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■ ,Tr> T p x. wzm. ■ ' : ; THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMRER 12, 189G. .3 RUFUS SANDERS. ^ ‘ 1 ' Gront Amorionn frop of Fools* I A r<u>l N■ I toii Hr. ;»!<« ;t'p n ^Tedding Malfli—On* VVoniun’H Way of Krlng- lii(; a W Itlalrjr Fool to 1'trao. I.’.lin or rliiiH* v.ft or ilry—hot or uklil fof i il\cr or no frre silver— >>/-»• otpry rear tihe ' vv, %» ^ *■ k'ood Ixird soihIb l f \S lirin^K tl»o usual t ,-iJL (,f f™ 1 *- : ' r ‘/s'''’ Tllf lute <’OOl \ . v~* / ! ’ '( V '•* Miaps, thti spring j ■ / (r^hvlK, the / - , >, '/ sv.f ll-Tin heat of mmuner, llic long »,t ’ dry (!nought« in v tlio. fall of y<tir and Iho In*- uirndiim cold dead of winter — 4 have all gut notliin to do with the groat Auv.’irioan fool crop. It comes up and grows oil' and turns out its. producc- jnonls as roglur as pig tracks in a plum thiol.ct, Tv/o IJisirtM That Meat n« Ono. What m .l. s mo stop and tell you 1 hat.? Well, na tly from the fact that we had oiu of the most proper and Jovelit i N'eihlin matches you ever heard tell of perhaps fixed up in the settlement this fall, and everything was coiiiin l ipht on across in nieenhajxs till old man Da c. I’ov.cn took up one of his fool not ions and gummed up the cards and Is. led the game. As cun •edy knows, old man Dave llnwen is < nr of the hest-flxed jnon for miles ;,nd miles aronnd. He lives cn the old J:.iv.\n plantation down there on D <-v Creek, where he wao born .and hr-d ami lining up. The old -u men ninko the mixture the Fool Killer ain't in no danger of losln his job. ( There was tlu* trouble vylth Dunk. ' lie went on innkln that tetTihle nilxtry till at Inst he bore thr*uaun*ami fameof n natural-born fool. Hut by and by he | took and married Miss Dixie Stamlen- rnlre, which she was about the most, | handsomeKt young woman in the rot- ' tlement, and presently she fetched him to law. Miss Dixie was tall and buxom ami high strung, as well as good lookin. Her arms was white ar. milk, but big as a bed post, and she had t he keenest, prit- tiest blue eyes you ever looked into per haps. Along at first Miss Dixie, she would cry every time. Dunk come up drunk, but that was such a reglnr thing t ill she had to git use to it, and 1 reckon her stock of tears run out. She tried and tried in her tender, womanly way to break Dunk from Id* fool wars. Hut Dunk he didn't do n bleased thing but make great promises and then went right, on drinkin and rowdyin to boot six bits. One bright, and beautiful rprlng mornin some IS years ago, Miss Dixie she called for a new deal mid give it out that she would now play a differ ent game with Dunk. So when he started to tow n that mornin f he went out to the front gate with him and rcsul- the law In bis hearin. TIIK liltOTIIEIt IN MACK Sam Jonoo Wrltoa of tho Colored Man of tho South. Two Uncos of I’ooplcvTho African's Nntu- rnl DcIlctrncliiM—Tim Js'o(;r(» In I’oll- tleH—Duty of tho White Copulation. stock of H r.ven |K'<'j'le pasred away a the ftillue of time, tmd then Dave’s irother: a ml sis? is died up one by one ill finally at la.it he is the onlyest me left. ( -nretjueiit'nJIy the whole limitation am! ever;, thingon It lielongs 0 him in h s full name, lie had went m for two or three long and weary •ears iivia tiiere all (done by himself vith no betn r company than the nig- r< rs ami hi mules. And naturally of •oum. ■ evt rybody wad glad when he it out and put in visitin and courtln irotiml Misi Mary Willingham—which do know sin* in one of the liest and mist i mai tm t women in the round crc- ited worhl. Mbs Mary is like old mou dat e in om r< arils her jicoplehave all liud u[) and left In r alone ih the world. Hut they left, her without any home hot she can call her «nvn, or lands, ir mules, or cattle, or anything. She s also way yonder different from old nan Dave in regard*) to sense. She has pot a grnciou) plenty of it, whilst he is a monstrous |>oor man in that way. Hut anyhow it did look to me like die very best thing for them to do, un- lor all the surroundin circumference, was to go and git married. Dave had he money and tho home, whilst Miss Mary had everything else. He was <ome the oldest, but she had also shed lier eolt’s teeth, ns it were, and it would raley seem like they had lioen pre- Icstinatcd lo marry from the fomuln- tions of the world. Everybody in the settlement thought so. And at one lime old man Dave and Miss Mary thought the same way. After a right smart fumblin ami foolin and visitin and courtin and oarryin on, at last they give out Die news and set the day— Friday evenin before the last Third Sundav. Tim Machinery Slips a Cog;. But in tho maintime Aunt Nancy Newton had iseard the news and come bilin up from I’anther Creek to see the show. She. had been