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UNINTERES7 fliey live in a quiet sort of way, In a quia sort of a street: They don't meet a great many peopie. nor Impress the people they meet. The newspapers never mention their names; The world doesn't care what they do. They never go in for anything much, And their intimate friends are few. He never has had a favorite club. Though somebody said he might. For a fat little nose on the window pane Awaits him every night: And eight little fingers and two little thumbs Undo all the work of the comb. As he sits in the ouietest sort of a way In his Quietest sort of a home. > ! 'fr 'I1 ! ft ! ! 'M* + ? h < < i?) * * 'i * > i: I LIBBY THE Libby Anderson hung the dish cloth on. its accustomed nail, and stood there surveying it. It was plain, from the ' "way she looked, that she had determined to speak. "Ma," she asked of the woman who was sitting before the little round stove, "what were those papers Dave V put in his pocket as I came in?" "Some things he was showln' me." "Ma," she asked, quiveringly, "you didn't sign anything, did you?" "I didn't sign your name to anything." And the needles clashed again. She knew her mother too well to press further. "I don't just understand Dave coming here this time of year," she ventured; "and I thought he acted queer." The old woman was folding her knitting. "I'm going to bed. and you'd better come along, too," was her reply. A week went by, and although Libby had twice forgotten to feed the chickens, and had several times let the kettle burn dry, she was beginning to feel more settled in her mind. She did up the work one morning ! ? and went to town. Her first call was at the solicitor, and here she heard the worst. Ma had v \ assigned their home to Dave. She did not make any fuss; she was too oldfashioned for hysterics It was not until the old place came in sight that she broke down. "It's not fair," she cried out, "when t I've stayed here and worked?it's not fair!" And, for the first time in many years, she was crying?passionately crying. It was a feeling of outraged justice that made her speak, for she was just a woman?the daughter of pa h'-i "Ma," she said, "do you ihink pa would like to think of your assigning the place to Dave, when I've stayed here and kept it up the best I could for twenty years?" "La, now Libby," she said, not unkindly, "don't take on. You'll never want for nuthin'!" f"I think you don't realize what you have done," she said; and turned to the bedroom to ;ake off her things. It was not until the next month, the blustering month of March, that all was made clear. It was early in the afternoon when Libby looked from the ^ window and saw a man coming in at the gate. "That friend of Dave's from the city is coming, ma," she said. "Gracious!." exclaimed Mrs. Ander\ . Bon, "and such a day as 't is!" The stranger warmed his hands and disbursed a number of pleasantries. ^ "Well, Mrs. Anderson," he said finally, "your son wants me to make a little proposition to you." , Mrs. Anderson looked pleasantly expectant "Dave's always makin' propositions," she chuckled. "He's been a good deal worried about you this winter?afraid you were not just comfortable out here?you two, all * alone." "Dave's always thinkin' of his mother's comfort," she asserted; and looked triumphantly over to Libby. "Well," he resumed, turning back to the older woman, "it worries Dave to think of your being out here alone now that you're getting along in years, so ne's rented a nice little place in town and he feels sure it would be better all around if you'd just go in and take it." "If that ain't for all the world like Dave!?always some new idea in his head. But you just tell him, Mr. Murray, not to be bothering. We don't want to move to town?do we Libby?" "Not if we can help it," she replied. "Dave's been away from the place so long that he don't see just how 't is," ma explained. "Libby and me would not feel at home no place else." IwiH VAII fool tlint WAV " hp IV. O iW V/VWi J VW *VW* v?v.v " ?^ ? ? ? went on persuasively, "for Dave was so sure you'd like the idea that he's , gone ahead and made all arrangements, and I'm afraid -there might be a little trouble about unmaking them." He turned to Libby. "How soon do you think you could j move? By the first of May?" "I suppose so," she answered in a dull voice. April came, and for the fiftieth time the old woman watched the white give way to the green on the hills that curved -in ar.d out around her old home. "Ma," she began one morning. "I think I will have to be packing up this week." "Packing up what?" "Why. don't you remember, ma. we're going to town the first of May?" "Ob, la, Libby, I've give that, up long ago! I'm going to die on the old place." "But you know, ma, the arrange ING PEOPLE. She doesn't belong to a woman's club, She hasn't a single fad. She spends her tune with a blue-eyed lass And a mischievous little lad. She never unraveled a l'roblem of Life; She doesn't know lots of things : She plays with the "kids" and works all day. And most of the time she sings. lie isn't like most other husbands at all. She isn't like most other wives: And they never attempt to make a change In the course of their quiet lives: But once in a while they dress the "kids" And go to spend the day Id a nice little, quiet country spot, In a nice little cuiet way. ?Uuuricc Brou n Kirby in Collier's Wecl;!y. 