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TWILIGt Through the shine, through the rain We have shared the day's load; To the old march again We have tramped the long road; We have laughed, we have cried. And we've used the King's crown; We have fought, we have died, And we've trod the day down. So it's lift the old song Kre the night dies again, Where the road leads along Through the shine, through the rain. Long ago, far away. Came a sign froru the skies; And we feared then to pray For the new sun to rise: With the King there at hand. Not a child stepped or stirred? Where the light filled the land And the light brought the word; For we knew then the gleam Though we feared then the day, . And the dawn smote the dream Long ago. far away. " V Wx ?????? | * A T welve-Th - s rhe fe. ^ . / AOK HE hour grew late, and Mr. ^ JJ Brand paced his chamber ? T ? 'n moo^.v silence. The train if X had come in, bu this mesHMr senger had not returned, and the merchant was troubled; troubled by a vague sort of doubt, which haunted him in spite of lite faith in Lake. A merry, sober old trader of long experience had said that Lake was too young to fill the important position which .lie held, but Mr. Brand had never found his trust in Tom mis?. placed. Having heard rumors concerning a house with which he had extensive dealings, the merchant had despatched 9 Lake to London, telling him to make inquiries, and in any case, to get the t partners of the firm In question to set% tie their account. So Lake had gone from Liverpool to London. The time appointed for his return passed, and still he did not x come. A lady entered, and stole to the merchant's side; her own sweet face wits anxious, aud there was ?. tremor in the music of her voice as she said; "Do you think he will be here to i 3 mgnr. aear papa ."I hope so, Alary, hut it is very late." ' "Is there no other train?" "Only the night express, and (hat * does not stop, except at the central starT tious." "Perhaps he; will come, papa; he would not mind coming ten miles, even . If he had to walk." "He should uot * have missed the train," said Air. Brand, sternly; "punctuality is am imperative duty with men of business." "But, papa, something may have occurred to d -tain liim." "Nothing should detain a man who has given his word." The fair pleader was silenced?her father -was angry, and knowing his strictness of principle and how inveterate was his dislike to any breach of discipline or duty, she did not even venture to speak again. ?T. The time dragged slowly on; Air. Brank continued his restless walk, and Mary sat suuauen aim quitri, ?un. UlU^t him. She saw that he was listening as the night express went whirling by, and from the depths of her heart there went a prayer that Lake would come safely home. The girl loved him. would have staked her life on his truth, fand knew that he was not beyond his time through any weakness or wrong. Two slow, weary tours passed. Mr. Brand was reading the commercial news: but for the first time in his life it did not interest him; he was thinking of the young clerk and the heavy sum of money that would be in his possession should the London firm have paid him. And Mary, reading her father's thoughts, felt pained and chilled by the slur cast on her lover's honesty by his suspicions?her every thought was a denial to his doubts, and as the rapid clatter of a horse's feet rang out, she ran to the window. "Look I" she said, dashing the curtains aside with an eager hand; "look, look, papa, I said he would come?I knew he would." The merchant's stern face relaxed with a smile of pleasure: he was not emotional or ueuiuusuautc, uw?. daughter's gladness pleased him. There were a few moments of expectancy. and then Tom Lake came in. He went straight to Mr. Brand, only noticing with a how the lovely face whose glance thrilled his soul. "They have paid," he said quietly, as he placed a thick pockethook in the merchant's hand, "but I think, we were V only just in time." "Indeed!" "There was a consultation at the banker's before I could get the cash for the check." "Do you think they will break?" "Hopelessly. They have given me au immense order, but it would not be wise to forward the goods." "You did not hint that we had the slightest fear?" "No; but I was glad to get the money. Twelve thousand pounds would have been a heavy loss." "It would have done me serious injury just now." " 4 " oo i/l Tatii wvavaIv "thiS J V 1} CUIV* A V4M , morning the odds were considerably against its ever reaching you.*' "How?" Tom took two chairs and placed them side by side near the fire, led Mary to one. and seated himself in the other. He had done his duty as the merchant's clerk, and now was Mr. Brand's prospective son-in-law and partner. "I had an adventure." lie said; "I was the hero of a strange story in a ride bv express." IT SONG* liut the read 'ends us a'.