good clost friends with Miss Mary for years and years, and the dear, delightful old soul jest simply couldn’t keep her finger opt of the weddin pie. Ho that Friday mornin Aunt Nancy and mother they booked up and driv off dow n to Hunk Weatherford’s, whero the w eddin was to come off, to git Miss Mary dressed and ready. On the way down there Aunt Nancy had to tdi everybody where she was goin and what she had to do. Whereas, durin the day old man Dave heard that mother and Aunt Nancy had went on down to Bunk Weatherford’s to dress Miss Mary for the w eddin. Well, from then cn the fat was in the fire and the weddin cake turned to dough. That wouldn’t make a con tinental bit of difference with me and you. But old man Dave swore he’ll be doubly dadburned if he would marry any woman under the sun that couldn’t dress herself. “Somethin ir. the matter with her if it takes t w o women to dress her,” says old man Dave, “and by gollys that lets me out.” The neighbors soon got wind of how the machinery had jumped a cog, and &ome of them went over to see old man Dave to try and talk some sense into his |u*ad. But it was pluperfect vanity. He wouldn’t move a peg. And he maintains till yet that if he ever does take unto himself a wife she must be a full grown woman and able to dress herself. One fielf-Mado Fool. There is at least one more, man in the Rocky Creek settlement which come up with the general crop of fools, and his name is Dunk Strickland. To some ex tent Dunk was raley what you mought call a self-made fool. He did have sense enough to squeeze through if he had but only kept it cool and sober all ,tho time. Hut Dunk was powerful prone to look long and lovlnly upon khe early runnins of the corn. And Ijoreover, a spoolful of brains and a lint of m. m w hisky, mixed nnd shook Ik together and taken before and after «atin and between meals, will soon fcinnkn the goiieiiyo.t biggest fool in tho [world. The devil couldn’t beat that |)rew ription if lie tried day and night lor n thousand years, and «o long aa TuIiIhr Down the Check Ilcln. “We are now stnndin at the forks of Hie road, Dunk,” says Miss Dixie, “and the time has come for me and you to have a family reckonin together. 1 don’t w ant any more of your promisin nnd quittin. You have been promisin nnd promisin nnd quittin nnd quittin till bless gracious I am sick and tired of that. You have now got to let down t he check rein and change your gate, or I’ll l>e blest if there don’t be n smash- up somewhere In the neighborhood. I am plum willin for you to play big nnd l>os« the concern if you will but only stay sober. But if you come home i drunk to-night you will is? the sorriest man in the county to-morrow.” It w as deep dusk, with the stars shin- in and the whippowllls sir.gin, when Dunk got home—drunk as usual, if not a little drunker. But Miss Dixie she was stnndin there at the front gate when he rid up, and she want cryin any to speak of. “Dunk Strickland,” says she, "you dndblnstcd, slow-footed, good-for-noth- In sot, git down off of that horse and give me n drink!” "What smotter wid you seveinen, honey?” says Dunk. "Don't come honeyin around me,” says she. “You ain’t litten to honey a wet dog. (iit off of that horse like I told you!” And with that she went right on up into Duke’s shirt collar and landed him on the ground flat of his back. Then whilst he was sernmblin to his feet she got holt of his whisky bottle, turned it up to her pritty mouth and bit off a good big plug. “That is piighty sorry whisky, Dank,” says she, ‘‘but if you can stand it I pan. and we w ill go on a rcglar fam ily drunk together. If you won’t slay sober and go w ith me, then bless the heavens I’ll git drunk nnd go with you.” By the time they got into the house. Dunk was oomin around to his sober senses, but Miss Dixie took him in her lap, she did, like he was n baby, put the bottle to his mouth and belt him down nnd drenched him to tho last drop. Dunk kicked and he cussed, but It want no use, and when she did let him go he raised a merry mens. He kicked over the chairs and tables and then went to the dinin-room and smashed the dishes right and left. Miss Dixie didn’t say stop, but it made her blood, bile, and her heart bleed. She didn’t do a blame thing, but take the ax and w ent out to Dunk’s young pear orchard and lit into it with both hands. In less than two hours every tree in the orchard was cut down and chopped up in stovewpod length. So Dunk he slept on tho kitchen floor that night, and when he woke up next mornin he was the sickest nnd so retd man in 17 states and territories. But when he walked out to the orchard and found his young pear trees—which stood white with blooms the day be fore—cut up into stove wood and Miss Dixie’s tracks all around, he lifted up his voice in