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IA TRAVELING CONVICT CAMP.
Charleston Celebrates "Carolina
Day" ? Commencement Week.
Board of Health to Investigate.
Governor Ellerbe last week acted
opon the finding and recommendations
of the court of inquiry by issuing the
following order:
The report and recommendations, IDS'.
gather with the record of the proceedtngp
of the court of inquiry, consisting
)? erf Brigadier-General Joseph L. Stoppelbein,
Col. J. G. Wardlaw and Cept.
Henry T. Thompson, appointed by
ff - reneral order from this office, has been
only considered.
The report of the rourt of inquiry and
record of its proceedings will be at the
L proper time transmitted to the General
Assembly for such action as ;that body
' may deem proper with referenoe to the
Hp adjutant and inspector general, who is
?a in this State a constitutional offloer.
And it is ordered:
1. That Private Fishburne, of the
Bichland Yolnnteers be discharged from
P the military service of the State.
A That tne captain of the Richland
Volunteers publish an order repriSF
sanding Private Dunning of said company
for leaving ranks without perw
{ - mission.
Sfe A The eoort of inquiry having corns'
alaijJ tit* dnttoa Asaiumea. it is hereby
| commander-in-chief desires to
?zpr?M high appreciation of the complete
and careful manner in which the
court has performed its duty.
Governor Ellerbe was * asked his
reasons for approving of every recommendation
of the court 6a ve* that of
reprimanding General Watts. To this
be replied that while he approved the
court's action in its entirety, he did not
think he should attempt to reprimand
General Watts as he was a constitutional
officer responsible only to the
electors. General Watts' duties were
defined by law and it was not provided
that should he prove derelict to his
duties that he should be reprimanded
by anyone other than the people or by
them through their representatives.
The* overnor felt that he would have
aa much right to reprimand the attorney
general, Secretary of State or any other
official as to reprimand General Watts.
Governor Ellerbe did not express
himself inst as above, bat this is the
idee which he wished understood.
The actual cost cUhe court of inquiry
was $827.65. The members of the court
Motived $4 per day with $2 for board
and mileage. Had the officers insisted
. on being paid on just what the law allows,
General Stoppelbein would hare
received $13 per day, Col. Wardlaw$l2,
Judge Advocate General Mayfield $10,
and Captain Thompson $6.50. The
" stenographers were paid $75, and with
other expenses ran the cost up to
|B7.$pL-The State.
At Charleston on the S8th there was
observed what is called Carolina Day,
in meat err ol the brave defense of Fort
Moultrie by the gallant men who held
the fort against the British fleet just
ana hundred and twenty-one years ago.
Asia thsnsual custom, the Paimette
Guard played the most oonspicuous
part is the day's celebration. The
members of this command formed at
their anhory and marched to the Battery.
where a salute was fired in honor
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I stands there. Later is the day the
members of the Guard repaired to the
SchuetzenplsU, where they gave their
enseal maroon and picnic. A Large
crowd vaa present and and the picnic
was an exceedingly enjoyable one. All
the oily offloes Was closed in honor of
the day, and moat of their business
sms gave their olerkra half holiday.
Up to a recent date the guards of the
chain gang in Richland ooonty have
been weeping in tenta. It waa found
thai cooking utensils could not be very
well kepi in the tents, end that they
were not ae comfortable as they might
bn The tents have been abandoned
and a wagon, thirty feet long and eight
feet wide, has been constructed for the
nse of the guards. It ie found that this
kink of Pullman oar arrangement can be
% easily moved from place to olww by the
mules used in the work ana that it is
V cheap luxury.
JJ1 COnpinUNV HU VU? |^<<ciuw a iwqueat
the State board of health has gone
toClemeon to investigate the causes of
V lever at that institution. The different
theories of the sources of fever are already
known, but which is the right
one is still unanswered. That something
is radically wrong with the hygienic
conditions is admitted, so that
the report of the State board of health
* will be awaited with interest
A farmer of Barnwell oountv, Angus
Williams, becoming enraged at his
;r mother-in-law, Mrs. Burrett, attempted
to literally "eat her up," tearing at the
sT woman's shoulders, arms ana throat
with his teeth, lacerating her terribly.
The attending physician says the woman
is in a critical condition and that
blood poisoning is almost sore to result
The neighborhood Is deeply stirred
and Williams is not safe from* mob violence.
k.; The commencement exercises of
"t 8outh Carolina College were held last
jr.- week and were the best in many years.
