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A New, Old Story. "It in of no use!" said Mary d? Rperatoly. "1 can't think of a single thing to nay." Xlm sat and frornod gloomily, bit log the ond of bor pen-holder. Now and thon she ran hor band distractedly through hor hair. This was a trlok Of hers when thinking hard, and, as a rule, the result was more Btartllng than pleasing. M It is of no uso!' sbo said again ; but this time with a ditTeront inflection. " I mustn't sit hero and give way to laziness like this. If 1 don't writo a tale, wo oan't pay the grocor's bill ! I must and will begin, only?what on earth am I to say ?" Mary's brain was fertile enough, and her busy fancy generally delighted in spinning love stories and tho like. In tho early days of her scribbling sho had been greatly laughed at by her mother and slstors, but when welcome little checks began to come In return for bulky envelopes sent through tho post, the tone of the family altered, and Mary had for some time been re garded as a person of Importance. Porhaps they overrated her powers, for they had come to the conclusion that Mary could do almost anythlug. Mary's head was looked upon us a hank, upon which an unlimited amount of modest demand could be drawn, and the girl now and then felt a trillo over whelmed us she realized what was ox pected of her. "Oh, Mary must write a tolo," her mother would say easily, when au ad ditional oxpon60 was suggested. So the fancy of the moment would be In dulged In, and Mary would shut her self up In the little room she called her own, from whence in due time she would emerge tirod but triumphant. On this particular morniug, how evor, sho racked hor brains in vuln. She tried her hardest to think of sumo Blender frame-work upon which to hang the usual mild lovemaklug, but the more she tried to woo " tho muso," tho more obstinatoly did the said muse refuse to respond to her advauces. - "I feel oxaotly as If a wet spongo had been passed over ray brain," sho ^-thought despairingly. "There doesn't 5?hftm a single idea left." Just then a gentle rap oame at the door. "Come In," said Mary, impatiently. She never liked Doing interrupted when sho was trying to work, and just how-she folt more than usually cross. Her face relaxed a little, however, when she saw hor visitor. " You, John! T thought it was eiinie. I wonderod what over sho wanted now." Poor Jennie," said the nowcomer, laughing. "Poor Mary, I think," rejoined Mary, dolofully. "Why, whatever is tho mattor V" asked John Redmond, taking a scat, und ovidoutly prepariug to make him self as coin for table as circumstances permitted. Ho looked vory strong and capable as he smiled down upon Mary, and the girl was conscious of a distinct feeling of relief though she hardly knew its source. "Well," said Mary. *' I feel worried aniMiothero.il. You know, John, bow much all our folks have got into the way of looking to me for holp in monoy matters ?" " Yes. J know," replied John, with a rather curious intleetion. " I like to do It," said Mary, quickly. " It makes me very glad and happy to do it. I should not say a word about it to anybody but you, but you alroady know these details. You aro such an intimato friend of tho family, aren't you ?" " A very Intimn 9 friend of the family," echoe? '.o young man, gravely. " And mother has often told you how easy it was forme to earn a few pounds, hasn't she " Very ofton," answered the young man again, with the same gravity. "Well, John," said Mary, lifting a pair of very earnest eyes to his, her accents full of sorrow and dismay, "I em sometimes afraid I can't keep on doinglt." " What makes you think 60?" asked John, gently. "I can't think of anything," said Mary, tho tears brimming up into her eyes. " I have sat here this morning for nearly an hour, and not a single Idea has come to mo. And?I didn't dare to toll mother and the girls !?my last story was rejected. It was such a blow, for I bad beon counting on tho money to buy Jennie's summer dress. She was rather cross when I told hor she. must wait a little longer." " My dear little soul !" said tho oung man "you arc overworked, 'hat le the simple explanation of the whole matter." Tho kindness of his tono seomod to altogether break down Mary's com posure, for?after a momentary strug gle for calmness?she dropped her head into her hands and cried heartily. John Redmond's face presented a curious study, so many were the emo tions that passed rapidly over It. He made an Involuntary movement toward tho little weeping figure, but the next moment oheokod himself, and waited quietly until Mary horsclf spoke. "I don't know whatever you will think of me !" sho said, rather shame facedly, us she wiped hor oyes. " I don't know what made mo do it! But I'm so muoh obliged.to vou for letting mo 'have it out.' I fool bettor now." "To be sure you do," sold John, with a friendly and rather tondor laugh. "I have always understood that a 'good cry' was a groat luxury to young ladles." "For pity's sako, don't call mo a 'young lauy '." cried Mary, with an as sumption of her usually energetic man ner. "I do hate that phrase." "Just as you please," returned John easily. " What shall 1 call you ? Novelist? Journalist?" " Noithor one nor the other," said Mary, flushing a little, a shade of her late despondency again falling upon her. "I am nothing in tho world but writer of penny love stories, and g oven the small amount of capa rly required for that." 'That is nonsense," exclaimed John, how speaking earnestly. "As 1 said before, you aro overworked. You have been doing too much. Your brain needs a rest, and it ought to have one, Mary." "ell, It can't just at present," shaking lu_? r heaj^-yefy "kennte's new cerV bill. I shall 1 th -e two things r a minute, but he got an Idea," said |Ty, "I think I could a to have used up ,vo written about wills?about tho prided to be poor, and pho protended to bo about the man who ist detestation of A ended by falling . I have.related who determined finally gave up ngs are worn o become so to press the r fervlce." 