waste places and cried like a schoolboy w ith his big too stumped. And that was Dunk’s last spree. lie told his wife if she would quit he w ould, and they swore off together henceforth and forever. In the run of time they bought some new dishes and planted another ofehard. They have now got nine promisin children and you wouldn't find a happier family in a long day’s drive. RUFUa SANDERS. Three ISleHtUnK*. An old clergyman who formerly lived in an old New Hampshire tow n w as re markable for his eccentric modes of speech. His Way of asking a blessing was so jH'cnliar ns to sometimes affect the risihlcs of his guests, although he apparently was entirely unconscious of this fact. When he seated himself at the breakfast table, and saw spread upon it a meal greatly to his liking, he said: "Lord, we thank Thee for this excellent, breakfast of which we are to partake.” A more simple meal, but one U Inch he still regarded as comparative ly satisfactory, would cause him to say: “laml, wo thank Thee for this good breakfast set. before us.” Rut when the minister's eye roamed over the table and saw there nothing which was especially to his taste, although the tone In which he uttered ids peti tion was not lacking in fervor, his senti ments were clearly to be discovered. "Lord,” he Invariably said on these oc casions, “fill our hearts with thankful ness, we beseech Thee, for this meal set before ns; for with Thee all things are possible.”—-Youth’s Companion. T • Lightning struck a football team ns it was about to play a match at Liver pool recently, killing one man and bad- 1 ly injuring two others. : — We had at the close of (he civil war 4,000,000 negroes in tine south. I think the statistician of 1000 will give os double that number. Through the “black belts,” as they arc called in the south, the negroes swarm like locust.i In Egypt. I have had occasion several times to drive through the country dis tricts in u buggy In the hist few years, and imssing the cabins on the farms along the way I was imi»res«ed with the number of little negro children. There would be anywhere, from five to fifteen little negroes playing in front of a cabin. If we have almost 8,000,- 000 colored ]>oople now, that consti tutes about one-eighth of the popula tion of the United States. If immigra tion was shut off in 30 years from now (lie colored people would constitute nearly one-fourth of our population; and Just as they multiply in numliers just so the problem grows in impor tance and intricacy. They are as sep arate and distinct a nation of jx-ople from the Anglo-Saxon as they are sep arate and distinct from the Indian or the Chinese. In fact no two races are as little alike as the Anglo-Saxon and the African races. In physical foima- tion, in intellectual endowment and in moral perception the difference i-s broad. There are certain essential qualities which are either dwarfed or almost totally lacking in a large num ber of colored people, such os ambi tion, self-respect and acquisitiveness. Very few colored men have the ambi tion that inspires effort nnd persistent Industry. Now and then you will find a broadly cultured, magnificent colored man measuring up with almost any race. Something to eat, somewhere to sleep, something to wear is the height of the ambition of a large proport ion of the brothers in black. They call them selves the poor, down-trodden race, not knowing that they have their own foot upon their own neck. They misap prehended freedom; they did not know that liberty in its highest sense meant the privilege of doing right; they mis took license for liberty and they came from under the ownership of the whites in the south and felt that they were free. Many walked over and hired themselves to the devil. \Ye have more vagabond negroes now than there were in the time of slavery; more of them drink liquor; more of tlvem are crim inals. They have had some vague idea that the constitution of the United States had promised to do something for them, or that by some legislative enactment they would be brought upon a level with the white man. They have felt that their color was against them, when really it Is their history against them. For a race’s history will de termine Its status anywhere. The An glo-Saxon race owes its position to its history. Their history has been made up by Its philosophers, its inventors, its orators, its authors. The achieve ments of the Anglo-Saxon race put tlvem on top. The negro will never rise until by courage nnd industry, intellectual growth and moral character, he shall furnish for himself a foundation on which tho superstructure will stand. God has peculiarly endowed the col ored race. They are natural born orators. If they have something to say they can beat the world saying it. God htws implanted