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?V?RY TUESDAY. HUISCllllTION #t.tH> I'ER YKAK. TUB POINT OF VIEW. BY HUBAN UUKTIS KKDFIBL.U. . I. V Ttiore they are, Ephraim ! t see Matilda's purulo bonnet. How that locomotiveihres Boreoeh I I'm afraid colttL^fton't stand it. This way, igall !""Hurry in, Matilda! These colts are restless." ' Ephraim Grant's Bieters, Miss Ma tilda and Miss Abigail, wore proceed ing to oboy tho . injunotlons of their | slBter-in-law when a lad, with a groat flourish of whip, and. many urgent "get up's" drove up to the littlo rail way station. "Why, there's Jim??, exclaimed Miss Abigail. "Now Ephraim, wo'U go right on home." "You can upeak for yourself," Bald MIbs Matilda. "I'm going to stay at Ephralm's all night. I never was bo Bhakon up i.n my life ; that's a dread fully rough road wo'vb just como over." " Now 1 was glad of the shaking," laughed Miss Abigail. " I had oaten Buoh a huurty dinner, and slinking is good for the rheumatism, Matilda." " It's very easy to see the silver lining to somebody else's oloud," re torted MIbs Matilda, " and it's down right irritating in you, Abigail, to bo always glad whon.othor folks uro sorry. Guess that woman with tbe slok baby didn't liko tho rough road much bettor than I did 1" " Good-byo," called her siBtor from tho old phuoton. " Pleasant night to you, Matilda." II. "Pleasant night indeed 1" ropoated Mlsb Matilda, who had finally settled heraell in tho wagon. "Now, If that Isn't like Abigail and nobody elso I When sbo knows that my hoadV aohlng to split, and that I've got rheu matism so that I ean fairly near my knees squoak whon I bend them, and I'm just done out with all tbo talking I'vo lived through this week ! What's tho mattor with you, Ephraim? You haven't opened you mouth since wo got off tho train." "Oh, 1 was just waiting for my turn, Ephraim, Blowly. " There's [l*e>J[ike bettor than to bear boy.aml his family." u began Miss Matilda, " In aco, just as I told ^you be* krtcd, it would hav?Vhaao ?tTOtfOT t?T^yoa? tnid Sarah havo gone there Instead , of Sibigall apd me to visit them, t feel pleasant about it, I'm suru. They-bald 'twas two years since you had been thore." " But they know why," said her brother. "What, with scarlot fever, and moaslcs, and every other catch ing disoaso last year, and all tho troublo I've had getting help on tho farm this year, and Surah Jane su takon up with her sick old uiothor, and?" "That isn't a bit like Joo!" inter rupted Mrs. Grant,'indignantly. "II he doe8 foei so, Suoy must havo put him up to it." "Likely enough," replied Miss Ma tilda. "Poor Joo I He's got lots of bur dens, and ho used to bo such, a jolly boy ! He looks older, I toll you, and he's getting gray, and wrinklos on the forohoad aud arouud the eyes. Lucy? Oh, woll, you always say that I look od tho dark sido. Maybe I do. I hope so, I'm euro." "Oh, don't bo so aggravating, Ma tllda I" cried Mrs! Grant. " Woll," bogan Miss Matilda uguin. " if you will havo it, nobody can blame mo,' I'm sure. Luoy's a city woman with city ways and bringing up, anc she's no manager." 11 How is poor Lucy ?" inquiret Ephraim, kindly. " I always llket Luoy." " Woll, that accident to her knee ii turning out bad enough. Sho is lam< for life; has to wear a machine t< keep tho bonos In place, and it weight live pounds. I guoss it makes hot about sick most of the time. Joo has i holploss wife on his hands for the resl of his life. Sho can't got about much and that reminds mo of anothor thing Bk Sho stays home from church beoaust SB sho Isn't comfortable In tho pew, am E so Joo has to go alone with the chit ? dron, and naturally tho next thing we'll hoar will be that ho doesn't gc either. . .. I "And talking of tho children, they " sot tho broom on Uro in the parlor grate ono day and then ran out with it all ablaze and laid it on tho sitting room sofa. If I hadn't been there, that whole house, would have been in flames. And if you'd believe it, those children woren|t punished one bit. Lucy just took them into the bedroom and talked to thorn a littlo, and when abo told Joo about it she actually laughed ! Oh ! those chlliron are coming up In a sad way. I- must toll you anothor thing thoy used to do. Tho gate posts aro high and hollow, and it was their favorito amusement to olimb up and take off the top of the post and then drop the kitten in cloar down to tho bottom. Then they'd let down a ropo for hur to eomo up on, and they really trainod that poor boast to be drawn up on that ropo. Thoy ' ig the perishing.' \ under heaven that that cat, and her size walle I was Sighed Mrs. Grant. "It Kdftil u? think of the ohil l/gwild like that, and allowed J, too I" moans woll," continued Ma ^but she's queer, not liko our [Now sho doesn't manago right; Lps two girls." H girls !" interrupted her aistor ? two girls. 