The feature of commencement was
ihe baccalaureate sermon delivered by
^ Dr. James Woodrow, the president.
On an excnrsion train from Atlanta
to Charleston, two negroes became involved
in a row as it was approaching
Biackville, one stabbing and cutting
the other so badly that he died on the
train. Both were from Atlanta and the
one that did the cutting is now in
jail.
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Congressman Stanyame Wilson is
working hard and faithfully for a free
deliver}- system in Spartanburg, and
he has assurances from PoetmaaterOeneral
Gary that a system will be
Mtablished in 'that city next winter.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Ex-Senator Irby Will Try for the U.
S. Senate?Other Scraps.
T. H. Wannamaker has been granted
bail in the sum of $2,500 for the killing
of C. F. Jones at Bamberg.
Prof. F. C. Woodward has been elected
by the South Carolina College trustoes
to fill Dr. Jame6 Woodrow's place
as president, he having resigned.
It is currently rumored that ExSenator
Irby is to make the race for
United States Senator against McLauria
on a straight "tariff for revenue
only" platform.
It is said that petitioners for the new
county o? Williams ton will oontest the
election for the new county which was
held last week. They claim illegality
in the contest.
Cadet J. B. Sally, of OrangeDurg,
won the Teage "Star of the West"
medal in the competitive individual
drill of the Citadel cadete at Anderson.
There were forty-four contestants.
The annual address at the commencement
of the South Carolina College was
delivered by President Aldemany,of the
University of North Carolina. Hit
theme was: The Duty of the State to
the College and the College to the State.
At Orangeburg last week the three
city reel oompanies were out for a contest,
and the East Enders made a 100
yards run and threw water in 23 2-5 seconds,
and now they say they trill henceforth
claim tho Southern record and will
hold it
Wm. Campbell was found guilty of
manslaughter, at Spartanburg, for the
killing of Pettigrew some months ago.
Campbell was an officer and was endeavoring
to lock np Pettigrew and he
knocked aim, whereupon Campbell shot
him.
At Union another reward has hist
been offered by the town oounciL This
time it is $500 for the apprehension of
the party or parties who attempted to
burn the opera house a few months ago.
It is reported that this reward will be
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nU0OU UJ kUC UUMUO W^i,VW.
Past week in Colombia the Beckroge
case against Messrs. Scruggs and Gaston
came op in the Court of General
Sessions, and it was thought that it
would be the entering wedge to a great
deal of dispensary scandal, but the
grand jury found "no bill" in each
case.
The Richland Volunteer Company of
Columbia, organized in 1813 and participating
in tne Florida, Mexican and
civil wars and a member of the famous
Palmetto regiment, has decided to disband
because of the result of the recent
court of inquiry, which recommended
that one of its members be dismissed.
Its members allege that partiality was
shown by the board to the Goeernor's
Guards ~ whose members also broke
ranks, and to Adjutant General Watts
by the Governor, as he carried out the
recommendations of the board as to
members of the Volunte ers, but did not
publicly censure Watts as recommended.
The following are the members of the
graduating class of the South Carolina
College with their degrees: Wilfred
Landan Brooker, A. B., Lexington;
Joseph LeConte Paris, B. 8., KichI?A
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UUiU, UUUU VAVAVIVSI iLU^uo?t A* A/. ,
Edgefield; George Oswald Jagar, A. B.,
Charleston; Dud can Donald MeColl,
A. B., Marlboro; Charles Howard McLaurin,
A. B., Marlboro; John Jackson
McSwain, A. B., Laurens; Simon
Franklin Parrott, A. B., Darlington; j
Christopher Gadsden Savre, B. S., Anderson;
George Coffin Taylor, A. B.,
Richland; John Nelson Tramp, B. S.,
Richland; James Spencer Verner, A.
B., Richland.
WORK FOR IDLE MILL HANDS.
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Carolina Factory Engages Operatives
In Charleston.
It looks now as if the troubles at the
Charleston cotton mills will be settled
and the opera tires given work in other
factories. Many of the old hands of the
mill have been offered positions ont of
Charleston. Aootton factory, not far
from there, is badly in need of forty
families who know how to manipulate
mill machinery.
