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(Ehe faurcii? C??uetti?cr. IM; MUSHEU EVERY TUESDAY. tfUBCItll'TION JU.64I l'KH Y F.Alt HOW till-; 6TUKY OF A ?OSE WAS T?LU. Woman? Bd tlon Newh Her und .New?. Can one who has lingered for a t)aie i in that far away romantic, old world ? town of San Antonia with its wonder ful unarm of air and eari.li and bky ; with Its dusky Alamo, the Thermo pylae of /the New World ; with Ite ir>'{ii^^ct -urabling missions, relies of r'^djflRl'k pant; can ono who hau scelrand felt these things ever forget them V No, they live lb memory and the magic potency of their oharm will draw the traveler back again over un counted miles* or even after many years have passed. it was here one perfeet day that a young woman seated in a comfortable chair on the verandu of tho prlnolpai hotel seemed to be n.joying to ite fullest extent all the witchery and beauty of oity and of plain. She was apparently busied witn her embroid ery, but often tho work would fall Into her lap and tho idle bauds He olasped over it, while her gaze wander ed from tho blue river, dancing in the sunlight, to tho blue sky above, with a look of happlnoss und rebtful content in tho sweet brown oyes which would have redeemed a plain face from ugli ness and which inado thiB ono radlaut ^-ehd beautiful. During ono of her happy little reveries, another woman came to tne glass doors opening from the parlor on this veranda and looked for a moment at Its solitary ooeupant, then walked towards her. The now comer was tall, slender, graceful, with an oval face framed in masses of auburn hair and luminous dark bluo eyes, clear and bright, yet with a wibtlul look in their deptbs. She wus ulbo tho possessor of a gentle, 'but vivacious munner and a gracious and unvarying courtesy anu never failed to charm alike every ono, old or young, with whom she came in eon tuet. Ettreinely stylish und elegant ^e looked this morning in a walking ~~^mtuino of dark blue cloth profusely trimmed with Sable, and In hor gloved . hands she carried a largo bunch of pink roses, evidently slio hud just returned from her ouily visit to the florist. ^ As she approached, "Dreamiug, Raymond?" she called, strang ers hearing Elizabeth Madison's voico for the tt>Ht tune always wished to hear It again : jafsoft, low and clear was il thai it A^Jggostod ad tho music of nature or of angels. " Is this not a lovely, lovely world?" tho beautiful voice suid. Mrs. Raymond looked up with a smile of a?bcut and apprecia tion. *' And," laying some of her roses on Mrs. Raymond? Unee, the continued, "And la thero anything in it more lovely than La France roses y" Mrs. Raymond look up the roses tenderly und laid them u moment ugaitibt her lips, then raising her eyes .-aid earnestly, " No. Nothing In all this world ! They bring back mem ories of tho pust and havo for me a beauty and a significance far deeper than that of form and color." Her voice was low and earnest and Elizabeth Madison dropped into a chair with a look of eager interest in her face. " It is a story I havo told only to my husbund and to his mother, who, you know, was my friend before I know Charley, and it is a strange impulse which prompts mo to toll it now to you. it was not alwuys with me us it is now, you know," and Elizabeth understood at once in that btrungu way In which some women can undei'btand that " now" meant that Mrs. Raymond hud not always worn velvets and diumoudb and travoled in her private car, or on tho "Blue-bird," her husband's yacht, for her husband was Charley Raymond, .known far and wide lib one oi me richest, as well as ono of thu brainiest young toliowa in all thtse broad United States. '. "My homo was in Carolina," Mrs. Raymond continued, "and there was nowhere a happier home than ours, tho family Conslbting of my parents, _. wy younger sister Grace and tnysoif. My father was once a wealth) rice planter, but as he grew old all his poa sebbions melted away. It was the old, . old story, ho old, always ?o bitter. Evorything wont, but the plantation, then to bad year succeeded bad year, hxxkd lie ids and ruined crops. Mother ' gd before wo found tho plantation Ist go?that Viudermere which had Jelonged to tho Tontaines since Caro lina was first settled would no longer bo ours?and my father old and sick at heart followed soon. "Grace and 1 decided to go to Now York and begin life all over again. She ^yas an artist of no little promise and lu^nie gift was my voice, i-o we eoiicludeir\|a^o where each could culti vate hor tam^^ind support, hersell while doing ltT^^I|Vhere tWfcro Is hO much money, surest wo can make something,1 said clear headeu Grace. ' We cannot do it. hero because every body else is almost us poor as wo are, ruined like us by the bait water and tho rice market.' " So wo wont, high spirited, ambi tious young ^iria with tho firm belief that some day, in some way, we should win wealth and famu. Girls so piti fully poor in worldly goods, yetbo rich in beautiful dreams and bright hopes. F>i a. mue. ait went well. We worked hard. Grace had photographs to color and I had music pupils besides our own le.? .?'