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The People's Journal. PICKENS S. C. THF NEW PLANCHETTE. There was no one to answer the bell, so Mrs. Cassidy went herself. "Why, Cola Bethune! I am so glad!" she cried, in greeting her visitor. " Yes, I wanted to see you," the girl returned fervently, as they kissed each other. " I was out for a spin and came this way. ' * " low do you like my new suit ?" "I like it. It looks just lovely on you." "Isn't the skirt too short ?" Not a bit. You want it short." But not too short," insisted the girl. " I was so afrali it would be too short. Some look perfectly shock I'I know. But yours isn't, a bit tot short. Come in this way, where wt can sit down." Oh, but I mustn't stay." "I thought you wanted to see me ?' Cela's exercise had heightened thit color in her pretty face, but a blusi increased it still more as Mrs. Cassid.3 recalled those first words. Celi covered her confusion with imore talk in regard to her now gown and the trials she had undergone in having it out and fitted. Evon as sle spoke Mrs. Cassidy seemod forced to take the girl's moesuro in a certain other light. "low old aro you, Cola ?" sho asked, abruptly. ' Why, Laura Cassidy ! What i <11es tion ! Do you think I'n going to tell y S* * ~Nineteen. Why ?" You'll be getting married before long." " Oh, ily goodness: l 'm1 never going to marry. 1iit, I've had a proposal,'' blushing furiously. "And you've said 'Ye.' l'i so glad. How lovely of you to come and tell ine all about It." Mrs. Cassidy was about to fold the girl in her arins again, but (celht waved her oiT. " Oh, der.r, no '. Ati w hat', imore, I'm not going to sat 'a.' Oh, I don't know what I in going to 1ay. How do you decide ahloi t u ich Llhin l? You've had to. once, not long nt O. Tell me. That's what I camie for.' A note of treiitilous despair iove red about her voice. "It's easy. You mxu1st know wietler you love Norian Foild or not. "Norman iord : Ilow did voilu -.Ces him '?" " Why, who elke coUl it he?" l He isn't the only younIIILg 11an. Cela retoi'tel, with i a LOIChL (Lf resen t mont. Mrs. Cassidy gave tonet to at rIch laugh. Silo was in hove with Lhe mio ment. Cela was miuiinlfl only of the main question. " YOU 8et, I Would lhLa ve to lea ve ipaa and go anI live with N-Mr. f'ord. I've only known imI, I few months-a year or tvo at Ilost--and I've known papa all m1iy life.' Mrs. Cassily'.s liliigh was very pro vokingr. Cela was vexed. "Uh, you know willit I il iia. i 1iWhit nakes you belave t-o 2 I tioiglt you would help ile." " And so I will. You nilIst tly with ic a week. Send for youIL I hig. You must. think it over. A rnatter of this kindl cani'L be decided at onie."' " That's just what I told Norn' ! said the girl, Ilashing joyously. "' I's so kind of you to hlp mein. I k new you would. I want Li) talk it all over wvith you. You tiee, I donu't want to make any mistake.' And talk It over they di ever'y day, almost ever'y hou11r, for a week. "' it will be better for youL notI toi see Mr. iFord until you can give him11 a definite answer,'" lier -riend had said, and Cela acquieticed In the wvisdom of this. "' O1 courso, 1 can't choose for you. I can only hlCi you to knIow you2 own mind." " Hlow did you ever choose ?"' Cela asked, ernylios of her1 friend's ability. "'It iwas easy. 1 just kiieiv." "That's It 30you always know every thing and I never know anything." Later, wvhen Mrsn. Cassidly q wsLtioned~i her, Cola said ' "In the muorniing l'mi all for pa'pa. TJhen it seems juLst at clear as et he whatL ~i sa1 1do. I hit tojward1 eing about thei time Nor, Mr. iFord-usual ly comce ''thLie re I poured Into Ucla's checks- " why, I'mi all at sea again.'' " But you don't really hav~ie to choos between them. You just--" "Oh, yes, I do '' in terr'iupIted CelIa, very piositively. " IL can niever he the same. it will all bie dltferent. should have to give upi papa, and I shall most cer'tainly say :' N o.' This was in the m'or'ning, In the afternoon Mr xs. Cassily anil Cola went for a spin throughI the p'ai'ks on their wheels. "' Oh, Mr x. Ford and I havie hadl suche lovely rides on a tandom, that lhe hi a Cola saId, rapturously3. "I i isi I ij written him a nte toliling where I iri ui~ying. I r'eally don't iInk tiherei would be any harm in hxIsecing O, ifdL he might help mc to a decision. l really seems as if It woulId het hart. to say .'No,'- for ho say3s ho tchi,, everything of me. Yiou just OtgIL i hear ,him once : And, as you