more music in tho col ored man’s throat than anywhere else beneath the sun, God has endowed him with a good disposition as a rule, and with intellectual ability far beyond that which he has wisely Improved or judiciously used, Ambition is made of sterner stuff than you will find in most negrocfi. Most of them lack industry. They will work, but their heart and hand hs not free to it. They work for what they get, instead of aiming at proficiency and excellence and higher service, .and higher pay. We have in the south ns a rule laws which bear equally upon the colored and tlu* white race. The negro is protected In his life, liber ty and property whenever be keeps on the living side of the dead line. Arson and rape draw the dead line in t he south. Rape means rope nnd arson means death to the perpetrator. I saw this week where a colored man got a ver dict, which was confirmed by the su preme court of this state, for $8,000 against one of our southern railroads for getting his leg cut off in an acci dent. In another suit, in Georgia the colored concubine of a white man in the courts of Georgia held the property of the deceased white mart for herself and children against all comers. His estate was valued at $200,000 or $300,000. Our courts nnd juries will do justice by the colored man. As a rule the negroes own farm in the country or home in the goes. Not one in ten of them own their own farm ni the country or home in the city or town. They have not the ele ment of acquisitiveness. If they make much it goes. If they make nothing at all they lire on it nnd what they onn pick up aronnd. It would be much better for the ne gro if he were not a factor in the poli tico of the south. It would he much Ivctter for the politics of the south if the negro were eliminated. There are many sterling, honest, Intelligent ne groes In the south who are not for sale on election day. The white man knows how he can vote the negro. The negro is very much like the Indian in this respect, ho will go his full length for whisky. I do not mean all of them; for some of the bravest and truest prohibitionists nnd anti-liquor ■ spirits in the south arc among the col ored people. The politicians and ward- heelers and saloonkeepers have used the negro at the polls to elect their can didates and to carry out their schemes of infamy. A man who will buy a vote or sell a vote ought to lie disfinnchised, and if all Ht.ch were disfranchised in the south we would have a very respect able constituency to elect any gentle man to ofilco. But the negroes arc not the only people who sell their votes. Thousands of white men, I am told, in sections both north nnd south, put them up In blocks of five, etc. in every national as well as state code it ought to be declared an offense against the government, the penalty of which ought to he permanent disfranchise- ment, to buy or sell a vote. There is not a legislature in any southern state to-day thntcould not settle this traffick ing in votes by salutary laws on that subject. Every southern state i so cially should have the Australian bal lot. A solid democratic south got along w ell they thought under the pres ent election laws, hut the populist party was organized and the white peo ple split. Now comes the tug of war, which can only lx* settled by whole some election laws. Mississippi leads off first with a constitutional law that provides that no one is eligible to vote unless lie can read any sect ion of the const it ut ioft-sd bis state or under stand it if it is read to him. They have had less trouble in Mississippi since the adoption of the new constitution than almost any of the southern states. As long as there arc unscrupulous politi cians and as long as the greed of office overlaps everything else the negro w ill be a menace to the purity of tli«* ballot box of the south. Thousands of our best negroes don’t go to tlu* polls at all. They have learned long since that their vote does not cut much fig ure one way or the other. i have always lH*en an abiding friend to the colored race. They are t he best servants vve have ever had. Many of them make good neighbors, many of them good citizens. I Indieve if the jKJOple of t.lie south had done no much to elevate the negro ns the politicians nnd ward-lieolnrs have done to debnuch him that they would have been a far better race to-day than they are. Just in proi>ortion as tho better element of the south will do their duty towards the colored race, just, in that proportion they will take the harden of their children who will have to grapple with the race problem in the future. We must go at the. brother in black, not only with a sjxvlling l>ook in one hand and a Bible In tho other, hut wo must go at him lov ing mercy, doing justly and treating him kindly. Socially