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:- - . t; 'H" v : v ' " ? v r ' S. ? * ' \ MY FRIEND AND I. My little, low room is five flights high, And some might think that its wall are t bare, But sweetest communion my friends and I Have often held in the silence there: Xoble, exalted, they come to me, Fair as they were in the earth's first bloom, Whispering hope for the time to bo? These are my friends in the little, low room:? Shakespeare of Stratford, Bacon. Carlyle; PmM-iAi divninin<r In* ton", ton" dream: Dickens, with sighs that are lost in a smile; Milton ? unblindcd ? the gods for his theme; Goldsmith, weary no more, nor lone; Chatterton, safe, though the storm rides high; . , Byron, unto his heritage grown? Royal companionship here have I. Homer, singing the song of strife; Vireil, at rest by a sun-kissed shore: ' , Longfellow, chanting the Psalm of Life; Poe, who will leave me?ah. never more! Gentle Hawthorne, of Salem Town? These, the mighty, the crowned, the free, One and all from my shelves look down, Step to my side and talk with me. Kings in your palaces, here is more? Here, in faith, in a little, low room? Than regal state and golden store, The crowd's mad clamor, the cannon's boom. Shades of the mighty come to me, Sit and chat as the hours go by. Prophesy things that the soul shall see? And so we are happy, my friends and I. ?Alfred J. Waterhouse, in Success. ft I The I White Violet,. H &Bl T" Nantai, close under the ^ great south wall of Eun7f chan, lived Suen Moi, the jj?- XjL violet girl, in the house of ??- ' ^ her father, the maker of gr baskets. But he was old, his hands had lost their skill, and he . ,was like a blind fowl picking at ran \ dom after worms. They would Lave pt- . been poor Lad Le not been as careful ^ .with his cash as a bee with its honey. If.. Suen Moi did not know, so she sold (: .violets that Heaven might bestow upon her the hundred blessings. Her flowers grew in front of the house, which faced the north, and she knew the life flowers loved her, because when they blossomed they always turned their > beads towards the door. She called the flowers her children, re gave them water when the hot sun tried to scorch them, and kept the p'. . .weeds away. Every day she picked the best "ones and sold them, that her ifV- parents might not die poor. "Whenever pC she sold a bunch she always whisjfe: pered: "Xi-ho-chi-lok," that they might find comfort in the parting. "The flowers of Suen Moi have souls," those at the market said^ Epl.x "They know her voice and touch, aDa when they pass into strange hands |L5.; they droop their heads and die." "But Suea Moi said they only wanted * water. ji'J. One morning, just as she had fin||^ ished, a young man stopped at the |x .gate. "Do you sell flowers?" he asked. 'Yes, honorable sir," and she bowed pf- low, for she knew by his dress that he * was a man of rank. "I want to buy some of yon." She took the basket to him and held Bp..' It out that he might please himself. ? He took one flower. Then from the fe? purse at his belt he brought out a coin 1 which he dropped into her hand. It ||?- was a long piece of yellow metal shaped like a knife. Upon it were characters which Suen Moi could not understand. "It is too much," she said, like a child that cannot calculate. Pv* "I give it to you because you love V your flowers and are good to them," answered the stranger. She watched him curiously as he walked away, and then she looked at the coin. When she went into the house she showed it to her parents. "It is fery ancient," said her father. "There is one like it in the museum at L? Funchan." "It is gold." said her mother. "If we had three more we should be rich." The next mbrning the stranger came again. He came over to where Suen PMoi was gathering flowers, and said to her: "Suen Moi, Suen Moi, give me a flower." "I have picked the best for you," she answered blushing. "Why have you picked the best one?" he asked. v'r "Because I know you love flowers, too." she answered. "Do you know you are a flower?" he tsked. Rho llHTT* Hon TlOO/I Yn Ano Tin/? nr?or -'"V MUi'O 4 "VUU. vuc UUU \Z * \ZL spoken like this to her before. , w "Yon are as beaxitiful as the flowers/' he sail!. "Your heart is pure and sweet. I love you as you do the flowers." "The stranger one is at the gate talking to her." said the father to his wife. "I wonder if he will give her another coin?" she answered. "Perhaps he wants to buy her." "You are like one who looks at the heavens from the bottom of the well," he answered. As he spoke she went to the door. "She is bringing him in." she said sharply. "We shall be disgraced." Suen Moi entered with her basket. The stranger followed. The old couple kneeled and knocked their heads on the floor because they could easily see 4h>t he