6 ity yotYr y olso bay have kturnlngtno ?mite. "tome day, bntj ,0 somoth could only got tu bear of them. John, haven't you uu Idoa of any ktud ? Or some little thing that hasoomo within your own experience ? Anything that holde a tiny ?pico of romance, you know." John looked at her lor a moment, and seemed inclined to speak. Then his mind apparently altered, and he shook his head, Oh !" orled Mary disappointedly, " that is too bad. You looked oxaotly us if you had an idea." " Well," said John slowly, "a faint glimmering did seem to ocme to me, but I'm afraid you would think It silly." " Do tell mo 1" exclaimed Mary. " I shall be so grateful." "And I don't know that it is parti cularly new," went on John In the same doubtful way. "Well, never mind," said Mary, in a business-like way. " A great deal depends on the treatment of tho sub ject. Sometimes a very hackneyed theme can be made to sound qulto fresh. I have noticed it in several in stances. Qo on, John." . She fixed her eyes on him expect antly, and a smile dawned in tho young man's eyes as he looked at her. " Is it humorous ?" asked Mary in nocently, as she saw the smile. "I don't know," aswered John, re lapsing into gravity. " That entirely depends upon how you regard it. Things appeal so differently to dif ferent minds, don't they ?" "Th6y do," rejoined Mary prompt ly. "Sometimes I have written things which I thought wore funny, but other people entirely failed to Bee tho joke ; and on the other hand, I have been laughed at for sentences which were penned in perfeot seriousness. But lot us proceed with tho subjoot in band. 1 wish you would bogin, John, for the time is getting on, and I shall bo miserable unless I succeed in mak ing a good start this morning." "There's a lot in making a good start, Isn't there?" asked John, with evident anxiety. " Oh ! a great deal," said Mary. " It Is often the most difficult thing pos sible to start. Once fairly begun the work Is comparatively easy, because one thing seems to lead to another." "I seo 1" replied John reflectively. Then a long silence fell between them. " Do go on 1" said Mary impatiently, at last. "Well, tho fact is, Mary, 1"?with considerable emphasis on tho pronoun ?" lind a diflloulty In starting. I< think I could goou, If tho subject were only bogun." "Lot me help you out," said Mary, with an air of resignation. " There Is a girl in it, I supposo?" "Oh, yes!" returned John, very decidedly. "There Is a girl in it: and an uncommonly nice girl, too." "Good !" said Mary. " It is all easy enough. Doscrlbo to mo hor ap pearance, charae.tor, and surround ings. Tell ino what sho did, and how she did it. Then explain where the man comes In - for there is a man in it, I suppose ?" " Oh, yes," said John, as decidedly as before. " There Is a man in it." "Well, what about him?" askoct Mary. " Dear me, John ! 1 might as well invent a thing myself, and have done with it, if you can't tell mo straight off." "I'll tell you !" said John, with tho air of a man determined to make tho plunge. 11 Only?Mary?promise me one thing. Don't laugh at my story." " Can I laugh if it is funny ?"' rejoin ed Mary. "It Isn't," said John. "Well, not oxactly. Er?in faot, I don't know how it will striko you. I mean, don't laugh at my clumsy way of telling it." "Of courso not," replied Mary kindly. "And I'm sure I'm very much obliged to you, John, for taking all this trouble." " Well," began John, " this girl?tho girl I am thinking of, you know?livod at home with hor mother and sisters. The father had died some years before, leaving just enough money to supply their bare wants, but no more." " I quito unders and," said Mary, in a tone which had a good deal of "fellow feeling" in it. " So, of course," wont on John, " lifo was more or less of a struggle with thorn. But, happily, one of the girls ?this special girl I began to talk about?developed quite a talent for? for-" "For what?" asked Mary rather sharply. "For painting," returned John quickly, "She usod to paint quite, lovely little things, and sell thorn to tho shops." 'Yes," said Mary. "But when does tho romanco begin, John?" "I am coming to that," replied John. " Give mo time, Mary." "Ob, of course," said Mary amiably. So altera brief pause, John wont on again : " Years before, when these girls wore quito little, their father had shown a great kindness to an almost friendless boy." Mary started, and a faint color crept into hor cheeks: but John took uo heed and his voice became tinner and clearer. " To the action of that good man tho boy owed whatever success camo to him in aftor life. Go novor forgot this, and ho often wondered bow ho could boat repay tho debt be owed." John paused, bill Mary did uotspeak. " And as time went on lie found tbo debt increased rather than diminished. For though his first benefactor had passod away, ho had left kindly hearts behind him. And as the boy grew into manhood ho prized more and moro tho welcome ho over received from those good women, and felt that in tho world tboro was no spot so dear to him as tho one thoy called home." Again John paused, but Mary made no effort to break tho sllohco. " He loved thorn all," said John, " but " here a now tcndcrno&s crept Into his voice "ho learned at last that for one of them ho had tbo lovo which a man only gives to one woman in tbo world. She was not, I think, unite, understood hy her mother and sister, much as they eared for her. She bud a talent which sho was g I ad to turn to useful account, but tho others hardly realized that the task which was generally a pleasure, might ut times become very hard and WoaTP~ Tii<!y ^mUtfJJHt ,W??-play for her to sit down and?paint. So some times her ht art failed her a little." Mary's face was very white now, but the color rushed suddenly back into It as John gently took her hand into his own, ?'This young roan loved her, Mary loved hor more dearly than I can qulto teil you. But he waited a long time before be dared to speak to her. Ue knew how muoh depended upon her in tho home, and ho felt ho had no right to take her away until his posi tion would enable him to offer comfort to her and to thoso dear to her. It often seemed a weary while, and bis heart often ached. Hut tho time canm at last. The time when ho felt that he was froe to speak." He paused,''and lor a few minutes there was between them a deep silence. Then his hand clasped hors more fervently, and tie sold, " Mary !"' As if irresistibly compelled, sho looked Into Ills oyes. And In that moment a full ^knowledge of what she had never bofon-e oven guessed swept ovor hor. She knew the sweotest of I all earthly things -that she loved, and i was beloved. \ " You worq' quite right, doarest," sold John, a wjhiio later. ^"Tho *k%r\ ovjfcLjf lies in jtoukiiiif a iBllMft i iifti " The story 1? very hackneyed," whispered Mary. " But, oh, John !" with a half mlsohlovoun. wholly tender look - "isn't it wonderful how anything BO old oan Do ?