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I'UBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. ONE HOLLAH A YEAH. BARBARA'S MISTAKIi. BY BELLE FIELD. She camo down the stairs of the Kl I hiiion: high school with a weary look on her face, although she chat ted brightly with the two "juniors" who were with her. The assistant prlnoipal in a place boasting of such a large and active high school as Ells more could not find her work very easy, and Barbara Bennett often saw dark shadows under hoi* gray eyes when she looked in her glass at night. This evening sho dropped afow steps behind hor two admirer*, for all of Barbara's pupils were her admirers, leaving them happy in their girlish confidences. A pretty, pensive figure she was, just of that smallnoss which a man of six feet likes in a woman, her goldbrown hair curling prettily over the edge of her jaunty toque, her cheeks like peaohblooius, her lips ourving into a smile at her own thoughts. A low-seated, glittering plueton swept by them, and Barbara was glad that her keen-eyed companions wore ahead, so warmly did she feel her face flush at sight of the gentleman who held the reins. But who was his com panion, that slender, black-clad llguro, a girl with pale faco and great, sad, dark eyes ? It was only a week ago that ho had left home, as ho said, on business, and had not his last words to hor, fraught with all tho meaning that his deep voice could carry, l>oon ringing in hor oars over sinco V Tho girls ahead unconsciously raised thoir voicos: " Ho camo homo with her this morning," said one ; " so our Hannah said at noon, as lover-like us you please. They say that ho has boon engaged to some ono for a longtime." "That's her. then," answered a com panion, with the disregard for such a trifling thing as grammar evidenced often Dy high-school pupils, " for ho told brothor Frank tho other day that ho honod to bo married before another yoar." "I'm glad," continued tho first, "for my heart has boon in my throat all year for foar he would carry away Miss Bennott, and that would be-" Kemomboriug tho proximity of tho lady in question, their voices dropped, ana, calling good-night, they turned the noxt corner and loft hor. When sho .eure*? inte- the w?rm air, several minutes before, Barbara hud urawn a long breath of delight at tho porfection of such a winter as comos only to Kansas. Warm almost as spring, tho skies blue and cloudless, save for flro-liko flakes of cloud which lay in tho west, where the sun was sinking, throwing his long, slanting rays of gold over tho world. Tho gold was turned to lead. Tho beauty was gono. Harry Randal 1 had seemed a god to her. The thought of his brown eyes, with their direct glance, always gavojher'courage. Of late, by every act and word, he had seemed to give himself to her, and now sho hud seen him bending over this stranger with such solieitudo that even the school children talked of it. And ho intendod to marry before another year ! What could it mean V When Harry Randall's uncle, Robert Paxton, ono of tho wealthiest men in Hllsmoro, had failed two years before, dying soon after from the shock, his wife, left with only her handsomo homo, had turned it into a boarding houso, and Harry remained still an in mate. Barbara had come from tho far Fast to this bustling Kansas town, seeking change and health, and it was in this house and at Mi's. Paxton's table, that the brown eyes had found tho gray ones. Aa behooves a maiden in her lonely condition, Barbara had kept herself shyly aloof from tho handsome young lawyer who was always socking her, yet seldom finding hor alone : though it often appeared that ho had business near the school house about the time Barbara would bo loaving it. Upon tho evening in question, sho Blowly mounted to her room, where good-natured Maggie, tho housemaid, was lighting a firo. Sho imparted hor news: "Mr. Handle's back, Miss Rarb'ry, an' ho brought u young lady with him. She put hor arms 'round Mis' Paxton's neck an' cried an' cried, an' then Mr. Randle took her arm an' helped hor up stairs. Her name was Miss Palmer, but I don't know who sho is unless she b'longs to Mr. Randle, an' that duz look reasonable." When Barbara entered tho lower hall at hu> >er time, sho saw Harry emorging irom tho parlor. Ho had evidently been watching for her, for ho brushed tho portiere hastily aside, a ml strode quickly toward hor. Had sho not avoided looking directly at him, it is doubtful if Barbara would have so coldly cut short his murmured words of greeting, or so wilfully re fused to seo his outstretched hand. Her stately manner soomcd to take all tho. gladness out of tho young man's face, and he turned and passed into tho vining-roora ahead of her. Barbara looked up and down tho length of the attractive table, sur rounded by pleasant faces (for Mrs. 1 'ax ton had none but the pleasant est people in hor house,) but tho Miss Pal mer was not present. Her survey stopped at tho face op posite?Harry?regarding hor serious ly. She could see beneath his heavy mustacho that ho was biting his lip nervously. Sho colored hotly, dropped her gaze, and did not again look up. She encountered Mrs. Paxton on the stairs a little later. " My dear," said tho good lady, " my niece, Gertrude Palmer, has como to stay with mo. Tho poor girl has suf fered a sad boreavomont, and I sent for hor because sho should not stay alono in tho house where her father lately died. I want you to do what you can to bring her out of her melancholy condition. Sho witi sleep in the third story because it is quieter there, and will UBe my own sitting-room across tho hall from your room. You must holp us in this." Barbara consented, and in due time was introduced to the now arrival. So mournful was the girl that Barbara forgot the rivalry between thorn, or put it out of her mind. Much of her spare tlmo during the first week was spent in Miss Palmer's sitting-room, but tho latter mentioned noithor Har ry's name nor her own boroavomont. That young man appeared unremitting In his attontion to nor and in his ef forts to make peace witn Barbara, but was met in the one case by woarv in difference, and in tho othor by a cold and studied avoidance One ovening, the last of the woek, going