?us and practicing. We mibscd our parents sadly, but wo wero happy, oh, so busy and so happi. We thought we had met tho wor.'J and conquer* d it, and through those months our tiny buviugu grew slowly, but buroly, dollar by dollar. "Then Grace began to look unlike her bright self, more lunguid eaeh day. At first I scarcely noticed it. When 1 did sho said, 'It is only the soring days, I shall soon be bettor.' Through that long summer sho wilted steadily. Finally sho gavo up lirst her art lessons and then her work from tho photographers. That was a bitter day for us. My oyes were opened ut last. 1 called tho doctor and I thought my heart broko when ho said to mo very gently, but frankly, ' Quick consumption. Thero is no pos sible cure nor uny hope.' ' "Day by day sho died beforo my eyes. Nor was this all, financial troubles came. One family whore 1 had two pupils decided to go South for the winter, another girl wi s sent, to boarding school, and in still another family where f taught two girls re verses came and they could no longer afford lessons. Then I lost another, and now only four remalnr.1 We could not live on that, BO vc>y roluc tanlly 1 gavo up my music pupils and went into a large shop on Broadway, lly this I earned the necessities of life for my sister, but It was little longer she was left mo. - " During the laut weeks of her sick ness I na? led with almost everything we had to buy medicines for her and dollcucics to tempt the lost appetite - back again. When the end came I was penniless, and the last of ray mother's silver went to lay away hor youngest daughter." By this time tho ten is which had lObg Oven nhintng in Elizabeth's violet o>-/.? (tcrfi p,,w drpiimlng down her oheeks. but the pathetic volewwent on, < a i nii aioavno mv terrible condi tion? For months I had stood inihu sie pali nay und pursed Of'SCOat night, renlizinir till tho while thai only my ftai' strength luv between II" and Starvation., Now I whs wretched and dl.?i?tirlng. Thank God, us I look buoh on those awful days I .'itn feel 1 was turd, the mudnchs which mug tho final LrcMiUof a long intense agony of mind ?ad body. Tho day alter (inr^e wan burled 1 went back to tho atom The previous eight ! hud fully determined to end ray wretched life. Why I did not do it that veiy u yUt I l uv. i eve knowr., but I decided uuol the follow ing night. " In tble 'renzled oondltlou, stand ing wearily behind my counter, 1 wa* roused by a lady speaking to me, 1 turned for the article she wished and as I faced her again the sweet voice said, 'l um afraid you are very tired, thl* holiday Shopping is hard un you.' It was the middle of December and the Christmas tush was beginning. I was bo touched by the unexpected sympathy that I feit the tears gather ing in my eyes aud ashamed to lift them to the lady's face. I happened to fix them on a bunoh of LaPranco roses pinned on her coat. 1 answered as quietly as 1 could that I was vory tired, adding to myself, ' Yes, and 1 shall eoou rest a long, sweet, motionless, dreamless rest 1' "Those roses, how thoy brought back my pain, in the dear, dead days Grace bad loved them and painted them and worn them, and I had longed with such a vain and bitter longing for just one bud to place in the .white tingors when her hand had closed on things earthly forever. ''The girl, by this time I had seen she was only u girl, notloed that' my gaze was fixed on her roses, so she separated the loveliest bud from the rett and offered It to me. I hesitated just a moment for my confused brain made every thought and act slow, and she said brightly, 'These are not hot house flowers. They grew out of doors 1 at my home way down in Carolina only two days ago, well knowing the fresh oharm this would impart to tbein in a New Yorker's eyes. " Then having completed her pur chase she stopped to say, " Good morn ing. I hope you will' feel better to morrow,' und thon wont away little dreaming that she had literally saved a aoul from death. " Tho shop girls were always kind to mo. They knew of my grief and had Beemod anxious to holp me if they could. Tho girl next to me had seen tho gilt of tho rose so she said : 'Don't you want to put your flower in water? I'll luluU your counter whllo you do It.' " I wont, got some cotton, daraponed it und wrapping my treasuro earofully hid It away under my shabby hat and jacket. ' Carolina,' the namo seemed to bring back anothor world and an other life! A life whioh must have been lived a thousand years ago. ' " T do not want to die, 1 want to live to go back home,' I said to myself over and ovor again through the hours of that long day, and tho thou - hi of my rose contorted me and kept alive In mo this longing for home. That night, and and lonely, but no longer mad dentil, I aobbed myself to aleop, but- ot t in after my beautiful roao had been laid above my sleeping sister. " That day wua tho darkest of my life. Tlie next brought a letter from