-. For the King now is dead; And we know, stand or fall. We have shared the day's bread. We r-an laugh down the dream. For the dream breaks and flies; j And we trust now the gleam, For the gleam never dies? So it's off now the load. For we know the night's call, And we know now the road And the road leads us all. Through the shine, through the rain, We have wrought the day's quest; To the old march again We have earned tlie day's rest; We have .aughed. we have eried, ' > ? j l':?> Ana we ve neara uie rv.ni>; > giuau.?, We have fought, we have died^ And we've burned the King's bones, And we lift the old song Ere the night fiies again, 1 Where the road leads along Through the shine, through the rain. 1 ?Edward Arlington Robinson. , : ' % i ousand-Poimd $ M. < que. $ xmx&mmmxsm | < Mary bent forward to listen?Tom ! , clasped lier hand in his own. Mr. | Brand sat opposite tlieni. interested by ! j the speaker's manner as he began: , "When I got the cheque I had an idea that all might not be well, so to , I make sure I presented it to tne Dame- . er*s. There was. as 1 told you. a eon- 4 sultation before they cashed, and while j the consultation was going forward. 1 j noticed a stranger looking at me in- } tently. I knew the man in my younger 1 and wilder days. I had met him often at the race course, in billiard rooms, t and in other places more or less re- * spectable. Now Le was changing a cheque for some petty amount, and was j evidently astonished by the immensity ^ of the order I had presented. I left t the bank with my pocketbook full of ^ notes, and I found that I had lost the train. The next would be the night . express, so I strolled into a billiard room. A man is just as safe with a fortune in his pocket as if penniless. , so that he is wise enough to hold his ^ tongue. There was some clever play going on, and I stood watching the players till some one challenged me to have a game. If I have oue special j vanity, it is my science with the cue: I accepted, and as I aid so a strange * feeling, which had been growing upon me, took a sudden turn which startled ( ID P. r "My challenger was the man whom , I hat! noticed at the banker's. There j was nothing strange in the fact of his ( being in the room, one of his favorite resorts, but I was possessed by the vague shadow of a single idea. I had read somewhere of a man being fol- ? s lowed and plundered in a train, and ( somehow I associated the story with r the man before me. It was the first . time I had ever paid him any particular attention, but I gave nim full observation now. The more I looked at him the less I liked him. He was hand- ^ some, gentlemanly, with a fair form ^ and elegant figure,, full of suppleness j and strength. His manner was singularly unassuming, his face frank and genial, but by looking closely at bim you could see something sinister-looking in the depth and softness of his . eyes. "I never, liked a stranger to be affable and prepossessing, and my friend .* was the very pink of affiability and ^ grace. "We played for an hour with alter- [ natiug success: he was an amusing j companion, well informed, and had ^ traveled, but I still Laving some time to spare, went to see a friend in the ( Temple. "When, at the expiration of some ^ thirty or forty minutes, I emerged into j Fleet street, almost the first person on whom my gaze fell was my late an- j tagonist at billiards. "I thought there was something more | , than a mere coincidence in this second | meeting since we stood together at the banker's. He was in a cigar shop op- J posite. "Not a hundred yards from the Tom- 1 pie gate stood a man whom I recog- 1 nized with a very welcome feeling. It was George Vixen, the detective. "He*was fashionably dressed, and ' looked an aristocrat of the first water. I went up and greeted him as I should an old familiar, held out my hand and said: , " 'Step into the hotel office. I have! , something to say.' ? "He shook hands in the most natural < way possible. I took his arm. and j we entered the door of an adjacent , hotel. . "I told him my suspicion. told* him ] of the sum in my possession, and of j ! the journey I had to perform by rail. j "I saw that, watching through the j glass of the door, he was taking a men- j tal photograph of two men. 1 " 'They mean business,' said Vixen. , quietly, 'but I shall be with you. We must part at the door, or they will see j we have scented the game.' " 'And you,' 'I said, 'how will you ^ act?' i " *1,' he said, 'shail travel to Liver- j j pool by the night express.' , "He left me. I had no fear now? ( : knowing him to be a clever and de| terrained fellow. * 9- ? ? ib A I "Taking a casual gmnce aeivss mcroad, I saw my man with his companion. It was quite evident that they . were tracking me, though I lost sight , of them before reaching St. Paul's. "I strolled along the churchyard, wandered nearly to Islington, then 1 went through the city again before 1 I made for the station; my acquaintance of the billiard room did not come ? in sight, though I kept well on the alert. 