up stairs after dark, Barbara stopped nt the door of tho sitting-room. Tho door was aiar and sho pushed it open softly. Thero woio no lights, but through tho duuk Barbara saw and heard that which riveted hor to tho floor. In her easy chair at tho window sat Gertrude, her face covered with hor hands. Leaning over tho high back of the chair stood a figure which sho k new woll?know also ovpry inflection of the voico that roso oarnostly above tho girl's low sobbing. "Don't tay that, Gortrudo, don't say that. Even so great a grief as yours cum.ot entirely kill tho heart. Think of y< ur fr'ends ; you aro very dear to ? Why, Gertrude," and the vo'o mnk lower, and Barbara could sco bis hfthd softly stroking the dark head. 1 have loved you ever since wo played together as little children, and our Sood aunt looks upon you aa hor aughter, and you-* Thought of the shameful thing that she was doing surged over Barbara, unchaining her senses, and she fled, quivering with grief and mortification, to her own room, pressing two cold hands to her burning cheeks. The next two days being Saturday and Sunday, Barbara was free to re main in her room, nursing her aching head. On Monday she sat listlessly by her front window waiting for the break fast bell, when a carriage drove up and stopped, and a young man leaped out and. daubing up to the door, rang tho bell violently. Sho had baroly timo to notice he was blonde, hag gard and travel-stained. It passed out of her mind, and an extra com motion below did not attract her at tention. A few moments later tho bell rang, and tho girl opened hor door to go downstairs. Coming up wore two mep, Harry Randall and tho strangor, a man palo and thin, with bluo eyes almost black with exeitemont. Harry nipped at tho sitting room door op posite, and flung it open. Gortrude stood within, her face showing ohalk wliite against her black gown. The stranger started forward, open-armed, and, in response to his hoarse, hushed cry of "Gertrude! Gertrude!" she rushed to him and tbe door swung shut. Harry turned to the girl beside him and took possession of her hands in a a forcible manner. "There," he declared, "I have boon instrumental in sottling tho happiness of one couple, and after I have oue more affair of tho kind off my mind, I will bo tho happtost man alive. Barbara, why have you troated me so?'? The pink and white fluctuated iu tho girl's" faco as sho falterod, "I thought that you and Miss Palmer?I thought? Mrs. Paxton said that her father had hist died and?and tho othor day?I hoard you toll hor that you had lovod hor all your lifo, and-" Hero nor voieo broke down utterly, and, after striving vainly to freo her hands, she was forced to hide her eyes on the manly shoulder toward which she was drawn. "Why, my dear little girl," and the voice was certainly earnest enough to pleaso any ono. "is this tho trouble that has come between us ? Didn't you know that Gertudo was mourning for hor lovor, Gerald Northrop, whom wo thought doad, but who has so happily returned ? Ho wont South two months ago, and was reported as having per ished in a burning hotol. Gortrude was alone, hor father having lately died, and I wont to bring her here to &*a?4t>. It turns out that Gerald, in stead of dying, was in southwestern Texas at tho timo of the lire, and was takon sick, so he was not heard from for 80voral wooks. " Yos, I do lovo Gertrudo, but not as I love you. Toll mo, dear, what you thought when you heard mo say that to her." " I thought that sho could not love you as I could ; that if you eamo to mo with such words, I would hear them above any sorrow." A most joyous affair was tho double wedding at the Paxton residence in tho early spring, at which timo Gortrude Palmer and Barbara Bonnott became members of tho rising young law firm of Randall & Northrop. Tho only dissatisfied parties aro tho pupils in tho high school, who, with one voice, mourn their beloved teacher. Texas Oratory.?" I heard a poli tical speech down in Texas last fall," Haid A. R. Gaincs, of that State, to a reporter of Tho Washington Post, "that would have impressed our east ern oitios with the belief that all tho Depows, Choatos and Tom Reeds aro not born cast of the Mississippi. I was in the Northern Rio Grando country, a wild, sparsely settled section of tho Stato, and ran into a little town of about, two hundred people. There was to l>e a grand political rally and joint dobato. The first speaker was a fair talker, a Populist. Ho gave us an hour or so of talk on oppression, monopoly, etc., and then a Democrat took the platform. Ho knew no statistics ; ho scorned figures, facts and argument. Ho rolled up his slooves, pulled off his hat and began hammoring with his fist. " 'Gentlemen of tho great Stato of Texas, are you aware of who's been talkin' slush about the greatest party ovorGod created boin' in cahoots with robbers en thieves en such fur one solid hour? An outlaw from Mizzouri that dausent show his yaller hide in tho town whar ho wuz born?a man that fur a $5 bill would swear that he wuz a bosom friend of Georgo Washington; that the father of his kentry kept a slaughter house in tho San Pecos valley, and would then turn right round, go to Mount Vornon and dig up his bonos an' Ubo 'em fur fortlizers. An' his party ! Why, gentlemen of the great State of Texas, that little handful of one-gutted bellyachers called Populists no moro compare:, with the mighty hosts that fight under tho Hag of eternal Democ racy than the feeblo glow of a light ning bug compares to tho glorious ofTul genco OPtho midday sun V "That was only a starter. Ho kept it up for an hour. Did it take V It carried tho country." A German Custom.?When a maiden is bet rot bed in Germany sho is called "birdo" by hor sweetheart, who ad dresses hor thus Until it becomes timo to call her " wife. " Immediately upon betrothal the lovers exchange rings, which, if the course of truo love runs smooth, aro to bo worn ever afterwards until death parts thorn. The woman wears her betrothal ring on the third finger of hor left hand until she is married and then it is transferred to the third finger of tho right hand. The husband continues to wear tho ring just as tho wife woro hors when sho was a "brido," so that ono can