7 8 W “ to W that blew, to let Iris Whole life; lx* made 1 18 tnmld ** or hiarred hr a pure nrt-Mnir «ueh as ^utlal fur tuccessfnl icU breaking with dynamite that there should lie wifficneut room to dispose of the broken ice, for if w ——— — this? No, a thousand times, not Fate would 4k4 set-tie it, Theu-he-wamhl, oncu I shall esmie back either a man or”^ "Al waveKnpjx*sing yon docoincdwck,” Objected Gny, forced thus far by his un easy eoiiaejence. Then imt of the •dHridful sUpixisifion he drew an inspiration, whetlier from Jiis good or bad angel' be staid not to in-1 truth, then and there, for all, would lea his own fate, «s every mem. whether eonaeh^islv e»r not, sooner * or later, must. Yes, lie would own-up, would wash Iris hands of this horrible, btisU-rinj, soul destroying WeulLli Unit Was jxrisonlng all of gexxl tbeW ever- la:d lx«n in Lim; wbuld tell Varlev the trutli—the; whole H-ein." - *« ’Are you—tied ns to—to lime?" ‘I lllive rio lUoViev, so a kitkjrA- n\i . cannot \v’aif» i' -thaLffs whut you mciui, while for the same reason, it appears, I cannot go. 1 am not strong enough to work. I have been ill." / " "Yes. you loeik it, even now," assent- ed Guy, compassion struggling \yiih hi. tuo^' active sedlish fears. "You liave friends perhaps on tfn; other side?’’ “f think bo, to .judge by this." And the mali lexiked doubtfully at the lotter 1 he lield yi Iris hands. ,' "Who'are they?" aske-d < luy. The man lianeleed Irim the w aited ipriidl/whih; hf read it. It was from the; fathe r, Jacob Varley, te llmg of tlie iiiothcr'sdealh, the* discov ery of Ijie truth and begging him to re turn. "The letter is five years old,” he re marked as lie 1 wseeel it back. ^ “Y. s. it has lain here unedaiiiie'd and quire. That he Was driven to such strait: was no fault of Iris. Ho had fallen iiinf)- ceirtly into ih'e pit. So far they were on eepial terms. The stake they played foi was hide ol large—larger tlmn the othe r knew. The n why not leave the issue b its initiator—fate? Why not play out the game? CHAPTER IXL They wire back a??uin at Sydne y, stay ing fit one of iTieTarge’dioh'Ts, and Iiiul | had dinner served in a private re sun. It w as growing late by the thue Guy had arrived nt this very partial decision. Varley waxed,more and more ehxpient as the wine ho drank so freely lent it: 1 rosy glow to the scheme. He li.i'l quite made up hi > iiriiu], should take hischunct uml either come hack a milliouhire or— leave Iris Ixim s to rot, unbtiried and un- inournod. Ono could but die Once. Thufl did he raulbleToa, while; Cttiy sat gloomily silent, but resolveaL Yes, he would submit the nrbitntinmt to fate. IIe^ tex?, would go with tho exiiedition, and. well—they should Beo^- If only one' survived, then was the end simplified S ami clear. That ono should enjoy th"; fortnno. If both-^wLdl, the chance.; was j remote, but they might fiml ged l. lie.’ ifiight win enough to replace the lost lx*- , quest. IIo could then tell Varle-y the' whole truth. There was nothing in wlmt Te> him 1here>fore eliel he turn at once, for he elnre-d not trust himself to delay. “Yaxley!*’ louuuj linarsely, "Varl* y !” he repeated, (ot the nian wu* not utteiul- ing. but was busy lighting a cigar. “There Is something 1 havo to say." • i* ofTerwesl to reinalh broken hi the *’ channel it will still interfere with the progreee of Btearners. The cost of the dynamite ice breaking at Hango amount* eel to about £50.—Lohelou Engineering. Woincn lofttt tVHli the Mrs, Ilelep M. Gougar has been elect* ed a member of tlie board of trustees ot Hijlsdal^college, Mich., of which institu tion she is a graduate. Hlie ho* alao been miuTo.presideht of the board of women commissioners who are to raise $50,000 with"which to cnelow* two chairs to be filled by women, who,are to sit with tha faculty, clothed with powers equal to tho male professor*, This Wu^ one qf tin; first institutions int he land to grant coeducational facilities to the sexes, and it is meet that women should render their service to. Uiis college.! Laura do MonfiH of Dover, N. H. ( will take her- seat as trustee one year hence. Mr*, do Merritt is an influential member of tho Free Will Baptist denomination, of which this is the chief college.