-o interesting?" A NbW AND TRUt VIEW OF BRYAN. THt: DIOaiOOHATIO candidate ah a la w vi-:It. He Has Always Been a Poor Mad?A Oonstuteut Foe of Monopollea and an Advocate of the Right. James Creelman iu the New York World. Lincoln, Nob., July 18.?William J. Bryan has never at any time in his life earaed more than $0,500 a year. When he reached this figure $5,000 consisted of his salary as a member of the House of Representatives. His Income as a lawyer has averaged about $1,000 a year, although he has man aged to increase it to $1,500. His Hill ary as a political editor of the Omaha World-Herald was $1,800 a year. To day his whole wealth hardly amounts $8,000, and yet ho Is a mature, highly trained man, with thousunds of friends and a national reputation as au orator. But his easy contempt for money, his aversion to tho advocacy of corpora tion interests, and his absorbing pas sion for speech-making have prevent ed him from acquiring wealth. Tho truth is ,thut while he has dabbled at law and journalism, the serious busi ness of his life has been politics. Tho White House has always been his goal, although he looked upon the United States Senate as the proper held for his peculiar talents. Mr. Bryan makes no secret of these faotf. He entered the Union Law School at Chicago in 1881, and Bat three years by tho side of Adolphus it. Talbot, his present law partner, who is now a candidate for tho State Son ate on the Republican ticket. These two men have been Intellectual and social intimates for fifteen years. While Mr. Bryan was studying law ho served as a clerk In the late Lyman Trumbull's office at $5 a week. He was easily the leader of his class and had a weakness for buying books re lating to various forms of modern gov ernment. He immersed himself in constitutional law aud shrank from the teohnloal side of his profession. Tho first school debate which Indicated the trend of his mind turned on tho ques tion whether a legislator should abide by tho promptings of his own judg ment or ascertain the wish of his con stluents and follow that. Young Bryan hold that a legislator should take euro to ascertain tho truth himself and should then educate his constituents on sound principles, leading ruthor than following the people. Within twenty-four hours, however, Mr. Bryan has told mo that he believes a legislator had no right to depart from tho platform on which ho is elected. If he caunot consistently carry it cut he should resign. Tho people do not hire a legislator to think for them, but act for them. In his colluge debate ho argued that statutes should not be based upon op portunism, but that each law should bo brought Into absolute harmony with certain great fundamental ideas. TIiIh was his constant theme. It accorded with bis lovo of generalities, his pro pensity for topics, which lent thom selves to metaphor. He was a tremendous student, but his chosen studies lay along the lines of least resistance?pleasant, abstrac tions and broad political propositions. Ho had no head for dry details. Bis Chilosophers were Jackson, JclTeraon, dncolu, Bonton, Judgo Cooley. There is always a peculiar religious grain running through Mr. Bryan's thought. It was inherited from his Baptist father. And this tendency is marked whon ho discusses popular government. His favorite answer to those who question the Intervention of God in t!io .affairs of men is tho last verso of Bry ant's lines, "To a Waterfowl," which I heard him rcpoat last night to the newspaper correspondents who accom panied him from Chicago when they mot in his house. He who from /one to zone Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone Will lead ray steps aright. After graduating from tho law school Mr. Bryan sorved six months more in Lyman Trumbull's office, and then went to Jacksonville, 111., where ho studied law for about four yoars in h otllco of Brown & Kirby. It has been said that he never iu hio life has appeared in court aa tho rop rcsentativo of a corporation. In a sense this is strictly truo. On two or throo occasions, when the senior mem bers of tho lirm were absent, bo mado minor motions for them in tho Jack sonville courts on behalf of a railway company which they represented. But he has nover accepted u foe, directly or Indirectly, from a corporation. When ho left Congress he was olfor ed a s.alary of $10,000 a year for his services as gcnoral attorney for a rail way and oil enterprise owned by tho Standurd OH Company. His answer was that no would not tako the posi tion for all tho profits of tho company. A few days later ho mentioned tho fact to his present partner. " You have made a groat mistake, Bryan," said Mr. Talbot. "Toll them you have a partner who Is not bo seiwl tivo." Mr. Bryan failed to see tho point. "I'd rather tako cases I am In sympa thy with and live an I do now than bo presldont of tho Standard Oil Com pany," ho replied. When Mr. Bryan carno to Lincoln In 1887 and formed a law partnership with Mr. Talbot, be urgod his old classmato to resign his position us counsel for the Missouri Pacific Rail way Company. Mr. Bryan insisted that such a con , ncction would prevent tho firm from taking cases against allied corpora' tlons. The parfcgtorship agreement provided thS&Ltjro firm should have nothing to do wrth tho Missouri Pacific or any other corporation, and that that part Of iue business should be the per sonal aliaii* of Mr. Talbot. In order to omphasi/.o b!s opposition, Mr. Bryan twlco appeared hi court against tho Missouri Pacific Company. When the Rock Island Railway Company completer! its lino to Lincoln several eases against tho road, involv ing tho appraisal of private laud, were brought the firm. Mr. Talbot declined t'O.Aoko thorn on the ground thai ho was ara*Nwpj< lawyer. Mr. Bryan