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THE HUSH I went at nightfall. Came again at dawn: { On Love's door again I knocked? Love was gone. He who oft had hade me in Now would bid no more; Silence sat within his house, Barred its door. "When the slow door opened wide Through it I could see How the emptiness withij? Stared at me. Through the dreary chambers Long I sought and sighed. Tinf nn rmcworninr fnotstei) tamC! Naughi replied. J&i, AN AEEIDIBT A ^ Eg KATE ! ItSI I1S1 REMEMBER it as well as 1 1=1 l==i if it were yesterday. Tlie j I carriage stood at the door, j--."*-1 . and I was to go back to i school for the spring term. | My mother gave innu- [ merabie instructions, smoothed my collar. and adjusted my cap on my head properly, then gave me a kiss and stood looking wistfully at me as I went down the walk and got into the carriage. A month or two later?it was in June, / T I think?after a hard struggle one afternoon with some figures, all about a ship and a cargo and the profit and all-that, I went out to join the other JOV) S>. When I reached the playground they were gone, and there was nothing for me to do but amuse myself as best I could. I strolled about the house with my hands in my pockets?which my mother had told me distinctly not to do? and, suddenly remembering her instructions, took them out again; then, for want of better amusement, I began to whistle. Next to'the school there was a pretty cottage separated from the schoolhouse by a board fence. The two houses were not a hundrer feet tpart and I could look right through under the trees, and there on the tennis ground stood a girl a trifleyounger than myself, looking straight at me. Now, when a boy suddenly finds himself observed by a girl, he feels somewhat queer. I remember that very .well. My hands went right into my . pockets, but remembering that that was not the correct thing to do in the presence of a girl, I took them direct/ ly out again. Then I concluded that it would be a good way to show how little I was embarrassed by turning around upmy heel, a movement on which I '' greatly prided myself. After that, I don't remember?it was so long ago? What new capers I cut. But one thing is very certain. I was soon bunting for something I pretended to have lost in the grass beside the fence., "If it's your knife you've lost," I heard a musical voice say. "It isn't there. I picked up a knife there a week ago, but it was ali rusty and no good." "Oh, never mind," I said, looking up into two eyes peeping out from a sunbonnet; "it wasn't much of a knife, and I've got another." i "Are you one of the boys at the school?" "Yes." "What class are you in?" "The fourth." \ "Do you study geography?" "Yes." "What's the capital of Austria?" I scratched my head. "I don't remember that," I admitted, reluctantly. "I'm first rate on capitals, but I can't recollect that one." "Why didn't you go off with the \ boys?" "I was behind with my sums. I suppose they've gone to the river. I like the woods pretty well; they're full of squirrels." "And lizards," she added. "I'm not afraid' of lizards. I suppose you're ! afraid to go there/' "Xo, I'm not." "If ydu want to go there now. and are afraid, I don't mind going with you, just to keep off the lizards and things." She looked wistfully out at the wood. I can see her now leaning on her .wicket, deliberating?if such a process can be called deliberation where the conclusion was determined?the straight, lithe figure poised between the racket and one foot, one little leg crossed on the other?peering out at the forest. ^Suddenly, without any warning, she dropped the racket and started for the wood. We w*re not long in crossing the field, and were walking in the dense shade when she stopped, and looking at me with her expressive, eyes, said: "How still it is in here! It seems to me I can almost hear the siience." "Yes. it is pretty solemn." I replied. "Let's go on; the river winds about down there, and we can see the water go over the dam." I heard a distant voice calling "Julia." It was very faint: she did not hear it. I stood a moment hesitat k "Come. let's go."' I said, starting forward. "Julia." I heard again, more faintly than before. I hurried on. fearing she would hear the voice and turn back. Presently we emerged from the wood and stood by the river. I was familiar with the ground, and led my little friend directly to the dam. Most of the boys are afraid to jvail: out on that darn," I said. "I'd be afraid." , "But you're only a girl; a boy # ED HOUSE. Then at last I entered Dim a darkened room: There a taper glimmered gray In the gloom. And I saw one lying Crowned with helioehrys; Never saw T face as lair As was his. Like a