toll easily at a glance if a man bo or bo not mortgaged as to his affec tions. A young German matron, on be ing told of tho careless American custom of allowing a man to go unfet tered, exclaimed: "Oh, how dread ful ! How unjust to young wives! How could I exposo my Wilhelm, so young?only 25?to the temptations of tho world if ho woro not to wear a mur rhigo ring ? Tho girls would mako lovo to him. I would not livo in America for tho world." What it Costs.?Thoroisa genoral idoa that tho President's salary of $50,000 a year is all that ho recoives, and that, when compared with tho salaries paid the sovereigns of Europe, this sum is not enough. This is a mis take In addition to his salary, the President receives $.'10,004 to pay tho salaries of his clerks and subordinates. His Private Secrotary has $3,250; his assistant secretary, $2,250; the sten ographers get $1,800, OlJOh Of live mes sengors$1,200, tho steward $1,800, eoch of tho two doorkoepers $1,200, while other employes aro paid in proportion, down to tho man who takes care of tbo fires, who receives $804. In addition $8,000 aro allowed for incidontals, such as stationary and carpots, $12,000 for repairs and rofurnishing, $2,500 for fuel, $4,000 for the greonhouso and $15, 000 for tho stable, gas and othor inci dentals. In all tho Prosldont and his house cost tho country t vor $125,000. ?"And now," said tho editor, "lot ui bo thankful for one day of rest and got ready for chuich." " Yes, said his wifo, "run out and chop somo wood, and milk tho cows, and light tho lire, and mako tho coffee, und wash the children, while I bang my hair'." STRANOK MURDKIi CARI*. Sun y nfthe Crime lor which a Youiut Lady 1? now on Trial. Tho trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and stepmother, now in progress in New Bedford, Maes., is one of the most remarkable of the age. Mr. Bordou and his wife were murder ed on the morning of August 4, 1892, in their house, No. 92 Second street, Fall River. The orime was committed, it is supposed, between half-past ten and a quartor-past eleven o'clock. There were that morning in the house, I which is in the heart of tho city, five Cm-sous?Mr. Borden and his wife, izzie Borden, the servant, Bridget Sullivan, and John V. Morse, Lizzie's uncle. Morse, who was tho guest of the Mm dens, left the house early and did not return until after the murders were discovered. Emma Borden, Lizzie's sister, was away on a visit to Now Bedford. Thus it is known that at tho tlmo the murder was committed thero wero four pcsons in the house. Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan aro the only survivors, tho other two having been Mr. Borden and his wife. THE 8EKVANT GIRL'S STORY. Mr. Borden, according to Bridget Sullivan's story, was in the house at half-past ten. He wont to the dining room, sat down and took a key and went upstairs by the back way. He returned in a few minutes, placed tho key on a shelf and sat down in the sitting room. Bridget says sho re mained down stairs until five minutes to eleven o'clock, when she went up stairs to lie down. v Bridgot saw Lizzio Borden pass through the sitting room into tho dining room carrying an Ironing board a few minutes after Mr. Borden went Into tho sitting room. Bridgot de clares that all this time she did not know whore Mrs. Bordon was. Lizzie had told her Mi's. Bordon had gono out or was preparing to go out. Tho sorvant says sho had boon lying down only ton"or fiftoen minutes whon Lizzie called hor. Lizzie's voice told her that something had happened. Sho sprang from the bed and hurried down stairs. She says she found Lizzie leaning with her back against the backo door. Llzzlo, according to Bridget, said her father was dead. Thero is considerable dispute as to whether Bridget meant that Lizzie had said her father was hurt and not dead. Lizzio hurried Bridget after Dr. Bowen, who lives diagonally across the street. Dr. Bowen was away from home, and when tho frightened servant camo back Lizzie, sent her after Mrs. Russell, who lives in Bordon street. When Bridget camo back with Mrs. Russell, Dr. Bowen and Mrs. Churchill were In tho house. Mrs. Churchill and Bridget went up stairs to look for Mrs, Borden, who they believed had come in while, thoy wero down stairs. On tho floor of tho bedroom, botwoon the bed and tho bu reau, they found Mrs. Bordon's body. They rushed downstairs, and Mrs. Churchill told Dr. Bowen that Mrs. Borden had been murdered. According to Bridget's testimony, when sho wont up stairs to He down Mr. Bowdon was In tho sitting room alivo and well. From fifteen to twenty minutes later, that is, at from live minutes before eleven to flftoon minutes after olovon, he was lying dead, with about a dozen cuts, mado by an axe or hatchet, on his head and face. THE ACCUSED GIRL'S STORY. When Lizzie Bordon was called upon to testify she said her father complain ed of being ill and lay on tho sofa. She adjusted the pillows for him. Sho was preparing to do somo ironing, and as her Hat irons wore not hot enough she went into the barnyurd to pass the tlmo sho would have to wait before sho could uso thorn. In tho yard sho picked up somo pears that had fallen from the trees. Then sho went into the barn for sinkers for her fish lino, as she in tended to go to Marion tho noxt day to fish. Sho know thero wore sinkers in a little box up stairs in tho barn and sho wont thero to get them. That was tho lirst time in threo months sho had been in the barn. Up stairs in the barn sho ato four pears, and after looking for tho sinkers returned to the house Whon she got there she found her father murdered and sum moned Bridget. Tho heads and faces of Mr. and Mrs. Borden wero so chopped and hacked that they wero beaten almost out of human rosomblance. If Lizzio is guilty sho must have killod her father within twenty minutos and then appoarod bo fore hor neighbors without a spot of blood on hor clothing and without any sign that sho had hastily adjusted hor dross. In that time also sho must have concealed so effectively that it has never been found tho bloody weapon with which the deed was committed, and sho also disposed of every scrap of direct evidence that would connect her with tho crime. Lizzie Borden wore a blue dross