'A course boing Jd in tne city sho'd naturally ?no. But instead of doing tho Uwhu,' and mending sho koopg help with the room work and x, and do tho sewing, whilo she 'jltH dabbling with paints. She Baid llpmothing onco about selling the bioturcs, but our Luclnda Harris paints br hotter, and you know Luclnda tried fto sell hors and couldn't. And I know Joo's business worries him sometimos, und that ho has hard work to make both ends meet." t % I " Dear mo I" slghod Mrs. Grant. ?I'm afraid things aro in a bad way hero Ephraim. I guess wo'll just ' 4?n to co thore and soo for ourselves." ?? Not to-night," replied Mr. Grant, "floro wo aro at last. Hullo, Frank l Rrlncr a lantorn I" ?'I'm going straight to bod," said Miss Matilda, as soon as she entered the house. "I'm actually too tired to Htioak. I hopo I haven't said anything to worry you. Very Hkolyyou havon't tiikon it as I meant it. I'd rather not havo said a word, but you would have it." HI. Ephraim ?rant and his wifo retired late that evening, and poor Mrs. Grant hod a restless, uncomfortable night. Sho aroso the next morning feollng fill moro distressed in mind, and firmly resolvod to take the first op portunity to visit tho disordered houso ???T?vo nad a dreadful night, Ephraim," iflsa'd, almost crying. "I dreamed all the cats on Joe's plaoo (and re woro dozens of thorn, too) had L^n their kneoa and were ail going liko kangaroos, and Luoy had >d both children into ne gato post, and put tho top on tight, and then ?ot fire to it. " When vre get the oberes done up we 11 drive over to nee Abigail," said her husband. ." You'll Und? things aren't as bad aa you think. Matilda'* going to spend the day with Jane l.oomis. eo we'll have Abigail to our selves.'* "Things way not be o bad, but Ma tilda never made all thf.t up, Ephraim. There couldn't be so much &moko with out some firo." But Ephraim only whistled softly and went out to feed the oalves. IV. There was an odd smile on Mius Abi gail's face when hoi brother Ephraim and his wife entered her kitchen that morning. " So glad to Boe you 1" she cried. "Somehow I was expecting you. So Matilda has gone to see Jane, has she? Take oft your things and sit down by the stove. I suppose- Matilda has tola you all about her visit, and perhaps I shall be 'bringing coals to New castle' if I tell my story, but I had suoh a lovely time that I'm afraid I oah't keep still. It's suoh a happy home, Ephraim 1 'Twould do you and Sarah Jane good to see it, and I do wish you could go. And they wish bo, too *, they sent a thousand loving mes sages to you both. I've been In some places whore the folks seemed to turn 'all their blessings into worries, but it seems as if trouble eon Id n't bo a trouble long after it got into Joe's house, for before it knows what has happened it has become a blessing in "Now that's good!" said her brother, heartily. " But Matilda says Joe isn't jolly any moro, and that he is growing old. She says he is gray and wrinkled, too," said Mr. Grant. " Ephraim was gray as a rat when he was thirty (yes, be was. Sarah Jano), and Joe's thirty-five. And Ephraim and Joe both have the same trick of smiling up to their eyebrows and mak ing wrinkles doing it. As for his being jolly, he is something better now, Sarah Jane." "Matilda says ho carries some heavy burdens," continued Mrs. Grant, in a despondent tone. {* Most of us do if we live long onough, and don't insist on slipping them oil' our own back onto somobody elso's," replied Miss Abigail. " He's got a helpless wife," said Mrs. Grant, Aournfully. "She's of no uso whatever in the family that I can see." " Did Matilda say that ?" Inquired Miss Abigail. " Now, see here. Sarah Jano, Joe's your only son. When ho whs a youngster you thought he ought to have everything be wanted, and, as far as you could, you gave it to him, and you kept right on that way as long as you had him at homo. It is natural j enough that you shouldn't want any ? thing to cross hlra now, but, bless you, if Joo Is going to have the joys and comforts of married life, he Is bound to have the cares and burdens, too. I Rupposo you would like to cover hie path "with roses, but If you did tbore'd bo Borne thorns among them, aud Joe would prick bis toes. Mrs. Amos, Lucy's mother, fools just, tho same about Lucy." " Yjmi needn't pity Lucy," replied MIsb Abigail. " She's a happ'y wo man, with a husband who adores her, and those loving children. Yes, 1 know there is a little grave under the old olm tree, but Joe and Lucy says it has brought heaven nearer. Thej have had sickness, but there are worse troubles than that. Money Is a little short sometimes, hut they manage t< live very comfortably. Joe going tc give up his religion and stop going tc church 1 Joe says Lucy's life is the best sermon ho ever had, ami besides , Lucy is going to churoh herself next . Sunday. Sho will go|right along bow I presume, i " I'm sure I'm wonderfully relieved that you look at evory thing this way,' . said Mrs. Grant, "but why does Lucj keep two girls and amuso herself wltl painting instead of doing hor sewing ?' , "Lucy found it much cheapor t< keep tho girl than to do the work her 1 self," said Miss Abigail. "Luoy gob a good price for hor pictures, and selli 1 all she oan do to one store-keopoi I there. Sho paints all sorts of things calendars, dinner cards, china, and s< , on. Sho wanted to toll Matilda al . about It, but Matilda was downrighJ , spiteful, got mad any time she heart I or saw painting, and she hurt Lucy'i feelings vory much. Thon Luoy helpi t Joe a great deal with his accounts." " Matilda doesn't soom vory inuct pleased with tho children," said Eph ralm. i " Thoso children aro tho dearest [ brightest little things I ever knew !' . oried Miss Abigail. "Dreadfully mischievous, I shoulc i say," remarked Mrs. Grant, " and nol well brought up." * " Ephraim," said Miss Abigail bursting into a hearty laugh, "do you remember tho time we wero having protracted meetings, and there was a neighborhood prayer meeting at yout house, and Joo sawed tho fore-legu oil tho easy chairs, and then fitted them neatly together r* Deacon Potter sat down first in one of them. He was a quiet, steady little man, and the ohalr held up all right. Then Mrs. Bond oame In (sho weighed a hundred and seventy-live pounds) and sat down putting and panting, with a kind of bounce, in the other armohalr. Down she oame, and Deacon Potter gavo a groat start, and down he camo, too, and beLpg a thin little creature he broke his collar bone, and you had to Eay all tho doctors' bills, Ephraim, for e was a sort of skinflint and insisted on it. I suppose Matilda told about tho broom. Well, those ohildren really had a notion of helping by brushing down the soot, and they wore hurrying out to the kitchen wltb the broom when Matilda shriekod at thorn and soared them so that they dropped It on the sofa and ran." " Well, Sarah Jano," said hor hus band, slowly, rising from his chair, "1 rather guess wo'vo got what wo camo for, and we might as well bo starting for him." Sarah Jane sat vory silent on tho way to the old farmhouse, and Eph raim felt encouraged to talk a little himself. "It all d. ponds on what they call the point of view," he said, thought fully. "Now, there's our place. In the summer when I take tho front road, I think there was never anything neater and prottlor than the old farm house with its coat of white and green. What with tho orchard on the up side and the orchard on tho down side, and the trees on eaoh side of tho house, and your high trelllscB all covered with grape vines, I oan't seo more than a glimmer of the barn back of the house. The grass in front looks so fresh and greon, and the posy beds are so cheerful, and the vinos over the porch make ovorythlng seem so cool and shady, that I think there never was suoh a place. But when I take the back road thero Isn't onq old shod that I can't see way up the road, and while I try to keep things up as tidy as I can, there's no denying that the view is nowhere near as handsome. " Abigail always takes tho front road whon she coraos here, and she's always talking about your geraniums, or your vines, or some fixing or other. Now Matilda takes to tho baok road as natural as a d'uok to water. If she has control of the reins she always comes driving in at our back gate, and sho's sure to find out that the chiokon-houso noods painting, or the pig-sty smells, or the glass Is oroken in the barn win dows, or tho rnllk palls out on the bench are getting rusty. It's all my fdaco, front and baok, but most things n life have the two sides to 'em, and why on oarth don't folks choose the point whore they'll get the prettiest view I" ?Justinian inculcated politeness on every official of the empire. LOOMS OF THE SOUTH. THOROUGH PUK8KNTAT10H OF TUB SOUTH'** ADVANTAGES. Tbo HUuu.il?? It* viewed By a Disin terested I'aciy Who i? M?kln? Per sonal Inspection uf Huuiberu MilIn. Mr. F. B. DeBerard, of The Now York Dry Good*. Economist, is making a thorough analysis of the mills of tho South, collecting data and personally inspecting the mill proper ties of the South for the special edi tion of The Dry Goods Economist, which will bo published in January, under the title, "The Looms of the South, Cotton Mills in Cotton Fields." He has just completed a tour of the mills of North and South Carolin?] ] where he has watched the looms and spindles, interviewed tho mill presi dents and superintendents and made a study of the subject that makes him ui.questionably the most reliable au thority in the country on cotton manu facturing in the South. The Augusta Chronicle had an inter view with Mr. DeBerard and his views as expressed below are tho most en couraging words that could bo spoken. I They came not from a man who Is i seeking to flatter but one who has en I tored tho field with a keen, dlserlml I nating analytical mind, robbed of sen I timont and acting from a thoroughly disinterested standpoint. " If all the cotton products of Amer ica," said DeBerard, reached the con sumer by the