wintry liiy Was his brow in hue; * -- 1 _ 1- 1 r\r\ r. V? rApO --lim ilia- I'xierhb ? AVJVJ Wintry, too. Then my soul remembered .All that made us part. And what I had laughed at once Broke my heart. ?Madison Ca\vein,in Harper's Magazine. HO ITS SEQUEL. M. iAs 5^V KATHMQRE. ^ oughtn't to be afraid." With that 1 started boldly out, occasionally standing 011 one foot, and performing sundry antics to show what a brave boy I was. Then I retraced a few steps and called to her to come. "Oh, no," she said; "I'm afraid." "Afraid! You little goose! With me to hold on to?" Between her fear and a disposition pliable to a boy older and stronger than herself, it was not long before I was leading her out on the dam. "Don't you see it's quite safe?" I said. She shrank back as I led along. I determined that she should go to a point where the water poured over a portion of the dam lower than the rest. I turned my back to step up on the post. It was but a moment. I beard a cry, and saw Julia in the flood. The expression that was in her eyes is to this day stamped clearly on my memory?an expression of mingled reproach and forgiveness. I could scarcely swin a dozen strokes, but not a second had elapsed before I was in the water. I swam and struggled and buffeted to reach her; all in vain. An eddy whirled me in a different direction. My strength was soon exhausted. 1 was borne down the river, sinking and rising, till I came to a place where 1 caught a glimpse, as I rose to the surface, of a man running along some planks extending into the river, and raised above the water on posts. My feet became entangled in weeds. I sank. I heard a great roaring in my ears, then oblivion. When I came to I was lying on my back. I remember the first thing I oa u uu? a. t'lUUU. SUHUI^ UVW the clear blue. There was an air of quiet and peace that contrasted with my own sensations. Then I saw a man on his knees beside something he was rubbing. I turned my head aside and say it was a little figure?a girl, Julia. She was cold and stark. My agony was far greater than when I had plunged* after her into the stream. Then I hoped and believed that if she were drowned I would be also. Now I saw her beside me lifeless. and I lived. Then some men came, and the man who was rubbing Julia said to them: "Take care of the boy; the girl is too far gone." They took me up and carried me away, and laid me for a while on a bed in a strange house. Then I was driven to the school. The next day my father came and took me home. I was-ill after that, too ill to ask about Julia, but when 1 recovered what a load was taken | from my mind to know that by dint of rubbing and rolling, and a stimu| lant, she had been brought to and had recovered. I also learned that I the man who cared for us had seen Julia fall and had rescued her. When I saw him running along the planks it was to his boat chained to the end. Til** cn m in or mv fitlifi'n raniAvofl with his family to Western Pennsylvania. He was obliged to wait some time for my recovery, but at last I was able to travel, and left without again seeing the little girl whom I had led into danger. I only heard that I had been blamed by everyone. * * * * ? * Ten years passed, during which I was constantly haunted by one idea; that was to go back and find Julia and implore her forgiveness. The years that I must be a boy and dependent seemed interminable. At last I came of age, and received a small fortune that had fallen to me, and, as soon as* the papers in the case were duly signed and sealed, I started. It was just about the same time of the year, and the same hour of the afternoon as when I first saw Julia, that I walked into the old school grounds. I had fully intended to go in next door and call for her, but my courage failed me. I had heard nothing of her for years. Was she dead? Was she living? Was she in her old home, or far away? These thoughts chased each other through my mind, and I dreaded to know. I was standing at the school entrance, with my hand on the bell, when I heard a door in the next house open and then shut. From that moment i could led that Julia was near me. She came out of the house, a slender. graceful girl of nineteen, and. picking up a tennis racket, commenced to knock the balls about. I wanted iO make myself known, but dreaded the horror with which she would regard me when she should learn who I was. "I beg your pardon," I said, raising my hat, "can you tell me if the school is still there':" pointing to the house. "It was moved some years ago," she replied, regarding me with the old, steady gaze. "I was one of the scholars." "Indeed!" She spoke without any further encouragement for me to go J Oil. "I see the wood has been cut