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r s K, .... VOL XVII. < ... TUB TRUTH AT LAST. Roo ovelt's Family Did Not Dine With Booker Washington. . II.? \If A C ormim urTmtT r itwrnr ii no ujjxv V JCii; nun LUJXUll . Iii a i'rlvate lloom mid Was in No Hciinc a Quest on Terms of Social lOnqulity. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal publishes t he followi 11^: Hooker Washington did not dine at the White Mouse t;il le as the guest of President lloosevelt and family, as lias been previously charged, is tlie startling announcement made by Gen. Marcus I. Wright, < f the War Department at Wasiiington, who lias been visiting in Memphis for a number of days. This statement was made several dn\s ago by (Jen. Wright in the otlice of i well known whole sale grocer who was a companlon-at-arins with biid during tlie late war. Seated around t lie otlice were a number of \\( 1 known business men, who were talking with Gen. Marcus Wright over happenings of I lie past. The President was in Memphis that day for 1 lie purpose of doing honor to (Jen. Luke 10. Wright, and the subject of the Washington incident, as it always lias in the South since the announcement was first sent broadcast over the land was broached hv a num. ? ? WJ .? be of those present. "That statement was false," replied (!en. Wright immediately, to the intense astonishment of those present. "Now as you all know, 1 am a Democrat. and have never voted any other ticket In my life. For the past twenty-three years, however, I have been a resident of Washington, and have had no opportunity of exercising my franchise. Dot when a man has been so wofully misunderstood, even if he is my political opponent, I believe it a duty to set the matter right before the people. "Tito whole truth of the matter is this. President Itooscvclt had been anxious for some ti.ne to obtain a truthful light on the stiuation in lite Sou til. Finally, at the suggestion of a number of Southern and Northern men of both great political parties, he sent a message to Hooker Washington asking him to come to the capital for conference regarding the negro, his ncedl and his capabilities. Washing- i ton cainc, and tlie conference, which was started in t he President's executive otliee and was changed to his private olliee because of repeated interruptions, continued for live hours. | "in the midst of the conference be- J tween the President and Washington, lunch was sent in to the chief execu^ live of the nation. Desiring to con( Unite the conversation, and rather than lose the time necessary for Waslif,.r. I .... 1 ' > ' ' ui^tuii uv/ iu iiuicii, i i('Mucin, 1 Itooscvelt thereupon ordered that lunch be served to the negro educator in the same room. "Now this is all there was to that story. Washington did not dine at the White House table, did n?>t break bread with the President's wife and daughter, and was in no sense a guest upon terms of social equality." Asked as to why the president had never seen tit, to have this statement made public, (Jen. Wright replied: "because he is too great a man. He believed that it was beneath him to deny a story so palpably false, and in time prevail, that the truti^^^^sp^^i'i'iv.sidont ,,f It is his ambition to V,!1 <>%.. 1 the whole people of the I nitedSt'lH':: knowing no section or party, and litvisit here shows how fond he is of Li Southern people. He is an aristocrat i to the linger tips, and for that reason, aside from the fact that lie is the smi of a Southern woman would never lie , willing to acknowledge the social equality of the negro. At the same time he believes, as we all do, that everything possible should bo done to assist the members of that race in their struggle for higher citizenship, and will be their friend in all then worthy undertakings. Their Throats < 'ill. Lee Wigel and bis wife were found in their room at a hotel In Texaskana, Ark., on last Wednesday with their throats cut. The woman was dead but Wigel was si ill alive. A bloody razor lay on the lloor near the bed. Wigel was taken to a sanitarium 1 where his wounds were dressed. Ilc| will probably recover. Me is conscious! but refuses to make any statement. ! About a week ago he went away say- i ing he was going to get married, lie; returned Tuesday accompanied by a young woman whom he Introduced as : his wife, formerly Miss Marie Quinn I of Anniston, Ala. The couple took a room at the Cosmopolitan hotel Tuesday afternoon and it seem neither left it again. An inquest is being held. Hot Iron Mowch. A sudden break in a furnace of the Williamson Iron Company in Birming- j ham, Ala., Wednesday morning