say. I haven't r'eally got to gIve papa up. 1ie might come anti live wvith us. Any way, 1 Jold( see him i every day- --al most as much as 1(10 now, for be's ony 13 1111 a few hour-s In the eveing. ii Lt It d Id seemi so terrible at first.' In the mnornling the teirr of it al returned, muade wo;'se by a1 feelinug that a delsi5onx musitt be reached tiiat day, fore it wvas thu last of her stay with her frIend. But when Mr ,s Cassidy joIned Cola ICer face wvas beams ing with a plan whiebh she had thought "'I've a way, cla, for 3you to know your own mintd." "Oh, what Is it y en dTo ays that ever'y or an -n bor.l"rd and your father wall' down Columbia avenue toge~tr on ther way fromn town. At Madison stettey 511ia ate roi father goe Now, this Is moy plan :This afternoon on your way hlomje you ride your wheel slowly downi the avenue just back of the two men. lHut don't lot them see you. All the way you must just think that you must make up your mind be tween them, and at the corner whore they part that yoa will follow the one whom you decide upon. tlde your wheel Just as slow as yucn u o mustn't drop) or fall o , u yL " Yes," said Cola, "And If at the very last you can't decido to leave it all to the wheel." "Leave it to the wheel '?" Cela did not understand. " Yes. Haven't' you ever noticed year wheel act independent of your self ? That is, turn this way or that without your consciously making it ?" rIe 'did that whon I was learnng to "Yes-sometime." " Well, that's the way planohetta workss," said tho other, mysteriously. i " It's really one's subconsolousnees that does it, I suppose. You know subconsolousnoss is like clairvoyance and second sight and hypnotism and all those things which know all about the poast and future," Cola shuddered. k "i'm afraid of such things." " But not of subsconsciousness. To be afraid of that would be like being afraid of one's own soul." "Well, what then ?" eagerly. Why, if it is best that you should t accept Mr. Ford your wheol will keep ( straight ahead down Columbia avenue V after him. But if you really ought to I refuse him it will turn without your really making it, down the street that your father takes." " Roally ?" Yes." "I have road that the whol taught one decision," Cola said. "B3ut I never know just how." " Well, that's how," said Mrs. Cassidy, slowly and thoughtfully. The sun had disappeared behind the 0 tall brick blocks to the west and leftI tho street, canyonliko, in soft slildows. t Cola darted among thle carriages, C dodging heavily-laden trucks, the - whi le keeping a sharp eye upon the walk for two men. "h, there h is " she said, softly, t with a little thrill of delIght,. "Norm has a new suit of gray-that's whly I didn't known him sooner. Wtiat would ho think of me if lie know I was so Ii near, watchbing iiiii ? lie said he shiould Ihe under torture till I gave lihim U my alnswer. l10 dousn't act liko it. What cil ppa and lie bo talking so agreeably about ? 'apa, the dear old soul: But I Iust be thinking. I miust clhoose botwooen them." Co,'la's faceo paled a little. "l'apa wouldn't come and live with us. lie just couldn't. W holnever we've tilked of bor.rding, lie has15 said he p could inot boar to give up iis home. It's at wonder Norm doesn't look th i way. lie has said again and again that lie knew when I wias in the same rool witl hiarn-tbhat lie could fee, my eyes. 'i'ley crossed JIelforson street. si " it's at the next corner, now !" sh s' gasped, " and I haven't (Lecidled yet. I am ali that, papl ias in this world. llow can I leave himrn alono? Would u it he right? Otlher daughters (o. Laura seemed to think it would. Norm nays lie can never lovo anyone ulso he'd rather die than live without nim. 0 ui, here is the cornor. And they aro separating. Papa is looking this way. r What shall I do? 1 just can't teieldo, a Laura said leave it to the whol. C( What will the wheol do ?" g " l'hero was a broathlOss moment. Y Cela's wheel was g(ing very slow; then e' slower, slower, but straight, ahead. UJpo n its moveiien ts hiiiug ber fato. Would it decieo for Norm? Heor heart had allosL celsed to heat. One more 1' turn of the pedals wouid carry her by. a Slower, slower. Suddenly her wihool b turned sharoly to the right. ti " (i, It's for papa," she said, with j' belloth thiitt cime like a kniifo inl her 1i sido. "' oor Norm.' C Ii another moment Cola had over- " taken her father, and together they turned down i the street, whiilh ran a parallel to Columbia