'I' 'f 'I' .! ^>'1. ,! '! 'M"! * t . .t *- ?. -t- J, .1,, /, a1L A ,f, ,f. -t. .t. J. rTVvTTVTTTVTVT'rTTTT VTTT 4? T 1 % UNLOVED. | | + * T T * 5? 4* ments have all been made. I'm afraid we'll have to go." She turned to her crossly. "There's no use to argue wi* me, Libby Anderson. I ain't goin'l" "But what about Dave?" "You can jest write Dave, and say i his mother don't want to leave the place. Dave won't have nothin' further to say." She looked off at the meadowland as If it were all settle^. Libby would have td tell her. "TVTo " c->>c coirl "it'c nn ncn tn writp to Dave." "Why not?" she demanded, in a half-frightened, half-aggressive voice. "He's sold the place, ma!" "What's that you say? Something about Dave selling my place? Are you gone crazy, Libby?" "You know you deeded it to him. ma. It was his after you did that. And he's sold it, and we'll have to move out." Hearing no answer, she turned around, and it was then she coveted Dave's gift of saying things smoothly. The old woman was crouched low in her chair, and her face was quivering and looked sunken and gray. "I didn't think he'd do that," she faltered. I "Never mind, ma," Libby said awkwardly. "Poor ma." It was the nearest to a caress that had passed between them since Libby was a little girl. Nothing more was said until after ma had gone to bed. Libby supposed she was asleep, when she called quaveringly to her. "Libby," she said, "3*ou mustn't be thinkin' hard of Dave. He must have thought it for the best." Libby was used to caring for ma, and she needed care now. "Yes, ma," she answered; "I'm sure he must" It was not until the morning of the fourth day that the silence between fhftm iv-flc hrnfcpp Lihbv sot ud to take down the clock, when she heard a strange noise behind her, and turning, she saw that ma's head was down low in her hands, and she was rocking passionately back and forward, and crying as though her old heart had broken. She put down the clock, and again she wished for a little of Dave's silkiness of speech. But she did not have it, and the best she could do was. to pull ma's chair out from the barren room into the sunshine of the porch. The hills, sihe thought, would still look like home. Ma did not get up at all next day. Perhaps she was ill, or perhaps it was only that she did not want to go out in the sitting room and see how unlike home it looked. But the next day she did not get up either, and then Libby went to town for the doctor. He said the excitement had weakened her, and did not seem very certain she would ever get up again. That night Libby wrote a letter to Dave, asking him again to let his mother die on the old place. A week passed, and an answer had not come, and still ma had not left her bed. The packing was all done, it was the first of May, and she was just waiting?she did not know for what. Her whole soul rose up against moving ma from the old place now, when her days were so surely numbered, and so she sent a telegram to Dave, telling him his mother was ill, and asking leave to stay a little longer. There came a reply from his partner. saying that Dave was away and would not be home for two weeks. That night the old woman raised herself and sobbed out the truth. "It's Dave that's killing me! It's to think that Dave sold the place and turned me out to die!" And then the way opened before Libby, and she saw her path. The disinherited child wrote a letter that night, and to it she signed her mother's name. Out in the world they might have applied to it an ugly word, but Libby was only caring for ma. She was a long time about it. for it was hard to put things in Dave's round, bold hand, and it was hard to say them in his silky way. The doctor said next morning that it was a matter of but a few days at most,, for ma was much worse. "It ain't that I'm goin' to die," she said, when Libby came in and found her crying; "but I was thinkin'. of Dave. I keep thinkin' and thinkin' of ! him when he was a little boy. and how he used to run about the place, and j how pretty he used to look; and then. I just as I