most direct routes, the average cost of transportation would be about one-half cent a pound. Tho consumer now pays about one and one fourth cents (li) a pound freight charges on every pound of cotton goods he uses. Three-fifths of tbe total oost of transportation 1b abnormal, because It is paid for moving the raw material away from the centers of consumption Instead of toward them. "The New England States produce neither cotton nor fuel. Thoy trans Jiort their cotton 2,000 miles and their uel 500 miles; and they transport both away from their final destination instead of toward it. " And tho consumer pays tho freight I He pays for carrying tho raw material and the fuel far away ; and he pays for bringing it back I "Nevertheless, this abnormal trans portation tax may not be an economic waste. There are many elements of cost In manufactured products, and some of them may be relatively so low as to compensato for those that are ex cessive. " Now England pays dear for Its raw material and fuel. To compensato for excessive, cost of those factors, It must have some exceptional advantages. II it pays moro for its transportation, it may pay less for labor, may bo supe rior in skill, in management, in equip ment, in methods. If It pays more than tho South for some things, it may pay less than the South for other things. Maebino for maehine, it may turn out moro product than the South. Operative, for operative, 11 may produce moro than the South, Yard for yard and pound ku- pound, New Eugland's cotton goodsViust cost less than the South'* if it continues te maintain its ground. " If New England cotton goods cost loss than Southern cotton goods, it must bo because Now England gett more out of its machinery and work \ people than the South gets. If it doe. not do this, its product costs more, itt , days are numbered, and tbe ond is not distant. , " What are tho facts ? " They aro stated Impartially in th< ( Looms of the South, upon whicl t I am now engaged, and every readei , can weigh them for himself. The pres '. ent conditions of cotton manufacturing . in tho South will be fully and honestl] set forth. Nono of Iho data givon an ' at second hand. They are the result I of careful and prolonged personal in > vestigation and inspection. For thi r purpose nearly every loading cottoi , mill in tho South and a large numbe i of tbe minor mills havo been visited , The data socured aro absolutely rolls . ble. In nearly every instance the; , were obtaineu from the account book , of tbe mills visited, and all figures re , lating to output and cost wore careful ly verified from indepondont sources " That tho South is ontoring upon i I now ora of wonderful prosperity, oai . hardly be doubted by tho unbiasci I observer. In the- Looms of th< , South " is offered a true picture of tbi , beginnings of that prosperity. " A few years ago Now England ha< k no rival In tbo manufacture of cottoi . goodp. Practically, tho whole Ameri can industry was hero. With start ling rapidity the South has dovelopec > into a formidable competitor. Tin long accepted dictum, 'Cotton goodi I can't be mado in tho South ' hau beoi . proved untrue. Cotton goods are mado in the South; and for the firs time New England finds in full opera I tion against ner economic laws tha' , have hitherto been latent. " With no competitors, New Eng ' land was under no disadvantages With the South as a competitor, hei natural disadvantages count against her with full force. The natural ad vantages are with the South ; most ol the artificial advantages are with New England. Which set of forces is the most poworful ? "It is an economic truism that natural advantages persist and are ol progrossivo force, while artificial ad vantages diminish and finally disap pear. Tho South produces cotton, coal, timber, iron ; und it is close to the consumer. New England produces neither and is distant from the con sumer. As population becomes denser, this fundamental advantage of the South, which can nover bo lessoned, will exert continually increassng force.' Cheap raw material, cheap labor, and noar-by markets aro economic mag nets far moro powerful than any op posing forces, and they are certain soonor or later to attract to their sup port the forces arrayod against them at tho outset. "Those opposing foioes, spoken of above as artificial advantages, are plentiful capital, highly developed skill, varied development, capablo management. All these New England has in abundance; but *h? can not prevent their free migration. Thoy aro all tho creatures of opportunity ; and if the South offers tho opportunity capital and skill will go South and create the varied development. " This is not more theory; it Is a plain statement of what is actually happening now, every day, and with daily growing momentum. It is tho bare truth that the South today has better mills than tho North?thoy are the product of the host engineering skill obtainable, and in every dotail of