avenue. ti "You're riot looking well," M r. Ilh- t unte siaid. "' 've been doing -omo vc-y har- * riding," Cela replited, avoiding his eyes, for there were L')ars in her own. W Why', shcro Is Nor-MrI i. l-'or-d,'' sh hi~ exclaimed, as that, young man10 camie up tl the 81ido street toward them. a1 l'ord was su1rpirised to Iinid Celai wvith g ber father, but (10 ilited ithal. llor~ t, reception was such as one mnight give I the ghost of a dear friend. ii ''"lier are somte papiers I meant to in g iv you'11, buit forgot them.' al ". ih, yes,'' rei pied liothu ne, tr lc'lng a the package. "' You'll bie up this 'v n- e ing'f lhe inquiired with a look towivic tI his dlauighte fV ieb iu semed to addri "nowv that Cclia is homie.''b \ es,' Cla answered gulckly fori .i himii, and l'ord felt lie wa1s to kinow i fate that night, and feared wi bh it,.p would hie. Cola was ver-y paic hr wv manne 11r was1 uniist iak ab ic. Alter tell Mi r. li5ethuono sat in his li-m brary. cela had taken a stia and 111 drawni it near hiim in the duck. m "l)aug 'hter, l'in going to taR -I .\ A "Oh, Ilapa, lhe-- lhe has a:,ke- ii m- i f be his wIfe, too" "i'oo ? I'in not going to he his with.: mi you needn'it hie SoI fiighiteied." fat " Oh, you,,2 horridl 11111 '1(1Y ou ow dt w'halt I iiieian. Thiere's is hell inow," trt shii added, splrinigiiig to hier feet. g "Well, 1 hllf e'xpOetedl it,'" sighed ci the old mnan, " but, lhe'l h111ave tol coiii w here to live. I can't ha ive him eari'ry- so lng you away."'0 "Comoi here to live,' Cola repeated ti to horself as she fiow to answer the ar ring. "' Why, of couirse-thait5 whalit wv it mloanit his clininig up1 tha it othiery Sstreet to join us i. MI yv wheel knew hocw p it waIs to bie.'' " Well, whIch Is It, ''' saId .'rdl, iin like one asking his d'oiii. ti ItRs yes. t, oh, it, eaine aw fuIly pr neari bieing no .' imu.,t tell 30u ablouit 1) it. Now, don't act silly." w I)1T i:i' i (i A P'io(uiN:Ni [Cait'roni . I --VII aini I'restoni joht1 S toii, who1( I d atI iigton (in Sunday, wais one of tlib oost irom inent eduocators in the South. lie wvas horn in L ouisvil, i hy, January 3, 141l, and was a son ofw Guni. Albert Sidiney Jo'hinston, who commanided the Con federate forces at Siloh and was killed in that battleo. A fter attending the beat schools in Kentucky y'ounig ,Johnston wais sent t is Valle, where lie wvas gradluated in 1852. lie was grailhnmted a~t Louisville Lawa School the foillowing year, and in 185-1f married MIiss Rosa Duncan, of New c Orleans. lie began the practice of law In Louisville, but at the outbreak C (if the clvii war he entered the Con iederato army as a major with the 1st Kentucky reginent. He was subse-a quently appointed by P'resident D~avis, a of the Confederacy, to become his aide do-camp, with the rank of colonel of cavalry. When the Confederacy col laipsed Col. Johnston adhered to the i fortunes of Mr. Davis, and was cap- g turod with hims. Afteir rolease friomi t plrison he lived a year11 ini Canada, ando then returned to Louisville to resume the plractice of law. When Con. Lee c beam resident of Washington at Lee University Col. Johnston was ap plointedl to the chair of 10nglish history ~ and literature, which lie held till 1877, when he resignedl to complete the bio graphy of his father, Gon. Albert Sid- lE a ploted lie accep~ted the presidency of a the Louisiana State University, at Baton Rougeig, Lan, and when Tulane University was founded he was chosen president of that institution. b ---If the Southern absorbs the Monon, tl Charleston will realize the dream of ~ a century, a through line from Chicago e to the Carolina coast just one hundred a miles shorter than from the metropolis a of the West to New YVr.r BILL AlRP ON AGUINALDO. lo Says thle Filipino Leader Must be a Great Man to Hold Our Army Back-Spain Laughs at Selling us ani Elephant at a Goodt Price. Agulnaldo! The name haunts mo. man, a leader, a gonoral who has opt the army and navy of the United tates at bay for six months must be patriot and a soldior. Surely some ,rong power must be helping him. Vhcro does he got his supplies, his uns and munitions of war ? Some inos we hear that he Is a fraud, a yrant, and will soon play out. One ay we lieAr that our boys have about hipped him1 into sullbml ission, but the ext day he tans ambushed and killed lot of them. Our boys are discour ged and say that they are tired flght ng a million negroes and want to come 101110. 