Mrs. Raymond, tho mother of my pupils who had gone South. Sho had alwaya been kind to me nnd Bhe wrote now to toll mo that tho warmer climate was bringing back health aud strength to her invalid daughter, und knowing of Gruco's illneaa she urged ine to bring her to tho aamo place. Sho told how cheaply ono could livo in the village and olTcred mo tho post of governess to hor younger children " This thoughtful kindness eaino too late to aave Grace, but needless to aay Now York had become hateful to mo aud 1 wont at onco and gladly. "Two yeara I was Mrs. Raymond's governeas, giving up my duties only when I becamo tho wifo of her oldeat son. Two huppy year-j those were, and my lifo since has been so free from caro and sorrow that If it woro not for the memory of what, I have autTered, I might forget thut life is not all sun shine." Sho paused, Elizabeth witli eyes atill wot, took the hand holding the roses aud eave it a gentle, loving pres sure. A silence fell belweon them, and then it waa Elizabeth who broku it. " Ono day a huppy girl walked down Broadway. Resides being happy she was youu;: and her friends aaid beauti ful, and all the bleaainga which love aud wealth could m ing, had been this girl's all her lifo. Sho had just come from the South for hor lirst gay winter as a debutante, and to her tho world seemed brighter now thmi it had ever looked boforo. Can you guess why? It waa only that tho roay light of lovo waa now ohlning in her oyes and glorifying aud beautifying oven com monplace thinga. Roforo aho loft hor home she bud given a sweet promise to tho man sho had chosen out of all tiio world and when sho returned in tho spring tho engagement waa to bo announced. " It was the one love of hor life and thero waa never I think a deeper, truer love given anyone. On tho morning of which I apoke aho hud re ceived a letter from her lovor and in her girlish, loyal heart aho said with happy blushes, ' Nobody else, nobody elao in all the svido world could havo , written ao perfect a letter.' If you are inclined to Binilo at her remember that hIio was very young, that aho loven much and that she knew littlo of lovo letters. Though 1 do not think her enthusiasm was loo grout. 1 a in* fur older than t.ho was then and f have never seen, nor will overjjeo, another man to compare with that lover of hers. With tho letter came a box of her favorite Sowers, LaPranco roses. 'Wear these, little ono, aud fblnk of me,' was the ineaaago thoy brought. Very joyfully wero they worn, and as tho girl wulkcd that day aho bent her head and kissed her ttowers at her throat. " 'I am so happy that I want to shard" my urladneas with others,' was the thought in her hourt. Juat thon aho saw a girl looking at her roses. Such a sweot, weary faeo tho girl had. Act ing on the impulse of the moment, born perhaps of that wish to make some one elao happy, sho gave this girl one of her precious roses. " With tho setting of that day's sun all her joy and gladneaa went down to sudden death, and the laughter-loving girl was changed in a moment to a suffering woman. Since that day her highest aim has been to suffer and bo strong, to smile when tears would seem lur easier, to hide away a broken heart and go as cheerfully as sho may through the accustomed duties.of life. ?* For thut day whllo tho roses which ho had gathered wero still fresh on hor bosom eamo a telegram announcing his death. 'Killed in a railroad accident.' Ono short, oruel sentence, hut, it held tho anguish of a lifetime. j " Some might think that afterward j the sight of these roses would bo misery to her, but It Is not bo. Thoy ' al ways eay, 1 Wear these, little ono. and think of me.' So winter and sum- : mer all tho year round, she wants them at her throat aud when sho feels their soft, petals touch her faco it is as tho touch of a vanished hand, and Bhe thinks of a green grave In a quiet country ohurch yard whore these aame pink petals fall so softly as if they know that beneath them lay a man'* body and a woman heart." Mrs. Raymond roao and kissed her friend upon the quivering lips. "So it was." she, said. "1 might havo known it long ago. I know n >w why I loved yon from the moment I met you. Sometimes the heart hus a keener perception than tho oyes." .1 nst, at this moment a group of nb.ll dron appeared on tho veranda and tho ladies rose to go in. Holding E iza beth's hand In tier's H-hn Rtymond said very softly. " Joy and aorrow are twin altera and when ono entorlhe heart ihn other is not far off. Wo havo both |i>y< ?| much and suffered much and I think tho bond which unites ime.ui not be light, y broken." Taking e i/.jbeihs hand and looking into tho violet oyes she went on, her vujee choked wML emotion "To mAtiius '"'"JtfflHff hem with buzvan eyee to seo the gates of Jeaih swing shut and tbo a..ig? '? of tin! rtnrarrectlon t>ppdar, ami eon y?