away," I added, glancing toward it. "No; it does not seem to be." "Were you ever there?" "Oh, yes, often." "And is that old dam still across the river?" "I believe it is." She looked at me curiously. I went on without waiting for a reply: "Would you mind showing me the way to it?" It is a long while since I was there." She drew herself up with slight hauteur. Then, thinking that perhaps I was unaccustomed to the conventional ways of civilized life,'she said, pleasantly: "You have only to walk through the wood straight, at the back of the house and you will come to it."' "Thank you." I replied; "but 1 i hoped you would show me the way." She looked puzzled. "Miss Julia." I said, altering my tone, "I once met you when I was a boy here at school." "I knew a number of scholars," she said, more interested; "who are you?" |( I dreaded to tell her. "If you will ; pilot me to the dam," I said. "I will : inform you."She thought a moment, then turned ; and looked out at the wood. With the j quick motion with which she had i made the same move as a child, she ' started forward. We walked side by side to the wood, i through it out 011 the river bank*.; There was the water and the dam;;: everything as it had been ten years 1: before. . 11 "Did you ever try to walk out there?" j > I asked. ? "Once, when I was a child, I cam* ; here with a boy, and we walked to , where the water pours over. I met with an accident. I fell in." "The boy overpersuaded you, I suppose?" it was oimcuii lor me to couceai a certain trepidation at tlie mention of my fault. "Xo, I went of my own accord." "He certainly must have been to blame. He was older and stronger tlian you." "On the contrary," she said, with a ! slight, rising irritation, "he jumped 1 after me like the noble little fellow that he was." I turned away on pretence of examining a boat down the river. J' "At any rate, he must have begged your forgiveness on his knees for permitting you to go into such a danger?" "I never saw him again. He went away." I fancied?at least, I hoped? I could detect u tinge of sadness in her voice. "I have often wished," she went on, "that lie would come back, as the other scholars sometimes do, as you are now, and let me tell him how much I thank him for uis noble effort." "Julia," I said, suddenly turning and facing her. "This is too much. I am that boy. I led you into the wood. I forced you to go out in the dam with me. I permitted you to fall in." "And more than atoned for all by risking your life to save me!" Ah, that look of surprised delight which accompanied her words! It was worA all my past years of suffering, of fancied blame; for in it I read how dearly she held the memory of the boy who had at least shared the danger for which he was responsible. I do not remfember if she grasped my hand or I grasped hers. At any rate, we stood hand in hand, looking into each other's faces. I blessed the Providence that ended my punishment; I blessed the good fortune that had led me to a knowledge of the kindly heart beside me. Of all the moments of my life, I still count it far the happiest. Then we walked back through the woods, over the intervening field, and stood together leaning against the fence between the old school and her home. We did not part after that for an other ten years, which she spent as my beloved wife. Then she left me to go whence 1 can never recall her. Yet there is a trysting place in the woods, through, which we "once passed as children, and often afterward as lovers. There I watch the flecked su?.ight, and mark the quietness, and it seems to me that I car. "hear the silence." , More than that, I know the pare soul looks at me through her honest eyes.?New York Weekly. A Detective I'cx Terrier. The story of the dog "which recently caused the discovery cf a tragedy at Brigend by barbing outside the house in which it was ccr.imitted recalls a sensational incident that took place in Grand Canary a few years ago. A j young American was murdered for his j noney in cue of the Spanish inns near the harbor, and his for; terrier was carried cff to a plantation in the hills by one cf his accomplices. Two years later the dog was brought back again to the town, and it immediately wenl j to a certain spor in the- road, tried tc scratch a hole in it, and howled sc piteousiy that it attracted the r.ttentior j even of the Spanish policeman. This led to the discovery of its master's' body and the final conviction of his murderer.?London Chronicle. A Poor Chicken. A well-known professor has a brigh little boy, who one day appeared in hi.' father's study, clasping a forlorn li< th chicken. ""Willie," said the father "take that chicken back to its mother.' "Ain't dot any