1 "I took my ticket, lingering almost to the moment of starting before I en1 teced the carriage, but my man did not J appear. Two men were in the compartment with me. I could not see the face of one, and the other was a stranger. "The bell ran jr. The guard had just time to put a bewildered old gentleman by my side, and we were off. "The man whose face I had not seen turned toward me. "I could scarcely repress an exclamation. There was no mistaking that frank, genial countenance, nor the lurking devil in those eyes, whose softness was so sinister. "TT - .1 ? - *1? In cf f \T i V OH lie n.ui niri me men m iaoi. ? Iiail broken liis promise! and I was left to travel that perilous journey alone, with the man who had followed me so skilfully?another who might he his i confederate, and an old gentleman, I who. after grumbling out his indignation against all railway servants and locomotive traveling iu general, was fast asleep in the corner. "That the intentions of my billiard player were bad was manifest by the fact of his having assumed a false mustache and beard. They added to the beauty of his face, but left to his ?yes that" sleepy, cruel glitter that is L-baracteristic of the Asiatic. "He spoke to me, remarked the >ddity of our being traveling comand grow pleasantly familiar, t answered him. not wishing to appear churlish or afraid, knowing that [ could trust something to my own i strength should the worst come. "We had made the las: stoppage, and vere rolling swiftly through the gioom, Then, among other topics, our conversation touched on jewelry; he drew a showy ring from his finger, telling me t was a curious piece of workmanship, laving a set-ret spring, which he said [ could not discover. "I took it, searching in vain for a >priug. then returning it to liim. It Iropped and rolled milder my feet. "I stooped to pick ?t up, and so did le. but in that moment, while my head vas down, he had ine tightly by the broat, and threw me to the carriage ioor. "His confederate was upon me in an nstant. I could scarcely breathe, and wild not struggle, for a heavy knee ;vas upon my chest, and two strong, irutal hands were clutching the life Tom my throat. "Though the horror of that situation lid not last a minute, it seemed an jternity to me. I felt the ruffian's lands searching for the poeketbook, md I strained desperately for a chance >f resistance. "Their work was nearly done, tramped in that smaTT space, I was lowerless, and the veins in my throat md head were swelling like sinuous jars, when the old gentleman in the ;orner awoke and came to my assistin ce. "I heard a low. quiet whirr of some veapon in its descent, and my'first as;ailant reeled from me, stunned. The* >ld gentleman, with a strength and aridity of action wonderful to see in i person of his age, seized the scounIrel. lifted him away and dashed him lown on a seat. "There was a brief struggle, and hen I heard a sharp click?scoundrel he second had a paid of handcuffs on lis wrists. " 'They were more prompt than I >xpecrea, siuu iuc uiu gcuu^uiau^ *. noving bis woolen comforter, witli vbieh be fastened my first assailant's lands behind him, 'and a railway carriage does not afford much scope for i struggle.' "The pocketbook was safe. The rufians were securely bound, and the old rentleman who. without his spectacles ind muffling, stood out in pleasant reief as the detective, kept guard over hem. "At the station they were handed iver into the custody of the police. I ,vas all right by that time. Vixen rode vith me as far as the hotel nearest lere, and to-morrow he will call to ?ee if I am any the worse for my ride )y express." The contents of the pocketbook were dary's bridal dowry. The detective speaks of the senior j mrtner in the firm of Brand & Lake is the most hospitable and generous nan he ever met in the course of hisirofessional career. Lake was quite cured of his love for ??n;.irri rdarinsr. He had too narrow m escape, and he did not forget the esson.?Waverley Magazine. Wilrl Horses on Sable Island. Sable Island, which lies about eighty aiiles to the eastward of Nova Scotia, i-onsists of an accumulation of loose sand, forming a pair of ridges, united it the two ends and inclosing a slialow lake: tracts of grass are to be met ivith In places, as well as pools of fresh ivater. The droves of wild horses, or ponies, and herds of seals appear to je the chief mammalian inhabitants of the island. It is generally supposed that the original stock . was landed from a Spanish wreck early in the sixteenth century, although some writers make the introduction much later. Twenty-five years ago the number of ponies was estimated at five hundred; it the present day there are less than two hundred, divided into five troops. Not more than two-thirds of these are pure bred, the remainder being the offspring of mares crossed with introduced