1 wonder how many of them ave died in the ditches and from ropilcal disezases and home sickness. t bscis that these things have to be opt secret in war, and I reckon that right. tut it will come out sooner r later. Tte secretary of war has at ist been forced to resign because of 1o fearful mortality in Cuba that ivime from his political appointments incompetent ollicors and his beef lbbery. Alas for the poor privates. i time of war they have no friends. hero i a wide gulf between them and to cuimissioned olicrs. A privato ust salute his superior officor and el if ho does not say, " I am your g, sir." It is bad enough in the vol itoer Hervico, but worse in the regu r army. I had two grandsons in the uban army. One was a captain and ke other a private. They were broth 's, but were not allowed to associate. he rules and usages of war forbade . Ono was a dog and the other his astor. Shakospearo said that pri %tes wore food for powder and were oe cankers of a calm world and a long aeo. As a general rule the regular my is made Ut) of the waifs of mis rtune, the vagabonds, the idlers and to friendless. No well raised young an with respectablo connections (uld think of becoming a private in to regular army. Enlistment is mply a mode of providing for the irplus population that might other iso become anarchists and endanger to government. Indeed, history tells that kings and emperors have found good polley to provoke wars in order give the idle and roetless class >mothing to do and to keep them out nischlof.i xThoir monthly pay and btions and the prospect of a pension old ago Is attraction enough. Patern 1i1m is the hope of the paupor, the minmunist, the private soldier. The avorunient is their pap, and liko Jung j tybirds, when the old ones ie around they open their mouths ide and say, " Daddy, drop a bug in (ro." IHit I w as ruminating about this cop er colored iPillpino, this manl Agulu do, and for the life of me I cannot el3p admiring him. If his people con nutle to back him how can we sub imgate then. He can atTord to lose vo to one and then defeat us. lie is xactly in General Grant's condition lion nearly the close of the civil wa. [o said ho could give up three to one tnd conluer ut, for he had the world > draw from and we had nobody to Ike ouril prismiors' places. That is the jason he was so inditforent to the rloners that w- took and cutldent 'd. Thoy were mostly foreigners, tih1 weret not ighting for pamLrotisma, .:L fort mioney, for a liing. Loo0k at wm natmes on the headstones at ChIick lmaulga axnd Andeirson vilhe. It, atlmost iv es a man thme lockjaw to pronounce mucm. Th'Iere were nearly three mit one~ of Imen~ in that, army and over two ilions were foreigners-food for jwder-the eanikerms of a ciiam world ad a long peace. 'What dlid Grant ad 8'. rman ei1are f,. thmi ? They 'itl tor *10) a m-'nt ui and got it and to thir mdhancm( *' lonors were m~y. Thet djlitfcn was that our e wecre aill pak'riots 10(d volunteers, :om one to thmree~ was a1 faIr tight. N 1w to m popumlatio n of tile illhIlip no's hi 1aid to be l0.000,00J0. That Cid iive Lnm 1.000) 000 soldiers who iat, bom. AL hme defending thir mye landut and even if our boys should Scaipt u o Ag ni naldoe, another :di rise uIp anid lead the people. 'mun is chuckling over the $20,000,000 1. piJj for islands that she was tired . ad it looks to mm like we have mwh,~m'. an: 'h p n, t[or the life of' SI can't, aIrouse much inteurest in this eotf war with 10,000,000 negroes. I mn't care any thing about it. As Spain cated the native Cubans, so is our >vernment treating the Fillipinos. I ,n't, sue any ditference. I wish there s ab djitference. I wish there was imethnlg to provoke my pride when 'er we obtain a victory, but really is does not seem like our war. It is admluiinistratilon war---a Republican ar, a war that will within a few pars cost millions and entail another mraion outrage. There was no neces Ly for it and peace might have been ado sooni after Dewey's victory (over o Spaniards. Aguinaldo repeatedly oposed for' it. Yes, begged for it, it our officials wouldent even treat ith hlim or recognize him and so .ousanids of our soldiers have gone to lir dle.th and more are called for. ft them call. Our boys are not, going not one. If the negroes choose to go at's all right. Put negroes to fight g negroes. It will be a good rid ance of the vagabonds who won't Lark. This negro problem Is still uin tvedi and we will have to wait on it. I've been perusing another