caused ; a mass of molten Iron to gush forth, j Thomas .1. Edwards, general manager, j was /anding near, talking to a group i of men, and was burned to death. The Ixsly was covered w 1 tli molten iron and debris. James F. MoAnallcy, a stove man, was fatally burned, as was also Allen Mow, colored, a foundryman. Chns. Simpson, a son of the secretary of the company, was also severely hurt. It is reported two strangers, who were talking to Edwards at the time the biTak occurred, arc missing. They may l>c under the V / debris. Edwards was very prominent as an iron manufacturer. . i I <. > . ? <9(1 _ I y iT77" m THE NEGRO GOING. Colored Hcl|i Is 'Hi'lii" itnpidl) Displaced ii| WushiiiKton. Tlio Washington correspondent of the Chicago Journal says at one of the intelligence oiliec in 1 lint'. Dli i( \IMIO l/o. I ha * I/IIU V VM4? I u nuo It'll IIIV'H j white servants are being brought i to Washington from New York and other places in considerable , numbers. The small towns of Virgin- , ia and North Carolina are being canvassed for white as well as colored girls who are willing to come. Noith. , It is also declared that the colored servants are being rapidly displaced by the white people. The color i . ci vant Is rapidly declining in favor, c c many good housekeepers deelaie i it they will not have that kind to t e house. They object to them because they frequently are not clean, because they live nights in questlonabl1 places, because they almost universal!) steal food and carry It home to fa in i ies < ! tlieir own, and because they at n< the courteous race they once wi e Whether or not this is a true, jp against the colored servants in .Washington as a class, the fact remains1 that they are rapidly falling him disrepute and being replaced n. the white race. People who arc interested in looking for reasons for such changes are disposed to attribute it to the education of the race. The new generation which has been reared since the war has had the same educational advantages in tills city as the whites. They have their grammar schools and high c/iVi/oble mo 1 r.t u S r% t ?M?l?lh. - -" >" OVIlVA/IDi IUU I II U< I I I 11 V I Hi; JMIIJIIV.' '' .\ } M " 11M', anil they all go, and most of thorn no with an ambition to become teachers themselves, or t<f enter some profession. They readily absorb ideas of "equality" which is interpreted as superiority to tile kind of labor performed by their mothers and fathers, j Many become superior to work of any kind, and are supported by hard-working parents until they get into trouble and the workhouse. Seventy percent, of the crime of the District of Columbia is contributed by the colored population, though they number but a third of the city's residents. There are no training schools where the rising generation may learn to cook or sew or to do any of the things which might enable them to earn a i comfortable living. They learn to read, and what they read in the newspapers of lynchings in the Sout h and West does not tend to make them any more contented. The race antipathy 1 is secretly nurt ured, and it manifests I itself at frequent, intervals, in what the house mistress calls "imperti- | nonce." it crops out also in little rudenesses on street cars and in other , public places, and causes elderly pen- ' pie to remark on the change that has come over the colored people since j { they were young. People who come up from the ttout.i are shocked, and ( will dlseant eloquently on the dill'er- j ence between the Southern and I he j ( Northern "nigger." With dilliculty ( are the "colonels" restrained from i . violent assaults upon occasion. WON'T GET IT. t i Orum'ri Color ('miiils Against Him in | ' I lt?e <'ollect ni Hliip. ( The Washington Dispatch of the J Columbia State sa.^s President I loose- i volt, lias suffered another change of '< mind in regard to the iippointmenlol ' negroes in the south to federal otlices. j "j It was today learned that W. I). ' Chum, ihe negro doctor whom he had 'ed foi lite ( iwrl s'on oollector ?'