The company folly appreciates the
financial embarrassments of the idle exemployees
and has requested a railroad
agent to get up the hands, put them on
the train and leave the oost of transportation
tickets to the mill.
Greece and the Greeks.
The present agitation of the Greek
question nag increases ine interest or
the public In all matters pertaining to
the classic country. One of the subjects
which has caused wi<J"spread
wonder is how the modern Greek soldier
gives such a ballet-like effect to
his skirts. A traveler In that country
has offered the following as an explanation:
Instead of wrapping his
kilt about him only once the man of
arms envelops his figure with turn
after turn of the stiff white linen, till
the required degree of stand-out effect
is reached, and his shirt is on a level
with his waist. This same traveler remarks
upon the curious effect of inconsistency
that is evident when a visitor
to one of the beautiful oid ruins finds
himself gazing on only a plaster cast
of the classic buildings and structures,
while a placard announces that the
original may be seen in the mnseums
of Europe or America.
Coal from Turf.
Another plan for turning to account
forces of nature as yet dimly understood
Is reported from Scandinavia,
where a savant has discovered a method
of converting turf into coal. The
turf is placed in retorts and gradually
heated to 250 degrees* The retorts are
then closed and the temperature kept
up for seven hours. The tar and gas
products are thus retained in the coal
mass to the extent of 80 per cent, and
the resultant is said to contain 65 peT
cent of carbon. C per cent of hydrogen,
5.7 water and 5 per cent of ashes. Turf
coal gives about the same amount of
heat as seconds, and has been tested
both in Krupp's iron fotmdry and for
domestic purposes. One thousand kilos
are sold for 7s. the cost of preparing
it being about 3s..
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The Experiment Being Watched
With Much Interest.
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MOVING ABOUT HABIT
Among White Operative# ? Another
Class Who Will Never Have Cause to
Worry About Negro Competition,
The following correspondence appeared
in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer,
under date of July let, from Edgefield,
on the experiment of negro labor
in the Charleston cotton mills:
"Yesterday I met a gentleman who
has been to Charleston, and who visited
the ootton mill there. This visit wa3
made abont a week ago. He states that
abont one hundred negro operativei
were then employed in the mill. Four
policemen weie on duty in the mill yard,
presumably to prevent interference by
the white ex-operatives with the negro
employes. This gentleman saw no signs
of any disposition on the part of any
white people to interfere with the experiment
with negro labor, and he
thought there was being more talk cf
interference than the circumstances or
evidences up to date would justify. He
thinks it is not a question whether the
white working people will permit negroes
to work in afacrtory, but that the
question to ue soivea is wnetner utgroes
can be trained to make a aaccess
of a factory. Individuals will undoubtedly
be found who can do pool
work, t?ut this man thinks it is yet to
be proved whether a full force of negroes
can be organized and maintained
to operate a mill of fairly good size.
"The experiment at Charleston, if it
is a future, will not settle the question.
The Charleston mill has failed with
white operatives. If it fails again with
negro operatives the experiment proves
nothing. If it succeeds, then it will
be shown that there is profit in using
negro labor under certain conditions.
"Some of those who have seen the
Charleston mill say that the fault is in
the mill itself, ana not in the operatives.
The machinery is more or less
out of date and needs a oomplete re-organization
and overhauling. If this is
true the new management will probably
remedy this deficiency.
"The experiment is one that is being
watched with much anxiety by those interested
in the mill and with much interest
by many outsiders, while cotton
mill operatives are eagerly interested.
Some people think that success at
Charleston would be a blow to the interests
of the white operatives in the
South. Others think it would be to the
advantage of the white operatives in
giving up the coarser work to the negroes
and making the development of
manufacturing liner goods with white
labor at better prices more feasible.
"It has been said that something
mast be done to prevent the white operatives
from moving aboat so much.
Some families move foor or five times a
year. This sort of thing goes very far
to cause mill owners to consider the
subject of negro labor. The better
class of mill operatives might do well
to use their influence to check this habit
that some families have of moving so
often. The surest protection of white
labor against encroachment is efficiency.
Careful attention to work and
regularity will do more to keep the
negro out of the mills than any amount
of argument or objection. The
younger people ougnt to go
to school and the older ones
ought to see to it that the children
do go to school. Those white operatives
who are well posted, skillful, industrious
and who are not always on the
move will never have to worry about
the negro or any other race as a competitor,
but those who avoid schools,
lose many working days and make frequent
moves from one mill to anotfier
bad better mend their ways. Civilization
is relentless in its progress and always
bears down hard on ignoranoe and
slothfnlness. In these modern times
education, industry and steadiness of |
| purpose win all fights." j
PALMETTO POINTERS.