vve are two dintinet races. It is true the rnoos mix, but they mix at the bottom. The lowest down ne groes nnd the lowest down white ]>co- ple are the fathers and mothers of the mulattoes of the south. And this wall be true wherever the races mix. The best white people will stay on t heir (vide of the line.; the best colored people uro content as they a re.. I l>elievc In educating the negro, but if that is all we do for him we will find that we have not done much for him. Brains are not everything. Pandemonium could get up an aristocracy on brains, and the Bible tells us that the Lord preserveth the simple. First comes virtue, honcoty, manhood, character and then brains. Many times have 1 preached to tens of thousands of col ored ]>ooplc. They make attentive, re spectful audiences. They love the truth, nnd would love it far better if their white neighlvors would set thun belter examples. Just as the r.cgrocn hi the south multiply so ought vve to multiply our effortw to elevate and en noble their race. God’s hand was in their coming here. God will have to do with us by and by when the ques tion of our relationship and duty to* wards the colored man will come up for settlement. 1-et us do the bept we can for the brother In block. He is our neighbor and it is our problem. SAM P. JONES. Cleaning the Teeth. For maintaining a healthy and clean condition of the teeth nnd mouth, next in value to the use of a toothbrush is the selection nnd application of a suit able dentifrice. In this matter some judgment and a little strength of mind is necessary to avoid the numerous Ros trums nnd preparations of that nature which are so temptingly placed before the public. The chief causes of decay in the teeth are an accumulation of tartar about their necks, and the re tention of small portions of food in the interstices between the teeth, which, by decomposition, sets up nn acid fer mentation that reacts on the elements of which the teeth are composed, dis integrating them and setting up de cay. The great thing is, then, by per fect cleanliness and other means, to remove these deposits before they have time to work mischief. It is ready astonishing how few people have any idea as to the proper way gleaning their teeth—firsk as to" thp proper powder to be used! We \vo\Ud strongly recommend that the composition of many of the advertised nostrums is unknown, they should be avoided. Many of them contain acid materials which, though they thoroughly clean the teeth, do so at the oxpenrx? of the enamel, which they tend to dissolve.— Home Queen. Some Small Coal Mines, The smallest ooai mine in the world is in the southern province of New Zea land, where, according to the reporta of the inspectors of mines for the colo ny, the Murray Creek colliery is worked by one man, T. Bolitho, a Chinaman, who owns, manages and works this small, but to him valuable, coal mine. There is another small colliery in the same province worked by one man with the assistance of a donkey. The next smallest colliery is in England, in the village of Nelson, in Lancashire. It is situated near the Colliers’ Arras, and affords employment for two miners, father and son, who combine in them selves the positions of proprietors, man agers, miners and haulers of the under taking. They have the assistance of a donkey, and all the output of the mine Is sold to the householders who live in the village or its immediate vicinit j. ANOTHER GOSPEL ARMY. Protoatant Episcopal Church About to Broaden ItJ Wuik. Unlformol Corpn of Trxliia-d r.TAiiK<*ll)it> to He Stillloncd In Different t itle*-- Will Compel* ull!i Snlvntlon Army nnd Aiuerleun \olunlerrii. The New York Herald fays: The Protestant Episcopal church of the United States is about to organize an army of uniformed evangelists who will be under military discipline and cninpcL- with the Salvation Army and the American Volunteers in the field of Christian work among the jioor. This important project was decided on at a meeting of prominent clergy men from different parts of the coun try. The matter came up for qnn- sideration some time ago before Hie Parochial Missions society. A com mittee of this representative body was appointed to investigate the army project. They spent some weeks ex amining the Salvation Army meth ods us well as those of the Church Army of England, and a meeting was called to hear their report. bishop Sutterlee presided. The in vestigating committee's report was read and recommended the adoption of the army scheme. The iilans will include the best fea tures of the Salvation Army and of the Church Army of England, from which the former organization sprang. Uni formed corps of trained evangelists, under military discipline, will lie sta tioned in different cities. These men will prep.eh in the