—Wom an’s Tribune. \ \ \ -- ‘v.uu.kv!" int f itirn uo uts' i.v. “Tome?" inquired Varley. “AH right, fire away! It's ajxml time you did say— haib already happened for him to he. something. I thought yon wen’jasli’cp.” ashamed of. IIo wad in it to bliiine for And Vnrley’stom>-\vi-iv both vinous ami the situation iu which the two were indistinct us he went on morn imjx t- id The old astrologer had left him tin; money freely. Then? had been ub deception, no wheedling, no treachery to alisenf ones,such as one hears of so'oftwn in conni’ctioa withwlisputed Ix-quests or contested wills. Yea, when Ixith hud made their piTo in tho 'diggings he could tell Varley all and jpvi' np 4o him w hut his father had left, as well as make resti- Lvhavo brett done iuj cftcu. mr life bo- thing to show now by way of .prooFI^.tr "1 have shown you tips letter calling mi? In nno.T „ "But what does a letter prove, even if it were dated yesterday, instead of lieing O'er so old? We don’t know how you came by tt, or—but tliere, your illm-ss looks geiimiie enough, and I don’t want to be hard, though what you ask cannot possibly lie done.” Whereat the man turned despairingly away, and ns Guy mechanically took his place tin* c|erk gminbled on; "It docs seem a cruelly hard case—but unanswered all that time. Tl;<y may tut ion of the comparatively small i>ortior. have thought mo dead,” tlie wanderi v which liad^beeu expended uixm hia prejv added wistfully. -- "I should like to eve araliofisfor and trip to Sydney. And if oiice ix fore I" ’ • gatitli'T lived there was the end-, nml no ."Supposing that I undertook you phe money? I myself shortly, rtml in the meantime you can act as my secretary. . We shall travel alxmt for a ting*, ninVyou can write, can. tell them"— But he could not go on. The implied deception was too great. All he wanted was time—time to fare the situation and to make up his mind. That he vas trifling with temptation he knew. It was merely putting off the evil day. That the surrender would grow no easier he recognized gloomily enough even while he spoke. But what of that? It Wit? too hard already and did but "Dressed in rusty black, with a white 2 neckcloth and a—a eraaefor astrology?" clover, but how da weTmow?" 08 Interposed Guy incredulously as he re- 11 ' called to his mind the old man at the . British mafteunL 4o fimL. WTC nwl. Iw said-^or so he thought - shall lie giiing back’’ wlifleTTie fmconscious Varlej- prattled on. fxxVn, however. Guy saw she true meaning of his choice, and—no, he found it would not do. How could he go, taking Iris life in his hands, knowing that through him the other’s life was jeopardized as well. No good blinking the fact or glossing it over. If Varlejr died, he, Darrell, would have beetf* his murderer, just ns surely as though he were to shoot him where ho sat. smiling back at his supposed bene factor No, it must not be. The de cision and the guilt—if he chose the notify: "And look here, now I think of it, don’t cdll iric—Varley. My oiamc’a not Var ley; it’s IViterson, Ralph R.iterson. It’s of no inqiormice. I’m aware, but I don’t like to Ikui? the other from you. 1’vt- thongh>to ti-H yon many «time.. You've been a goixl friend to me. and.it looks as though I were deceiving you and taking everything muler false preteiises wlun all the time I'm not. Ypu know that, don't you?"