when the neighbors entered tho house and found hor father and her stepmother murdered. Sho wore a blue dress about tho house in tho morning. In two rooms blood from the murdorod ones had sputtered and spurted over everything for many feet around tho dead bodies. l/i tho minds of the authorities there trever was doubt that tho murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Borden was smeared and splashed with blond. With tho excep tion of a single drop of blood the size of a pin head on her white underskirt, not a speck of blood was found on the clothing Lizzie woro before or after tho murder. THEORIES OK THE CRIME. A lot of theorizing has been done to try to justify tho suspicion that Lizzie, killed nor parents. One suggestion Is that she stripped herself, and another that she covered herself with a long rubber gurment that protected hor clothing. Rumors have been hoard in Fall River that witnesses havo boon found who will testify at the trial that from tho street they saw Lizzie at tho window of tho room whore Mrs. Bor don's body was found and that sho woro what looked like a hooded waterproof. It is regarded, however, as almost impossible for Lizzie to havo complete ly destroyed Such a garment in so short a tlmo. The tlmo of tho death of Mrs. Bordon cannot be fixed so closely as that of Mr. Borden. It is tho opinion of medical exports in Boston who examined the stomachs of tho murdored pair that Mrs. Borden was killed from an hour to an hour and a half before her hus band. That being tho case, and Lizzio tho murderess, she. must have, killed her stepmother about ten o'clock and spent the Interval between that hour and tho tlmo sho killed her father In calmly at tending to her household dutlos. Bridget testified that during this peri od Lizzio chatted and joked with her. It was very plain that t he murders wero not done for money, for not a |>on ny nor an article of value was missod from tho bouse. Mr. Borden woro a watch and thero was a large sum of money in his pockets, but neither was touched. Nothing in Mrs. Bordon's room was found out of ordor and none of hor jowolry was takon. ?Senator John W. Danlol will do ltvor an address at tho Chicago Fair on Virginia day, Aug. 7. The oration which ho delivered on tho unveiling of tho Leo Monument, at Lexington and another on tho dedication of Washing-, ton are speolmons of tho finest oloqu enco. Ho was Invited to deliver the address on the. dedication day of the Fair, but declined. ?Carpenter Bros., druggists, rocom uiend Johnson's Oriental Soup for all skin and scalp diseases. Try ii. CORN AS HUMAN FOOD. The Best War of Keeping Corn to Grind lut?> Meal?How to Prepare ft for Export. A correspondent of the Breeder's Gazette has the following suggestions about corn and corn meal: I watched with a very deep interest the efforts made by " Uncle Jerry" Rusk while he was Secretary of Agri culture to attract the attention of European people to the value of Indian corn us an article of human food, and 1 earnestly hope that Secretary Mor ton, hailing as he does from one of the great corn-producing States, will see the importance of following it up. Maize Is distinctively an American product. and Is the greatest of all our cereals, but ltd various uses and the various methods of manipulating It so as to produce a pi a table and health ful food aro very Imperfectly understood even by our own people. Our experi mental stations and our agricultural colleges and societies ought to give it moro attention. Our millers out to be authoritatively told how to grind in order to produce tho bost results. Tho "corn-meal" of commerce is a miser able libel upon the geuuiuo,. well-pro Earod and properly ground article. It i ground too fluo and proper care Is not taken to clean tbe corn thoroughly before grinding. There are one or two points, how ever, upon which soiontlllo investiga tion Is needed. When I was a lad I lived in a country in which for mauy i years wheat could not be successfully frown, and the farmors, too poor to 3uy flour, were compel led to make tho best of the corn crop and depend upon it for their bread ail tho year round ; and It was the custom among tho intel ligent and careful ones among thorn to preserve the corn In tho husk until it >ocamo necessary to have it ground for immediate consumption, and then only have onough ground at a timo to last four or five weeks. Tho dtfforoneo be tween tho meal or flour from com freshly husked and freshly ground, and that from corn that has lain for somo months in tho crib, bin or store house is quite as great as that between a nowly-lald hen's egg and ono that has been in a Chicago cold-storage com partment for sixteen months. I woll romember that it was my father's in variable custom to " jerk " (that is, to pull the ear from tho stalk, retaining tho husk with it) onough of his corn ovory autumn for the year's bread for the family, and carefully store it away in its natlvo ?* jacket "-?an effectual protection against tilth, dust and ver min?until It was wanted for consump tion. And oh my ! how wo did turn up our nosos and sniff at tho corn bread of our neighbors made from husked corn that had lain a fow months in the crib ! Tho difference in flavor is simply wondorful. And with us it was the impression that corn-meal, no matter how good when freshly ground, could not be kept very long without serious deterioration in quality. Now, the questions for investigation, especially as rotating to foreign de mands, aro: How can corn bo pre pared for export so as to (rotain tho sweetness and flavor of corn kopt in the husk V It cannot be sent abroad in tho husk for that would mako It too bulky, and that being the case cannot the f.'eshly-husked and freshly-ground product bo so put up in packagos for export as to preserve its lino flavor for an indefinite length of timo ? These are questions of vital importance to us as tho great maize-producing country of tho world, and cannot our sciontilic investigators solve them ? In reading tho account of Mr. Mur phy's "corn banquets" in Europe I have always wondered whethor or not ho really had good, sweet, fresh corn meal to work with, or was it just such "shipstuff " as one buys in tho market nowaday. I notice that