strecto nnd lx* aided by bands of music. The work ultimate ly will include the erection of laliorers’ homes and lodging houses for men and rescue houses for fallen women. The Church Army of England, after which Hi* Episcopal Army will be closely modeled, besides providing res cue houses nnd lioarding houses, to *n- c.bie the outcasts to once more get a foothold in better society, also con ducts a system of mercantile enter prises, by which the unfortunates can begin to earn an honest living. A representative of the Church Army recently sj>oke in Newark, X. J., and described the purposes of the move ment. A week later Ballington Booth, of the Amerioan Volunteers, spoke in the mine place and announced that he intended to advise his converto to lx*- conn* church members in the future. Mr. Booth shortly after went to Chi cago and was ordained by the Method ists and Reformed Episcopalians. This movement on flic part of Mr. Booth is regarded «s an attempt to ntcol the thunder of the Church Army scheme, as well as to secure support froiA the other denominations. SMALLEST LOT EVER SOLD. WHALES OFF JERSEY COAST. WILL MARRY HIG NUHSS. CounteaM <lc Untzza Furelia*** a Tract of Funtl Six Indies Square. The smallest lot ever sold in New York city changed hands the other day. It is six inches long and six inches wide, and the purchaser paid $100 for it, whiel) is not quite three dollars a squur; inch. Thi» bit of real estate is on the south side >f Eighty-third street, just vyest pf Wes, End avenue. The purchaser 18 Cor i S. De Brazza Savorgnan, better kn nvn as Countess De Brazza. Countess De Brazza built a house at .1/4 West End avenue. When it was practically finished a survey was made and it was found the building en croached on the property ®f Philip Schell, of 308 Wes* Eighty-third street. There had been a blunder somewhere, but it wasn’t so important to discover how it was made as how to remedy it. The .’’.(i square inches of real estate is' back from the street. It wasn’t of anj* particular use to Mr. Rehell, but so long as he owned it there was a cloud on the title of the countess to the property. Mr. Schell said he thought $100 would be a fair price. The countess’ lawyers said he would be very glad to pay that sum. and so the transaction was con cluded. They Bee. me Target* for Rtllc* But Not Harpoon*. It is too late in the season to boon\ summer resorts and this isn’t a sea eef’ pent story, anyway, so there, is no rea son to doubt the truthfulness of a re- ]iort. from Sea Isis City, N. J., that n large school of whales was sighted les? t han a mile from shore the other day. The monsters of the deep were big fellows, measuring from 4f) to CO feet each. A cow whale, follotveil by a baby whale, not more than 15 feet long, ap proached within half a mile of slvore, and they w ere fired upon from Winches ter rifles, but were not hit. Tho school was in sight over an hour, and just lx*fore dark the monsters could bo seen far off at sea, spouting huge columns of water into the nir. This is the first school of whales which has lx*en seen along the South Jersey const in a number of years nnd there wasn't a harpoon in the state pr any truant pfiicov to look after the con tinued attendance of the school. CANADA'S WHEAT CROP, It I* Short unci tVIU 1’fovo Only .Suffi cient for Homo ('on*umptlon. The latest and most authentic infor mation of the crops of Canada show that the statistical position of Canada this year is far less favorable than for a number of seasons. As a matter of fact, Canada will not cut any figure at all among wheat-exporting countries in 1890-97. Last year Manitoba raised 33,000,000 bushels. This year there are only 15,000,000, or barely sufficient for home requirements and seeding next season. In the other provinces the crops are also short, and, iq place of exporting 10,000,000 or 15,000,000 bush els, as was done last year, these prov inces will need for their own use nil the wheat they raised this year. 8oa of Brooklyn'* City Auilltor FIikI* • I.tf* I'urtiuT In m lioKpIta!. The engagement of Alfred Suitrn, son of J. R. Sutton, city auditor of Brooklyn, to Miss Blanche Sharpe, is announced, the wedding to take place the coining winter. Their meeting was a romantic one. Owing to a fall he sus tained in childhood an operation 1**- cume necessary nnd he vvns se nt to the Brooklyn hospital. Miss Khnrpc was assigned to attend him. The last thing that Alfred Sutton rememU-rs tx loro he went into dreamland, the first (king he saw when the effects of the ether wore off. was the face of the soft-footed nurse who has lx»en the surgeon's right- hand maiden. She it was who held the antiseptie sponge and v.rnpjied Hie bandages, and she it was who nursed him through his eomale.seenee and re ceived his warm thanks