was a man of wealth. I have come to announce my betrothal to your daughter." he said. They were so astonished they could say nothing. iL "You are not to send lier to the mar* j ket place to sell flowers. You are to ! find a sinshang who will teach those J things which she ought to know." "But we are poor, honorable sir," j said tiie old woman, who could not j help thinking of the knife-shaped coin i of gold. lie took from his belt an embroidered j purse and laid it 011 the table. "You are more wealthy than your neighbors," he said, j Then he went out. while the old j I woman began counting the coins. | Every day he came at sunrise and j stood at the gate, while Suen Moi | plucked one violet for him. One day she asked him: "Where do you live, honorable sir?" "In the Temple of the Seven Genii," and he pointed toward Funchan. "My home is in the temple, but because you have asked me the question I must go j away. When the moon shines bright and round again I will return." He walked down the road with the violet in his hand, while Suen Moi walked sorrowfully into the house. For three days she grieved. The flowers which grew in the garden turned their face toward the door, as if looking for her, but she did not come to them. rr>u? 1.1 1. ?1. ? .1 1? ; ,1 l,rtT,/| ! jl ill,* UJUl'h LLivuanri iuiu lam mr> u>iuu i upon the village. It crept up the path between the flower beds of Suen Moi. It stole into her room, and laid its hand upon her couch. The fever came into her face, then the spots appeared, and, last of all, the marks of the monster's claws. The flowers in the garden knew, and hung their heads in sorrow. In her delirium Suen Moi found her lover. He had returned, and she was searching for a flower to give him. But they all dropped their heads. So she raved: "Raise up your heads; dbn't you know that?that " She did not know his name. She turned to him. "I cannot call you 'he,'" she said. "What is your name?" The blush seemed to come over her face because she was bold, but it was only the fever. "I am called Wong-Fa," he answered. "That is the name of the God of the j Flowers," she said. "I am that one," was the reply. But the memory of all this passed from her. The black monster has no mercy. It has no soul, so it is continuously searching for human ones. It took the * - * o r _ ? a i . rx xt. 1? .1 soul oi oueu -uoi anu leti ixit; uuu,\ j.ui the parents to shed their tears on. But as the soul passed down the path to the gate the flowers raised their heads and demanded it and it went to them. When the sunshoneon them the next morning a young man stood at the gate waiting for Suen Moi. He had returned. He waited until he saw the white cloth across the door. Then a terror came over him. He walked up j t*? path. "Where is my betrothed?" he asked I of the old woman. "She died of the scourge last night." He turned and looked at the flowers. "You bloom in purple?" he asked softly. "You raise your heads in joy when she who loved you best is dead." He waved his hand gently over them j and they bowed their heads. "Why j should you not mourn?" he asked them, ! and they shivered in the morning j breeze ' \fnnrn for her forever " The old woman -went in to light the ; candle??, that the soul of Suen Moi j might find its way through the dark- j ness of eternity, and when the funeral > procession passed down the path the j violets were white.?Waverley Maga- j zine. Saw No Joke. Major Edwards, United States Con- j sul-General at Montreal, recently paid j a flying visit to Washington and met j many of his old friends at the Capitol, i The Major detailed, many humorous j incidents of his experience in. the met- j ropoiis of "Our Lady of the Snows." j Among others, he told of the call for ! a party of Canadians after the A^as- | kan decision was made public. They | were, naturally, highly indignant at j the decision, and one of them said to | the Major: "Well. I suppose you'll try i 'and annex what thei'e is left of the British possessions next." "Oh, I don't know," replied the Ma- \ jor. j "Why, wouldn't you be in favor of : annexation?" inquired the speaker, surprised at the Major's tone. "Well, you see," replied the Major, slowly, "if Canada were annexed to : tne tinted siaies i woiuu rose my ( job." No smile greeted the reply, but the ! Canadian who had asked the question i turned to his fellows and said very j gravely: "Gentlemen, I think we ! ought to do all in cur power to make j Major E-*wards' stay in Montreal | pleasant, and to facilitate his work. ! Ho is drawing a salary from the Unit- j cd States, which would cease if we j were annexed, and therefore he will > oppose annexation. I think he is the kind of man we want to represent his i country here and Canada in the United 1 States." Boron Iugte^d of Carbon. A new lamp filament of special composition has been brought out by Dr. ' Just, of Vienna, who lately presented ( a number of lamps before the Electrochemical Society, of that city. It seems , that the new filament contains boron i and is made by a new process, the de- > tails of which have not as yet been j made public. It is claimed tha. it can j be turned out as easily as the carbon filament. One point in favor of the j . new lamp is that it works at a much , higher efficiency than the carbon filn- . , ment. A lamp was shown which burned on 110 volts and gave thirty . candle power. It takes but 1.7 watta ! per candle, which makes its efficiency [ aoout twice that of the carbon fila* meiit. ... ? 