construction and arrangement are of tbo highest and most scientific -type. They aro equipped with the most mod ern maohinery, ombodylng tho latest desirable labor-saving improvements, and are of higher avorage efficiency, attested by quality and quantity of output, than any but a fow Northern mills. Moreovor. thoy havo been con structed' at far less cost than other mills, and represent much less cost per spindle or per loom than the ioss effioient Northern mills. With loss capital Invested, they have greater earning powor than than their North ern competitors. * "The test of tho relativeskill em ployed Is tho quality and quantity of output. In the comparison of simillar grades, the output of the best Sputh ern mlllj Is fully as great and in some oases greater than that of the best Northern mills. It is produced with the same number of machines and the same number of operatives, and it is produced at muoh less cost than the firoduct of Northern mills. Finally, t is of higher avorage quality than Northern product. So muoh for tbo results of skill and experience. " As to capital, hardly a leading Southern mill but numbers among its stockholders many Northern investors. Southern onorgy, Southern oapaolty and business shrowdne?>* have been the organizing forces. Tbey havo shown that Southern men have all tho quali ties noedful to command success, aud can without foreign aid de/elop a great opportunity until It becomes a great succebs. Upon the foundation laid by Southern men, Sagaoiou* North ern capitalists hare aided to build a Kreut superstruoture, confident of its firmness. "Lvadlng investors in Fall River mill stocks are also confident ib vstors ?n certain mills in the South, from which thoy are receiving large divi dends. " Among the capitalists of Worth street, thero are many who have been quiet investors in Southern mills, and I were it fitting to publish a list of the I directors of the mills of the South the I number of Worth street capitalists to be found amongst them would cause a sensation. In one suoh board elected within a few days, is a prominent Worth street merchant, a great New York clothing manufacturer, and two New England manufacturers, identi fied with cotton goods; whilst among the stockholders are Huston capitalists, Maine manufacturers of woolens, and others who have hitherto believed only in Northern investments. " ' I put my first $5,000 Investment in a Southern mill,' said the Worth street raerohant. ' just to help a man along. I didn't regard my investment as worth anything. Since then, I have changed my opinion about South The raerohant in question has now probably a half million dollars in vested In various p'.rts of the South in cotton mills. Ho is one of the few who understand fully the greatness of tho opportunity. Those who realize it i are already large investors. A steady current of Northern capital Is already flowing South; and the our rent seems likely to bocomo a torrent ere long." ON THE TARIFF AND FINANCE. FOROASTING THK PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Good Reasons lor the BollefThat Re Will Adhere 8triotly to Former Ut terances on These Most Important Questions. , There arogood reasons for the belief that In his forthcoming message to Congress President Cleveland will strictly adhere to his previous utter ances in regard to tho tariff und finan cial questions, and It is altogothor probable that these subjects, together with that of our foreign affairs, will occupy practically, if not absolutely, the wholo messago to the exclusion of all other matter. It is believed that the President will counnond the pres ent tariff, as a step In the dlrootlon ol lightening the burdons of the people, and that although It has thus fat failed to bring In a sufficient amount of revenue to satisfy tho needs of the government, it may confidently, be ex pected to do so under normal basinos? conditions. It Is bollcTcd that ho will point out what alroady the Incroasing receipt? from eilstoins aud internal revenue unmistakably show a gradual, though sure, return to business prosperity and that In the near future the receipt, from these sources will oven more that meet tho legitimate expenses of the government. It is tberofore not thought that Mr. Cleveland will re ) I commend tho Imposition of any addi tional internal revenue taxation oithei by lncroasiug the duties now existing or by adding new subjects. There will bo considerable discussioi as to whether the President may no favor a tax on domestic wines ant beers, and patent medicines, but sucl information as is obtainable makei ! I it moro than probable that he has no eonsldorod any of these questions n that connection. That he will recommend legislatioi * retiring tho greenbacks by the issue, o l low rate bonds seems to be almost cor r tain, and It is not likoly that ho wil ask Congress as an alternative, to au thorlzo tbe Seoretary of tho Tveasur; f I to issue .ow rate bonds, in his disoretloi