begin to take a little comfort in rememberin' some of the smart j things he said. I have to think of what he has done, and it does seem like he might have waited till?" But the words were too bitter to be spoken, and, with a hard, scraping sound in her throat, she turned her face to the wall. Libby put her hand to something in ! her pocket, and thought of last night's work with thankfulness. About eleven ! o'clock she entered the room with the V* /\+' o + in V? : isiimo ui a icuci in uci uauu. "Ma." she said tremulously," here's a ! letter just come from Dave." "I knew it'd come?I knew it!" And I the old voice filled the room with its triumphant ring. Then there crept in' to her face an anxious look. "What i does he say?" ! "He's sorry about selling the place, : ma. He really thought you'd like it ! better in town. But he's fixed it up j for us to stay. He says you'll never ! have to leave the place." j "I knowed it?I knowed it well ' enough! You don't know Dave like | I do. But read me the letter." She did read it, and the.old woman i listened with tears?glad tears now? j falling over her withered cheeks. { "You can just unpack our things," : she cried, when it was finished, "and ! get this place straightened out. The j idea of your packin' up, and think we i was goin' to move to town! Nice ; mess you've made of it! Jest as if ! Dave would hear of us leavin' the ! place. I always knowed you'd never j 'predated Dave." j Before morning broke ma was dead. ! Happy, because she had back her old | faith in Dave?the blind, beautiful J faith of the mother in her son. And l Libby?the homeless and unloved Lib, by?was happy, too. for she had fin| ished well her work of caring for ma." J ?London Answers. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Chess is still included in the curriculum of the Russian schools. It teaches the boys to move when young, and is a great advantage in times of | wax. Women must have increased greatly in numbers in Arizona, for an anonymous man in Tombstone has entered the marriage market in a novel way. He offers to raffle himself off to women of bis town at $1 a chance. With the money thus obtained he and the prizewinner in the raffle are to set up in housekeeping. The Sakais, or tree dwellers of the Malay peninsula build their houses in forked trees a dozen feet above the ground, And reach them by means of bamboo ladders, which they draw up when safely housed out of harm's way. The house itself is a rude kind of | shack, made of bamboo, and the floorj ing is lashed together piece by piece I and bound securely to the tree limbs j by rattan. These curious people are J rather small and lighter in complexion than the Malays, though much uglier. They have no form of religion at all? not even idols?no written language and speak a corrupt form of Malay. Probably no famous bird has a smaller habitat than the bird of paradise, whose beautiful feathers are so highly prized in the millinery trade. No one knows why the varieties of this beautiful bird are confined to the island of New Guinea and the neigh-' boring coasts of Australia. There are many other islands not far away where the conditions would seem to be equally favorable to their existence, but they are not found among them, and if we should ever see a hunter of the bird of paradise we would know that he was a native of New Guinea or the neighboring mainland of Australia, or had visited those regions. The railway across the Andes, between Chili and the Argentine Republic, which was projected twenty years ago, is at last to be completed, the Chilian congress having passed a bill for the purpose. The loftiest part of the pass, which lies not far south of the great Andean giant, Aconcauga, and which has an elevation of 31,000 feet, is to be penetrated by a tunnel, which will serve both to avoid snowdrifts and to decrease the maximum elevation of the road. The terminals of the railway on each side of the pass are now within one day's travel by j mule caravan from each other. This j wiy. oe the first rail line to cross the j | South American continent. A ?1000 Butterfly. Schoolboys and children of larger j growth were, much excited recently at j the news that Lord Rothschild had ! paid no less than ?1000 for a butter- 1 j fly. Collections hitherto regarded as j worth a few marbles or a top suddenly j J assumed a value hitherto unknown. Inquiry at the entomological branch j j of the British Museum considerably j ! damped the prospects of a boom in j butterflies. "It is extremely unlikely," said the I superintendent to our representative. ! "The highest price ever given for a i i hnttprflv was ?16. That was paid by j | the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and was , thought to very high. Of course. Lord j Rothschild may have given ?1000 for j the whole expenses of the expedition I j to get this specimen, but I should say I it was highly improbable."