1 \ SOUTH CAROLINA I ; $ STATE NEWS HEMS, k: L CSj|[NirJINJCNlfMr VlCsl i French Immigration. Comraissioner of Immigration Watson is arranging for the transporta- * tion of a number of immigrants from 1 Marseilles, France, to be located in the ( Pee Dee section. This is the beginning of a movement to bring a large num ' ber of these industrious people here, ] and locate them in various parts of the stnte. 3 * ' Dr. Evans Goes Abrcad. Dr. James Evans, the secretary o1f j the state board of health, has gone . abroad, ancl, in his absence, all reports J 011 contagious diseases and on other matters of this kind should go to the president of the state board, Dr. T. Grange Simons, of Charleston. There has lately been a falling oTf in these ' reports, and the authorities are beginning to hope that most of the dis eases have been stamped out. * * * New Enterprises. The secretary of state has com missioned ine wuson company, 01 , Greenville, that will buy and sell cotton fibre, on a capital of $10,000. Konr ^ Wilson and W. J. Graham are the petitioners. j A commission was also issued to the Dorchester Wagon Company, of St George's, a general merchandise concern, with $2,000 capital. ; . * One More Special Judge. Leroy F. Youmans, of Columbia, has been appoinited a special judge tc hold court at Greenwood, beginning August 8 and running for the specified j time. The appointment has been made on account of the illness of Judge ^ Gage. It is thought that on account of the large number of special courts ^ and special judges the appropriation r will be exhausted early this year, and the legislature will have to make up ' the deficiency. * * May Test Money-Lending Scheme. t TVip now mnnpv-lpndinfr 1 :iw which was passed at the last session of the legislature to put the mon^y-lending sharks out of business is being evaded, s^ ihe magistrates report. A new contract is now drawn up for the borrower, which is just as binding and drastic as the old one, but which cannot be handled under the construction of the law. The contracts are no* being looked into by several of the lawyers of Columbia and some of them who are public spirited may die a suit unyhow and have the matter tested. * * Five Suspected of Murder. A new feature has been added to the assassination of Policeman Foster at Gie&rs, which is near the line between Spartanburg and Greenville counties. The latest development in the affair is the arrest of four white men and a negro who are suspected of being implicated in the shooting. The nameb of those in custody and behind the , bars of the Greenville county jail are Watt Nobles, Boyce Stone, Robert ( Bishop, Jim Nobles, all white, ana j George Down, colored. The men live ^ in the neighborhood where the crime ( was committed. j * * ' i Escaped cn a Bicycle. I A criminal with rare nerve has been ( found in Newberry in the person of , Dan Bowman, a negro. Bowman was ^ serving a sentence on the county \ chain gang for some petty offense, 1 and he decided to take French leave and acted on his decision immediately. He had been left in charge of the camp while the chain gang was working nearby. Without making his purpose known to any one, Bowman left, < making his way to a nearby house, where he discovered a bicycle unattended. Taking charge of the wheel, 1 the negro mounted it and, pedaling as ( fast as his legs could carry him, left ' for parrs unknown. ! * * ( Carriers Form State Association. ^ The rural free delivery carriers s have formed a state association in South Carolina, the organization be- ' ing effected in Columbia a few days ] ago. ! The following officers were chosen ] to serve during the ensuing year: 1 President, D. C. Hayden, of Orangeburg; vice president, R. A. Sligh, of ? Sligh's; secretary, H. C. Edin, of 1 Xeece's; treasurer, Joseph Kartman, ! of Prosperity. ] A similar organization of the rural 1 free delivery carriers 01 isewoerry 1 county was formed several months ago. * After Sixteen Years of Liberty. At Chester, a few days ago". Sheriff ; J. B. Liwler, of Vanzant county, Texas, arrested Jack Bynum, a white man. who is wanted to answer to two ] charges of murder. One of these mur- ' ders is said to have been committed ! sixteen years ago, and since that time 1 he is alleged to have murdered a man ' in Franklin parish, Louisiana. When Bynum was arrested .several ] years ago in Louisiana he jumped ! from a train while it was running at a rate of 30 miles an hour, and, despite the fact that he was handcuffed, . escaped and was not seen again until Sheriff Lawler located him only recently at Chester. - .