. ha.?... ^ j,. n(vt ;tjA.A at, the i s.?ip. Ims !?a ffifvH? ^nrflfp.o* , i White House, u-a: < the efiarfc ' of political tii'"kery. hut I.is friends' say because of his c? lor. Crum, who ' I ( is le w in the it > , has Ik en in con- i Mdtation with t le pp-si le;u and lias J been informed his selection is impossl-1 ble. As stated in The State some weel<s ago. the (Jhnrlosto negro, ac- ' cording to official information, had , heen select d to succeed Site late col- ( lector. Waila ;c, before the president's bear hunt in Mississippi. Ho is much piqued o\or the action of the administration and claims lie has 1 been roughly handled in not being allowed to defend him self before punishment. It- is stated that at the national Republican convention of i 1802 in Minne ippolis, Crmn upon his' arrival alllgned hi nisei with the antiHarrison delegates and was subsequently won over to the other side by tiie promise of federal reward. Afterwards lie received the appointment of postmaster at Charleston, but the senate refusing to confirm him his name was withdrawn. The presentation of this charge against Crutn is in rcsponc to the request of the president, before leaving for Mississippi, to the enemies of Crom to advance reasons why lie should not lie appointed. The convention story is the outcome and the president appears well satislied to relift.VP. hi mvi?l f *?f ( 'iMiin lktr a/?i?nntiiu? "j iivw-|iiiiih i the facts alleged as such. Vital im- j portance attaches to the downfall of i Crum in view of Its bearing Oh the I president's southern policy. It appears that influence of the Paync-Clarkson combine, as predicted in Tht State (Sunday), is on the wane. Crum has not given up the light but Ids fate is believed to have been finally deolded. According to (jaw. Calvin Elliott, colored, was hanged at Llncolnlon. Thursday for criminally assaulting Mrs. Caleb Brown, near there about two months ago. After several unsuccessful attempts at lynching a special term of court was called and the sentence of deatli passed. X "~3" -A UK If jgt'J CONWAY, S A BOLD ROBBERY. The Safe of the Enoree Manufactur ing Company Dynamited. POSTOFFICE ALSO ROBBED. Deeds, Insurance 1'nlicit-N mid Ot lie Valuable I'lipcrs Also Stolon. lllootlhotiiMls Sent to the Scene. There seems to be ;i groat mnnj safe robberies In this State of late and it- would behoove every one to hi on their guard. 'J'hc Sparlunhur} .Journal says one of t he boldest rob beries in this section occurred at at early hour Wednesday morning whet unknown robbers dynamited thes.ih in lhe oillce of the lluoree Manul'ac taring Company at Knoree, twenty miles distant from that city, securing between srJ.nOO and $.'1,000 In cole cash, hesides a numher of vuluahlt papers. The postolllce was also roll bed of about $U00 in stamps am money. The first, news of the daring rob bery was received here early Wcdnes day morning in the shape of a tele phone message, bloodhounds havi been sent for from Laurens and wil be put upon the trail of the robtiers a? soon as they arrive. The exact houi of the robbery is not known but it if supposed to have taken place alxuit I o'cloek Wednesday morning, The safe which was dynamited was located in the mill oillce. The otliee was closed and securely lucked as usual last night, after the money, books and other valuable papers, bad been securely put in the safe. The olliee was found open this morning and t be doorof 1 he sale blown oir with dynamite. The door had been carefully drilled, evidently by professionals, and a stick of dynamite inserted in the bole thus made, and the door blown oil". An examination tills morning by the mill otllcials revealed the fact that everything in the big safe of any value had been carried oil by t he robbers. It. L. Walker, superintendent at the mill, estimates that between $2,000 and $.'1,000 was secured in cold cash. In addition numerous papers were stolen including deeds for property, insurance policies belonging to Mr. Walker and to 1>. S. Cochramc of the mill. The door of the mill olliee was found open Wednesday morning also the windows were unfastened. It Is not known, however, by which jpenlng the robbers secured an entrance. It is thought that the force >f the explosion caused the window fastenings to break. About $100 worth of stamps were taken. These were the property of the government. About $300 belonging to the postollicc was also secured, 1 he postotllce money and stamps bong kept in the vault of the mill safe. Sheriff Vernon of this city also received a telegram at an early hour Wednesday morning stating that $2.500of lie mill's money was secured and $300 iclonging to the postotllce. There is no due to the robbers. Much excitement prevailed this morning at the scene of lie robbery. The lCnoree Manufaeturng Company lias today olfered a reward >f $500 for the arrest and conviction >f the party or parties who robbed tiw i"i to (if the company Wednesday f (Marvin lilt- Itcf'oi'iiijp* I y,<VV. It seems tlmt Dr. L. ,f, , r he Democratic jt * *-C. Gaixln, ^tn^.1 ! i... governor-elect of Rhode tsiafivi, o.is been something of i Reformer. He was denominated a rank, and the Republican papers made fun of Ids bills, but according to the Courier-Journal