R. W. Harris, a prominent citizen of
Union, attempted suicide by taking 80
grains of morphine. Mr. Harris is postmaster
of that place, and hae held that
office for the past four years.
Dr. E. J. Renbert died Saturday
near Hagood. He was about 63 years
I of age. Mr. E. J. Rembert, of Sumter,
and Mr. George Rembert, of
[ Columbia, are his sons. Dr. Rembert
was one of the most prominent physicians
in that section of the State. He
retired from active practice some years
since and spent the latter portion of his
life at his magnificent country place.
In the election for the new oounty of
Williamston all lx>zes except four small
ones in Anderson county and two in
Greenville give 1,180 votes against 36b
in favor of the measure. The county is
lost For the new county of Honea
Path, the town of Honea Path gives 227
for and 14 against the proposition.
Belton box gitis 171 against and 2 for
it Honea Path is probably defeated
GREENVILLE SHOWS GROWTH.
Tax Books Indicate an Increase in
Both Real and Personality.
The auditor's books this year show
the total value of real property in
, Greenville county to be $4,382,300,
against a total value of $4,282,085 last
year. In personal property there has
been an increase of nearly $120,000
over last vear.
The railroads have not yet made their
returns, but when th9y are in, the total
value of all property returned for taxation
will be over seven million. The
total value of railroad property returned
last year was $572,475, but there
will be a large increase over that figure
this year, as the Southern has purchased
valuable property there in the
last few months.
The number of persons liable to poll
tax now is 6,232, against 5,869 last
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WEELY CROP BVELETIN. I
The Week on the Whole Was Favorable
for Crops.
The South Carolina Weather and i
Crop Bulletin is as follows for the past
week:
The mean weekly temperature aver- '
aged SO, which is one degree above the
normal. The first of the week was
comparatively cool followed by excessive
heat with maximum temperatures
on the 24, 2.5 and 26 ranging from 100
106 over the Southeastern counties.
The lowest for the week was 5S on the
22nd, at Spartanbu:*g.
The weather was jbowerv, but hardly
enough rain fell generally for the neeti
of crops, in many places none, and in a
lew too much. Tnirty-one weekly measurements
amounted to less than one
inch; thirteen from one to two inches
and three over two inches with 2. TO as
the largest amount, at Trial. The average
of forty-nine reports was 0.78 and
the approximate normal for the week is
1.81.
In Clarendon, Spartanburg and Edgefield
fields were washed by heavy
rains.
Severe local storms, of wind, rain j
and hail, doing more or less injury to
corn, cotton and tobaoco, in few instances
mining entire fields, occurred
in Clarendon, Spartanburg. Anderson,
Aiken, Edgefield, Darlington, Richland,
Bamberg. Karshaw, Sumter,
Berkeley, Orangeburg and Charleston.
The extreme Notheastern and Northwestern
counties were free from local
storms.
The sunshine varied greatly in different
portions of the State, but the
average of all reports indicate about a
normal per centage of the possible duration.
The week on the whole was favorable
for the development of crops, which
made satisfactory advance except where
injured by wind, hail and wet soil.
Much mention by correspondents is
made of grass in fields, but qualified
generally by the statement that the
weather favored killing grass.
Com is being rapidly laid by in good
condition except that stands are irregular
and that over considerable areas
throughout the entire State rain is
needed. It is more promising than at
any time this season. Some fields were
iiffured by high wind breaking down ;
the larger stalks, and by excessive heat
curling the leaves during the day.
Cotton has begun to blossom freely
iYta aaafarn A/inntiAa and inntM*
are plentiful everwhere although the
plant ie small for the season. In portions
of Berkeley, Kershaw, Chesterfield,
Chester the ground is too wet for
cotton and the plant deteriorated. Many
fields are becoming fonl with grass, but
not enough so to materially iniure cotton.
The stand is very even and growth
during the week was good. Commenced
laving ur in sections.
Sea-Island variety above an average
condition for the season. Is blooming '
and fruiting well.
Tobacco has improved generally. !