a I within certain limits, to protect tin gold reserve. In tho realm of foreign affairs, tin subject which it ie expoctod will clain i the greatest share of attention at th< l hands of tho Prosident, and from It 1 nature will require the most states i manlike and cautions treatment wil 3 bo tho Cuban insurrection. Whlli thero Is good reason for tho bollof tha 1 I the Prosident has steadily adhered b i I tho viow expressed so forcibly by ox Senator Edmounds to tho effect that a conditions oxist on the Island, thoro i I I no warrant in international law o precodont for the recognition of Lhi bellngerenoy of the Insurgents, then are Indications that very recent ovents and notably tho adoption by the Insur \> I gents of a policy of wanton dostruotloi of private property including vast su gar estates belonging to America! citizens may oblige him to change tin passive attitude he has occupied hith erto in favor of a moro vigorous anc positive lino of action. According to tho precepts of inter national law, and as practiced in thi case of our lato rebellion, Spain can not bo held accountable forthoso losso* by Americans, provided It is evident that she, has done all in her power tc stop tbe destruction of private prop erty, and also that Spanish citizens arc equal sufferers by tho operations of the insurgents. There thus would seem to bo only two plans of action open to the Presi dent. If ho should recognize tho bolll gerauce of tho insurgents it is con tended that ho would bind thom to the observance of the rules of civilized warfare, and bo in a position to insist upon tho abandomont of this policy of destruction of private property under Eeril of the aotlvo interference of the nited States. On the other hand ho may foel justitiod in using this argu ment of great American loss with Spain as a reason for insisting that she press matters to a conclusion in some way. Another mattor that undoubtedly will figure largely In tho message to Congress will bo tbe Venezuelan boun dary disputo. Tho Prosidont will on doavor to show that he bus done all that is possible for tho Exeoutivo to accomplish to oarry out the direotion of the last Congress and effect a set tlement of this difficulty by arbitra tion. Ho will refer to tho foreign cor respondence of tho past year, Includ ing Secretary Oluoy's last and most pressing note to Ambassador Bayard and the reply of the British govern ment, which, thoro is reason to be lieve, will amount substantially to a repetition of its willlugnoss to a limited . but not a full arbitration. It is hol ioved that tho mossago will show that tho President has made olear to Groat Britain tho deep concerns' tho United States feels in a fair and poace ablo settlement of this Important sub ject. In this shape tho Vonozuolan disputo will be laid boforo CongrSsa for an expression of its will in tho further guidance of the Executive. Tho Behring Sea claims will also bo touched upon, and It Is believed the Presidont will take tho ground that the United States Doing in honor bound, a s a result of the Paris arbi tration and tho modus vivendi adopted during , its pendency, to pay these claims, Congress should act favorably upon a convention, which he will sub mit, providing tor the appointment of a mixed commission to ascertain and settle them. The remaining chapters of that por tion of the message relating to foreign affairs will be devoted largely to a re cital of tho efforts of the State Depart ment In bohalf of ex-Consul Waller, a discussion of the feasibility of com pleting tho Nlcaraguan canal accord ing to the revised project, and con gratulatory references to the good re sults attending the o(Torts of tho United States ministers in China and Turkey to protect the rights of American residents therein. Highest of all in Leavening Power.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE A Thanksgiving Apple-Tree. Tho Pansy. Dolly Parsons and her little broth-1 er were coming back from the apple-1 tree, somewhat tired and decidedly i discouraged. It was a fine af ternoou I near the first of October, and thej path to the apple-tree lay through tall grass and nodding golden-rod J where the bees hummed soitly. The sky was as blue as one could wish, and the leaves on the trees were just I beginning to bo tinted by the earliest frost*. Certainly it was not the! weather no* tbe scenery that made the children sad. Dolly had her apron filled with 1 apples, and Bobby held one in his I hand, but they were not very attrac-1 tive-looking fruit. They were hard and dingy aud small; you could tell by looking at them that it would wrinkle your face to try to eat one and worst of all, almost every one had a little black holo somewhere in its skin. "Ugh !" said Dolly, as she reached the kitchen, and dumped them on the floor before her mother. "I'm glad I didn't have to carry them any farther. It's not because thoy are heavy ; a cat could carry them ; but every single one of them has