stallions.?London Nature. Origin of the Frankfurter. , The little sausage known as "frankfurter" and "wiener" was offered for sale for the first time in 1S05. and the centennal was observed in Vienna by Hio "Rnt^hprs' Guild. The inventor of the sausage was Johann Lahner, who named it for his birthpiace, Frankfurt. The business founded one hundred years ago by a poor man ha6 yielded a fortune to its various heads. It has always remained in the same family, and is now conducted in Vienna by Franz Lahner, a grandnephew of the original frankfurter sausage man.Vienna Xeue Freie Preese. I / A PUBLISHER'S CLEVER RUSE fiov He Induced Phil May to Draw the Cover. Phil May is one of those names -which may always be considered living, so here are a couple of new anecdotes about him told by Marcus Mayer. Phi'.e May was a good-naturad, lighthearted. careless Bohemian; but he had his thoughtful moods, when he would often regret that he had not devoted himself to a more serious branch of nrf He was always making good resolnlions and planning great things for the future. Calling on h>m early one morning, a friend found him, much to his surprise, busy at work on a fresh series of drawings. He had discarded his old. scrawled over drawing board for a brand new one, at the top of wh'di he had written: "How much to do, how little done." This mood, however. would pas?, and he would have long spells when it was almost impossib'e to get work from him. On one occasion he had agreed with the proprietors of a leading illustrated weekly to do them a colored design for their Christmas number. Th,1 date fixed on for its delive-y passed by. but v.o design. Letters and telegrams remained unanswered, and a personal visit to his house oniv elicited the- fact that he had gone off to Paris without li ving any address. The publishers avovo almost at their wit"? end. but one- of the heads paying a week-end. vise to Margate was astonished and overjoyed to see May basking in the sunshine on the front. Without showing himself he learned where May was staying, and engaged r.alf a dozen sandwich men to parade up and down b;ra,n his window with boards bearing various legends: "What a bo: t our Christmas cover?" "We a""e waiting for that cover." etc. wiiio lio/r tlio dactrod and in a few *lays they received one of the most spontaneous and brilliant designs that even Phil May had ever turned out. WORDS OF WISDOM. Blindness banishes some of our be; blessings. Fetters of silk may bind as fast a3 cotton. Many blessings are wilted because we will not wait. He is only weakened by trial who runs away from it. Forgiveness is one of the privileges of friendship. It takes seed as well as soil to make things grow. A little money makes a big man with some people. Many a problem comes as a test of our prayers. Great and sacred is obedience. He who is not able, in the highest majesty of manhood, to obey, with clear and open brow, a law higher than himself, is oarren of all faith and love.?James M rrtineau. Made to Order. The scheme of Joseph Frey, hen gardener at Lincoln Park, Chicago, Co breed a national flower by crossing the chrysanthemum and the Siberian aster will excite much sympathy and interest in this country. It is a matter of sentiment only, but sentiment is a powerful factor in our social and national life. -rr.1,/% nnrlarrnt-o it chntV their *T> XliUOC v> UV/ UUUVi&uwv .. _w norance of human nature. Heretofore suggestions for a national flower have contemplated only the choice of some existing variety, but Mr. Frey proposes to produce a combination of red, white and blue on one stem. Should he succeed no doubt the floral emblem would be popular, though its coarseness and size will prejudice it in the minds of those who prefer more dainty and less conspicuous blossoms. Scientifically this project cannot fail to attract attention as an illustration of the progress in hybridization which experimenters are now making with both fruits and flowers.?Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. As to Blushing. The habit of blushing is almost invariably a cause of great annoyance to its possessors. Very frequently it seriously hampers them in the ordinary affairs of life, for blushing is accompanied by confusion of mind, nervousness and hesitancy. The two main points in the treatment of shyness, which is the greal cause of blushing, arc, first, open-aii exercise, and, second, the society oi ovpjvmso is trood for UUiCl d? vpvu U1A vv. v.vv w all the morbid disorders, such as an excessive shyness, while the social life makes for self control and that.savoir faire we all seek to attain; for the latter enables us to go through life without betraying awkwardness and timidity. Abnormally sensitive people may find the cure a lengthy one, but if they persevere the very mental effort which is put forth to accomplish the remedy will aid them in acquiring control over their tell-tale blushes.?Xew Orleaui Timps-Democrat. An Absent-Minded Man. "I'm up against the banner absentminded man of my life," said George Moser, the clerk of the Coates House, this morning. "He went away last Tuesday, and we found, of all things in the world, that he had left his evening dresscoat and prayer-book behind him. Wednesday we received a wire. 