> ? wonder that aa I looked I beheld tu.it the hroMH were uro*ncu und the hand* were filled with the p. *es we 'ovj w> w.fd." The Fall 01 the Alamo. The luassaore of a ba d of Texans in I the Alumo by an overwhelming Mexi can army under General Sauta Anna on the Oth of March, 1?35, aftor a siege of eleven <Jay.?, Is the most Important e/cntlu the history of Texas, writes Colonel Sweet, editor of Texas Sittings. The refusal of the Toxuus to sur render, and their, auoceasful effort to hold the!v foes at bay, onablod General Houston to concentrate his forces. Moreover, the slaughter of the heroes of the Alamo transformed their breth ren in arms from men into demons, and when the day ot reckoning eame, a few weeks later at San Jaointo, they at tacked the Mexicans with a fiendish ferocity that was absolutely irresisti ble. With ''Remember the Alamo," for their battle ory, they slaughtered the terrified Mexicans like sheep, ac tually killing more than their number and capturing the rest of the Mexican army along with General Santa Anna himself, thereby securing the inde pendence of Texas. Had it not been tor tho massacre at the Alamo the probabilities are that the Texas revo lution would have been brushed. In February, 1835, a portion of Santa Anna's army unexpectedly appeared on the outskirts of tho town of San Antonio. The Toxas garrison, con sisting of 150 mon under Colonel Travis, were t irk en by surprise but succeeded in rotreatiug to the Alamo on the oust sido of the river. Fort Alamo consisted of a large enelosuro of five acres surrounded by a strong stockade and high walls of masonry. Tho fort inoluded a ehapol and a eon vent, massively constructed stone buildings and was defeudod by eight pieces of heavy artillery. While the walhi were well adapted to keeping out. . I ndiaus they Were too-weak to resist artillery. The story of the Alamo has been told bo often that wo will not at tempt to reproduce it in detail. Afttr eleven days of unceasing bombard ment, General Santa Anna made arrangements to take tho Alamo by storm, the Texans rejootlng evor over ture to surrender. Sunday, Muroh 6, was the fatal day. Shortly after midnight the Mexican army began its march to assigned post* dons. At 4 o'clock the bugle eall sounded, and Santa Anna headed an advance. Grape, muskot und rifie balls met them, and twice they were repelled. Thoy combined, forming a dense mass, and at lust, reaching tho tops of some houses forming tho wall of tho fort, effected an entrance to the inclosed yard. About tho same time they forced a breach in tho wall and i aptured one of the Texan guns. This wus at onco tu mod upon tho convent, to which the Americans had retroated. The cannonade ot tho besieged still did featful execution, but the feeble garri son could not resist the overwhelming numbers. Tho surviving Texans re treated to the chapel, and there took place tho most desperate, hand-to-hand light that ever occurred. Tho Texans lought to the last gasp, and when all was over tho ehapel was a slaughter house, cloggod with hundreds of man gled corpses. Tno boyhood of tho editor of Toxas Sittings was spent almost within the shadow of the old Alamo, and he heard many Interesting stories of tho memo rable event, from tho lips of the Tex ans, who knew whereof they spoke. Travis, tho heroic leader of tho Tex ans, was killed early in the light cheer ing his mon. Tho body of tho im mortal David Crockett was fou'd in tho baptistry of the ehapel, the door of which was congested with <econd-hand Mexicans. Referring to Crockett, an interesting ?tory is told by an old Mexican who was in Santa Anna's army, and in one of the attacking col umns. When tho Moxicau regiment got within gunshot range of tho fort, a tall man wearing a cap appeared on tho roof of the ehapel. lie shot the Mexican colonel oil his horse and dis appeared. This man was undoubtedly David Crockett, for ho wa? the only Texan wouring a cap. Ho woro a coon skin cup. Colonel Bowie, of Bowio-kuifo fume, was in a dying condition from typhoid fevor at the time of tho battle. He was probably tho last man killed. He was lying on the ground with his head in tho lap of a Mexican woman who nursed him during his illness. The Mexican soldiors impaled him with thoir bayonets and tossed his body about like a plaything. His faithful nurse, Madamo Caudalaria, is still living in San Antonio, and bears in her face the mark? of a wound made at that time by tho buyonotjof ono of Bowlo's murderers. Goneral Santa Anna and other high Mexican otllcers hud u special spite at Bowie He had married Ursula Ver rinnend i, the daughter of Governor Veramendj. The Mexicans thought because ho had married Into an aristo cratic Mexican family ho should have ?ided with them instead of with his own countrymen. An old Mexican, who as a boy, visit ed tho Alamo on the day after the massacre, was an eye-witness of tho disposition made of tho bodies of the slaughtered Texans. A number of bodioB woro placed sido by aide on the ground and covered with* fence rails, thon another layer of corpses was placod on the fence rails and covered with brush and sot on fire. Tho bodies of all tho Texans wero thus bttrhed. and tho narrator said with uplifted eyes and hands that it was "muy feo." which means " very ugly." There uro conflicting accounts of the number Of Mexicans engaged In this nO.V'7* Uli IMPOSED UPON, when you ask for Dr. Piorcp's Golden Medical Discovery. Go to a reliable dealer. He'll sell you what you want, ? The ones who have something else to urge upon you in its place are think ing of the extra profit they'll make. 