Is buttoning low, and lihows "frog
eye" in places. Has detriorated and
condition poor in Kershaw. Is ripening
permaturelv and some was cured,;
during the week.
Rice is doing well. Peas were extensively
sown and coming up to good,
stands. * Sweet potato slips growing
welL Sugar cane excellent vegetables
abundant Melons will be shipped!
from Barnewell this week; this crop
improving slowly and is generally lata.
A Senatorial Contrast
Senators Sumner and Wilson were
frequent guests at "The Old Elms"?
the country seat of ex-Oov. Clafiln in.
Newtonville?and when they met there,
the family found it interesting to observe
the contrast In the two men.
"Sumner was always stately and dignified,"
writes Mrs. Clafiln In her lit-!
tie book, "Under the Elms," "while Mr.
Wilson was careless In his language in
ordinary conversation. He often said,
Sumner is In agony when I rise to
speak in the Senate for fear Massachn- J
setts will be disgraced by my bad gram-!
mar.'
"Bat, strange to say, careless as Mr.
Wilson was In every-day life, and forgetful
as be was of social etiquette and
requirements, be rarely made a grammatical
error In his public speeches,
and be commanded as much respect
and attention in the Senate as any man
who lifted his voice in that angust assembly.
"It must be remembered that Mr.
Wilson bad do advantages of family,
and in his youth none of society or education.
He never went to school and
he bad only the light of a pine-knot to
read by until after be was 21 years of
age. His twenty-first birthday occurred
on a Saturday, and the hardfisted
old man with whom be had spent
most of his life, aud whom be bad faithfully
served, tokl him that he could remain
over Sunday in bis bouse by paying
50 cents.
"Mr. Sumner had had every advantage
of family and position, education
and travel, and his mind was stored
with knowledge on almost ail objects.'*
Soon after the war Mr. Wilson was
stricken witn paraiy6is. as oe raiueu
from the first attack the unrest which
usually follows iu such cases took possession
of him, and he wandered from
place to place, seeking rest and finding
none. The end came, and a nation
mourned the loss of a statesman true
to Its interests and self-sacrificing in
his patriotism.?Youth's Companion.
Chinese Ideal of Beauty.
The ideal of beauty among the CMnese
differs as widely from ours as do
their written cha racters from our A B
C. Not long since a member of the
Chinese legutiou was looking at a |
photographic grojp of decidedly pret- |
ty young English ladies, and, being |
being asked whether he admired them,
replied, "No. the:: are difficult to look
at, difficult to look at." As to figure,
a willow-like waist and a bending
yielding form are the objects of highest
admiration in China, and so a character
formed of parts signifying "a
woman" and "curved" is used to denote
beautiful, lovely, comely. Many
meanings connected with women are
alllted with characters which prima
facie bear no relation to them.
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SMILE A
Bmile a little, smile a little,
As vou go along,
Kot alone when life is pleasant,
i But when things go wrong.
(rare delights to see you frowning,
Loves to hear you "sigh.
'["urn a smiling face upon her.
Quick the dame will fly.
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Bmile a little, smile a little,
All along the road,
Every life must have its burden,
Every heart its load.
\Thv sit down in gloom and darkness,
ith your grief to sup?
As you bring fate's bitter tonio
Bmile across the cup.
? The Othe
ifl^HARACTERS:]
, mT Dick Hatherly, a
8 ft young painter;
JV^wL Letty Lorimer.jhis
i I secou<l cousin an
?--T" ^ orphan; and Capp>
^ ,'wjjr~S*bfy tain(Yere Grierson,
^ Ml)\mTLrl'' a soldier on a furtl
Sceke I: A studio,
^ 21 Campden Hill.
/ \\ ?ouSl1 sketches
yl'idl QrvU ^ pinned on walls,
jjfo some new can^^|jjg?gZE3^^\
v asses on easels;
^ 1*7 figure? with
^***v T am -o'- Shanter
rakishly a-top,posed on throne. Tray
witli a plate of sandwiches and empty
beer bottles on niano. Under north
skylight Hatherly in a painting
blouse at work on six-foot-by-four
canvas "Autumn in the New Forest"
Hatherly (soliloquizing): Well, I
hope to goodness no one drops in this
afternoon. There wasn't a day I could
Vork from the time I brought it home
in November till last week. If I'm not
interrupted and get on as well as I have
been doing, I may be in time for sending-in-day
after all. (Gentle knock at
the door, which Hatherly does not
hear.)