Hon. C. M. Clay is of tho opinion that white corn makes better food than tho yellow varieties, and tho Southern eorn is better than tho North ern artiolo. The white corn makes a lighter-colored flour or meal than the yellow, and may bo proforrod by many on that account: but it is my opinion, basod upon much experience, that a blind man could not toll the difforenco, unless possibly it might bo to pronounce tho broad made from tho yellow corn rather sweeter than that from tho white. This was a question often and of ton discussed at my father's table, but never dollnitely docldod. Wo woro all Kentuckians, but when the family was transplanted to a Northorn Stato wo did not notico tho difforenco lw tweon Northorn and Southern corn. THE COST OF COTTON. How the Production is Increased and Cheapened In Texas. Tho Texas Agricultural Experiment Station has issued a bulletin t hat will create a vast deal of interest, not only among cotton planters and factors, but among spinners. It is a bulletin that will be read around tbo world. Its in terest is of paramount importance to tho people of tho cotton growing states. Wo copy tho following from Tho Gab voston Nows of Juno 3rd : " From actual experiments it appeal .-, that cotton can be produced, hand picked, at a cost of 4.00 cents a pound, and machine picked at 2.12 cents a pound. Theso are tho lowest figures given. Othor experiments aro ap proximately at cheap. Theso experi ments were not ideal in tho sense that conditions wore selected. They woro tho actual experiences of practical farmers in Texas. Tho cost included rent of land and pay of all labor from planting to marketing. Tho signifi cance of this is tremendous. If the.cot ton planters of Toxas could or would adopt a system bringing cost as low as 5 cents a pound, it is plain that they would soon solve tho problom of south ern agriculture. The cheupost cotton noted in tho bulletin was produced on land that had already grown a crop of poas. In another place the farmer, Mr. W. A. Clark, of Boll county, ex hibits his intensive system of funning by which with poas followed by cotton, he made a made a net profit of $82.45 an acre. It is to be observed, too, that this profit was mado not without but with fertilizer, and the fertilizer is charged up in tho expense. The best farmers in the stato uso all tho ferti lizer they can rake and scrapo to aid thorn in the production of their crops. And this has boon proved to bo a pay ing investment. Yes, it pays a hun drod fold at least. If Mr. Joff Well born could raise cotton at a cost of 2.12 cents per pound?and ho did it?on postouk upland what could be done on the rich river bottoms ? Whut could others do ? Whon tho Cunningham cot ton picker, which Mr. Wellborn used, or somo othor, conlos into general uso throughout tho state, and othor im proved machinery, and farmors have learned to raise what they want to con instead of paying out their money for nearly everything that goes on to their tables and oven into tho mouths of their beasts tho millonium in cotton raising will havo arrived, and not be fore. Tho secret in cheap cotton rais ing, othor things boing equal, lios iu doing as much of tho work us One and his family can do thomsolves, and in not drawing on a grooory too heavily, particularly when hirod labor is to bo fed. Taking this view of tho matter, no ono can doubt that in timo?when tho cotton harvostor comou into uso? cotton may generally bo raisod in Texas during favorablo seasons for evon less than 2.12 conts por pound. But supposing it should cost 3 or evon 4 cents, t here is still monoy in cotton, and always will be." Cotton is tho staple crop of tho South Atlantic as woll as the Gulf States of tho South. It is tho groat monoy crop but if Toxas can grow cotton at a cost of 2.1 z cents por pound, machine pick ed, tho cot ton growers of Georgia and South Carolina may have to find a moro profitable crop to cultivate, and abandon the Hold to Texas.?Augusta Chronicle. A <:i:m im CONVKIISION. A I Jne of M? ram boat* Muitiu;?-?! on Chrlatlan Principle*. " Bill Arp," in writing from Naeh villo, tolls an interesting Btory of Captain Ryman, who built the largo tabernacle in which the Southern Baptist Convent ion held its meetings last month. Everybody in Nashville knows Capt Ryman, and the story is authentic beyond question: Who Is Captain Ryman? I havo been his guest for a day and a night. His beautiful homo is on tho heights. It is embowered in shade and sur rounded by flowers?flowers without and flowers within?for at the beauti ful table I found matrons and maidens and school girls, all ready to give wel come to the stranger?the Georgia cracker as they call me. It Is a large family, and reminded me of home, for as It Is in all large families, there is moro freedom, more companionship, more talk, more music and moro com pany. Captain Ryman Is a waterman. He runs tho lino of packets or steamboats from Nashville to Evansville, 350 miles. There are eight boats and thoy average a round trip In a week and so thore Is one to go and one to come every day. There Is nothing straugo or peculiar about that. The captain's cilice is near tho wharf and I concluded to v isit tho outgoing steamer and see hoc out fit. Everything alxnird was llvoly. I noticed a sign over the cabin door and fot roady to throw away my cigar, for supposed the sign said so, but it didn t. It said : " Trust in tho Lord and Do Good." On the Inside and over the same door it said : " The Heavens Declare the Glory of God." and at tho far end of the cabin was unothor lino of scripture, and all about wore gentlo reminders that " in Him we live and move and havo our being." " Is this a missionary boat?" said I. " Yes," said tho captain ; " ours aro all missionary boats. We havo no bars nor quick sands, no driking pilots or deckhands, no swoaring men?whlto or black, no gaming tables. Wo may carry a tough sometimes, but wo don't know it and don't throw anybody over board. Yes, you may eall thorn mis sionary boats If you choose, for they havo converted somo sinners that I know and havo Improved tho morals of boat men all along the lino." I learned from othors that the cap tain used to run his boat like every body else ; and whisky and cards and a good