be was largely initrumcntal in overthrowing the landed property qualification for foreign voters and in changing the constitution .as to provide for the elect ion of state ofllcers by a plurality instead of n majority, lie also assisted in the passage of a secret ballot law, a law creating a bureau of industrial statistics, a factory inspection law, a tenhour law, and some others. The final triumph of Mr. Garvin recalls the pithy statement of Lady Somerset, namely, that when one person sees a thing be is a fanatic; that when a number see it, he is merely an enthusiast, and that when all see it he is a hero. Prepared for War. A dispatch from .Laurens to The State says enquiry reveals a practice obtaining in a certain densely Inhabited colored community in that county, associated with the long ago when it was necessary; and that is a habit negro men in this section have lately taken up of carrying their guns ?shot L'lins and rifles to church. Thev sav it/ is a fact and no uncommon thtnp to see a number of old guns in the church during service. The same thing is true with reference to al their gatherings. But occasionally si pistol slips in and the work is done tc a finish. He Slob- a Fortune. Lawrence Murphy, formerly tresis urer of the journeymen Stonecutters association of New York was arrester Thursday night charged with the lar cony of $25,000. There was a cliangi of officers last week when Murphy wai asked to turn his funds over to tin new treasurer. It is alleged that hi failed to do so and that he then lef the city. Murphy was supposed t< have gone to Lngland but Thursda; night he entered the meeting place o the association and was arrested. my | , ., TIIL'HSDAV, 1)1 AN IMPORTANT WORK Ilciiiu Ooiiu l?y l*rol*. < ,'liu mlilihs as State l'bitoniol<>i> i.st. A spet in 1 from Clemson College to ; Tito State says l'rof. C. 10. Chutnhliss 1 t.% .wl.lilL.a 4 .. Ufo -l..t L... ?l .1.^ t Ill UVIMIIIVMI IA? 111^ UUUtS itli I IIC COI" lcgc Is doing ?i great work lor South Carolina in Llio capacity of Mate entomologist. lie has recently inspected i ] r orchards in many parts of the State and recommended remedies where pests have already appeared, and suggested plans for preventing their appearance.. The croat Importance of I his work is never realized because i' | is a work of prevention rather than a work ot tangible results. If the fruit 1 growers of 11u> Stat<* will give litis work their cooperation Just as South i? 11 "a i oil na is beginning to be ft fruit' , growing Stale, lliey may save tiiem *! sidvi s i he trouble mid loss incident to eid t ing down large oreliardK. I Tlio law as recently established rei quires nurserymen outside of the . | Stat doing business in the State to tile with the Stat 'entomologist a eortilleo of inspect ion, showing thai ' j their goods are free from all diseases ' and pests. 11 t hey fail to do t his the II Slate entomologist has a right to j | seize the goods, inspect* them, release ' - them if found free troin insects and I i disease, or if diseased, destroy tlieni. Transportation companies may know whet .her such goods have been . inspected or not by the tags which . all inspected goods must bear, The > fruit moweis of t lie Stale can elTeeI tuully assist in this work bv report- ' ; ing all violations of the law. -, Transportation companies may i { know whether sucli goods have been ? \ J Inspected or not by the tags which > all inspected goods must bear. The i j fruit growers of the State can ell'e? tualiy assist In this work i?y report- j ing all violations ot the law. I l'rof. ChamhlisH has already seized v thousands of trees and is holding t hem ! for inspection. Some have been rei leased, some destroyed. lie has also inspeeled and fumigated the stock of j two large nurseries in this State. Nu'r- li st ryinen in this State cannot ship out o goods unless they have been personal- i ' ly Inspected by the State entomologist. i This being the ease others ought not | to lie allowed to ship in without in- j, spectlon. ii Col. M. L. Donaldson, who is chair- < man of the South Carolina State d hoard of entomology, is very much in- ^ forested in this matter, and is giving '' Prof. Chambliss much valuable aid in . the work. The railroads and ex- /, press companies are cooperating with the board. \\ i A BIG FRAUD UNEARTHED. ii | h V Discovery ol'tlio Iteason lor I tic I)ctl in ii?I lor Cancelled Stumps. U ii Many people in South Carolina as well as other States have received "an !' endless chain'' of let tors asking a <|iian- j| tit,- /,r -ii-i ",1 viijj \m * uiiv vufu rttiiuipN. i iiey were 1 1 also requested to send copies of the letter to two or three of their friends, making by t his scheme the return of i thousands of answers to the one letter' V( and the receipt of probably hundreds li of thousands of stamps. j 11 The letter was always one with a t. tale of woe about some unfortunato(1's< boy or girl who liad to have an arm q,. 