Visitor: Tap, tap.
Hatherly (impatiently): 0, bother!
ril pretend I'm out.
Visitor (louder): Tap, tap, tap!
Detty Lorimer (hesitatingly): Yes,
Dick. May I come in? You're sure
I'm not disturbing you?
Hatherly (mendaciously): O, no.
Of course you're not. But I say,Letty,
you won't mind my going on with my
work, will you? I want to get this
done for the Academy, and time is
short now.
Letty (earnestly): No, Dick!
Hatherlv (oomDlacentlvl: That's all
right, then. Sit down there like a
dear, and don't mind me. Yon see,
the light is good now, and in a while
it will be too dark to paint.
Letty takes a seat behind him and
silently watches the progress of the
work. At last, summoning up courage,
she says nervously: Dick!
Batherly (starting): Yes! why, I had
nearly forgotten you, Letty. By the
bye. what has become of the Dowager?
Eho doesn't usually allow you out
alone.
Letty: Grandmama is tired to-day'
and resting. I've boen to the dressmaker's.
Ford is with me. She is
waiting in the carriage downstairs. I
came alone (falteringly) because I
wished to speak to you.
Eatherly: That's right, my dear.
Gossip away. Tell me all your news.
I can listen quite well, though I'm
busy. How's the old lady? Been any
pleasanter lately?
Letty (almost in tears): O, Dick!
her temper is simply unbearable.
Hatherly: Horrid old vixen. I'm
glad she's no guardian of mine.
Letty: I do try to be patient, but
her tongue is so bitter and so cruel
Hatherly (absently): Poor little
firL
Letty: I sometimes feel as if I
oooia run away.
Hatherly (engrossed in studying
foreground of picture, sotto voce):
At, Tve caught it now. Claxton was
right That shadow to the left is too
heavy. What are you saying, Letty?
Letty (getting it out with a jerk):
Do you reniber Captain Grierson, one
of the Leioester Griersons?
Hatherly (squeezing fresh oolor on
his palette): Tes, that alteration will
mako all the difference. I beg pardon,
Letty. Yoa were saying?
Letty (patiently): Do you remember
Captain Grierson?
Hatherly: Yes; he was at Rugby
with me. Or was that his brother?
Cecil Grierson?sandy-haired chap,
tall.
Letty: Tes, Cecil Vere Grierson. I
want to tell you, Dick?(Hatherly,
leaving Easel abruptly, goes to a table
nnd returns with a small piece of cardboard
with square cut from the centre,
through wl.ich he gazes absorbedly at
the new arrangement. Letty sighs
despondently.)
Hatherly (turning to her): Say,
Letty! Just look through this square
a moment. Don't you think the pioture
will compose better with that
shadow lightened?
Letty (pale and agitated): Dick, I
must go soon, uan you sy.ore me a
moment to-day?
Hatherly (penitently): Excuse me,
dear. I'm beastly rude, treating you
like this. It's the fault of this glorious
light There hasn't been a day like it
all winter. I'm a boor, I know, but
the fatal Monday draweth nigh after
which no man can work.
Letty: Well, I was trying to tell
you that Captain Grierson returns to
India in two months to rejoin his regiment,
and?
Dick (cheerfully interrupting):
Lucky beggar! Seeing the world while
we all vegetate at home.
Smile upon the troubled pilgrims
Whom you pass and meet. *
Flowers ore thorns and smiles are bio*- 4JK
Oft for weary feet.
Do not make the way seem harder
By a sullen face.
Smile a little, smile a little,
Brighten up the place.
Smile upon your undone labor.
Sot for one who grieves
O'er his task waits wealth or glory. .
He who smiles achieves.
Though you meet with loss and sorrow
In the passing years.
Smile a little, smile a little,
Even through your tears.
?Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Letty (faltering): And?Dick?lie
says he hates going back. He doesn't
wish to go alone.
Hatherly (struck with sudden compunction):
I say, Letty, what a (' ?
thoughtless brute I am not to have 2
given you some tea. Just touch the / >$
bell, will you?