?London Daily News. Good Manners. The one true mark of good manners is absence of manner. The persons whose behavior, walk, talk and conver; sation are such as to attract instant ! attention by their peculiarities or by j showiness. and to cause the ignorant : and the low-bred to say, "What fine ; manners!" are very likely ill-manj nered and underbred persons who ; would annoy persons of good taste I very much. The basis of good man: ners is good nature, a spirit of deferj ence. reasonableness, regard for others, j the tongue and temper which distin! guish very highly civilized people from ! the rude, rough and barbarous.?Phila I delphia Xdedzer. ! CN3f\ICNllM?\JCN?r\irJ? 2 SOUTH CAROLINA 2 j STATE NEWS ITEMS. 7 %rs>c\JCMrsi iNjrjCNjfN>w "Hub" May Enter Race. ; Hon. "Hub" H. Evans, chairman of me aouin Carolina dispensary, nas been mentioned as a probable candidate for governor next year. * * Camden Cotton Mills Sold. The Camden cotton mills were sold the past week to C. H. Yates for $100,000, there being only one bid. A reorganization is expected to follow the sale and the mili will be run at its full capacity. * * ? Charleston Votes for Judge. At a meeting of the Charleston Bar Association a few days ago R. W. Aflemminger was elected on the fourth ballot as Charleston's candidate for circuit judge from the tenth judicial circuit, now about to be created by me state legislature. * * * Seven Candidates in Field. The number of candidates for the proposed federal judgeship in South Carolina increases each day. The , Chester County Bar Association has indorsed A. G. Brice of Checter anci the Spartanburg bar indorsed Stobo J. Simpson of that city. Already there are se^en candidates in the field. * * ? Jenkins Found Drowned. i Robert E.. Jenkins, a single man, about 39 years of age, and an official lumber inspector, was found drowned in the dock at the foot of Tradd street : in Chajleston. He had been seen wandering about the street at a late hour at night, and is supposed to have fallen overboard. * > * * Senator Tillman III. A Philadelphia dispatch says: United States Senator Tillman of South Car1 olina arrived here late today in comj pany with his physician, Dr. J. W. Babcock of Columbia, S. C. Senator Tillman says he has been in ill health and that he came here for treatment. , He says he will not enter a sanita! rium, and states that his physician ! says he is suffering with the grip, but Senator Tillman thinks he has some; thing more serious than the grip. i Capers on Committee. United States District Attorney John ( G. Capers, who is spoken of as a likely i appointee, in the event of the crea; ticn of another federal judgeship in South Carolina, in the passage of the j pending bill, has been appointed a member of the committee on the ini augural ball by General Wklson, the ! appointment being made at the rej quest of President Roosevelt J Captain Capers will atend the ball, | if his duties at the Florence term of the court next month do not pre' vent. Captain Capers is a son of Bishop Ellison Capers of South Carolina. * j * * Wan* New Rail Connection. J ! The Spartanburg chamber of comj merce is still at work on the matter! of another railroad connection for the ! city. The Seaboard Air Line officials, it is said, have manifested concern in j the project and will co-operate if the ; citizens give proper inducements. ! Two plans are under advisement, j | one being that of a line from Spartanburg that will make connection with the Seaboard at Carlisle, and the j other is building a forty-mile road j from Spartanburg to Rutherfordton, where the same system can be reached, j This will open for development a fine j section of the country that is now ! inaccessible except by wagon roads. . ? O I Shipment of Fertilizer Short. The movement of fertilizers out of j Charleston this season is mucfci below the usual shipment, and the result has 1 been that there is a big reduction j of employes at the mills. The dull- j ncss of the market has caused the throwing out of work of more than 800 men, as a result of the large stock j which is carried and the lack of oe- J mand. Ah this time of the year fertilizer is j moving out at - the rate of about 400 i cars a day, while only -00 cars are j now being sent out. The indecision of many farmers on the matter of the planting of cotton is responsible for the small demand for fertilizer. * * * Inter-Urban Trclley Line. An inter-urban trolley line to con-1 nect Union. Clinton, Laurens and Spar-': tan burg, is being agitated. The road j suggested