11 leg amputated or was t r> ing to worj{ his or her way through college. A^,| J| then again the letter might soli^.j, ^iiinrrThr some 7itHYfYUM institution, y There was always an appeal to one's sympathies in the subjeet matter. " Postollicc authorities and detectives * iiave been trying to locate the person who started this endless chain of let- f, tors ?f<?r, like till epistles of that na- M turc, it is a violation of the postollicc o laws. c Tlie postollicc inspector, .1. L. Cor- '( telyon, and Cnitcd States Marshal " John (iarside have arrested an old tnan named Henry Holssea, a French- () man, in New York City, lie was an inmate of the Home of the Utile Sis- j tors of the Poor. t In his room was found a tub con- li taining fully ">0,000 cancelled stamps 1' soaking In a solution. He could erase 11 the cancel marks, rcgum them and dispose of them in small quantities for cash or merchandise. It Is said he carried on quite a lucrative business, i People who have wondered what in time si person could do with.cancelled v postage stamps now see to what use ? they wore put. 1 Iv i11?-<I llio I'osl iiiUHlcr, jj Clint 10. Osborne,assistant pasttnas-1 ' 1 tor and proprietor of a general store !, at Warren, Mich., was sliot early ji Wednesday morning by one of a gang ' of robbers that entered the Warren \ 1 haiil< and blew open tlie safe. The explosion aroused Osborne, who tele- I phoned to one of the neighbors that 1 ' he. t,bought robbers wore at work in r either the bank or postolllco. All the } ? telephones in the village are connect- 1 5 ed at night and it is thought that the ' - cracksmen heard the bell ring in the . ' bank and listened to the conversation. 1 1 Osborne then started down tin; street ' and had gone but a short distance . when one of the robbers, acting as an \ outside guard, shot him in the face i witli a charge.of buckshot , killing him ( instantly. Without securing anything j the burglars fled. < ^ KiiKlnnor Killed. s Northl>ound passenger train No. 4, > on route from Texarkana to St. Louis ' <i on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and \ t Southern Itallway was wrecked at ] > i'resscott, Ark., Thursday. Kngineer V AnJjilMld was killed. Fireman Hays f savfft b's life by jumping. None of I the fjftsengers was Injured. I tat SCKMBISIS 1, 11 H)>2. IT l.<>\ 10 SI I A lili (OMi:. I r love should conic, 1 wonder If my restless, troubled heart. I 'nkiiid, would hid its visitor depart, With chill, averted look and pulse unt lirllled, because its sanction was already tilled Ity colli ambit ion would it still be dumb I f love should come? I f lo\ e should come. Would all his pleading fall upon my ca r I nrecked of, as by one who will not heat? Would my lips say, "I do not know thy rnimt't I sock the far, cold heights whore i dwollet h funic, 'In all my life for these there is ho room," 1 f love should come? f love should come, Against hitu would 1 dare to hitr the door, And. unregrct fill, hid him come no more? Would stern ambition whisper to in v heart, "hove is a weakness hid him I la nee depart 'or he and I can have no common home," i f love should come? f love should come, And I should shut him out and turn away. Would what contents me now eontent me aye? Would all success the lonely yours might bring Snlllee to recompense fur that one! I hing? Ut, could my heart he silent, mv lips dumb, II love should come? Tits Trail orpiians. 15%- I >" IC n iici\v ('11A 1'T'KH Will. AN IIONKST Ii()VK. We will return to llenriette, who, Ue tier sister, was living in the hope f meet ing t he one who had been so ruolly torn from Iter hy the rude nndsof unscrupulous men. She is seated in a poorly furnished LI ie room engaged at sewing, while er thoughts wander haeW to the fatal ighl when, strangers in the great ity, the two unprotected girls were oomcd by ;i hard, unyielding fate, to -under apart, seeking, hut never lind- ; ig t he ot her. While she was t bus engaged, a low nock was heard at the door, and the li,?V'!ilior d,' \ 'imlfof ....I ......J ... viv * uuxiiv j v uu;n u, A careless observer would have seen liat lie was a lover, and that theob* 'el of his adorat ion was before him. " 1 lenriet te," he said, tenderly, takig her hands and pressing them to is lips. " I lave you heard anything? 