Letty: No tea, thanks. I really,
oouldn't drink it. Dick, he feels aw- ' .|
ful at leaving?everybody?and grand- j Vjm
mama keeps getting worse and worse, ' 3
Hatherly (painting away vigorously):
She's an unmitigated old wretch. Good jtftflj
thing she was a bit queer to-day, so . ^
that you could get off the chain and \
have a little flutter by yourself.
Letty: O, I don't think she would -ojj
object to my coming here so much. ,
She likes you pretty well, Dick. But *3
to return to what we were saying?
Hatherly; Letty, just hand me that
hand-mirror, will you? It's on the
table beside you. Ah, thank you.
Letty (continuing, doggedly and ..$2
huskily): So he said he'd come this
evening?for his answer. I
(Dick, staring fixedly at the refleo* ,
tion of his picture in the hand-mirror, >a3
makes no reply. Letty waits in breathless
silence.
Hatherly (speaking suddenly): Do
come here, Letty, and say if you like -J
that, or is it too strong? """
Lettie (rising): It is strong and de- .
cided, like yourself and all men, Dick. ?
It is only we women who are weak and
irresolute. Good-bye. No, dont '?g
come downstairs; I can see myself
out. Good-bye.
Hatherly (relieved) Well, if you
must go, good-bye. Come again
soon, like a good girl, when I hare tjg
more time to spare. And don't let the
old lady bully you too much. Ta-ta.
(Hatherly paints till the light fails, ,
and then sits before the picture smok- - &K
ing meditatively.) Glad I took thai j
hint of Clarton's. Funny how the .SBj
duffer always gives you the best suggestions.
It will be easy sailing now. ijH
The rest groups all right Nice of ;1S
Letty not staying when she saw I was
working against time. She did not 31
seem so happy as usual, somehow.
Hateful time she has with that old /
grandmother.' If I was richer.rd like . .3
to carry her off out of that old witch's A
clutches; but she's too young yet She
was talking about Grierson. Capital
fellow he used to be. Going back to m
India? What a lot of fun those army .11 *
ehana have?not like Artist? shnt nn S
in a studio half the year. By the bye, , *
what was it that Letty said about him f J
not wishing to go back alone? He
can't hare been making love to that ^9
child. She is only eighteen, and I always
thought of her as mine?some
day. What did she say about him
coming for his answer? Heavenal . 1
what a fool I've been. That*s what
she was trying to tell me, and I was
ass enough to have thoughts for noth- j
ing but my picture. Blind idiot!
(Getting up hurriedly.) This evening i
she said. I wonder if I can possibly
be in time. (Seizes hat and rushes
Scene EL Entrance to the Dowager il
Lady. Lorimer mansion in May- Jg
fair. Hatherly, alighting hurriedly ^
from hansom, runs into Griersoa jj
descending steps of house.
Grierson (radiantly): HuHo, Hath- % 5
Hatherly (blankly): Grierson!
Grierson: Delighted to meet you . ^
again, old man. Seems almost a good Stm
omen, don't you know.
Hatherly (with hollow politeness):
Ah, very pleased, I'm sure. t. j'i1
Grierson (confidentially and effu- . <
l_\ _1 a. _# l_iJ " '-'J?,
siveiyj: reei you son 01 reiauon,
don't you know. Ton see I've just? -.3
that ia, Miss Lettv has just?I say, old l?j
chap, by Jove, I'm awfully happyl vjgfl
Congratulate me.?Black and White.
Looking Out for Herself.
Here is an instructive story and one [A '
quite new about Queen Victoria. It *rj
was suggested to her the other day
that Queen Anne's statue, opposite St. jS
Paul's, should be removed for the
jubilee thanksgiving serviee, in order
that the view might not be obstructed.
When this proposal was submitted to ' &
Her Majesty she refused to sanction it.
"I am not willing to allow the statue % i
to be displaced," the Qneen is said to j
have remarked. "If I permit it some j !
one may oonsider it a justification for 12 J
removing my statue some day on a
similar occasion." J
Huntsman's Great Lack.
H. Cox, of Brooklyn, Mich., with a
company of friends, went north to
hnnt deer. His friends placed him jF3
back of a runway and told him to keep . ?3
on the lookout if he wanted deer.
Cox sat there until tired, and then
stepped back to the shelter of a bush. | |?
As he did co a big buck leaped over \ ,
the bu6h, knocked the gnn oat of his
hand and discharged it. The charge
struck the deer and it fell dead within \'&H
a few feet of the hunter.?Chicago Trit
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