a hor rid fat worm walking around in it! I nearly bit into one in the first ap-1 pie I tried. Wall!" and she gave a little shiver at the thought of the bite. Mrs. Parsons looked at them si lently. Then she Raid, "They do look rather discouraging. But don't think about them anymore, my dear. A great many worse things might have happened to us, you know." "O. dear 1 I suppose so," said Dol ly, "but I think 1 shouldn't have minded them so much. It's the only bit of fun we have that has to be spoiled. There hasn't anything hap pened since spring that hasn't seem ed to go straight for our applc-treo!" 11 And then she dropped into a little ?I heap on the lloor, and let some tears roll into her apron. Bobby cried too; he always cried when his sister rlid. What could be the trouble with the usually happy little girl ? Was it possible that she was so fond of apples that her happiness would be spoiled by the discovery that those on their tree were wormy and few j I and small ? You could not have be 11 lieved it if you had known her. The truth is, this apple-tree had an im portance all its own. J j It was on the edge of the orchard, but the orchard did not belong to Mrs. Parsons. Her land was a nar row strip, with the little red house in f rout, and a little garden behind, that ran up to Mr. Sanderson's or chard. Just where tho Hue was that divided Mr. Sanderson's land from Mrs. Parson's no one had known ; and at last Mr. Sanderson had said : "I have been measuring as well as I can, Mrs. Parsons, to find where the fence ought to come, and I can't quite make out whether the line^goes on my side or your side of the first big apple-tree in the orchard. I'm going to run it on my side, so as to he sure and not take more than my share. So if you've never in ted that apple-tree yours, you can do it now. I shouldn't wonder if you could sell the apples on it for quite a bit, if you don't care to use them all; they're some of the best-tasting fruit anywhere around." Then the Parsons family?which consisted only of the mother and Dolly and Bobby?had rejoiced. At their house money was ?not by any means plentiful, and the prospect of adding even a few dollars to what Mrs. Parsons could earn was a bright one. To make sure of good results Mr. Butterworth, the grocer, was visited, and ho agreed, very cheerful ly, to buy all tho apples Mrs. I'ar sons would send him from her one tree; Mr. Butterworth had tasted them himself, and knew they were good. It was quite early in the summer that Mrs. I'arsons said to Dolly: "I think, my dear, that wo are coming out a little better this year than we did last; and if I am right, and we get any money from the apple-tree, we will plan to use it for a Thanks giving dinner. We have not had such a Thanksgiving as I wanted? such as my mother used to plan for ?since you were old enough to re member." She did not say "since your father died," but Dolly knew very well what she meant, and that since they had been left alone in the world it had been hard enough to find plain things to eat for every-day dinners, without any holiday extra vagance. You may imagine, then, how the children watched the apple-tree, when Mrs.* Parsons' plan was ex-1 plained to them. From early Bpring, indeed, they had been proud of it as something which had become their very own: and when the lovely blosr chard with pink and white showers, they had gone half wild with delight. Not one flower was picked from the tree, and the progress of each blos som into a tiny green apple was watched with an interest which the old tree had surely never met with before. But alas! it was as Dolly said; since blobsoming-time almost every thing seemed to conspire againBt that apple-lree. A severe frost came j when it was already so near summer that all things in garden and orchard were lifting up their heads to the sun, and brimming over with sweet, i new sap. In mid-summer, then, it was dreadfully dry, so that almost all the leaves shriveled up in the sun nine and dust; and when a storm did come, it blew so hard that half the apples on the tree, still green and small, were blown off, and rotted on the ground. Last of all came the fat little worms which Dol ly so hated, to spoil what fruit might have escaped the weather. All these things, of course, had fallen upon the whole orchard, and all the or chards about; but the Parsons' tree, just at the edge of the field, had fared the worst; and as it was their only one, the chance of getting any money by selling apples at the grocery grew smaller and smaller, and finally dwindled away altogether. It was not until the very week be fore Thanksgiving that the children gave up hope entirely. Then, as they stood before the bare branches of their faithless tree, and remem bered that the turkey and the pump kin pie and all the other good things of which they had dreamed were as far away as ever they had been, and that plain soup and bread and milk must take their place, they put their