'on seem agitated." "I was expecting you, I mean ? I Itought perhaps you would bring me ews of Louise," replied the fair girl, i pret t v confusion. "Xo, 1 have heard nothing," replied lie chevalier, regretfully. "Vet you now I have occupied myself unceas- : lgly for I he past t hree moot lis in vain adcavors to ascertain her fate. Hut. )day, I lenriet.te, I wished to speak to in of something else of myself." "I know, monsieur, till that you on Id say tome," replied llenrictte, i a low, sweet voice. "I ,"ni?|Vp.vJ1ai"'! an rescued meat tyfort"7"4'1 your own < fe, Iroin a f?flr\i,ui peril, and believe "bJov- ungrateful." r. .lenriet te, do you feel no other [Mitimcnt than gratitude? Do you ot understand my heart? Until yes3 relay, I was bound in honor to iin- < use silence on my love; circumstances ave released mo, and today I can, nrl dare, avow with pride that I love Oil." The young man paused for a molent, as if expect ing t lie young rl to peak; hut as she. kept silent., he coninucd, in a deep, manly voice: " I lenriette, mine is not a trilling, ilvolous love. I loved you from the loinent when 1 tirst saw yon courageusly(U lending your honor with prayrs, with throats. and with toars. I )ved you from the moment your inocence appealed to my manhood, and swear to you before Heaven, that his love, horn in an instant, shall end' nly with iny life." "Oh, t his is wrong wrong," said lenriette, as tho great tears of gratl- I ude came welling up in her eyes. "I lave known too long all that your | icart \sas striving to hide from me. nd I have hcen guilty to allow it to listractmc from t he only duty I have n life. You should not compel me to onfess my weakness." "1 lenriette!" exclaimed the chevaicr, reporaehfully. "Leave me to my sacred task, and vhen Louise, is restored to my arms, I hall have earned the right to be hap>y." "i lenriette. dear I lenriette " hepi n l>e Yaudrey, but lie was Interupted hy a knock at the door, and in instant after, the round, smiling uid inquisitive face of I'icard was seen it I he half-opened door. "I'icard!" exclaimed the chevalier, n surprise at seeing his valet. i<*s, monsieur, m is i iearo, only ?icard," said the valet, as he entered he room. "What do you want? What brings i'oii here'/" and l>e Vaudrcy's voice, istially so soft, was now harsh and mgry. "The fellow is my valet ," he added, n a low tone, to Ilenrlette. "Yes, mamzelle," said the valet, ,vlth an equivocal bow. "I am I'icird, the discreet," and he thought to limself, "this must lie the chamhernaid, and he is in her room. Oh, lie is lolng well." "What brings you here?" asked the ihevalier, impat lent ly. "A communication for you. sir, of lie greatest importance, anwercd I'lcard, with an important air. "I must take my work down-stairs, I hey arc waiting for it," said llenliette, thinking that the valet had something of a private nature tosay to liis master. "You will return?" asked Vaudrey, very .anxiously. "Oil, yes, in a few minutes." "She will return," said i'lcard, to / 1 d. himself: "well, Illiit Is good. Mistress below stalls, and a pretty chamlierinaid up here. This Is the yountf man who studied philosophy," and a selfsal islied smile passed over his face as lie thought that his master was walking in Hie wav he a<lmired. "Well, sir," said I)*' Yaudrey, as soon as flic d(K)r dosed and they were alone. "we aro alone now. What nrmgs you nereV l,l took the lilierly of following you, monsieur," replied Heard, in a saucy voice. 'Following mo, you scoundrel!" exclaimed tlie chevalier, in an angry lone. "Scoundrel Is good, very good," said I'icard.ln a low voice. "NOW lie k something like a master." "What do you say?" I was saying, monsieur, t iiat scoundrel is not halt st rung enough, part leularlv when I come to lind out (I tat. nf- : ter all "After all! What?" And I to Y and rev was fast losing Ids temper; a state in which the valet seemed most anxious to see him. "(?ood. he will kick me in a minute." t hought I'leard, as he said, In an impudent sort of way: "You must know, monsieur, that I had become so disgusted with your conduct that l begged your undo to relieve me of serving you any longer, and if lie had not insisted on my remaining and watchingyou "So you have become a spy, Master Hoard, have yoiiY" Interrupted be Validrey, in an angry voice. " Yes. sir. a spy on you. Why, monsieur, if I had not, how should I have found out that you was a gallant and a rue?" "Itoue!" exclaimed t he chevalier, who was now regaining ids temper, and Incoming amused. "Well, now did you lind t hat out Y" "l?y obeying the inst met.Ions of y? in uncle. I followed you to the house of I your inamorata, and instead of lindiug you witli that much-honored la ly, I discover you enjoying the society of her chamlicdmaid." "IMiamhermaid!"exclaimed be Van-1 drey.lnot understanding at lirst what his valet meant. "( Hi, you have t he fairest of excuses," sum i'leaid, In a light lone. "Sin* is as pre! l y as "Look you, Master IMcard," ?