interest g book, ." TIhe Hietory of the Mis uri Compromise," it is called, hut it far more than that,. It is-virtually plolitical history of the United States em l187 to 185-1, when the Missouri impromise was repealed. Thits re ml was fathered by Archibald Dixon, om Kentucky, who succeeded Hoer.ry lay in tihe United States Senate. Uo as a very great and influential man, me personal friend of Mr. (lay and 'ad Benators D)ouglass and Daniel /obster. His widow, Mrs. Dixon, still yes---a highly cultured and gifted oman wh~o lived in Washington with or husband during all of that excit ig poerlod when the North was strug hong for mastery on the slavery ques on. Tils book has recently been is aed from tihe press of tihe Ro bert Clark nnpany of Cincinnati, and has al ady receivedl thue highest commend L~ion from Henry Watterson, Proctor nott, William Wirt Henry, The New 'ork Times, The Evening Post and any other papers, partisan andi non artisan. All are lavish In Its praise ndl declare 'it to be the tru~h, the 'hole tr'ith and nothing but the truth, ud the wonder is that it was written y a woman. For many years she has iade It a labor of love and has made a most interositing and valuable contri ution to our political history. Every >ver of historical truth that concerns de glorious past,, when there were lants ina our national legislature, hould read and ponder this remark ble book. And there has come to me sweet little: gem of a book called Howard Wooden, of Huntsville, Ala. Her brush and pen have combined to make up a loving tribute to the old. A time darkies. They are there with their touching songs and sentiment, A and we old-time masters and mistress es can hardly restrain our tears while C we look and road. The perfect finish ' of theso old-time nogro faces is the al most exquisite work of art I have ever b seen. Thanks to Miss Weedon for her - beautiful work. And I wish also to thank the good 81 friends and comrades of the veteran Lucius M. Campbell, who have re- fl sponded to the inquiries made in my ' last latter. Those children will get a their pension. BILL AP. h AT HIS BROTH ER'S GILAV E. in rc IngersollIs Oration at the * uneral of p( His Brother Twenty Years Ago. it The funeral of Hon. Eben C. Inlger- 11 soll, brother of the late Colonel Robert w G. Ingersoll, took place at his resl dence in Nashington, D. C., June 2, w 1879. The ceremonies were extremely I. simple, consisting merely of viewing h4 the remains by relatives and friends, I and a funeral oration by Colonel In- C gersoll. A large number of dibtin guished gentlemen were present. Soon n after Mr. Ingersoll began to road his 1 eloquent characterization of the dead, p his eyes filled with tears. He tried to hide them behind his eye-glassos, but he could not do ft, and finally he bowed his head upon the dead man's coflin in uncontrollable grief. It was after t, some delay and the greatest efforts at a self-mastery, that Colonel Ingersoll h was able to finish reading his address, v which was as follows: "My friends, I am going tW do that a which the dead often promised he b would do for me. The loved and lov ri ing brother, husband, father, friend, 8 died where manhood's morning almost t touches noon, and while the shadows r( still were falling toward the west. He t had not passed on life's highway the ti stone that marks the highest point, ti but being weary for a moment, he laid m down by the wayside, and, using his c burden for a pillow, fell into that a dreamless sleop that kisses down his b oyelids still. While yet in love with e, life and raptured with the world, he M passed to silent and pathetic dust. " Yet, after all, It may be best, just y in the happiest, sunniost hour of all t( the voyage, while eager winds are 0 kissing every sail, to dash against t) the unseen rock, and in an instant 8, hoar the billows roar a sunken ship. h lFor, whether in mid-sea or among w the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck inudt mark at last the end of a each and all. " And every life, no matter if its C every hour Is rich witrh love and every b moment jeweled with a joy, will, at a its close, become a tragedy, as sad and doop, and dark as can be wovenq j( of the warp and woof, of mystery and ti death. This brave and tender man in P( every storm of life was oak and rock, d but in the sunshine he was vine and t] llower. Hle was the friend of all he- c roic souls. He climbed its heights and w left all supierstitions far below, while ) on his forehead fell the golden dawn- u Ing of a grander day. Slie loved the beautiful, and was o with color, form and music touched to dI tear-s. He sided with] the weak, and a with a willing hand gave alms ; with a loyal heart and with the purest hand w lie faIthfully discharged all public 0 trusts. Ho was a worshipper of lib erty and a friend of the oppressed. A v thousand tImes have I heard him quote the words : 'Iloor justico all place a temple and all season summer.' He helleved that happiness was the only | good, reason . the only torch, justice e the only worshiper, humanIty the only g, religion, and lovo the only pr-lest. He added to the sum of human joy , and were every one for whom he did LI some loving service to bring a bios- ri somn to his grave lhe would sleep to- i nIght beneath a wilderness of Ilowors- d Life is the narrow vale between the coIld and barren peaks of two eterni-j ties. We strive in vaiun to look be- e yond the heights. We cry aloud, and w the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. ["rem the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes nn , word ; but in theo night of death hope tI sees a star and a listenIng love can tI hoar the rustle of a wing. g " He who sleeps herec, when dying, mIstaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his last breath, ' I am better now.' Let h. us believe, in spite of doubts and dog- r( mas and tears and fears that these Li dears words are true of all the count- al less dead. And now, to you who have c( been chosen from among the many gi men he loved to do the last sad ollice at for the dead, we give his sacred dust. Speech cannot contain our love. T1herc was--t4here is -no gentler, stronger, gi manlier man." L THE NEW MIEORETARLY OF' WARL.w n4 A Distinguished Lawyer of New bi York at the Head ot thie War De.- P~ partment. President McKInley accepted the re si gnation of Scretary Alger to take effect Aug. 1st, and Elihu Root, of New York, is to take charge of the war p)ortfolio. The announcement of Mr. Root's ap poletment was made at the war de partment. It was stated that Senator Platt came to ,Washington ar-med with authority from Mr. Root to accept in his name the war portfolio. It is not expected that the acceptance will make any change in the plane of Secre tary Alger andl he will remain on duty until the end of the present month. Secretary Alger had confidently ex pected the ap~pointmont of Mr. RLoot, and was very much leasedl at the Pure sidont's choice. M'ilhu Root was born Fob. 15, 18415, i at Clincinton, Oneida county, N.' Y. Hie graduated from Hamilton college In the class of 1864 and entered the i New York univorsity law school. Us r was admitted to the bar in 1867, since t< whiah time ho has been in the active t4 practice of his profession In Now York. 6' UHe was United States attorney for the E southern district of New York freom March, 1883, to July, 1885. lHe was @ vice p~residenlt of the assoclation of the bar of the city of New Ytork for a num beo- of years, vice presIdent of the ai Grant Monument association, at one t time president of the Ropublican club u andl Is the present president of the e4 Union league club. Lie has been a ' trustee of Hamilton college sInce 1883 and has sceved as presidentof the New t1 England socIety in the city of Now York. Hie was one of the most promni- is nent members of the last New York State const.itutional convention, where k he served as chairman of the judicIary a committee. -The Epworthi Orphanage manage- p mont has established a large marble 9 yard in connection with the orobanago. * The foreman, Mr. J.- C. Smith, who *' has had between 30 and 40 years ox perience in carving and monumental work, has already taken charge. A SNAKE WORTH HAVING. Red-Bearded Youth from Kansas Who Had Never Told a Lie. ugusta (Oa.) Chronicle. As is customary with printers, The bronicle force, after work hours, ere having their good-night chat, id at this time the discourse was seed upon the over entertaining sub et of " snakes." Several tail yarns ore reeled off like spun cotton. A ranger from the far west who W.as sying the force a visit was a careful stoner, but he did not seem to know uch about snakes. He spoke never word for fully three-quarters of an )ur. The stranger was a subject for sculpt g. He wore a red heard that closely isembled a torch, his two big toe0 )inted and leaned toward each other the most loving manner possible, and 3 chewed tobacco like