modder," answerec* Wiliie. "Well. then, take it back t< its father," said the professor, deter mined to maintain parental authority "Ain't dot any fader," said the child "Ain't dot anything but an old lamp' ?New York Times. I I SOUTH CAROLINA "5 ; | S STATE NEWS ITEMS. j rsMMfM?NJCNJr?JCM?NJ? j Effort to Divide County. j There is an effort being made to divide the present county of Beaufort j and create a new one. I * t * $ Farmers to Hold Meetings. The farmers of Spartanburg county under the auspices of the Cotton Grow-1 ers' Association will begin a series i of meetings to be held at different ! points in the county, and it is ex- j pet ted that if the weather is good the i attendance will be large. The meet- j ings close at Inman, on August 15. Lightning Bolt Kills Two. Gillum Hcrton, one of the most | prominent and influential farmers of Kershaw county, a negro man who ac- i companion him. and a mule were instantly killed by lightning near the town of Kershaw. They took shelter ; under a iar.re tree during a severe storm. Mr. Horton leaves a family. 1 * i ? * Negro Killed From Ambush. The dead body of Charley Gillian, ; colored, was found a few days ago i :n the road near the home of W. W. j ctnearmau in the Silver street section : of Newberry county. He had been ! sho: from ambush, two loads of bird ! shot having taken effect in the abdo- > men. There is no clue to the assa> j sin. * * * Man?ger Resigns Position. Elisha Bomar, who has been for the pnst 25 years manager of the stores j of the Clifton Manufacturing compa- I ny, has severed his connection with j the company to take effect August I. ! Mr. Bomar will devote his time to ! his own affairs which embrace several ! splendid farms about the city and : ether interests. It is understood that: S. T. Rei.l will succeed Mr. Bomar with the mill company. i $ S * * New Railroad President Elected. ; The Anderson chamber of commerce ' I has unanimously endorsed the presi- ! dent, Fred G. Brown, for president of the Blue Ridge railroad to succeed K. ; Cleveland Eeattie, who died some days I ago. Mr. Brown is president of the ! fertilizer factory and is foremost in j all business enterprises. i The trains on this road were draped in mourning on account of Mr. Beat- ! tie's death. $ * * Tobin Cauqht Across the Line. P. Brooks Tobin, secretary and j manager of the Augusta Cotton Fac- j torage Company, which went into the ! hands of a receiver several days ago, ! has been again arrested. This time j the warrant was sworn out in this ! stye, and alleges getting property un- i der false pretenses. I The arrest was made in Aiken coun- j tv, just beyond Augusta, while Mr. j Tobin was on the trolley car, home-! ward bound. He was taken to Aiken ! in custody of a deputy sheriff and released under a bond for $?00. * * * I . Given a Thirty-Year Sentence. Jessie Nelson, the negro who at- j tempted to criminally assault Miss Bes tha Wilson at New Sumter, was tried and W-S convicted. The jury was out j six minutes. Judge Purdy sentenced the negro to thirty years in the penitentiary. Nelson was an escaped convict from Clarendon county, where he had a sentence of s.'x years. There were threats of lynching and would have been carried out but for the promise of a speedy trial by Judge Purdy and the influence of cooler heads. * V i * * Son is Held on Suspicion. Aaron Mull died at Spartanburg hosrital as a result of a blow which he * " ~ r .-v?o 1 VC received on the neaa sevciai ago. His son, Adolphus Mull, is being heid charged with inflicting the blow, though this has not been fully established. The younger Mull claims that the wound on his father's head wss caused by a fall. The doctors who made 3n examination do not think that the wound could have been caused in that manner. A full investigation is being made of the affair. * * * Inventor Bern in This State. Poubless few persons know that the inventor of the first typewriting machine. John Pratt, who died June 25th at Chattanooga, Tenn., was born in Union, this state, April 14, 1S31, and lived there until he was twenty years old. His father was a merchant and the first probate judge of Union, and they resided for a part of the time hi a house opposite the present court house, and later at the residence now occupied by Major J. W. McLure. Going to Alabama his literary taste induced him to enter journalism, and he became associate editor of a paper, all the while working intently on his invention. * * * After Trust Company Fur.ds. Attachment proceedings against the funds of the defunct. Darlington Trust company, held by rhe Atlantic Xational fcanl: at Wilmington, X. C.. have been instituted by the Third Xationai bank of Atlanta, through its cashier, Joseph