- ; , And Guy listened as one half stunned or Vmb' hlitf nivtikc, while the other rhrtl- blcd MR "It wan natural enough. Yon see, we were Chums, Varley tuul I, to the very last. And after he died I was stone broke.. And, it was all Varley’s idea, spoken rJ most witii Iris lust breath, that ff ever I landed here I should ask for his letters and use them as my own. When 1 got : here and received tliat letter, I at once conceived the idea of using it to secure passage io England. What 1 should do when 1 arrived there I did not know, 1 but I was,satisfied to leave thb fntnre to fate, trusting that Varley's fatln r would he willing to pay the Ship’s compaqr for what £an I do? Wq’vc ho end of such, It wdB i ^ all genuine nnd all with frimids on thu grow the harder with each step be took ) g*' l Hty part—must all be M*. - And again ^ . - , . . , other side. If only bis tale be true, once down the fatal way, and even yet more Ouy frowned heavily and tossed abput toy passage ovefTtiid to annst me rruipo - landed in London and he would be in impossible us time went on and the sup-j in the throes of indecision? r ' rarily because of tha^riendship which Imd “poacri dying man got better. ~ Hlg roving eyes settled presently on existed between his boy and me. Well. y< ,u "What—did be—say—hii imtne was?" | Suddenly there appeared what prom- j the pair of lighted candlee at his hand know how I trie(I it on at the ship, and. asked Guy heavily, a strange foreboding., ised to his distorted sense of right arid , with a curious intention, as though tlie how I failed, and how yon came to my of ccmringrlH kpocHng with Wiieimmin- wrong a jionniblo solatjon of the problem, j Idea that cam* later were even tben lying aaalatanca, good, tiamarttw that you alstffinceat b!s heart—the hi ait that of j With Varley’s return to health there dormant tn his brain. were, Youmved* for my & uetFV {x^haps you will tell | late had been so jubilant. , came a retaru of Waori^aljiving im>- j For-now ho had it, buthucj^t^oonfl- *^%*'*' e ‘ 1 ' 1 ‘The very msft A ad now In return a t. * A — The t»to Sirs. Harry more. r —> Tlio picture* which tho news|iaperi arc printing of tho late Georgia Drew Barrymorenrelridcoirecaricatures, Mrs. Barrymore was not a regularly liand- soino woman. She had a line physique , and u noble bearing; nud her face was a remarkable combination of delicacy and strength. JJda geothplexiou was white and cleat, and In r hair was fair and fine. The distinct charm of tho woman By, however, in t|ie buoyancy of her tern* pemnient nfnl the cordial gayety of hi^ manner. Her* animation gsw dwr ■ beauty which words cannot describe and artists cannot limn, tmfrttdttion to this rare peraonnl gift Mrs. Barrymore had an exceptional wit. It would have been hard to find a i^< >re comlianJouahl^ woua* an.—Eugene Field in Chicago News, . ’ Till) TrouMe Wltli Medical Kthloa. Tlie code of ethics which prevails among memliera of the medical profea- sion bad made it iriipossible for the sur geon general to. Gate the facts in thu president’s case until he had been spe cially authorized to 4o so. Meantime his refusal to give direct answers t« plain questions and hi* efforts to maka us great a mysterj' as possible out of aT most ordinary- surgical operation had given rise to the rumors that the presi dent was afflicted with a dangerous ill ness. There appears to lx} a good deal of foolishness in the ethics of the med ical fraternity. Their code certainly nwds revision,—Chicago Herald. Wives AdiIwtl to Retaliate. Father Naraiello of the Church of tfa* Sacred Heart baa- received numennai complaints of men negkctiij; th»ir fam ilies and sjiendiiigl their money in sa loons. He advised' the wiv« who IV- ceivol bmtal treatnifut sf the ! dmuktfi laid'anils to retaliate. If i hnshanda construed vows to give them a righl wives, the wife bad , beat hef hs women not' to brutes, as in nearly4 be found to he field Cor. I'hiladclpLiA! ■ V .ti.