bapptrtfcO- to be abaVnt' from Lincoln at tho time, but when he roturued ho immediately brought suit against tho Rock Island Company for a widow and won tho Case In a single speech. He accepted several other suits against the same company. The relation between Mr. Bryan and Mr. Talbot wore Interesting. For years Mr. Bryan was chairman of the Democratic county committeo, whllo Mr. Talbot was chairman of tho Re publican county committee. Frequent ly the two committees mot at tho same time In the adjoining rooms of the firm. Mr. Bryan's opposition to his part ner in politics was no less striking than his antagonism to him on tho subject of corporate power. When Mr. Bryan was In Congress ho was urged to voto against tho anti trust bill. Telegrams were sont from tho Hast to Mr. Talbot asking him to urge his partner to vote against tho bill. Mr. Talbot promptly telegraphed to Mr. Bryan ou tho subject, and tho young Congressman replied that tho Interests of tho common pooplo de rnanded a law protecting them from the encroach merits and combination! of corpo/ato power. Ho told his pari, I ner theft It* was necessary for the lifo! ttnd.prt^porjty of th' MMMtoirtBkiKfl JiL) P c 1 pi ft S^ini i ?: alive, and that anything interfering with it should be.restrained. He ha* constantly bald that the fail ure to enforce the anti-trust laws was due to the apathy of the Administra tion at Washington, and he looked upon the selection of Mr. Olney for the otlice of Attorney General as a part of the geberat scheme for controlling the government and rendering popular opposition to unjust corporate power futile. Ho has said many times that the Attorney General should zealously press the anti-monopoly statutes, so that if they should prove do/ootivo Congress could promptly perfect them. | He holds that a rloh man's proporty is as sacred as a poor man's, but no more so, and that the government should be able to protect Its weakest and poorest citizens against tue op pressions of the most powerful corpor ations. Whatever Mr. Bryan may say now, I havo authority for the statement that up to tho time the Chicago plat form was adopted the only Important point on which he differed from Mr. Cleveland was the question of tho free coinago of silver. When tho ProBident sont Federal troops Into Illinois to protect railwuy property in the custody of the United states Court against the Chicago mobs Mr. Bryan declared that It was tho best act of his oiliolal oaroor. His partner told me to-day that M r. Bryan hus always denounced and ab horred socialism in every form. Ho has insisted that tho undue and dan gerous power wielded by oombinations of capital is tho result of Republican legislation, and the tendency to pro tect special interests by law at tho expenso of the public welfare. As a lawyer, he insists that there ean bo no difficulty in restraining or preventing trusts by law. He is fond of reforrlng to a largo Eapor mill near Lincoln which used to uy all the straw raised In Lancaster County at $3 a ton. The papor trust bought the mill and closed It. To-day you may see great racks of straw rot tenlng In tho fields. But the paper trust has stilled competition and ac complished its purpose of raising the price of paper. Mr. Bryan tolls pathot'.o stories of how trusts In tho Bast have closed factories, blighted homes and ruined families for no other purposo than to limit production and increase profits. In court Mr. Bryan Is strong as a pleader beforo juries. He deals fairly with witnesses and gains their confidence. Ho knows nothing of har Bplittlng technicalities or trickeries, and usually eolocts one or two points upon which ho will argue, Ignoring or spuming the rest. His partner is a strategist, and is not averse to the use of those subtle and finespun methods by which the ordinary successful advocate attacks his opponent. The two men could never agree on a plea in any caso. When Talbot would suggest a wily proposition in a case Mr. Bryan would always make the samo reply, quoting Blackstono's definition of the law : "A rulo of civil conduct proscribed by the supremo powor of tho land, com manding what is right, prohibiting what is wrong." " Now, there, Talbot," ho would say, " there is tho law. What Is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong." It can hardly be said that Mr. Bry an has been a successful lawyer. Ho has never in his lifo tried a case in which more than $20,000 was involved. In Jacksonville ho was little more than a collector of small debts. In Lincoln his cases havo not boon im portant, save in the few instances whore public policy was involved. One uay a poor man, who had been arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the distribution of husiuess circulars in tho Street, wont to Mr. Bryan's ollico and declared ho was uuable to got a fair trial hecauso ho had no money, and tho constable re fused to serve subpoenas on the wit nesses for the dofenco unless bo receiv ed his fee? in advance. Mr. Bryan at onco applied for a man damus to compel tho constable to act. Ho mado a ringing speech, in which he declared that it was a denial of justico to insist that a defendant in a criminal case should bo deprived of tho right of subpoena service because bo could not pay tho costs in advance. " A constable may summon bystanders to assist In an arrest, and they cannot demand fees in advance beforo assist ing him," ho cried: " how can ho, wJien elected by them, demand fees of thorn beforo serving papers in criminal cases?" Mr. Bryan won the case and Ubl'-d ed a precedent in the Nebras Oa\> of his most notablo and charac teristic arguments was made in the suit of John Getcholl against tho auditor of publio accounts of Nebraska, to prevent the issue of public bonds to aid a beet sugar factory near Neligb. Mr. Bfyan fought the bounty idea fu riously. "Tho bounty given by the State," ho said, "cannot be considered a magic wand by means of which a private enterprise is transferred into an internal improvement?certainly not until the court has held the giving of the bounty itself constitutional." Then ho quoted a decision of a for mor court and said: "It will long stand as a bulwark against those abuses of tho taxing power which, everywhere plentiful onough, are no whoro moro abundaut than in the great West, whoro every means of I booming a town is anxiously sought after and eagerly accepted." MRS. BRYAN'S VIEWS OF LIFE. A PRACTICAL AND 81CNHIIILK WO MAN. Not Fond oi' Fashionable Soolety? wholesome Knie . roe tho Training of Children. t;or. N. Y. Herald. On the train between Kansas Ci.y and Lincoln, at disjointed intervals, when Mrs. Bryan whs not waving her handkerchief from tho near platform or not mooting tho people, 1 said to her that the readers of Tho Horald would doubtless bo very much interest ed to know her views on certain sub jects. Mrs. Pry an is not only a very modest woman, but also a very attrac tive one. She dislikes publicity, and is averse to being interviewed, bocause she regards tho " I " as egotistical. After some hesitation she consented that I might ask her certain questions and publish tho answers.