deal of swearing woro consldor od part of the furniture, but a few years ago Sam Jones camo along here and in one of his magnotic sermons shook tho captain all up and knocked out his props and put him to thinking. He has a groat big heart and is full of sympathy for tho poor and unfortunate, and so he suddenly "came to himself," as tho scriptures say of tho prodigal son, and broko up his bar and forbade all gaming or drinking or swearing on his boat, und ho had all that scripture put over tho doors and discharged every man who was unwilling to work on the now sehedulo. It was hard on him for a while and hard on his boat, but aftor awhile ho whipped the fight, and then he bought out somo of the other boats and now he controls all tho boats on tho river, and thero is no liquor or cuss words on any of them, and it is said that this is the only line of boats In tho wide world that is run by water and a Christian codo of morality. You can toll It from stem to stern, from the pilot to tho firomen, from tho waiters to the deckhands. Everything is sober and everybody po lite and well-mannered. Captain Ryman then began to play missionary all over tho town and started the great tabernacle movement and got help everywhere, &nd Sam Jonos put in his sledge-hammer licks -and raised $22,000 in one night, and all this is a union business and takes in all denominations, and tho great taber nacle is a Nashvillo institution und in it thoy havo preachers and lecturers from all over tho country, and its work is refining and elevating and has given a high moral tone to tho young men of tho city and tho neighboring colleges. Sam Jones and Captain Ryman have founded all this, and the captain has besides a mission hall of his own down near tho wharf for steamboat men, and there has been preaching or service there every night for seven years. Just think of one man's power, or say two men's power, for good in a community. J confess that I was amazed. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of men have been savod from ruin by it, and many a mother and many a wife made happy. "They who have called many unto righteousness shall shine as tho stars forever and ever." The < hi mi man ill the Household. As servants tho Chinese are very capable in many respects, and very undesirable in othors. Thoy never gossip about tho affairs of a family that employs them. They learn what ever it is desired thoy should know, acquiring skill with apparent easo by means of their wonderful power of imitation. They are perfectly willing to do every sort of housohold work, and tho average servant will act as cook, chambermaid, laundcrer, and waiter all at once for one salary. Thoy cannot bear to be ordered about by women. Thoy will tako any amount of scolding or fault finding from a man, and none from a woman. In two cases of which I heard tho Chinese servants chased their mistresses out of their houses with axes. A very vexatious thing is that thoy never give warning whon thoy aro going to leavo a place. Thoy Buudonly announce, " Mo want to go," and tho utmost questioning is not likely to elicit any moro than " Mo want to go; mo tired." Ono lady in Victoria told mo that sho movod from ono house to unothor, and employed a now servant. Ho stayed an hour. The next one stayed an afternoon, tho next ono stayed a day. Puzzled and worried, she persuaded one who wus a bunt to leavo her to tell her why he was dissatisfied. Ho took her to tho sink in tho kitchen, und showed her a peculiar mark in chalk under tho sink. It was a notification by one servant to all the othors that tho head of tho house was not kind or honest in his dealings with his servants. She ex plained that sho had but just moved into the house, and tho servant took off his street apparel and remained with her. But ho told hor that whon over a Chinaman came to work in a now plaeo ho always looked through all the pots and pans and kottles and cupboards for some piece of paper or mark of somo kind loft by preceding servants, and explaining the character of tho house.?Julian Ralph, In Harper's Weekly. How 18 Tins ??Information has reached Washington to tho effect that the young negro woman, Tda Wells, who Is lecturing In England against lynch law, is meeting with remarkable succoss. It seems that the massos of tho English peoplo mistake Judge Lynch for a roal character. Ills alleg ed eruolty has excited tholr indigna tion, and thoy aro raising monoy to stop his work In tho United States. Just how monoy can provent lynching Is a mystery, but tho British aro going right ahead, and thoy show tholr con fldouco in Ida W?lls by turning their donations ovor to her. It Will be recollected that this woman editod a negro papor In Moin fdiis. She wrote an editorial attaoK ng the virtue of tho while women of tho South, and skipped out, novor to return. Sho posou in Boston as a victim of raoo projudieo and passod around the hat. Now, sho Is collooting money in England to down Judge Lynch, and is living on tho fat of tho land. Whatever may bo said of her, she is no fool. Sho will work her racket for all It is worth.?Atlanta Constitution WASHINGTON NKW8 AND GOSSIP. The Presidential Machine Is In Work ing Order?Repeal of the Sherman Ltaw. Special to the Atlanta Constitution. WabuinQTON, Juno 7.?It is givon out semi-officlally that the President will not consider tho question of ap pointments in the State, interior or post-office departments until he has disposed of some pending cases In the treasury and department of justice, which have been brought to his atten tion, by Secretary Carlisle and A ttorney General Olney. A member of the cabi net aatd this morning that the Presi dent and the two cabinet ofhcera named will take up the evenings of the week determining on tho collectors of Inter nal revenue and of customs, and on tho marshals and district attorneys to bo appointed this month, so they can as sume their offices on July 1st, noxt, the beginning of the new fiscal year. A long list of appointees to these offices may be looked for at any time now. It Is said that eight collectors of internal revenue have been deeidod upon, but who and where they are is not given out. It is thought they are mostly from the West and Southwost. It is tho