-* The prisoner denies stabbing any one to death in Texas sixteen years ago, but admits having killed a man in Louisiana. He says he was tried Dn this charge and acquitted. Sheriff Lawler took Bynum back to rexas. * Newberry County Campaign. The Newberry county campaign ? a? ? .3 ft *- TI7Lifiv????A 1m? t /wtfitA nf t a n 1 JlJttUeil C.L VVUlUliUC, UUl \J\11U 5 LVJ a. program having been arranged for the lay at Newberry, the speaking by the candidates was called off. Those who rave signed the pledge, announcing their candidacy for official honors ire: Senate?Cole L. Blease and Arthur Kibler. House of Representatives? E. H. Hull, Fred H. Dcminick, John M. Tayor, W. H. Saunders, F. W. Higgins, lohn W. Esrhardt, A. J. Gibson. Of :his number three will be elected. . Sheriff?W. A. Hill, M. *M. Buford. Clerk of Court?John C. Coggans. Supervisor?A. J. Livingston, J. Monroe Wicker, J. Y. Floyd, W. P. Dounts, G Sam Moore. Superintendent of Education ? G. fJowe Ligon, Thomas E. Wicker and r. S. Wheeler. Auditor?W. W. Cromer, L. I. Ep;ing. Treasurer ? J. L. Epps, E. S. Werts. Master?W. D. Hardy, H. H. Kikard, J. W. D. Johnson. Coroner?F. M. Lindsay, J. N. Bass. Fourteen meetings will be held ihroughout the county during the iummer, the first primary being set 'or August 29. * * Ancnt the Rice Industry. Commissioner of Immigration Wation is preparing some interesting figires on the cultivation of rice, which le will go over with Professor Spillnan, of the agricultural department, :o be presented to the rice growers if this state early this month. In his connection he has received from The New York Commercial a copy of in interesting article, which appeared recently and is as follows: "Regarding the havoc which is beng played with the rice planters of :he Eastern seashore, a prominent rice Icaler of this city said yesterday: " 'The present conditions in the Carilinas and Georgia having been brewng for some time, and many in the :rade have forseen the ultimate result, rhe fact is that the merchants and nillers in that section of the country +r\r\"\r\A inrn -o r? nnfi n or o Trait- I lave U cell i.UU1CU 1UIU auu^Vill^ Ui nuiv ng policy on the supposition that their -ice was of so excellent a quality anil lad so long been sought for in the narket that better prices could be ob:ained as the season advanced. They pan now obtain only 25 to 30 per cent ess than they could have received for ;heir output last fall. " The entire output of the Atlantic poast rice district is only about 350,000 pockets, or one-tenth of the entire proiuction of the United States, and, :aking into consideration the improvng quality of the cereal grown in Lousiana and Texas, the planter of South Carolina are attempting to control the narket and fix the price. The proposition is in itself ridiculous. " 'Harvesting is now only a month iff and with a new crop as large, if lot larger, than last year, about 25 ler cent of old crop supplies will bo parried over. Prices may hold steady, lut if the weather conditions are at all "avorable for the new crop they cer:ainly vill not advance materially. The Carolina and Georgia rice interests vill have to adopt more up to date nethods if they want to compete with :he growing industry of the Southvest.' "?Nev;s and Courier. CAMPAIGN NEARING CRISIS. Japs Closing in on Pert Arthur and Denouement Is Soon Expected. It is suspected in Washington that the Japanese campaign in Manchuria, ^specially in the direction of Port Arthur, is approaching another one of such climaxes as marked the passage Df the Yalu. Minister Griscom at Tokio, has cabled the state department is follows: "It is announced from headquarters af the general staff that the foreign military attaches who have been assigned to accompany the Second Army may go to the front on the 20th instant. Press correspondents a day later. It is realized that Japanese general staff heretofore have permitted the newspaper correspondents and ittaches to come to the front at such moments as instituted the delivery of \ srraat and rarefnllv nlanned blow igainst the enemy. ONLY TO PLACATE'CURZON. Startling Fact6 Disclosed in Trouble Between England and Thibet. The discreet inquiries of the state department at Washington into the obiect of the British Tibetan expedition is related in an Associated Press