contemplates about sixty-six miles of line, in the shape of a double i Y, that is two lines' beginning at Un- j ion and Spartanburg converge to a' junction at or near Glenn Springs, j Two other lines from Clinton and) Laurens converge to a junction in j Laurens county, north of the straight J line between those places. A connect-1 ing line unites these junction points, I thereby producing fairly direct trolley ? lines as follows: From Union to Lau- j rens, from Clinton to Spartanburg, from Clinton to Union, from Union to j Spartanburg, from Spartanburg to Laui \ . : \ : ' ? ' rens and from Laurens to Ciinton, six lines in one. i Woman Defends h'er Home. A killing took place near Govtans ! this state, one morning the past week, j A peddler named Greenberg fre* 1 quently visited the home of J. D. Bivens, up to about a week ago, when ; he made advances to assault Mrs. Biv ens, and was arrested. He promised i to pay a fine and leave the neigh! borhood if they would free him, which I was done. , *1 But he returned and entered the ; Bivens house and made the same adI vances toward Mrs. Bivens. when she ] shot him with a shotgun, the lead en! tering his neck. Magistrate Cumj mings was notified of the killing, and { he summoned a jury of inquest, the ; verdict being ustifiable homicide. Mr. ' Bivens was in Columbia at the time. I To Grow Grapes and Suk. A stock company has been formed | in Charleston composed largely of j Italian capital for the purpose of engaging in the culture of grapes and silk. A tract of lanfi of almost one i thousand acres has been purchased at Ladson, .which is now being set out with vines and mulberry trees. It will be two to three years before the ; culture of silk can be entered actively i upon and in the meantime the company will engage in truck farming. A force of ten Italian farmers are j at work, setting out the vineyards and mulberry tree groves. Other Italians will be brought south. No negro labor will be employed. The chief farmer ! is D. Chisena, an expert in the culture ' of silk and the growth of vineyards, | who holds a patent from the Italian government as a lecturer on silk production and general agricutlural j knowledge. AGAINST FUTURE DEALS. | Senator Clay Introduces a Stringent Ann-Option Measure. A Wasnington. special says: The anti-option and ann-future bill intro-' duced by Senator Clay of Georgia in iiue witn tne action of the cotton Planters 01 the south as expressed ui tueir New Orleans convention, is at iracLng much attention. Senator Clay's bill has been very carefully drawn with the idea of avoiding so far as possible the pitfalls J wnich prevented the enactment of leg' islation along this line in former con1 gresses. The Georgia senator has given much thought ,to the subject, and | his bill will, he believes, meet the I principal objections advanced against former bills, at the same time retain: ing all the elements of strength of , these bills. He has presented it as an amend! ment to the postoffice appropriation 1 bill, it .being made germaln to that | bill by- the provisions denying the use : of the mails to all letters or communications from persons or corpora! lions- bearing upon options or future j delivery contracts of the kind prohibited by the bill. PRESIDENT AGAIN REBUFFED. I Committee Says He Acted Beyond His Right in Crum Case. A Washington dispatch says: Senaj tor Spooner has prepared a report c-on! taining the views of members cf the | senate committee on judiciary on the ' resolution introduced by Senator TiilI man asking an opinion on the right j of the president to make recess api pointments between the adjournment i of one session of congress and the | convening of another when the sessions were merged into each other. The report denied that the president i has the right to construe a recess and I suggests certain limitations upon the president's power to appoint men to office during a recess of., congress, whose nominations have been sent in and considered but not confirmed at a former session. ; :,r . i HAY TREATIES ARE SHELVED. President Will Not Present Them as Amended by the Senate. President Roosevelt will not present the arbitration treaties, as amended by the senate, to the countries with which they were negotiated. In reply to numerous inquiries by representatives of the press made at the state department Secretary -Hay made in substance- the following statement: "The president regards the matter of the general arbitration treaties as concluded by the action of the senate on Saturday. He recognizes the right of the senate to reect a treaty either by a direct vote in that sense or indirectly by changes which are incompatible with its spirit and purpose." " TERRELL'S ORDER IGNORED. Ordinary