- I--fiatd to tloff "Mrs. Bryan,,aro you fond of soci oty ? " "I am very fond of mooting people," she said, "and I enjoy my own circle of friends, but society, as it is generally understood, the formal round of visits, tho receptions and othor functions at which stereotyped questions aro asked and answors given, which aro forgotten : at onco, because they wero never .mi'1'.: I to be remembered, has very Utile at traction for me. " In Lincoln, strange as it may per haps seem to you, coming from tho East, we havo a vory delightful society. There Is no great or formal entertain ing, but there aro professors from tho State. University, women who aro members of clubs, and who keep them selves Informod on the topics of the day, students of tho UnlvorBity, who have come from the K ist ospeolatly to study Wostorn agricultural methods, forming a society whioh is attractive and intellectual. Of course you oan find the samo thing in tho Bust, only with us, perhaps, there, is less artifi ciality, and tho hollowness of society is what tho newspapers scorn to be al ways deploring." " Have you ady pronounced vlows on tho bringing up and education of ohll f5r?n v" \:Mt$j Bryan laughed. seen quite u little of the children dur i log too last fow days," she said, and you ought to he able tu judge us to that. I 1 io not believe io trying tu shape out a certain course for a child. I believe ? he or she must be allowed to develop character, and provo what ho or sho Is beat fitted for. One thing I do bo Hove In, and that is In giving my daughters a thorough practical educa tion, making them practical In every sense of the word, so that in cose tbey should be dependent upon their own exertions they would be able to fight their own battle as well as their brother can. " Children, I think, should bo given plenty of fresh air and exereUe, and In their childhood their physical train ing is of even more imoortanco than their montal. It has been my custom for somo years past to read to tho chil dren every night beforo tbey went to bed, stories, tales or any other juvenile literature Butted to them. Ruth, my oldost daughter, has always been very fond of reading, and being read to, but William for some little time took very little interest in it. At last ho showed an Interest, und now ho can always be amused by being read to or looking at tho pictures. I believe that children learn a groat deal In this way, and that it is u good thing for them men tally." "Are fairy tales a good thing for children to hear?" "I think so. I read tho children Anderson's stories in Corman, and al though they do not uudorstaad they like to hear tho words, and translate them as I road. The ohildron In this way get accustomed to the sound of German and pick up a little hero and there." ** You naturally bollovo in tho bonofi eial effect of rollglon on a child ?" "I do. 1 do not oare so much for creeds, but I think that religion exor cises a restraining and wholesomo In fiuonco, and that children, especially boys, who have boon taught a proper reference for religion, live cleaner and better lives. My code is a very simple ono. I waut my children to bo honest to tell tho truth and do the best they cau with tho abilities which have been given them. As I said before, children must to a groat extent, work out their own character, and show what thoy are best suited to accomplish." ?* Do you believe in tho now woman?" "There Is no new woman." " Women aro today what they have always beon. I am, of course, In fuvor of women taking proper outdoor exer cise and making themselves as perfect physically as they oan mentally, but there must be a proper division Hue between tho sexes. 1 do not ride a bicycle, becauso I haven't yet had timo to learn, but I intend to. I do not see any necessity forwomon riding in some of tho costumes I havo soon. "In brief, I am not an advocate of extremes, olther in fashions or any thing olso. A woman should not, In my opinion, allow herself to stagnate after marriago. Sho should keep her 8olf us much up to date as possible, which is a good thing not only for her personally, but also for her children and her husband. Rut a woman's first duty is to her homo, and sho ought not to allow anything to intcrfcro with that duty." " Are you much interested in poli tics ?" "1 um very much interested in any thing that interests Mr. Bryan, although I am not a politician," Mrs. Bryan laughingly added. " 1 must not talk politics," sho went on to say, "but 1 will tell you that when Mr. Byan was in Congress I heard tho speeches during tho silver debates. Apart from the great question involved at this time i should like to soo a return to tho true and broad principles of Democracy." " What aro your principal forms of amusement." " During tho last few years in Lin coln, swimming, I think. We have a natatorium supplied with salt water from wolls. This water is not only salt, but it. has the real green color of wator in the ocean. We do not play cards. Wo havo no scruples against them, but neither Mr. Bryan nor myself lind interest in card playing. 1 am fond of tho theatre, comedy or tragedy, when it is good, and very fond of music when some one plays it. When 1 was a child i was made to do so much practising that when 1 grew up 1 fairly detested the sight of a piuuo. 