'These things pay them better, but tney don't care about you. None of tlie.se cheap substitutes is "hist an good" as tho "Discovery." Tliat is the only blood-cleanser, flesh builder, and Htrength-restorer so far reaching and so unfailing in its ef fects that it can he f/uarauteed. 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Thu . x< ra^rdlna.number ?>( M"x chd-4 kill d in Hil Uns ef,*f?,gem?nte of the TexM? revolution Is explained by the fnot *h.,t the Texans we.o mostly from Kentucky and Tennessee, mm who ?o'ild bark i-ouirrela with ? rille all d >j Iodk Such mm k? ? .m i m e' v ii is tod as large a target us u .Mexican. In fact, aimed, all the Mexicaus killed in these fights were snot thiough leo bead. The writer remembers seeing in the old Camr?o Santo, of San An ton in, a pile of skulls, each one of which was bored by a rifle ball. These were the skulls of Mexicans who fell In what war known as "The Gras> Fight." near that to.rn. The Mexi cans labored under the doubl? disad vantage of belog armed with old-fash ioned escopetas or blunderbusses. Much better troops suffered Similar disaster at New Orleans at the hands of the same type of American soldiers. Wben the Alamo fell. San Antonio was a small Mexican village. Now it is'a progressive Amerioan olty of 60, 000 Inhabitants, with waterworks, eleotrio lights, rapid transit, schools, oburubes and all the other rfqulre ments of the highest Order of modern civilization. 1.11,1- A111? AND HIS Wil l!. The Old I'eople Are Ijonely Now That There Are No Children With Their Musical Voices Resounding Through the Old Home. "The evil that men do lives after them. The good Is oft interred with their bones." Mane Anthony said thut over the dead body of Cunnr, but 1 do not think he mount it. Perhaps it was partly sareutun, like tho reat of his speech. The good deeds of good men outlive the bud deeds of bad men. The poet Longfellow said ,lt better ami more truthfully : "LI-es of great men all romlnd us We can make our lives sublime." The evil that men do does not live long alter they are deud. The in fluences of hud men stop with their breath. Who mourns; who attends tho funcrul ; who prououuees the eulogy . But mark the sweet breath of grief when a good man or a good woman dies. When a stono fulls iuto the bosom of a glassy lake it is said thut the shock is noteontiucd to a lit tle space uround whero It fell, but tue circles widen and recede until thuy reach tho distant shore, and even the earth bus felt it. Just so the lives of good- people are ull the time giving out wuvelets thut never stop. Thsy reach from man t j man, from futhor to son, und go on down through the corridors of tune, und liko the flow of u pouooful rivor thoy nourish aa they go. God examples and good Intlounoea outlive bad ones. I was ruminating about this because of the recent douth of two good people whom I loved aud who were my poi aouai frlonda. A man and a woman? Campbell Wallace, of Atlanta, and ?Mother Sparks, of Rome. Thuir time was out and it was a fitting thing for thorn to go and nobody grieves, except in a sad, sweet way. in fact, it was a triumph for thorn to die?a victory. Major Wallace, in his ninetieth year, uud outlived ull the companions of hia youth, lie hud aeen muny punica ami many perils; hud lived in sunshine and in storm; hud spent hia youth und part of his manhood when there were no railroads, nor telegraphs, nor steamships, nor cotton gina, but he marched with the procession and was among the that to build railroads und to operate, them. 'In uctive progres sive busy life for more thun sixty years* he never wuvered from the path of duty und justice, but hia whole life was adorned by good will and good temper. Whut u cheerful old ago bo oarrV d. i have a letter buforo me now that he wrote, me on hia eightieth birthday. A kind, oheorful, hopeful letter, lull of love to God und love to man, and it was written with a gray gooao quill in u round, strong bund and without u blot or blemish. I know thut 'children should uot bunk too much on a father's reputation, but still children, grundchildrcu und great-grandchildren have a right to bo proud that Campbell Wallace'a blood flows in their velnb. And that good old mother In Israel, Mra. Ann Sparks. Ono of the hero ines we do not And in tho books, but u heroine all tho same. How bravely she went through the perils and trials of the war; how nobly did aho take the place of husband and father ; how lovingly and tenderly did ahe roar the children left in her charge; how se renely she trusted in tho God of the DELICATE' Should Use i3riAr)i^iEij.r)'s FEMALE REGULATOR. IT IS ft SUPERB TONIG and exerts a wonderful influence in strengthening her system by driving through the proper chan nel nil impurities. Health and strength are. guaranteed to result from Its use. My wlfo whs bedridden for eighteen months, after using HKADKIKLDS PKMALK REGU LATOIt for two montlm, in getting well.? J M. 