*rit>(l , 1 he chevalier, now thoroughly enraged, "anot her word, and I will throw you out of I hat window." "Oh, thai is going further than I bargained for," said Picard, gelt lug ii ' little alarmed. "Thrown out of a sixt h story window," "Listen tome, sir," said he Vault roy, sternly. "I am all ears, monsieur, hut please rememher that wc are very high up," and Picard made a grimace t hat was inexpressively comical. "Kot'iirn at once to the count, and tell him that after having downed my footsteps day by day, you have at last found me in the presence of the woman 1 love." "You mean t he chambermaid of the woman you love. Same t hin#," said I'icaid, flippant ly. "Silence, sir! 1 tell you that you have seen the woman I love, and you may inform the count that she Is to he my wife," and he Vaudrey's voice rang out loud and clear, while a proud light in his eyes showed how much of honor lie felt it would be for him If the woman of his choice should consent to marry him. "Kh, your wife?" exclaimed Picard, ! in surprise. "Silence, sir, she is coming." As he spoke, t he dooi; ,p,;. ;po,and . Ifenriette entered- the room. Her 1 bcii.V.L'i'i,' eyes "we re lilted with tears, < Tnd her face was expressive of the ( deepest misery. , With that abandon which grief imparts,she threw herself into a chair, and laying her head on t he table, soli- 1 bed as t hough her heart would break. "Shame shame! I am sure I do not deserve, to be so insulted," she. sobbed, 11:1 If to herself "What is it, llenrietl e? Who litis instilled you?" asked Do Vawdrcy, while the lire that flashed from his eyes Ixxlcd no good for the insnlter. "1 am ordered to leave the house," replied Henriette, still sobbing. "Ordered to leave t he house? Why?" and the ohovalier seemed to Ikj in a perfect whir! of amazement. "Alas, monsieur, they tell me that a young girl) living alone, lias not the right to receive the visits of gentlemen such .is you." "Such us I? I who have always I realed you with the respect due a sister?" "A moment ago she was his wife," said l'ieard, who hod boon eagerly listening to the dialogue, to himself, "now she D his sister. < )h, it's all right." "The mist less of the house, whp until now has been so kind to me, sa\H she cannot permit me to remain, for she has a good name lo protect , which my conduct scandalizes," continued Henriette. in a low, sad voice. "What could I say? She litis ordered me lo leave tit once." " I 'on r thing!" stiid l'ieard, in a sympathizing voice. "Monsieur, I say ibis is unjust, this Is is " "Shameful!" exclaimed I )e*Vaudrey,1 whose indignation at first prevented him from sneaking. "Certainty it is shameful," said IMcard, earnestly. "Mamzclle, I will go to that woman myself. I'll tell Iter you are not yet that is, I mean that? that he?thai l?l don't know what I mean," and the valet, who, despite his love for adventures, was really a g(x>dhearted, honest fellow, turned away to hide the tears which sprung to his eyes. "llenrlctte," said I he chevalier, tenderly, "dry your tears. Yap shall leave t Ids house to enter mine. "That is pretty cool!" exclaimed the | valet, in surprise, hut in so low a tone t hat Ills master did not hear him. Not mine alone," continued De Vaudrey, "hut yours as well, for you shall enter it on tlie arm of your husband." "Your wife!" exclaimed the weeping girl. "No -no, that is impossible" " I agree wit h you perfectly,"thought Heard, whose Ideas as regards birth and posit ion were very decided, "Think of the Immeasurable distance which separates us," continued Henriottc, in a tlrm voice, "believe that 1 appreciate the generosity which inspires you, yet my duty impels mo to refuse." "Refuse!" repeated the chevalier, in great surprise. "Spoken like a sensible girl," was (continued on page 4.) I ' NO. 15) . MORE ANI) MORE. The Pension Roll Grows Still. Three Billion Dollars Expended. OVER ONE MILLION PENSIONS. As a llfHiilt ul'tho Wnr Iletwren tho Sialci. Nearly Talcc as Many as the <'oil IVtlera I e Motillei'M N ii mIn-red. In t.lio course of his annual report Secretary Hitchcock presents the following statement as to the bureau of pensions: The report j>f the commissioner of pensions shows t hat the total number ol pensioners on the roll (hiring the fiscal year ended .1 une .'10, 1002, was 1,011.087, and the number remaining on the roll at the close of the year was OttO, I to, a not ?ain over the previous year of 1.711, and exceeding In number of pensioners any former year. The grains in the rolls during the. year wore to. 121 new pensioners and 3,8H1 renewals and restorations, a total if i:t.'