1 very seldom play now." "I was told that you were tho presi dent of Lincoln Sorosis." ? " Yes. I am. Sorosis is founded on the same lines as Its Now York proto type, and wo discuss books and topics. There is a Federation of Women's Clubs in Nebraska, and I think if you know our clubs you would agroo with mo in saying that they rank as high as those in the East." Thero wore somo other questions I wanted to ask Mrs. Bryan, but as sev eral Bryan men came into tho car just then to bo presented to her I lost the opportunity. She is very proud of the pretty Little city, as she has good reason to bo, and the charming people living t here, and sho is anxious to havo tho peoplo of tho East understand that Lincoln is not on the edge of civilisa tion, that thoro is as much comfort and refinement to bo found there us in any city in New York of the same sizo. I NEW PARTY FOR WHITES. A White Muii'n Republican Party in South Carolina To l<'ight tor Mem bers of the Legislature. Dr. Sampson l'opo has given the first news of a proposed white man's Re publican party in South Carolina? something the old State has never had. Dr. Pope when seen said that the con dition of tho Stato was such ?that there wore such evidences of loss of trade iu Charleston and Columbia anc all the cities and towns, brought about by the present administration, that ho thinks tho time has arrived for the inauguration of a white Republican party. Ho said futher that bo was ready for tho fray and intended to light to the end in behalf of such a party. Dr. Pope has issued the following address, In which will bo found some surprising figures bearing up.n tho registration. To tho Peoplo of South Carolina : I havo boon asked to take tho initia tive in tho organization of a white man's Republican party in South Caro lina, and I therefore issue this address, looking to that end. Tho harvest Is ripe Hi this Stato, a Populist, standing upon a Populist platform, bus been nominated by tho so-callod Domooratle convention which mot at Chicago. You luiraJboea naked to ?ivb thaYpiat ' tor in and that ticket your support; can thoro bo any harm In my asking you to support a Republican ticket on a platform which commends itself to cvory liberty-loving, conservative pa triot in the land; a platform which protects the business interests of the country (by declaring for a sound cur rency); a platform which protects tho rights 'and liberties of the citizen guaranteed by the f?deral Constitution, without regard to race, color or pre vious condition; a platform which protects the products of the soil against foreign products ; a platform which protects tho labor of tho country ongagod in manufacturing, 25,000 of whom aro South Carolinians engaged In cotton manufacture ; aud a platform which protects tho millions of Ameri can capital engaged in manufacturing, among which is l,:i?0,000 jotton spin dles in South Carolina? Upon this platform stands Major McKinley, tho standard bearer of the Republican party ; a man bolovod by the nation, whoeo character is beyond reproaoh. Then come with us and we promise you an olectoral ticket to be com posed of nine of the best white men in tho State. In addition, in State matters we stand ready to support a ticket In each county in the Stato for the logh-.latujg , of the beBt white men, pledged to hwht jjjlfil dispensary to jlght_ the metro Highest of all in Leavening Power.?Latest U.&Gov't R*ik t: EjVdUstl Baking IWIM Powder ABdOWmV PURE polltun police law?to fight for lowor taxes and fewer offices, and to bring about an era of good feeling among the people. Alabama shoots the first gun in August and you may look for tho success of tho ticket there, uml already thousands of Democrats in that State have signified their intention of aid ing in tho downfall of the so-called Democratic party. Kontucky, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and Missouri will follow suit. Come then und assist us to put South Carolina in lino. Wo aro waging no war against the nogro, he can get relief only through tho white man. Tho conduct cf somo of the delegates to St. Louis in unjustly criticising tho white Republicans of this Stute has made this step neces sary, for if a white party is not formed there, will be no accessions to tho Re publican party in this Stato The nogro, if ho thinks, will see the justlco and strength of this position. It is for his good as well as ours. He has tried and has failed. It behooves him then to assist us at tho general election. Wo have fought for his rights in the courts and havo failed. No relief can be bad in tho Stato courts, for in mat tors of a political nature, tho Supreme Court will sustaiu the present State administration. Wo havo not a O'Neall or a David Johnson on that court as in 1832. Register is tbo word. Let all who can do so register In tho little time that is left to do so in. Remember that all who aro entitled to register and fail to do so aro ever after precluded from doing so under tho law. You havo tho first Monday of August and September left, after that timo your cbanco to prepare to vote is lost. The victory, if won, must be won at tho ballot box. There will bo no Fedoral force bill. There may bean investi gation by congress as to wbothor or not we nave a Republican form of government in this State, which will only affiot tho representatives in the Senate and Rousu. This will give you DO relief in State matters hence the importance of a strong light at the polls in Stato matters. Less than six thousand negroes have been registered, there will not bo over eight thousand registered altogether. Tho whites uro holding back. This should not bo. If you do not apply for registration certificate s you cannot afterwards complain. Your mouths will he closed. My address will be Newbcrry, S. C, organize in each county and communi cate with me ami aftor a while we will havo a convention to nominate an olectoral and Stato ticket. Respectfully, Sampson Pope. TH B W HATH Kit AND CHOPS. The Kll'eet of the Keccut Rains Upon tho Growing; Crops. This bulletin covers the weather and crop conditions for the wook ending Saturday,lJuly 18, and in its preparation were used reports from ono or more correspondents in each county of the State. The week averaged cooior than usual with an average mean tempera ture of 80, and tbo normal for the same period