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None but the aged know any thing of that peculiar feeling that comes over a man or a woman when they hear of another death among the iloc.it that grows smaller and smaller as the years roll on. Another one gone?and after while another. When a man neurs his throu-ooore years and ten he is almost afraid to count up the number who uro loft. It makes him feol lonesome and uncon sciously he whispers : " One shall be taken and another left." For more than two months my wife and I have been living alone?all alone In a great, big house with oight rooms - not even a out to mew nor a eanury bird to sing. But we sometlmis bor row a grunciehild for a duy or a night und our kindred visit us quite often. Nevertheless, the fuot remains that our children have all loft us and now 1 sit at one sido of a little round table and my wife at tho Other as I ask a blessing at our dally meals. Its funny, Isn't it r Forty years ago 1 bought un extension table, for tho children were coming along and every three or four years a new leaf had to bo put in and by and by tho table grew long?very long?and there were five children on each side. Soon a boy left us and thuu a girl and a leaf was tukon out. Then two more boys and auother gi.d und another loaf was put away in the doset.?and so It has been going on and on until now all the leaves are :ono und the table is round. Hut we will have two of the girls back from Florida soon and a little grandchild and home will look bright again. My wife keeps busy looking utter lur llowers and making little, mysterious garments llkt sbo used to make "when you and I were young, Mag gie," und I hoe tho beuns und uotatoes and transplant the boots and pick the strawberries and dig up the blue-grass turf on tho back lane and roll it up to the front yard and bed it where she tolls mo. The tuber roses are coming up, and so is the gladiolus, sweet peus and nasturtium are growing apace and morning glories are reaching for tho oanos. I never saw ilowerd and grass grow so fast or bo pretty. They toil not, neither do they spin, but silver aud gold will not compare with them. AH tho silver and gold In tho world would not buy all tbo llowers If they were put up for sale aud no more wore t.o come. How little do wo prize the bounties of uature until we lose them ! Verily, the Creator has been good to His creatures, for Ho has made the bust things the ohoupest and tho most beautiful cost us nothing. Hill A hp. THE KEG ISTRATION MATTH It. The Indications are that Judge OofT Will be Reversed.' Richmond, Va., Juno 7.?The Smith Carolina registration case cumo up here in the United States court of ap peals today be fore <3 h'n f Justioo Fuller and Distriot Judges Hughes and Sey mour. From tno questions asked counsel on both sides i>y Chief Justice Fuller it is thought that Judge Got)'s order ot injunction will be dissolved. Attorney General Barber, of South Carolina, opened the argument for that State. He began by asking tho court to suspend tho rule by which its decision would not be rendered until the next term. The court snitl that it would take its own courso in that mat ter. The attorney general then stated that tho whole proceedings were directed against South Carolina. He contended that tho federal courts did not have jurisdiction in the oase in which this injunction was granted. Here tho attorney general cited easss which held that the judiciary could not Interfere in matters political and that it was not within tho power of the United States courts to decide a ques tion as to tho rights of vJtors. '"Wore the voters of Rlehland county practi cially disfranchised," Bald ho, " very grave questions may arise as to the validity of any election bold for dele gates to the constitutional convention, it can not be denied thut this is un attempt, to stop an election." Ho also contended that tho suit was in otfect ono against tho State of South Care Una and as such was in violation of tho constitution of the United States. Attorney General Barber stated that If tho complainant is a colored man it was not shown upon the records and is an assumption of the clre.ilt judfcO. He bold that, tho registration law mado no discriminations on account oi race, color or previous condition. C. A. Douglass, of Washington, fol lowed Mr. Barberand argued for the complainant. He contended that the registration laws wereeumbersomeand 'voro intended to hinder registration. This he said was tho scheme of tbo aet He claimed that the act of 1882 was unconstitutional as was also tho aet of 1804. Even after a man had registered, said Mr. Douglass, he had to have a cortlficato and overy time ho changed his place of residence, oven if