arms around each other's necks and cried. Dolly would not let her self do such a thing in the house, for she had begun to realize that the disappointment was as great for her mother, on her account, as for her self ; but surely there could be no harm in shedding a few tears out here in the orchard. They were not alone, however. Tom Sanderson was taking a morn ing walk, and picking up an occa sional apple which seemed to have escaped the frost and the worms, when he came across the tearful lit tle couple. "What's this ?" he said. "Lost something ?" "Yes," said Dolly, trying to dry her eyes in secret. "We've lost all our apples and our Thanksgiving dinner, and everything." "Not quite everything, I hope," said Tom. "I understand the part about the apples, but I never saw a tree yet where a 'Thanksging din ner and everything' grew." Dolly could not help laughing at this ; but she grew mournful again as she told the story, which could now hardly be kept back. "We were hoping there would be money en ough to get us all some new warm hoods and mittens, too." Tom looked thoughtful. Then he whistled. "It is too bad," he said. "But I'll tell you ; don't give up yet. Apple-trees are queer things. You may have some fruit on yours yet; it comes very late sometimes, and I think the worms must have been all frozen stiff in their beds by this time. If I were you I would wait till Tuesday?that's two days before Thanksgiving?and come and look again." Then he hurried off to find his father, while the children stared af ter him with open mouths, not know ing what to think of his hopeful words. The next two or three days were stormy, and Dolly and bobby were in tho house almost all the time; but on Monday the sun appeared again, and tho night was warm and pleasant for November. If anyone had walked up the garden by moon light, late that night, or again In the gray mist of the early morning, he might have heard footsteps and voices about the edge of the orchard. Hilt no one did ; why should he ? and Dolly and Hobby slept soundly in their beds. Mrs. Parsons happened to say that it was Tuesday, as they were eating oatmeal at the breakfast table; if it had not been for that Dolly might have forgotten what Toni Sanderson had said. Now she remembered every word of his advice, and although it seemed too silly to say. anything about to her mother, she took Hobby by tho hand when they went out af ter breakfast, and led him up the soins ' V. I I , ?11U Vf l l ? i l tillt? ' v1 had come, sprinkling Who is -Will Whitener ? ^^^^^^^-'U * He is our Fashionable Hair Cutter and Shaver, -UNDER OPERA HOUSE ? ' {????? lawn toward the orchard, for one last look at their faithless tree. As she came to the place where the .grass grew thickest, because the trunks of tho apple-trees forbade its cutting, she stopped as suddenly as j though someone had seized her by the shoulders, aud gave a little cry of surprise. Then Bobby looked, and yelled much more vigorously ; and then, without waiting to look again, thoy ran back as fast as liieir heels could fly, to get their mother. What could be tlie matter? All about the lower branches of tho leafless apple-tree at tho edge of the orchard, hanging as naturally as though they had been growing there all summer, in sunshine and rain, were red-cheeked, plump-look ing apples! They grew closer to gether than on almost any other tree m the orchard ; and besides those on the branches, they were scattered all ttbout the ground, as though the wind had come in the night and I thrown them about helter-skelter, just for exercise and fun. No better apples could have been found in that unlucky year. The worms had passed them by, as though it were really too great a pity to spoil them, and the color did not seein to have been taken from their cheeks by the dry weather, as in so many cases. The only thing strange about them, besides their rapid growth, was that when you tried to pull them off, you found that instead of hanging by their own green stems alone, they wore fastened on by bits of wire and cord! To Mrs. Par sons Ulis seemed to tell a good deal, if one might judge from seme things that she said; to Dolly herself it gave the suspicion that these Thanks giving apples had not grown on their tree in precisely the usual way ; but Hobby would not notice such a trifle as the material of the stems, and fell to eating sonic of the fallen fruit in a way that showed that the inside was as gooo. as could have been ex pected. There is no time to tell how the apples were gathered and sold to Mr. Butterworth, according to Iiis promise; how he gave, indeed, a much higher price than usual for them, on account of the scarcity of such good fruit during that season. Oh ! there is nothing like time to tell of the Thanksgiving dinner that the money furnished?the turkey and the pumpkin pie and the hoods and mittens (not that these last were eaten) and all! 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