when he was disehnrged. I\ hot a lucky thing it was that opera tion failed! If it had been successful the story would have ended there. But it was not. Again the young man had to go under the surgeon's knife. He was taken to Bt. John's hospital, hut somehow lie did not flourish there as he had before. What was the matter? Investigation showed that It was the nurse. She lacked the magic of Miss Sharpe's touch. The latter was incomparable. So Miss Sharix? was sought from her private practice and engaged to take the case. Ah, how the clouds rolled awry from Alfred Sutton! It seemed rs if he 1s*- gnn to mend at once. But other wounds were opening, which all the doctor- in Brooklyn and all other nurses put to gether could not heal. They, too, would have to Is* attended to by the only nurse in nil the world for him. IN hen he grew strong enough young Sutton went into the country. lie was accompanied by his sister and the faith ful nurse. And there they fished nnd sailed and played croquet together. And there the new wound grew apace, while the old one healed for good nnd Alfred felt himself a man among men nt last. PLAYS PART OF A HEROINE. Anna Held Frighten* a Horse, Hut Pre vents a Runaway. Anna Held, the Parisian eTinntrust*, played the part of a heroine in a life drama at New York the other day, prob ably saving from serious accident ex- Judge E. C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, and James H. Ashe, of Philadelphia. She i-s nn exjH*rt wheehvoman. and was rid ing with fronds to Coney Island, bu* had outstripped them. IVliat happened is told by Judge Murphy, who said: “I wa» out early testing a horse with Jim Ashe. As we were driving down the road to Coney Island a woman ruK ing a bicycle suddenly darted by it** and started to cross the rond in fron\ 1 jerked the horse up suddenly to pre vent running over her, and ns I did ro the right, rein snapped in two a,t. the saddle. The woman was knocked from her wheel, but I did not have time to discover whether or not. she was hur*. 'or the horse had by this lime bcoemc* \ nmanngeable and was dashing down the road at a stiff rate. I could do noth ing with him, nr 1 was badly fright ened. “I was trying to climb cut on the? shaft and get hold of the broken rein when I heard a woman's voice call close l*>i<k* me.* 'PR get it for you.’ and to my amazement, the woman we had just run into rode alongside the horse, guid ing her wheel with her right hand, mi'I leaching out with her left for the flut tering piece of rein. Finally she caught it nnd lx*ga.n a see-saw oil the hoYso. 1 took it away from her and soon Ktop|x-d t he horse. I thanked her in ft confused manner, Irut did not learn till later she was Anna Held.”' Miss Held declined to see eiiR^rs', but her maid said mademoiselle had beea st ruck in the side by a shaft of a buggy- and badly hurt, and her right leg w as; badly bruised. (icrmany** Population. The total population of the German empire is returned at 51^770,284k MUST HAVE CERTIFICATES. Latest Order ConcerniM* Chinese Laborer* Returning to This Country. Acting Secretary Hamlin has in structed collectors of customs that hereafter returning Chinese laborers should not lx* admitted to this country except upon presentation of the certifi cate prescribed by Article 2 of the treaty between the United States and China, dated March 17, 1S94. The regulations issued on December £4 for the departure from and return to this country of Chinese laborers are modified in such manner as to require such laborers to file their applications, registration certificates nnd other pa pers described in such regulations with the colh-ctor of customs at the jxirt from which the laborers are to depart from this country. In all other re spects the regulations referred to re main iu force. Those modifieafions of existing regulations are made to con form to recent opinions of Attorney- General Harmon on the points involved. Washing a Boy** Heart. A 12-year-old boy at Parma has just had his heart washed. He was suffering from acute jxiricarditLs, nnd his doctor, using an instrument invented by Prof. Kiva, drew off the purulent serous mat ter in tlx? sac, and then washed tho heart and its serofibrous covering with a solution of biborate of soda. The boy recovered rapidly. Bocorating Hessian*’ Crave*. The graves of Hu*. Hessians at Ben nington, YL, were decorated last week by a ten-year-old girl spending the sum mer there. This is probably Hu*, first, time the graves were ever scattered w 1th flowers or in any way decorated. Two Wire* In One ITonse. The singular punishment of bigamy In Hungary Is to compel the man to live together with both wives in one house. Georgia Gold Field*. The gold fields in Paulding eoonty, (la., are being developed and have proved quite productive.