he moved from ono houso to another tin the same block, ho had to get another cerl.ilicate. In case he lost his certificate he had to got another one ami upon such limita tions and provisions as would hardly bo required for a lost bank note. Chief Justice Fuller asked Mr. Doug lass if this did not apply to whito voters as well as colored, to which tho lawyer said that on Its faco it did. Mr. Douglass also contended ami said that ft COUld not bo disputed that un der the act of 1882 tho voters who ar rived ut the ago of 21 during tho months of May and June, 18S2, and did not register are today perpetually disfranchised. H. N. Obear, of Washington, follow ed Mr. Douglass for tho complainant He held that the supervisor was not an officer of the State until this oourt has pronounced the registration law valid. Ho -aid they were not making their attack upon the acts of the register but upon the law wbiuh gave him tho power of one. He oon tended that the right to vote was in one sense a political right but that it was a'.so a property right and as suoh may be pro tected by the courts. Edward McCrady, of Charleston, closed tho argument on behalf of the state. His remarks wero very brief. He claimed that the court had no ju risdiction in the ease and cited a num ber of cases In whloh United States judges bad held that courts of equity could not interfero with matters politi cal. Upon the conclusion of the argument next Tuesday was set as the day upon whioh brh fs in the ease should be died. oUUAR AS IT? IS IMPORTtU Statistics allowing the Ht-avy Shipments Received at I'rln<-iput American Cities. Washington, June 7.?Mr. Worth ington C. Ford, chief of tho bureau of statistics, gives out the imports of sugar for the month of May 1895, the total qnantitity imported at the five ports of New York, Boston, Baltimore, Phila delphia and San Francisco, were 530. 607,590 pounds, valued at 810,480,484. These figures represent a very heavy Import. While the tariff net of 1804 was before congress, the importations wore greatly stimulated by the uncer tainties of the duty to be levied on su gars, the highest figures in the history of the country were touched. In March 1894. thu imports were ?91,880,125 pounds, and in July of the snmc year TOO.040,880 pounds. If the monthly im portations be examined as far back as January 1M)5, it would bo seen that in no single month prior to March 18?4. had the imports touched 500,000,000 pounds. The returns of May, 1805. are heavier in quantity than the imports in Mny of any previous year and had, therefore, been counted as breaking the record. Tho values still rule very low. 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S.*C PORT ROYAL & WESTERN CAB olina Railway. "Augusta and Asheville Short Line." J. B. Cleveland, Receiver. Schedule in effect March 25th. 180.1._ Lv Augusta. 0 40 am 8 00 pm Ar Greenwood.12 28 pm 12 00 am Anderson.8 00 pin . Laurens. 1 38 pm 7 15 am Greenville. 3 05 pm 0 45 am Spartanburg. 3 20 pm .... Saluda .4 it i.in . Hcnder8onville. .. 5 10 pm . Asheville.ftjg?pni_. Lv Asheville. 8 00 am . Spartan burg.11 45 am . Greenville.1155 am 4 20 pm Laurens.... .. 1 33 nm 7 DO pill Anderson. 020 am . Greenwood. 2 30 pm 6 00 pm Ar Augqsta. 8 20. | m 8 35 am Savannah. 5 55 am (ho pm Lv Greenwood.ft 53 pm 2 83 am Ar Raleigh . 1 20 am 12 (10 n'n Norfolk. 7 00 am 0 20 pin Petersburg. 800 am 6 43 pm Richmond . 0 40 am 0 45 pin TO ATHENS, ATLANTA AND POINTS WEST. Lv Greenville. 0 45 am 11 55 am Lv ? nderson. 0 20 . Augusta. 0 4?UU1 . Greenwood.12 48 pm 2 42 pm ArAtheiiH. 303 pm 5 00 pm Ar Atlanta. 4 00 nm 7 45 pm Close connections at Oreeuwood lor all points on 8. A. L. and C. (fe G. 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Lv Coluinbiu.0 60 am Ar Caindeu.12 05 pm West bound. Lv Cumdcn.3 18 pro Ar Columbia.10 10 pm CONNECTION. At Columbia with Southern Hallway to and 1 nun all points in upper South and North Carolina. Through trains between Charles ton and Asheville, N. 0. Any other information, folders, map?, eto will be furnished on application to E. S. HOW EN, Ucucrui Muuugcr, Columbia 8. C. L. A. EMEHSON, Traffic Manager, Charles ton, S. 0. G.H.PAKK8, Traveling Agent, Columbia 8. C. Columbia, Laurens ar j} New berry R. R. N ort lit ion 1.d .-oulhbouini pm am S'atlons, pm am 4 13 1030 .. . Columbia . 4 ho 11 i? 4 00 10 02 . Lt'itpluirt . 4 55 1123 3 54 0 40 . Inno ... 1 08 11 37 8 40 ?27.. .. Balentlne .. ft 25 1145 3 42 0 1ft ... White Rock ... ft 8ft 11 BO 8 31 S34 Cluti lain .ft ftft 1203 8 24 ?30 .. L?H- Mold tain . ft 15 12 13 8 21 .s 22 Sliifhs . 0 2J 12 is 812 ?00 . . Prosaerity_ 041 12211 2 50 7 30 Newbe ry* .. .7 ?8 12 43 2 17 7 Oft.. 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PIEDMONT AIR LINE. ?OHDIHUU SCBBDUra Of VASSSNOBR T RATHS, Karthuoood M?r IStta. ltSS Lt Atlanta o time Atlanta ?tint* Nororoas. llu font. Ualr.ejrllls.. L?h?. Cornelia Mt. Airy To.