caalegram from London, appear to have leveloped a rather curious fact? namely that the British home government was lukewarm, if not absolutely indifferent in the matter of sending i'ounghusband's expedition toward L'Hassa. Indeed, it is said that Colonel ifounghusband was allowed to go forward only to save the pride of Viceroy Curzon. AN AGENCY IN CUBA. ?; To Be Established by the Southern Railway Company?General Freight Agent Niel Talks. General Freight Agent E. A. Niel announces chat the Southern railway has decided to establish an agency in Cuba and that J. L. Edwards, at presenc chief clerk to General Agent Thompson, will be appointed to the new position. The establishment of this agency in Cuba means a very great deal more to the south than may be understood at first glance. In the first place Mr. Edwards will go to Cuba for the direct purpose of supplying the people who live on the island with cotton and other manufactured goods from the south. Speaking of the matter, Mr. Niel said, among other things: 'The way things ate at present, the people in the island of Cuba are buying almost everything either trom foreign markets or if from the United States why it is through commission merchants in New York. Now, rignt here in the south we manufacture just the things that tney neea, or 11 we are not making exactly the special weave or kind of cotton goods we soon can. And what is true of cotton goods is also of all kinds of other products. "Let me give you an instance. Last winter there were several of us visiting in Cuba and while there we saw great quantities of a cheap kind of print cloth used for the covering of growing tobacco to keep it from ripening too quickly. When we returned, one of the gentlemen of the party told one of the large cotton manufacturers of Concorn, N. C., about this cotton print. The manufacturer investigated and found that the making of this cloth in their own mills was a very simple matter, and the result was that he has already sold over 2,000,000 yards to the island of Cuba. "Now, that was just an instance of the matter of education, and that is what Mr. Edwards is going to Cuba for in the interest of the Southern railway. He is going to find out what kind of manufactured goods the people want and then he is going to tell manufacturers in the south about it and get them into close touch with each other, and we believe that this sort of edu cation is going to result in a very great deal of the business for the inland of Cuba coming directly from the south, the cotton for instance from the mills of Georgia and the Carolinas and the iron from the Birmingham district." CORRESPONDENTS ARE FAVORED. Newspaper Men and Military Attaches Now Accompany Jap Army. News comes from Japanese headquarters in Manchuria that for the first time during the war newspaper correspondents and military attaches have been permitted to accompany the Japanese troops on an advance, instead of remaining behind with the headquarters of General Kuroki. Almost ail the correspondents are now attached to the staffs of the division generals, and aitnougn mey are not on the fighting line, they now witness the ccerations from a closer range than heretofore. Lieutenant General Ian Hamilton, one of the British attaches, travels with General Kuroki. Colonel Hume, another British attache, and Colonel E. H. Crowaer, of the general staff of the American army, are to go with the western column, while Captain P. C. March, of the artillery corps, United States army, is to travel with the eastern column. The country throughout which the army is advancing is a succession of ranges of closely wooded hills with narrow valleys. The roads are winding and rocky. There are many steep passes and the engineers were required to do much road building. SEEKS PARDON OF WOMAN. Bill Introduced in Georgia Senate in Behalf of Mamie DeCris. The session of the Georgia senate Monday was signalized by the passage of two important general bills, one providing for an increase in the amount to be loaned to the school fund and the other providing that pensions' of deceased veterans shall bo paid to the ordinaries of their respective counties. Senator Snead. of the Twenty-ninth, offered a resolution requesting Governor Terrell to pardon Mamie Decns, the diamond queen, who is now serving a five-year sentence in the penitentiary for larceny. The resolution is a joint one and provides the concurrence on the part of the house. Nc action wav taken upon the resolution further than to refer it to the committee on penitentiary for a report. The resolution created a great deal of interest in the senate chamoer for about this time last year the woman was attracting considerable attention in all parts of the country, having been whipped at the state farm where she is