desire of tho administration not to have any Republican collectors of In ternal rovonuo who ha\e served their four years in office on July 1st. It is also desired to apply tho samo rule to marshals and district attorneys. The chlof difficulty in tho way of speody Changes is the fact that in Democratic States the senators are frequently found recommending different men for the positions. If they would only agree on one man, it ould bo easy sailing. ? Henry Cloy Smith, tu negro who was appointed consul U, Tamative, Madagascar, is a native Georgian. Ho wus born and brought up in Cartors villo. Ho received his commission to day and received his instructions. His duties are of a two-fold character. Ho not only has his consoular duties but judicial as well. Ho sits as an asso ciato judge of tho supromo bench of Madagascar in all cases whore Ameri cans are concerned, and Is tho solo judge of the inferior in all criminal and civic casos between Amoricans. Sonator Mandorson, president pro torn, of the late Senate, said to-day that ho did not believe tho financial situation to bo nearly as bad as it looked. " Wo are," said ho, "more fright ened than hurt ; that is, there is not tho foundation for as much alarm us is felt." Speaking of tho prospect of ropealing tho Sherman law, no said: "The Sherman law cannot be re pealed by tho next Congress unless sub stltutod'by the free coinago of silver in some form. They may put more sil vor in the dollar, but froo coinago will bo insisted on as a condition to tho re peal of tho Sherman law." Washington, Juno 7.?Tn regard to I tho alleged intention of United States ! District Attorney Parsons of Alubama. j to resist removal, Attorney Generai i Olney said this morning that while he ? had heard nothingdirect from Parsons, i from other sources he had the intima tion that Parsons contended thut tho i President could not remove him until i his commission expired, at the end of ! four years. It is understood that Par ? sons bases his contention upon certain i sections of tho tenure of office act, I which sections wore repealed eight years ago. Attorney General Olney, I while not expressing an oillcial opinion i in tho matter, says ho has no doubt, from present fnformation, that the President has tho right of removal at any time. Prosidont Harrison exercis ed this right throughout his adminis tration, without question, and when he desired an incumbent's removal, he notified him that ho was "discharged. TOM JACKSON THE SCOUT. One of tho romarkublo men of the i war was Tom Jackson, of the 7th Tenn I essee, in Stonewull's army. Ho wus u i .sergeant in Company B of that regi ment, and attracted the attention of Capt. Harris in tho winter of 1803, who j had him detailed to servo with his ' sharpshooters. j Ho early began to show signs of being j a good scout, und Capt. Harris began to take him on his scouts inside the j onemey'fl lines. A few months develop i ed him into a crafty woods man. Ho I was about 5 feet 10 "very slender und ! us wiry us an cel. 'The sharpshooters j suid he could go any where a black : snake could and with less noise. Capt. I Harris recommended him to Gen. A. P. Hill, who kept him until the war closed, j Some of his escapades read like romance. On one occasion ho was in side with some scouts watching a squad j of federals washing their clothes. When they hung them out to dry, .Tuck son stole every rag of them and got away. On another occasion a squad of j tlvo scouts were passing the pickets of Grant's lines by crawling beside a grout ' pine log from which tho bark had i dropped off, leaving the log nearly I white. Jackson was sneaking in front. I Roono, of Mississippi, next: Bond, of 1 Maryland, next and one other In the rear. A quick shot rang out and a ball j struck the log not an inch from Jack I son's head. Not a muscle moved. The ! rear man was badly scared, but Jack ! son, Bond and Boonc were cool. A ! Yankee sergeant cussed tho picket, j who declared he saw something. As I soon as tho sergeant wus gone Jaokson j commenced his snake-like motion and j wus directly on the inside. When tho scouts returned they took the picket I with them just for fun. Juckson and somo more scouts were surrounded in a house near Cabin Point insido of Grant's line in the winter of 1804-05. Tho Yankees were within 50 yards of the house when dis covered. Juckson whispered to the olli cer that ho could outrun the balance of them. " I will go this way und draw thoir attention, while you get to the woods. Meet mo at Free Sam's." Free Sam was a free negro who hud always been u friend to tho scouts. A jack rabbit could not have beuten Juckson through tho garden. Ho just How, sev eral shots were fired, but ho was safe before they recovered from their sur prise. Tho other squad wus soon safe in the woods, and met Jaokson at Free Sam's before midnight. Jackson was onco captured, but dug out from Point Lookout with a stolen suit of clothes. Ho changed while in tho water and crawled into a dugout with some Yankees and went ashore on tho Virginia side. A weok afterwards Jackson was scouting in his old ter , rltory. Ho was a born scout, never tired and knew no fear. His audueity was sim ply immense. Ho hud a best girl inside of Grant's linos. He went there to seo her ono night, und found by looking through the window thut u Yankee Captain und lieutenant were before him. Tho family were genuine Vir giniuns und loved everything Southern. Jaokson managed to find Out from the mother somehow tho names of tho Yankees; their regiment and brigade, also a number of other foots which ho might need In an emergency. Boldly walking to tho door he knocked und asked if Capt.-and Limit.