A. McCord. Cashier McCord said that the Darlington Trust company is indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of SS,0S9.12. President Jos. S. Armstrong of the Atlantic National gave bond in the sum of SI,000. He is cited to appear at the approaching term of the superior court to answer under oath what funds Jiis bank holds belonging to the Darlington Trust company. The bank officials *.n Wilmington refuse to be interviewed regarding the matter. I * ? Conference Biffs Dispensary. The Columbia district conference adopted the following report unanimously: ' Your committee to whom has been j referred the question of temperance : begs leave to present its report in { the following resolutions: -Resolved 1. Tha.t lrf> a district conference. we oesire tc put ourselves ! on re-ord as publicly disapproving j the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, ss a beverage, by the j stve of South Carolina. j ' Resolved*2. That v.*e hail with de- j light the sentiment now rapidly form- | ing throughout the state looking to | the overthrew of the dispensary, the i great evil now cursing our country. j "Resolved 3. That as a conference j and a church, we desire to be under- i stood as favoring prohibitian as the best solution cf the whiskey question/' METHODS OF TOyVN TOPICS. Subject of Investigation in New York. A $10,000 Subscription. I A New York dispatch says: An in-' vestigation of the affairs of "Town ! Topics" growing out of the arrest j of Charles Ahle, on charges of black-j mail, preferred by Edwin M. Post of [ the New York stock exchange was be- f gun Tuesday by Assistant Attorney Paul Krotel. Mr. Krotel declined to say anything about the investigaTTon, but it was intimated that the matter will be brought to the attention | of the grand jury. Moses Ellis Wooster, member of! the society editors' association, who ! got up "Fads and Fancies," and also j "America's Smart Set," called on Mr. | Krotel and furnished him with a copy j of the much talked of agreement be- i tween the Town Topics Publishing! company and himself. The agreement j shows that Wooster engaged to secure ; subscribers to "Fads and FancTes,*' | * x?? Va in ! all subscription contracts IU uc 111 | the name of the Town Topics Pub- j lishing company; and that Wooster j was to receive commissions of 10 per < cent on subscriptions up to $50,000 j and 20 per cent on all excess of that! amount, the net profit to be equ.illy j divided between the parties thereto.! Wooster further told Krotel that! there was no fixed price for subscrip-1 tions to the book. He also declared j that the subscription of a woman j very prominent in society cost her, $10,000 and that while the minimum j (rate |was $!l,500', some subscribers had paid as high as $3,000 and others j ! as high as $7,000 for the book. This ; increased the amount obtained for the production of "Fads and Fancies" | from $150,000 to more than $200,000. j INDICTMENT AGAINST SANFORD. : i ? Slayer cf Alleged Home-Despoiler Must | Answer Murder Charge. | Ex-Tax Collector V. T. Santord was ! indicted at Rome, Ga., Thursday, for j the murder of Ticket Agent Wright, j j It is a fact tha: Sanford will plead j 1 as the prime cause of the shooting I that his wife and "Wright were unduiy j intimate, and emphatically insists that j he has positive evidence that he win ! produce at the trial. Wright's friends are staunch in their ! belief, it is said, that there were no ' improper relations between the man , and the woman. A strong array of legal talent has ! been retained by both sides, and the trial, which will undoubtedly occur | soon, will be sensational, i Effort is being made to get Sanford i cmt on bond, but so far it has not ! been successful. The city is sharply divided between those who stand up j for Wright and those who take Sanj ford's side. | Mrs. Sanford returned to Rome from Madison Thursday morning and ! declares that she has returned to via| dicate her character. She told a ! friend tha: she is innocent of any wrong doing and that there were never i at any time any relations between : herself and George Weight that were not proper. Mrs. Sanford is about forty years of age, and a very handsome woman. \ Wright was just 25. ! GOES IN QUEST OF IMMIGRANTS. I Mississippian Visits Europe for Purcose of Securing Laborers. Hon. Charles Scott of Bolivar coun| ty, Miss., is new en route to Europe ; for the purpose of making careful j inquiry into the feasibility of importj ing thrifty foreigners for work on i the delta plantations. ! Mr. Scort is thoroughly convinced that the large planters of the south ! will have to quit depending on negro ! labor to produce their crops, and duri ing his European