now confined, for some misbehavior. PAPER CHANGES POLITICS. Chicago Chronicle Announces Hereafter It Will Be Republican. The Chicago Chronicle, which has been general^, considered heretofore a democratic newspaper, announced formally in its issue of last Tuesday that it will hereafter appear as a republican newspaper in policy. i NEGROES OF SOUTH ^ t # W I Will Be Dependence of Commission for Canal Work. 4 COOLIES ARE BARRED OUT % Hcst of Able-Sodied Worker# to Be ^ Drawn from Many Southern States and Given an Eight-Year Job in Digging Great Ditch. ( A Washington special says: There is a strong probability that the south will be stripped of a large portion of * "J its labor for work on the Panama ca- i nal. The isthmian canal commission from?more's the pity ? for only an most difRcult with which it has to deal, and as yet they have been unable to determine from what source the thirty tb/cusand or perhaps fifty thousand workmen needed will be drawn. Ad- ? * . .. j mirai Walker, chairman of the commission, has heretofore always shown objection to the plan of drawing workmen from the negro population in the south, but since the immigration au- i. thorities, backed by congress, have . shut down on the scheme of import- * ing Chinese coolies the commissioners have now come face to face with the fact that they will not be able to fill a ' rush order for labor from the sources et nrooont in citrht whi^h inflllde thf> M natives of Panama and the negroes of Jamaica. Great hopes were staked on this Jamaica source of supply, but by ?? a careful investigation the commis- ? sion believes now that they will be unable to get more than three or four ? thousand from that island. The natives resident on the strip will, of course, furnish a working basis for the start, but an estimate of the available men on hand does not give more than five or six thousandThe commission must have at least fif? teen thousand more at an early date after the canal work is fairly well under way, and there is no closer place to draw from and no men better suited to the work than the large number of p'hosphate miners and turpentine A', hands of the negro population in the south. The wages for the canal diggers has not yet been decided on, but in the face of a scarcity of labor it is expect- * ed that a larger price will be given than was anticipated to induce the negro laborers of the south to give up their present positions to go to a fever laden country. It will not be the idle or worthless class of negroes in the south that the commission will draw * from?more's the pity?for onl yan able bodied and healthy lot will be taken. The situation as it now faces the south, therefore, is a very large decrease in its able bodied force of workmen and a consequent probable < rise in the price of plantation hands, turpentine workers and miners. Of course, the taking away of 15,000 men f amongst many thousands or more ue- * groes employed in the south might not seem at first glance to be a very serious loss, but it is the present condi tions of labor in the south that will f { make the difference. All the cotton fields it is said are hard pressed to get cheap labor, and should Panama prove attractive to the class at present at work on the fields and in the phosphate mines, South Carolina and Georgia will be particularly affected. Some of the engineers in Panama are figuring on doing the whole work on the canal with thirty thousand men, but most of these estimates are mere guess work. Admiral Walker himself has never committed himself to an estimate of the number needed, but he i/3 known to have looked rather skeptical over the small number suggested by other engineers. The admiral has concentrated his heart on getting the ca- >... nal finished in eight years at the most, and if it takes fifty thousand to do f the trick he will not hesitate to make the necessar;- requisition. COSTLY BLAZE IN COVINGTON. Fire Starts in Newspaper Office and Entails Heavy Property Lccs. Fire in Covington, Ga., last Sunday * f night resulted in the destruction of property amounting to t?izo,wu, wiui $60,000 insurance. The fire started in the Star building. The heaviest loserg are J. W. Anderson, $14,000; Heard and White, on < building, $12,000, and on stock, $15,000; Brooks & Smith, building $5,000, and on drugs $5,000; Fowler Brothers, $18,000; Stephenson & Calloway, $15,000; C. C. Robinson, $14,000. CLARK MARRIED SECRETLY. Millionaire Mining King of Montana Wedded His Ward in 1901. Senator William A. Clark, millionaire mining king, of Montana, was married to Miss Anna E. La Chappelle, of Butte, Mont., in Marseilles, France, on May 25. 1901, according to an announcement giveD out at New York. It is also announced that Senator and . Mrs. Clark are the parents. of a 2year-old daughter.