is approximately 82. The high ost mean was 84 recorded at Shaw's Forks and Allendalo ; the lowest, 70, was recorded at Greenville. The maximum and minimum tem peratures for th week both occurred at Spartauburg : the former 08 on the 10th and the latter u'.l on tbo 18th. During the first part of tho week there was very little rain, hut on the last throe dry8 showers were general and in places heavy. There was about a normal average amount of rain for tho week, but it was poorly distributed, with the heaviest fall over Chesterfield ami southward to Hampton and Barnwoll. Average of 40 rainlall reports 1.10, ap proximate normal for the same period 1 32. Thoro was only 05 per cent, of the possible sunshine, and the cloudiness was very general over the eutire State: there having been least sunshine in Chestorfield with a perccutage of 10 and most iu Aiken with a percentage of 75. Somo correspondents reported tho lack of sunshine harmful, while others considered it favorable. It is thought that clear weather would be tho more favorable condition now. The weather during tho past weok was, on tho whole, favorablo, aud all crops made satisfactory advance. But little farm work could he done iu many counties on account of the wet ground. In Chesterfield Darlington, Sumter, Collctou, Borkeley, and Hampton coun ties oxcessive rainfall was a menace to cotton and corn, and locally in other portions of the State. Many farmors are finishing laying by their cultivated crops, and many fields will bo laid by in grassy condition, tho ground being too wot to plow, or the corn and cottoii taugled by tbo high winds of the pre vious week.UThei water in mostof the rivers has about reached normal stages, and correspondents estimate the dam age to crops by overflows on tho principal rivers to have been heavy, destroying about three-fourths of all crops on " river lands." Along the Wateree and Croat Poo L)de crops were about ail destoyed : along tho Congaroo, Lynoh's, Savannah and the numerous smaller rivers and creeks subject to overflow the damage was I serious. Corn and meadows were j principally pJIeoted. Corn in general is doing very well and its pros -ut condition gives prom Is o of at least au average crop and possibly butter. " Kxtra good upland, fair hot torn "lmSpartanburg ; " Never better," York ; " Full average, ' Barnwoll, "Above average." Orangobnrg : "A good average," Kdgclicld : and so on I from all portions of too State. Locally / thoro are complaints of corn deteriorat ing on bottom lauds that are too wet, but that is more than offset by the condition of Upland corn. Some fields aro being laid by in thogruss. Fodder pulling has bc??W!-in. i.ioiey, Uanip' ion aud ?r*?ngoburg. There aro very notiooahlo improve meiit in cotton over the previous week. Growth was rapid and the stalk bus attained a large size generally, but is nevertheless fruiting woll and tho avorage nurabor of nealthy bolls is muoh greater than is usual at thin date. It has been too wot for the bost de velopment of cotton, and rust is report ed from Pickens, Nowberry and Barn* well. Shedding from Lexington, Or angeburg, Chesterfield, Berkeley, Barnwoll, Willlauisburg, Suruter, Dar lington, and Edgelield. No correspon dent speaks of tho crop as a poor one, (save ono in upper Nowberry), while in many localities it is " extra line," "average," or "above average." It is, however, in its critical stage, and tho weather of the next three weeks will make good or mar Its present promising coudition. Hot, generally dry weather with occasional showers is the indicated weather noeded. Cotton is beginning to open in the southeastern portion of tbo Stato. On account of want of bunsbino sea island cotton is fruiting poorly und has an I unhealthy color. Rice Is generally iu excellent con dition. On the lower Santeo there was danger of damage to rice Uelds by overflows when tbo river went 10 feel abovo tbo danger lino, but tbo river is now falling slowly und little if any rice was damaged by high water. Tobacco curing is general. There aro reports of poor yiold and of inferior quality of leaf, and some that the rains interfered with curing. Peas doing well generally. Some being sown. Too wot for peas in places. Sv/eot potatoes aro growing too much to vino apparently, but aro look ing very promising, with a large area cultivated. Turnipsowing in scast n. Irish potatoes being cug in upper portion of tho State with a very poor yield. Pastures are growing very well, and tho bay crop promises to bo a large one. All forage crops are making fine growth. J. VV. BAUER, Director. Tho Supremo Court has dismissed tbo appeal for a new trial of D. C. Murphoy, sentenced to be hanged for tbo murder of Treasurer ( opes, ol Orangeburg County, and ord< red him rcsentencod. - mm ? ? ? *w Mr. I. E. Orchard, formerly of Co lumbia, is now permanently loeatcd in New York City, being connected with the management of that authoritative musical journal, The Music Trades. THE LAU RENS HAH. a. Y. SIMPSON. Cf. D. BABKSl) AI.l SIMPSON & B ARKS I > ALE, Attorneys sit Lav, LAU H JONS, SOUTH CAROLINA Special attention given to tho Investi gation of titles and collection of claims It. w. BALL. L, W. Sl.MKINS. W. W. V.M.I. BALL, SIM KINS ?Sfc I) ALL, Attorneys at Law, Laurbns, South Carolina. Will practice In sill Stato and United states Court. Special attention given collections. W. II. MARTIN, Attorney ftt IwO?W, Laurens, - South Oauolina. Will practice In all V >urts of this Stau Attention given to collections. 1. T. JOHNSON. w. n. KlCIIKl JOHNSON & HICIIEY, A T TO11N EC Y S A T I. A W. O ppiOE?-Fleming's Corner, Norjjiv, e siil? of Public Square LAU RENS, - SOUTH C AltOLINA ji A $25 COOKING STOVE | S VIM A OO MPLKT* OUTFIT FOB || Only $12.00.1] |? Delivered to ?our r All road depot, all h freight charges -awl. Head this descrlp-JJ '? tlnu carefully. Tins splendid Conking JJ ti Stove Is No. 8; ba. fours Inch pi>t hole?;?! ?? 16x16 inch ovon; i S Inoli Are i>-><. i\ Inches JJ *% high; Vlx26 inch top; tilco'ainootli easting. JJ it I have had tins < tow matte for my trade. '; ?? after my own Idea, combining a I i i?