Refuses to Recognize Commission Issued by Governor. The treasurer's office of Cobb county, Georgia, is still unsettled. J. Gid Morris has received his commission from the governor, but Ordinary Awtrey refuses to administer to him the oath of office. The supreme court recently decided that J. B. Glover could not hold the office of clerk of the superior court and county treasurer, and that J. Gid Morris was elected county treasurer. * < . - \ *' IRATE BILL PASSED ; ; It Provides for Government Regulation of Railroads. i I ONLY SEVENTEEN AGAINST I . I The House Makes Quick Work of the President's Pet Measure?Senate Will Now Take a Shy at the Much-Talked-of Bill. ? . . / A Washington special says: After > nearly four days of discussion the house Thursday by a vote of 326 to 17, passed the Esch-Townsend bill pro; viding for the regulation of freight ! rates. The negative vote was made 1 of eleven republicans and six democrats. ?, j The closing hours of the debate \ '< were occupied by Messrs. Williams ; . { of Mississippi, the minority leader, ami Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the r i . committee which reported the bill, r Mr. Williams, while supporting the ' minority measure, even though he said he knew it could not pass, complimented the republicans for bring-... ^ ing in a bill which was much better / "than expected would come from them. " ' I, j The speech of M!r. Hepburn was | rather in defense of himself. He said j that his deeds and acts were a sufficient answer to the "lies and slanders" which had been heaped upon him. The i Kill 1/mAWfi o o UorsKum Kill K A | uiu IUAVITU CMB iivyuiuu viUf wv i said, had been prepared by the afr-? I torney general, and he only yielded to | hie colleagues on the committee on j tfie Esch-Townsend bill because he did not want the committee to be the target lor scribblers who wanted seasational head lines. He devoted some i time to a strong presentation of the > i merits of the majority measure. The debate was opened by Mr, Pierce of Tennessee, who, after announcing that Roosevelt, aa the subject of rate legislation, was the great' est leader in the republican ranloi since the civil war, said he would support the Townaend bllL-H* however, based his support upon ts? | fact that Bryan and the democratic ! party declared for the same legishh ' % ; tipn. ! A resolution is to be introduced in the | senate by i4r. Kean providing that ! a committee from the interstate commerce sit during the summer to in- . f, vestigate rate legislation. It will not be offered until first approved by a V /J committee. The committee will work along a line nerfectinar the Esch-Townsend Dili . f* and will incorporate in that measure a provision to reach private car Hnee. Mr. Kean's resolution will provide a committee to meet when necessary Vvf and report ten days before the next session of congress. The idea is that. if the committee is ready to report r by next October or "November word' -j will be sent the president and if he is inclined an extra session may be f called. Senate Proceedings. '<' ^ The senate devoted Thursday to doi bate on the agricultural appropriation U- Y i bill, but did not complete the measj ure. j Mr. Lodge presented a petition frost 1,642 Christian Endeavor societies representing all the states and territories, 1 asking that President Roosevelt be authorized to invite the governments -3 of the world to appoint delegates to | an international congress; to meet ftt \ ' stated intervals to deliberate upon questions of common interest to the nations interested. Mr. Warren reported the military academy appropriation bill. The senate committee on commerce } Thursday authorized a favorable report on the l?ikins bill providing for amendment of laws admitting foreign .( limit vessels to American register. "-v. TO BOOST FOREIGN TRADE. President Recommends the Appointment of Special Agents. The president Thursday sent ft message to the senate recommending action upon a suggestion made by Assistant Secretary Loom is for co-operation by the departments or state and commerce and labor in collecting information concerning trade conditions In foreign ountries. The president recommends > that provision be made for the appointment of special agents for the purpose. : r| WYNNE GOES TO LONDON. i Present Postmaster General Slated'for Post of Consul General. ^ ! The following statement was made public at the white house Saturday: . . V:J "The f lembers of the cabinet have all tendered their resignations, and on the 6th of March they will all be nom! inated for re-appoint^Jat with the exj ception of Mr. Wynne, who is to be appointed consul general of London. . t l?r. Cortelyou will be named on March 6th for postmaster general. j