-ooa. Westminster . Stnooe. Central. Groenvllle.... Spartanburg.. Oarfneys Blajksburg. Kiug'sMount n Gaslonla C.iarlotto Danville Ar. Rlohmond .. Ar. YVi.s lngton ., " Bsltiine P.K.B Philadelphia.. " Now York Houtlil ound. Ly movt York p.r.R " Falladelphla.. " Baltimore " Washington " Richmond Danville Charlotte Gastonin Klng'sMount'n Illacksburg.. Gaffneya spartanhurs;.. Greenville. Central. Soncca. Westminster Toccoa. Mount Airy Cornelia.. .. I.ula. Gainesville. Uufnrd. Nor. rosa... Atlanta K time Atlanta C Hum 8.rr> p 7.60 a ?.11 p! 8 27 a 10.00 pi f 31 u 0.00 pi 8.30 a ??A"' a. m. "P." p. m. ? M." noon "N." niKbt. Nob.37 and 3S? Washington and Southwrstern Vestlbuled Limited,Through Pullman Sleepers between New York and New Orleans, via Wuaa InKton, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also be tween New York and Memphis, via Washing ton, Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining Cars. Nos, S5 tid M United Statca Fast Mail. Pull nan Hlcoplng Cars between Atlanta, Mont gomery and New York. Nos. 11 and 19. Pullman Sleeping Car between Richmond, Danville and Orconsboro. W. A. TURK, 8. H. HARD WICK, Gtn'l Pass. Ag't, Ass't Ooneral Pass Ag't Washington, D. C. Atlanta, OA. W. B. RYDER, Superintendent, Charlotte, North Carolina Mt. ORKEN, Oen'l Hupt., WashiMOTOR, D. O. J. M. GULP*. Traffic Mn sr. WushlngtenD. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. (EASTERN SYSTEM^ Condon .<-<! aettutlUle In K'Vos May SO. li. 1800. Trains run by Tfitti Meridian Ttmo STATIONS. Dully i No. 11. 7.-.II ;i ill Lv Charleston . ?' Columbia.ill mam *' Prosporlty.-.112.4 pm Ar Nowberry.|ri pta. Ar. Clinton ... i Ex Sum .? f< ? p ni. Laurens(Ex Sum. I '1.10 pta, "Ninety-Six.? 1 :iHp m 1 Qreenwoud . 1.67 p m; Hodges.I ?17 p m, 1 Abbevlllo...? ...".-1 i 60 p m ' Belton . ? ? Anderson. Sein oi 1 n to p m ! 4 10 p m STATIONS. Lv. O renn vi lie. . " Piedmont. " William, ton ""Anderson_ Dally No 13 10 16 am, 10 47 am. I I.Ill urn r II. 10 lllll Helton..111.45 am; j Ar._Donald'3.| U lopui i tv- Abliovlllo..'.?111.66 am Hodges.I it us n?i 12.66 pm 1.18 pm i " Greenwood. I " Ntnety-Slx . ._.__ " I jiturens i Kx Sun . i " Clinton (Ex Sun). " Nowt orry 1 " Prosperity A i Columl la . " Charleston 10 .0 am 11)0 urn 2.10 pin 2.87 pm S.U pm 8 |Q pm llnlu'cni ( ni o in ..In mill Aithcvllle. I Daily. No. 13 STATIONS I 7.'4 Hal i ,\< IliUI i i ? ? 1 o 0 A r .<li.26.un I2.l0prr. 1.10pm 1.30 >m 1 : i|i..i ->07 pm! 2 40 pm' 3.10pm I Dally. I |K?. Ill,_ 8.40pm'. . r.v ColumblaAr I 3Sipm AiHton..." 3.0Jrm] ?' ..Santub . .." 1 5)pml ?'..Union. ,., " l.i?pm! Joiii svllle." 12.40pm! Pai-i lit. .." 12 23pmi Ar aparfb'ir'Lv ll.4'.um Lv Snart h'gAr 11.17am 6 ?0[itn<Ar ABhovllle I.v ? Ulam Trains loavs Sparte-iburg. A. and C. dtjdalpij northbound. 4.9?a m., 8.1U p. m,6.18 p. m..TVos tlbulod Llmltodl; southboifnd, 1.45 a. m.. 2.60 p. in 1147 a. in . (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Greenville, A. and C. Division, northbound, MVS.m.,9.14 pm.. and 6.27pm..(Ves tibuled Limited)) southbound, l.efo. m.. 4.10 p. m., 12.28 p. m , (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Senses, A. andC. Division, north bound .v.o.; ft. m. atld 18.41 p. m ; southbound. 3 00 a. m. and 6.64 p. ni PULLMAN SERVICE. ; Pullman Palaoo Sleeping Curs on Tralua K> and 96, 37 and 38, on A. and C Dl vision W.A.TURK, S.H. IIARDWICK. Osu. Paa. Agt. as C'lion Pas. Agt. Eas t*ya. W H. GREEN, J M CULP, Oen'l Superintendent Traffic Mgr Washington. D. 0. K. BERKELEY, Supt., Columbia, ?. O. Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUS TA H.H. CONDENSEl/SCHKDULB. IN* KFFF.CT .IAN. 27. 18H5. Going South. No. 66. No. 61 i.v Wilmington.*3aopni .... Lv Marion.I. 6 2l pm . Ar Florence..?.. 7 00 pm . . Lv Florence.?7 26 pm *H 16 an, A i Sumter. tgft) pm 4 21 an Lv Sumter. HJifl pm 48 am A r Columbia.lojio pm 11 06 am No. 62 runs thropgh from Charleston via Central H. It., leaving Lanes8.38 a in. Manning 9.16am. Going North. No. 68.^ No. 63. LvColumbla.*.i20nm *4 U5 iim Ar Sumter . 6 4)1 am 6 43 pm . ? No. 56. No. 60 Lv Sumter. tl 43 am *5 4'. pm Ar Florence. 8 00 am 0 H pm Lv Floronco. 7.35am . Lv Marlon. . 8 lu am . Ar Wilmington..'1150am . ?Dally. No. 63 rune through to Charleston, H. C, via Central lt. lt., arriving Manning (iiil p. m.. Lanes 7 00 p. m., Charleston s 4t> p. in. Trains on South and North Carolina It. "4., leave Atkins ? 40 a. m. and BAD p. m., arriving Lucknow 1110 ft, m. . ? Ml p. m. Returning leave Luukno>vR46u iiinnd4$)p m, arriving Atkins 8 16 a m snd 6 60 p m. Daily except Sunday. Trams on llnrtsvlllo H. R. loavu llnrtsvllle at 4 30 a m. arriving Floyds.ri(>i a m. Redli n ing leave Floyds ii 45 p m, airblug Ibirisxdle in u p m. Dully except Sunday. Trains on Wilmington, Ohadbourn and Con way It It leave Chiulbour.i 11 3n u m, arrive at Conway 1 46 p in, returnliu IcftVc '"onway at 2 ?) p\nb arrive Chndboiini 4 ?i p m, leave Clmdli?urn 6 85 ji m, nrrlvo at Hub o i. |. m returning leave Hub hi, amyo ut Ch.td pOurn 9V? a m. Dally oxirpt Sunday JOHN F. DIVINK, G^"' J. 0. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. BMBBSON, TralHo Manager. '")''',' ^ * ? < 11' I ?' 111 > t. 'j