- JJ Ji points of ait inctl linn price d stovoa, and JJ *> leaving out thoohj ocllonable Features. JJ \t lleyonrtall donb'f in.'lost No Kt,'ooklng JJ J> Stove matte, forth a price. Kitte?! with 3 JJ Ji pots, v pot covers, ?killet?, a g riddle", 8 JJ [? I'..;.in,' pans,;t join tsof pipe, i elbow, i col- JJ ?1 lar, I fitter, 1 Scrap Cr, 1 0.1KO polish. I Iron JJ r> tea kottio, l shovel. We want to make cm- J. [? toinuiH and frioml.fl in evorypari "f tno jj f? s?.iit n, for tho jitiri ?ose ?>r no rodiiclng our jj [? busluesa to now no opto, and lo ronew our JJ [I acquaintance with tili I frlomM. rfc we will ship thin Bidontlid Cooking8tovs J] f? and the above dose: rlbodwnre lo any depot, J: ail freight charges paid, for only ^ny.oo JJ f? when t no cash com en with the <>i der, This JJ ri move Is a good ot io, well made, ami will ?! Ji give entire satlsfa ctlon. Our illustrated JJ '? catalogue of Kuriil tttre, Htovoi and Huliy JJ CArriagos mailed ft co. Address fl L. F. PADGETT, jj S 840 Broad Streo t, Aupiu ta.Oa. <* Who is Will Whitener ? Ho is our Fashionable Hair Gutter and Shaver, IN rJE^NOE-L-L-A HOTEL.;?- J^. * The annual reunion of Hurt' - buttery will bo hehl ?t Sprlogfleld, ! . C, on Wednesday. July 2bli<. Th? Southern Kail way Co. ms com pleted an attractive depot a- Tryon, N.C. Lax? 1 in Castor Oll made as *woet as honov by a uew process. Chil Iren like it. 1JOKT KOYAL & WKSTE1 N QA1 - u Kailway. "A.U?i ta an l Aabevllle Short l ine.' J. 13. ( hjvclnnd Receiver, Boheduli in efTcct . ulv 7th isyti.. i.V'ARf ova. Ar Greenwood. Anderson. i.norei..-. Greonvllk*. ?leitit Springs. Rpartenoorg,.,, Saluda . fcfendoi lonv?le . V ? ? am . 18 IT pm . 7 ? >pm . 1 ?? |.m . % ! .i pm . 1 0 1 ;>i>? . BW i>m . 53I?m '? 5l !>ni A ?be vi lie.fi 40 pin 7 HO pm :' o a?.? 7 oo'am 9 i? nin 10 20 ?i? bv A9he\ ?lo.s 20 am . Kpar (anbury.ji .-.n\ 4 oo pro Green vtlle.11 65 am. 4 00 pm Laurent?.... .. ) 15 pm " 00 pm Ander-nu.10 i? am . Oroenwood. 8 21pm SO? ntn Ar Augusta. t? 03 i m !> 85 am TO ATHENS, ATI.AN * w t:s'r. AN) points l.v Greenville. i ' o em Ar Rlbcrtoii. 2 86 Ulli Abbeville. 142 am Athens.8 3H am Atlanta. ?2? am Lv Atlanta.010 pm Athens.u 40 pm Ulbert on.12 48 am Abi)c\ ille.12 40 am Ar Ureeuvllle. 0 18 am it 66am 4 00pm 4 (<Spm r> lOpm (> l?pm Lv Greenwood.Ii 6a a n Ar Halolgh. 1 26 am Norfolk. 7 00 am Petersbure.<> oo am Hiebmond. 0 40 am 4 0o pm 12 00 n'u (J 20 pm f> 48 pm fl 45 pm Olose connections at Greenwood for al points ott B. A. L. and 0. & Q. Kailway, and at Spartanlmr); with Southern Wnihvay. For information relative to tickets, rates, schedules, etc., addrosn VY.J. UttAlO, Gen. Pass. Agent. Augusta, Ua. ?I. 8. (iureton.'Agcnt.t'. H. Speights, (Jon. Acent. Greenville. 8. r. SOUTHERN RAILWAY, Condensed ? u I In Ttff> ot JUNK 14, 1S30. STATION*. r^LCn7ir!oston_ Lv. 5 >)umble... " Prosperity.. Ax. Nowvttrry .. Ar. Niucty-Slx.. " Wt<vnwood. '? ltd ';"">. ..i 7 10 a m Vi ii p in 18 B9 p m 1 U5 p m 1 43 p m 2.?i_EJa 'i -HIV I \ Ar. Ai beviUe.......,-2 M p M ; aKi-ril?ir.tT"........T..i ft to p i^ I Ar. Anderson ...... ?...i 8 86 p vi ' Ar! ei j veil vine Ar. A t la a', a STATIONS. |<v. Greenville " Piedmont . " >Vi!lr"iMton Lv. A udorsoq tiV OitOll Ar. Douualda.,. ...... .i 13 08 p i1 Lv. Iboevim.;.,.rrrrr. .1 vrwtr^ i lv.n.>if*K"..:..i FiToin; - Qreoiiwood.! l 00 p ; ? ?' KlnotySlx.! l 23 p I ? Lv. > ?. wberry.1 2 M p i t " Pro?i <\Vy.i K .11 p >-? Ar.Cclu'ibla. ,.. _!t^ 50j>_i i. Ar. <5liarlv>gton.?..? I "b 66"p rtt o.T4W0.19 ITS I tns-3 BTATIONU. *!.CliarlC)itou. .. Coutinoltt.. .Alston.... iMallvbSp ".?antuo." >20a l ".Union." ) B?a 1 55p "_JoitOHt mo .... " iMa! ?gip' ".I'ncolet .'' !2e I Up ?5 74 p p ! Wp t t>4p ) ;cop il i.r?! i<u^ Ar.. Pi arttiuburir.. .Lvll. 46a 1 ittu BI?? Lv.. Bpurlau urg...Ar V. 8w jjOpI Q46plAr.... Aaltevjllo.. ..;A'l ugO? "P." p. in. "A." a. m. Trnim t' anil 10 earry oleyant Pallmi" x ?leepir.K care between Ci'itonbtu ?nd Ashevlli , eiiroute dally liotwi-eu daukitouvllloa.adClnoi ? titttt. Trains leave IjparUinbnrg, A. & C'. atvtno nprtbboiiud. C:l5 a.m., p.m., 'Jil8 p. (\>^: ^uie j...'.:iitcj); eou'li'.iout 1 . :00 a. k.tX. p. in., U :> i a. m., (Vehtlbule J.ili 'r?l.> TrfciPs l^.^vo (lueuvlllo, A. ainl . illvii. ? (mrthDoand,A, m,, ^:iftp. m. und !5:iW p i rve?tluulsa l.iuiited): pouthl.of.na. M * hj l:4u p. in., 18:VSS p. m. (Veatibuled Lit .lt?d> I'ulluiun Sir.loo. Pullman palaje lleeplns oars on TflnsaSand SC, Hi and W, on A. und O. di\1fllpn. V. H. OUEEN. J. M QULf Qen. Superintendent, Tramo M'g'r, \VnshiDi7tou. I). O. Waabll' .'ton. D. a W. A. TURK, S. II. M AHDwlOK, Qen. I'aasi. Ap't. As t Won. Pti A|j t, Wasldntttoii. D. G._Ai .ui.tu, G^ SOUTHERN RAILWAY* Oondented Sohednl* of 1'iincngnj Tratna. Northbound. June 14, 1H06. Lv. Atlanta, C. t. *? AtlinitB. e. t. " K<jroros? " He. ford_ " Wnlnesville. - Lulu. ?* Cornelia " M(. Airy. " Tooooa.,. " woatinlnster M >r?iiei:a. " Central M Greenville... " Kpartanburg. " WuA'nov*. . " piiu'k.ilmrK " KliiK'aMl " (juilonla. Ar. i llmrlot te ... Dativtllo. Ar. Kiohruond ... Ar.Wnaliliifflon " Riillin'oPKR. " Philadelphia. M New Voi k ... Soul bbouiid Lv. Itiohinotld Lv. Di.nvtlle " t'bniiotie " G.t!>tutiin " K. " II ;i H -??'iry u GatTttoyi " Hitarlnuburg M Greenville... " ('ontral " f-.-;,e.:a. " initialer " T' >C< i ? lit. Airy ... " pornelia. " Lnln. " Guliiusvllla.. " Huforu h KororON Ar. At Hirt?, P.. T.; ? i.a p; o ai a iv ii Lv. Atlanta, C. TJ_?i ?/, pjt, jo ai 0t? "A" a. m. "P" p. m. "M" noon. "K" night. Noi. ;r iiml itS?WaiVington and Si athwenl *rn Veaiib'.ilo Limited, Through JPtillman ?b'tiiinr* betwt on 0W York tiarl New Orleans, via Washington. Atlanta and Montgt: tery,ano also between N'?w York nud lleiii ibti, via NViishtiiktioii, a? itititr* and Birmingham, This train also carilos ni'iliinou.i AuKnum --loepinif oars botwocti IiajivHIo end ObArlOttO. Firs? class thoroiiglifare coach betwuen Wti 'ltln?ton and Atlanta. Dining oara serve all meals so rout*. Nos. 8o and 80?United States Pas? M dl. PnlV man sleojiing oars between New York Atliu.'^s And New Orleanfl. Nos. 11 and -Pullman sleeping ears between Bttohmond and Danvillo. The Air Line Belle train. Nos. 17 and 18, will, from June 1st to Ootober 1st, la06. So moratod between Atlanta and Alt. Airy, Ga., Uuilv m? eept Sunday. Vrx h. grebts, I. M. gulp, ' iupt., Trafflo *''K'fu dngtou, J>. a Washltigt. ii, D. a 8. IL HAHDWK :c. amftasnTFa*e Ag's,,