'Send left luggage my hotel,' but he didn't say where it was and he left no address when he went away. Yesterday I got an indignant letter protesting against our carelessness, but it was written on plain paper and contained no address. So the dress-coat and prayer-book are still undelivered, J "?TTniv and we can i una uitu w?u?. ? City Times. rvKMCMCNKMCMfsHMt 1 I SOUTH CAROLINA I \ \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ \ *"""*" c Alleged Train Wrecker Acquitted. Sam Smith, colored, charged witii placing obstructions on the track of f the Southern railway, was acquitted in court, at Gaffney. After deliberation of about one hour, the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty." ^ * * * Big Seed House Tumbles Down. 2 A big seed house of the Union ' branch of the Southern Cotton Oil c company at Union collapsed without j warning. This building was an old c wooden structure, and was filled to .B its utmost capacity with hundreds of 1 tons of cotton seed. No one was hurt. i a * * Killed Friend for Slap. a 1, Wilmer Mitchell, a prominent young man of Leesville, shot and killed Jas. t: Trotter, his friend, in the union station at Columbia, in the presence of t two thousand people. Mitchell surren e dered, giving as his reason for killing I Trotter that the latter slapped him in v the face. ' i! I V i: Laccy Gets Five Years. j* Thomas F. Lacey, alias "Newark F Toney," a noted yeggman, whose op- eratiocs up to last Christmas were T confined to the west and Mexico, was d convicted in the federal court at t Greenville of robbing the pcstoffice at t MioColl on December 9, and was sen- ? tended to five years in the federal penJ itentiary at Atlanta. j r * L Railroad Pays $8,000 Damages. A. W. Folger, an administrator of > / the estate of Engineer Gauble, who was killed in a wreck on the South1 em some time ago, has received a check for $8,000 payable to Mrs. Gau' ble of Gaffney in settlement for her ^ claim against the railway company. 1 The settlement was made without re r' course to the courts. ^ i t< * Si Laurens Roller Mill Burned. > Between 3 and *4 o'clock Sunday morning the Laurens roller mill at p j Laurens was completely wiped out by a i fire, which is supposed to have origi- s i nated in the engine room. 1* i The mill was built seven years ago fi j by Messrs. J. S. M&chen and H. R. t , Martin at a cost of about $5,000. A I , I year ago Mr. Martin bought Mr. A I Machen's interest and continued the p j business alone. C . V fl Murray for the Chaingang. I ' I George Washington Murray, color- s 11 a* rmre admitted to the counsels or the nation as a member of congress n from South Carolina, will have to g spend the next three years cracking X. I rocks and road-building as a member ; of the chain gang of Sumter county, t j though he is the largest landowner in c , i the county. The supreme court Mon- s 11 day denied the appeal of his attorneys p for a rehearing. His punishment is for I I forging the names of ignorant negroes t i to land leases. _ t ! v*** g British Steamer Attached.. t.' The British steamer Glooscap, Cap- r tain Spicer, which arrived at Charles o | ton. October 17, from Rio Janeiro, was j attached by the circuit court in that | city Monday and the captain arrested ; and required to give bond, on the. V complaint of three sailors recently ' sent by Captain Spicer to jail on 1 charges of insubordination. The doc- S uments allege damage by incarcera- j' j tion and pray for relief in the sum of t j $6,000. Captain Spicer gave bond i'i c the sum of $4,000 and a deputy is I s | on board the ship. i] i " * C i * * Newspaper Man Fails. s In the United States district court ' at Charleston, Monday, A. G. Kollock, e j editor of the Darlington News, filed a t i petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Kol- f | lock held a number of shares in the a Independent Oil company and the t Darlington Trust company and lost H heavily in their failures. His assets h ! are placed at $28,663.42, liabilities at c i $53,508.95. It has been several years h j since a South Carolina newspaper p : went into bankruptcy and Editor Kol| lock bas the sympathy of his newspa- t j per brethren. S D i * * s j Chester County Gets Prizes. f: j Chester county nade an excellent j showing at the South Carolina state ' " " nsod in Pnlnmhia. I rair tnat juol v,n/evU ? , John Frazer's stallion, "Dan Speer," ] took the blue ribbon over all com- 'i i petilors. John O. Darby's head of 20 short-horn Durham cattle took 22 premiums. He was also awarded first and second prizes for the best herd In the state, and won the award