trip will endeavor ! to ascertain what class of foreigners 1 are best adapted to agricultural j work. LIST REACHES SIXTY-SEVEN. Search of Wrecked Gunboat Reveal* Greater Horror Than Suspected. A special from San Diego, Cal, says: Following is the gunboat Bennington's casualty summary at 10 o'clock Saturday night: Total known dead, 60. Bodies recovered, 49. Bodies in ship compartments, 7. Missing (may be drowned), 15. Severely injured, 54. Probably fatally injured, 6. Probably ultimate total dead, 81. The lis: of known dead increased as searcn ci tne wrecked gunooai proceeded. Tlie water has risen s^ll higher In the hold, and it is impossible to reach the bodies known to be hidden beneath the decks. It is believed that at least fifteen bodies will be found in the vessel. It is said a fire tng with a powerful pump will empty the hold of water and give the workers a chance to reach the dead. Commander Young requested Chief of Police Thomas to arrest all members of the Bennington's crew who may be ashore without a pass. In this way 1 Commander Young hopes to arrive at a correct estimate of the missing as well as to prevent'desertions. The men who were injured say that it has been the talk of the ship for at least six months that the boilers were defective, many of them had feared for a long time that just suctf an accident would happen. One of the men said that a year ago last February, while the ship was at Magdalena bay, the engineer of the cruiser New York was sent for to inspect the boilers, and he reported that they were in good condition. While the vessel was in San Francisco last year the talk of defective boilers again arose, but no steps were taken ,fco "remedy them. BOMB PLAYED DREADFUL HAVOC Missile Intended fw Sultan Killed 2* ' People atid Wounded Fifty. The commission appointed to inquire into the attempt on the life ? At--. ?{? PnrietianHnnnlo hllfl Ul lue auii.au iu ascertained that the explosion of the bomb caused the death of twenty-four * persons and wounded fifty-one. The bomb which was intended to blow up the sultan fell short and exploded about thirty yards distant from his majesty. The commissioners have not yet been able to find the slightest clew, either to the author of the outrage. The majority of the victims were coachmen and twenty-seven hack coaches were blown to pieces end' ' fifty-five horses were killed. Eye-witnesses descirbe the scene after the explosion as heart-rending with men and horses lying dying around. A hole two yards wide was made in the ground by the explosion of the homo. : \$ ATTORNEY ATTACKS SHERIFF. Cooper Declares Passmore Shows OpelS Hostility Towards His Clients. Attorney John R. Cooper, who is leading counsel for the defense of the Rawlings prisoners held at Valdoeta, Ga., charged with killing the Oar! ter children, stated that it wonld be his purpose to have Sheriff Passmore relieved of the custody of his clients on account of what seemed a determined effort on the part of the sheriff | to have punishment meted out to the Rawlings, whether guilty or not I' Attorney Cooper declares that the i attitude of the sheriff of Lowndes toI v/.rds the accused men is so clearly | hostile that he fears for their safety. | ! THE RECORDS WERE BURNED. ( Incriminating Papers Destroyed Just I on Eve of Municipal Investigation. i A sequel of the government's int sistence on the examination of the mui nicipal affairs of the town of Vueltas, I province of Santa Clara, Cuba, was the destruction by fire of the building containing the records with all its | contents. i The mayor and other officials are ' i held to be responsible for the de) struction of the buildings and the i mayor and assistant mayor will be i prosecuted. The municipal safe, ' which was in the burned building; ; contained $12,000 in cash. i r | I PUBLIC APPEAl FOR YOUNG. : Subscriptions Asked to Aid Stayer of Convict in Mississippi. An effort is now being made to raise by popular subscription sufficient funds to pay for the employment oi ; able attorneys to defend Kobert Young ?the__white msn now confined in the Jackson, M'ss, jail for killing a ne gro convict n.ircei Collins at Crys'a! I Springs wblle carried to Jack son by a travel ng sergeant of th<_ i penitentiary. | BARON KOMURA WELCOMED. " Jap Peace Commissioner Reaches Seattle and Creates Furor. Baron Komura, foreign minister of Japan and one of the two Japanese i commissioners, was welcomed at Seattle, Wash., Thursday, when the Minnesota reached port just before noon by 1,000 Japanese, who exploded day fireworks in honor of the party and a band played Japanese and American airs as a musical welcome. Mayor Kallineer, on behalf of the city, welcomed the diplomat at the gangway.