he was doing it so much a day. When he spit he ould shut one eye. At last it becane evident that he as loaded with a yarn; it was bulging him until his eyes stuck out. Then 3 spoke: " Gentlemen, I'm but a .Igrim and a stranger amongst you oorgia folks, and I don't want to say >thing rash. My mother put her ind on my head when I was the turn four years old and I promised her I never tell a lie, nor have I so far t, nor never will. I'd rather die. herefore what I tell you Is the truth, help me." "Go on, go on," shouted the boys as tcy gathered around him like tlies 'ound a lump of cheap sugar. "Well," 3 continued, " when I was livin' in Tlliamsburg, Kansas, in '73, a cheap )hn show busted in my town, and ilt out its goods and chattels. I 3ught a snake 12 feet long and the so. I never had no idea of startin' a row nor snake ranch, but I 'lowed iat this snake would eat up all the ist on my farm. We kept him about 1e house until he became a pet with ie old woman and all the childron ioy are all dead now-And I hope to out them in heaven. The dogs and its never pestered the snake, they ppeared to know he was loaded for asiness, and whenever my snake awled into the yard to sun himself y old Tom cat used to skin up a 70 ot sycarrore tree that stood in the ird and sing a song-a sort of solo himself that was enough to fetch it the fire companies. The cat argyed tat the snake had designs on his per in, and that his intention was not onorable ; but I don't know if they ere or not. " One day that snake swallowed y eight day clock. I missed the ock, and when I found the snake he )uldn't look me straight in the eye, at every now and then he would wink i me, much as to say, ' What time )u rockea it is ?' I knowed he swal >wed the clock cause I could hear it ckin' inside of him. Me and the old man held a council of war, and we 3cided that It would never do to kill a iirty-dollar snake to get a four dollar ock, so the snake just went on living ith us like nothin' had ever hap oned to unhing his character amongst " I had almost forgot my clock when ne day in the spring followin' I was Iggin In a sand bank back of my lot nd found some algs-not hen algs, but Igs about as big as goose aigs. There as forty-eight on am, an' breakin' em ai by one, what do you think ?" "Snakes ?" sang out a Ohorus of )ices. "As I told you befor-e, gentlemen, I ould not tell a liq for all this round irth, and I beg i~bat you'll all believe .0 when I tell you that in each and ieryonc of thorn forty-eight alge I und as pretty ILn open-faced silver atch as any man in thtis crowd would ieh to carry. I knowed in a minute tat I had found my snake's nest, and ght then I knowed I had a Klondiko that snake. I called him out two mys later and made him swallow forty unds of two-Inch augers, and I hope may die li he didn't lay corir-screwn ough the next spring to start a haru are store." " Gentlemen, don't you believe me ?" But the boys had all made a streak r the t-uase before he had finished L3 last sentence. They found that ey had run against one who had beat ic champion Georgia snake liar. --Snce the tlrst of the year charters wve been issued concerns in thIs State presenting an aggregate capitaliza on of nearly $6,000,000. Of this nount $2,226,700 represents new con ins, and 2,613,000 the capital of or inizations increasing their capital ock ; a total of $4,839,700. An artesian well in Marion has been ving people fever. The town au torities sent on samples of water f rom eir shallow wells and from the deep sil to a New York chemist. He pro mucoed the shallow wells all right, it said that the deadly microbe had >lluted the water from the deep well. woman's biha crown, It is a woman'e \glory to be strong .and capable in I HI fenminine way. Her wort uisorune to have any physical weakness agfecting me delicate, special organ(anm which is in >lved in motherhood. To insure the cem lete health and normal capability of this Lost itplrtant structitre, is the purpose of r. P'ieree's Favorite Prescr iption. Itg gies ne and vitality t'te entire nervous ays mn; antd stre:ngth antd vig~or to the organ in of inttern ity. it takes ilotherhood tasible, safe and eomparatively easy and uinless, Its wender working capacity is exetnpllfe in * trying~ .erience Of hira. A. Sleck, Nose ekeon St., tn N. J. who writes: bf e am taksing Dr. Pieree's llavorite P'resorit on ortly helbre conuaenett witlh :y uiut)i e id4. 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