-of tho--?Regiment woro there. Stand ing in tho dark ho told thorn that thoir comrades were moving, and Col. said for them to meet tho command at a point 6 miles from thero. Ho inci dentully mentlonod some names which completely throw thorn olT thoir guard. Tho girls woro astounded at bin audacity, but laughed themselves sick whoa it was all over. Tom Jaokson now lives in tho pan handle of Texas. ? Carpenter Bros., druggists, recom mend Johnson's Magnetic Oil, the great family pain klllor, intornul and exter nal. ?Carpontor Bi'cs., druggists, retom inond Jupanoso Liver Pollots for con stipation und Sick headache. Small, mild, easy to take. DO pills 25 cent ,. THE DISKKNBARY sys l im A Woman la Responsible fttr the Suit gjMttou?Graphic Account IVoin the Governor's Nephew. Capt. James H. Tlllman, a nephew of the Governor, furnishes the Now York Sun with a detailed account of tho origin and progress of tho dispensary system In South Carolina, from whicit we make the following extract: Necessity is the mother of all grout measures, and thore is a bit of romance connected with the enactment of tue dispensary system by the Palmetto Stute. I It was purely an accident, for which ! a woman is responsible. Last slimmer a prohibition wave i swept over this State, and lu the Demo- j OrauO primary polled a majority of about 30,000. Tho line, however, was not sharply drawn, as tho main issue ol the campaign was Tlllman und Anti Ttllman." The State Democratic e< ia mlttoe, which Is controlled by tlio Ti:. man faetlon, fearing a clash with too Prohibitionists, passed a resolution permitting the white ribbon oloiucnt j to have a box at all tho election pi e- j clnct8 in which ballots were to bo east, SO that the popular sent i n ion I on the prohibition question might be ascer- ] tained. The whlskoy men mudo no or- , ganized fight?in fact, no light ut all j further than to poll an Indifferent vote ?while tho prohibition men and women, preaehers and lecturers, nuide an active canvass, even visltiug school houses and discussing it from the pul pit. The result of tho election wus, a.s has already been stated, un overwhelm ing victory for tho Prohibitionists. Em boldened by their partial success in obtaining a majority of tho votes east, which is far from a majority of the voting population of tho State, tho pro hibition leaders introduced at the last sitting of tho General Assemblv a pro* hlbltlon bill. It was during the debate on this pro posed measure, which busted tot" sev eral days and nights, and wus at times stormy and personal, that the woman, over ubiquitous woman, ap peared on the scene. Tho galleries wore crowded with friends and foes of tho bill under consideration. Every body was unxious and expectant. Gov ernor Tlllman, who is avowedly oppos ed to prohibition, but did not wish to assume the responsibility of defeating tho bill by his veto, had sent a message to both bodies telling them that he would sign any measure which they in their wise judgmont might pass. The Prohibitionists loudly cheered this new development, and It looked for a timo us If South Carolina was doomed to prohibition?in name at least. Dur ing this excitement Governor Till man was seated In the gallery of the House in company with a number of ladies, and among tho number was a bright Georgia woman from tho classic city of Athens. While everything was in confusion in tho bally below and ac cusations and rejoinders were being hurlod across the aisle, she turned to Governor Tlllman and told him of the law then in force in Athens, known as tho dispensary system. That settled it. Governor Tlllman immediately loft tho gallery, and going to the ex ecutive otlico dispatched his messenger for hit- loaders in the House and Sen ate. Within live hours the caucus bad assembled, and the present law was framed and introduced in tho Sen ate as a substitute for the Prohibition bill. It passed both Houses and was approved by the Governor within a re markably short space of time. State Hanks.?A bill now before tho Florida Legislature is likely to ut truct considerable attention in financial oircles,fas it provides for the organiza tion of State banks and the issuance by them of circulating notes. The bill provides that tho State shall print a number of notes ranging in value from $1 to$1,000. These are to be registered, numbered and countersigned by the comptroller. The bank accepting pro visions of the act shall deposit with the ?State treasurer either United States bonds, Florida bonds or the l>onds of any county in the State whose indebt edness does not exeed f> per cent of its taxable value. The amount thus de posited shall not exceed the paid-up capital stock of the bank. Ninety per cent of this umouirt in circulating notes will then be issued to the bank under Its name. The notes are made payable on demand at the place of business of the bank, and in ease of refusal or de lay in payment in either gold or silver tho note will bo protested, and unless redeemed within ten days the State commission, which will be appointed for the purpose, will give notice that ull circulating notes of that bank will be redeemed out of the trust fund in tho bunds of the State. ?The question whether u tomato is a fruit or vegetable bus been finally decidod by the Supreme Court of the United States. Several years ago some Imported tomatoes came through the custom bouse in New York city, when the collector classified them as vegetables and collected duty accord ingly. The Importers disputed this point, and claimed tomatoes to be fruit and entitled to come free. The matter was taken into court, which de cided in favor of the collector's claim that the tomato is a vegetablo. ?Mr. R. A. 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Ho then brought suit against Sago for damages, declaring that Sage hud used j him us a shield against tee bomb by pulling him between tho dynamiter and I ntmsoif. It appears that, walking buck wards ; from the dynamiter, S:^ge grasped ! Laidlaw by tho hand with a cordiality ! entirely unprecedented, and gently drew him around so as to pluce him between his own person and the mun with the bomb. It must be confessed thut Laid law's Case looks like u good one. Had Sago been un ordinary ollizon, be would have rewarded Laidlaw handsomely. Hut being a multimillionaire bo forces the victim of his own cowardice to sue him in u court of law. Cooking with Electricity.?How to make bread by electrity was demon strated at the World's l'air lust week by Miss Louise Johnson, an acknow ledged authority on this subject. Her audience consisted principally of housewives, who manifest ;1 great in terest in the demonstrate'!) The boat employed Is over low defc iceti less than used in gas und grate ovens. 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