for n the heaviest cow. He also exhibited a t< I herd of Southdown sheep, which were n awarded the prize in every contest in r I which they were entered. t< a * p Oconee Ousts Dispensary. fi The example set by numerous other f: counties of South Carolina in abolish- ii ng the dispensaries, was successfully epeated by Oconee county. The couny's two liquor shops that have been loing an immense liquor business, L vere voted out by an overwhelming najority of about ten to one. Every jrecinci gave them the farewell "send >ff." In one precinct not a vote was ' * sat favoring the dispensary. The i jrecinct of Westminster was promih- 1 n voting them out by the enormous * rote of 97 to 2. Awaiting Judge Pritchard's Decision. The effort to force South Carolina, ind, particularly, those counties that lave voted out tue dispensary ?y overwhelming majorities, to retain the iquor system when they wish prohi-' oition, recently took a new turn, and iow the greatest possible interest ceners in the case that has been taken ' ^ o the United States court, and whica 3 to be decided by Judge Pritchard ,t Asheville, N. C. The action is based on entirely new" '0% lleged technicalities, the first two re- M iting to the unequal distribution ct axation for enforcing state laws, and ^ o the profits from the dispensary sy3? em that go for school purposes, the ffort being thus to prove that the irice act?under which the elections otlng out the dispensary were held? s unconstitutional. The point on ' rhich the attempt to bring the action . ^ nto the United States court is based - ^ > founded on the allegation that the , ierson bringing the action, J. . lowell, former dispenser at Union, .v:3?|g ras not deposed from his office by :ue process of law, which is in vidian 'rjly ion of the United States constitu* ion, on the grounds that the election leld under the Brice act was not MNESE MOB AMERICANS dmirai ?rrain ana nis &on nougnijr . Handled Near Nanking for Ac- 4tlpl cidentally Shooting' Wo nan. A dispatch to the Evening Standard London) from Shanghai says Adm? al Train, commander of ihe American : viatic squadron, and his son, Lieu- - |jj?B snant Train, have been victims of avage attack by Chinese outside of Tanking. The American officers were. out WBRk heasant shooting when the admiral ccidentaliy shot a Chinese woman, lightly injuring her. Hundreds of vil- |?99 igers thereupon surrounded the of-; cers, took away the|r guns, knocked ; ' he admiral down in the mud and held -1 deu tenant Train as a hostage. Forty unerican marines landed as a rescue % ':'<i arty and were attacked by. a mob of Ihinamen, who tried to pitchfork the fflcers. The marines were obliged to re twice. The Chinese officials re- hJjSp used to restore the officers' guns raid : uppqrted the villagers. Nanking has been active in the / lovement for boycotting America*! oods and is the center of activity on ' he part of Japanese students. ... The state department at Washingon has cabled to the United States onsul at Nanking, asking particulars .bout the case. In view of. the resent strained relations between the ' Jnited States and China, and paricularly because Nanking is the cener of the boycott movement on .fjj* imerican goods, the incident is re ;arded as serious, nowever, qcku^i .-wm lie Chinese minister in Washington, ^ or the state department have been fflcially notified. q JUDGE SWAYNE UPHELD. -g||] Vas Qualified to Sit in Land Case at Pensacota, Ffa. The case of United States Judge Iwayne of Florida, who was the sui> x-:gm ect' of impeachment proceedings by be senate during the last session of ongress, was decided Monday by the /y&Sj upreme court of the United States '..Igj a connection with a decision in the ase of Florida vs. William A. Blount, nvolving title to the land near PenThe opinion in the case was delivred by Justice Day and sustained : he decision of the court of appeals or the sixth circuit, which was favorble to Blount. Judge Swayne sat in he trial of this case, and during fjpjg Is progress was requested to execute limself and not sit in the case be- . ^ ause, as was alleged in ..the petition, * lis wife owned an interest in the* roperty. In the course of his decision Jujice Day said that no interest by Mrs. wayne had been shown in any com- ' %? etent manner and no adequate rea- . ,'i - - ? ? ?h-?? . >*. on for Judge swayne s rcuicuicm rom the case had been given. : -f' SOUTH TO AID ROOSEVELT. 11 Carrying Out His Fight for Rait road Rate Control. The New Orleans Picayune has be- ^ un a canvass of southern democratic <' lembers of President Roosevelt's plan ^ 3 give the interstate commerce com- * ..-.v 'V lission authority to fix maximum raiload freight rates, and in response to elegraphic inquiries a number of sentors and representatives have exressed their views on the subject So ir every member of congress beard \ rom has declared In favor of the leg- a slation demanded by the president