.?.")2. The losses to the rolls during the year by death were 37,1 15, and from ot her causes 5,000, a total of 12,211, leaving a net Kain of 1,711 for years. The number of claims of all classes adjudicated during the year was 24(1,353, which number 118, tdl were rejected. The appropriation for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year was *1 11,000,000. In payments to the appropriation made t lie amount available for payment of pensions $1 14,004,351.50. The disbursements for army and navy |>ctisions during the year including the amount disbursed by treasur settlements, were $137,504,207.Ow, leaving an unexoended tmlnnee to ?>.? covered ltdo the treasury of $0,500,085.50. Tin* expenditure f<?r navy pensions was $5,810,022.21. The entire cost of the maintenance of the pensoln system since the foundation of the government was nearly $5,000,000,000. < )f the amount I hat lias heen expended for pensions since the foundation of the government $70,000,000 was on account of I lie war of the revolution; $45,025,207 on account of service in the war of 1812; $5,811,200 on account of service In the Indian wars (1852-1812); $51,801,557 on account of service in the Mexican war; $5,275,184 on account of the war with Spain, and $2,728,878,270 on account of the war of the rebellion. The commissioner recommends the passage of a law providing that any person convicted in court of an infamous crime shall forfeit his pensioner his rltfht to one. I fully concur in the commissioner's recommendation minis mutter; the pension roll Is a roll of honor, and its high standard should he ever maintained. Information was received atthebu"I'iiii in c.'. death during tho year of ">o.l2H old soldiers; of thac number, however, only 27,0 hi were on the pendon roll. It. is estimated that the leath rate among the pensioners for the present year will approximate 40,i)oo, and the losses to the roll from Dther causes will probably equal 0,000. The commissioner expresses the opinion, however, that owing to new legislation enacted by Congress the number on the pension roll at the end of the present year will exceed 1,000,000. A llody Found. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says a sad case of drowning litis been discovered in the Knorec river, two miles tibove the l'elham mills, where the body of .lell' Moore, a 12year-old hoy, was found on the banks of the stream, a short distance from a foot-log crossing, and it is conjectured that he had attempted to cross the river and lost his footing. The boy was somewhat demented and left his home several weeks ago, and when last seen he was on the road to J'elfaium. Ills parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. 1). Moore, who live at the Victor mills, and on the disappearance of their son the fact was advertised by circulars and in the newspapers, but no tiding were received by them until Mr. L. S. Brown found the body oi tneir son on i riclay afternoon. Hoy Killed by Train. Another fatal railroad accident happened in Augusta on Wednesday night by which a lad lost his life. The victim was a ten year old boy, Willie Adams. His father and mother arc dead and he was living with his grandfather near the King mill on Broad street. Near his home the C. and W. C. railroad has a shifting yard, and U>ys make it a practice of jumping on and otl the cars, taking rides. With i other boys young Adams were doing ll.iu ........I..., If.. ....... -i-l 1 .... i wa?r? i u inii^. I IU r?<K* 11U1IIH llll a Hat car when in some way he fell |o!T, the train passing over him, severj ing liis head from ills body and horril>lv multilating the upper portion of j his body. For some time the author! ties have been trying to break up this habit among the !>oys and only a few days ago quite a number \fbro arresti cd and lined by the recorder. Volcano llolflANOd n Torrent. Thursday's eruption of La Soufrlere occurred at the head of the dry river ! Kabaeci, where huge quantities of volcanic deposits iiave blocked the water course since the eruptions last May in spite of the subsequent heavy rainfall. After the eruption of Thursday a raging,steaming torrent flowed irooi the base of La Soufrlere and swept down the Kabacol, completing the destruction of the sugar works there. Sand at the same time fell on Georgetown and other places.