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=m yHoldehhi " ' CQpjTfcrht s?fc. CHAPTER IV. , Contiuued. 1 in this unprofitable occupation 1 "WJUvteJ 1 know not how loug. until ^kwhtiug whether I should bo awakt in time 1o keep the promise I lint made to conduct xu.v aunt tlertrudc otct our old house?no brief tr.sk, foi St contained thirty or more rooms anc was-a maze to the uninitiated -I liur Jo bed, and was soon In the tor men be' of the- most chaotic drenr which has ever disturbed my braiu. I beheld gorgeous barbaric palaces sol to delightful dimes; processions oi n>o? magnificently apparelled, of which the principal figures displayed rus amazing profusion of jewels; vast bear^ of gold coins of strange mintJtgf: quaint jars filled with precious ?tos?c> which gleamed aud sparkled; - and dimly liguted vaults iu which ? ?n/l timKnnno/l jonrrtrf? uvuiuvu t;uvi uuu.iuuru, werv iuflictlDg horrible indignities or defenceless women, strangling sonn with botvs and beheading others witL ?ehD;tars. These scenes were projscntcd 10 ray uiind as in a phantasmagoria, the'iast appearing so intensely reni id its horror that I shrieked a; fcehidding it, and rushiug at a hideou* okJ Turk, who was firmly grasping ttfec bair of a kneeling girl while Ik *wTjrng his scimiihr around tie- byt Anr lo strike her neck, I awoke, bat bed in perspiration, and was spared ibi ariotnacbic encounter. The clinrcii clock struck four, and fbr glow in the Eastern sky was as j-ct buz feeble. I was iutcnsely rekexrd to find myself oueo more in tuv osnal frame 01 mind, amid my usual \ *.ur-onndings. My terror vanished oil opening my eyes and discovering no ttugtlor; but the dream had made an impr-sslon on my mind so deep that 1 ?*uald not disengage my thoughts from ?t; neither couid 1 in any way account -for iL I had never been subject t< oneirodynia, nor had I recently tenor talked of oriental magniticeucc and barba ity. 1 was powerless either u ae?imnt for the dream or to dismiss it from my nuud. After pouderiug the matter for litre* inhji> or more 1 arose, i.snl dressing myself with the same fasridious cart a?x ou the previous day?a habit which 1 bad resolved to henceforth cultivate ?I descended into the breakfust-rootu .My fctlier aud uncle were standing by the window engaged in earnest ^.nfATentlATl on/1 4\lil Knot * IMiV'.iOUUVUt tu.u Viu UVU4J l???C UUCJ at his sideboard. Mv uncle at onet stepped towards me and seized tn> baud, wblcli he squeezed rather hard <r than I considered necessary or coin for i a bio, anil having wished me a good rooming, informed me that I had beet the subject o. his conversation witL my father. "i am afraid you lind Iloldeuhursl a very dull place when you can line nothing more interesting to talk of,' 1 remarked. '"Not at all. not at all." said uncl? Sam. "I will tell you all about it be /ore I leave." "Breakfast is quite ready," said mj father, "and we may as well have ii at once, although It wants some min nti>c tr? oiwht Mrs Tnimnn will tolr. ^ ber breakfast in her room."' At this we all three took our seal: *t the table. "Why, Ernest, my boy, what ha; become of your color?'* asked uncl< Sam. "Yesterday you were a typiea bttie Englishman, but this morninj you appeav as bloodless as a Xev York dude.'* I related my dream. Uncle San laughed immoderately at the recital and pushing his chair somewhat furih er from the table, swayed himself t< .and fro and roared. My father's face too. wore a broad smile which rnergci Into a laugh as I proceeded. "Did you read the 'Arabian Nights just before you went to bed?" ujj father inquired. "'Arabian Nights!'" echoed uncl< Sam. interrupting me as 1 was abou to reply; "why, if he were in London I should have said that he had beei to the Alb am bra, witnessed the ballet jgtrt drunk, and been locked up for tin night. Ila. ha! I'd give a thousaui doll ars. and sup on pork ami cucum bers for a month, if ouly I migin dream that dream." "It seems to please you. Sam." salt MI r lUlUVI. "It does. If I had not become a: American. I would have oxenauged mi nationality for that of Turkey or IVr sia, my Christianity for Mohammedan ism. Boundless liberty and absoluw despotism both appeal to my taste Besides, they are uot so diffeivn. m some people suppose: extremes meet yi>v know. The quasi-liberty enjoyed or the ?juasi-despotis.?u suffered?ex press It whicii way you will -by ih?g lisbmeu in England. wouUl be intoler able to me. By-tho-by, l'ai not rhi first Truman who has r< aouueed hi* native nationality, a:n I. Bob'.' bidn' that old ass of an alchemist, who sprit twenty years of his life iu trying t? extract gold from everything that dh not contain if, become a Turk':"* "You mean old I'oger." said 1:11 father, thoughtfully "Yes. I believt Ik* did: but he must liav.? reverted t? the nationality of Ills fa;hers, if no to their laUb, l'o: he iiied mr.r.v I ._ A S?B?~' . r?vl : VALTER BLOOM FIE ' loBtcr Bjsscr.'s Soss. j years iu this house after his relr.rn from the East, and died here near the [ close of the seventeenth century." , "Who was lloger Truman?" I asked, looking up. I "An auceslor of our.-, who died about two centuries ago. lie was a ; younger brother. who left homo when i lie was about your age. After travel jug for some time iu the East, he en tered the service of the Sultan of Turi key. who made him governor of a [ province. lie returned to Euglaud. ; after an absence of many years, ami took up his residence here, in his ' brother's house. Very little is knowu I about him. He survived his brother, hut continued to live here with his nephew. He lived the life of a recluse, : I spending all his days and some of his ; j nights in the crypt underneath the i j house, where he had established a la, I boratory. He used to amuse himself 1 ' wliH ,AL<Aii.nhAe It, <-*hnmiofrr T ho. j lieve some of bis old bottles and things i i are there now.*' I It cost me some pains to conceal the great interest which this information had l'or uic, and I am not quite sure that the earnestness of fay attention ; was unobserved bv my uncle. Indeed, ; I always felt as If that astute indlvid ual had power to read my thoughts, and was never quite at my ease in his i presence. However, I adroitly changed the subject of conversation; but my thoughts were still of Roger Truman ! and of what my father had said of i him. and I resolved to open the cop per box which bore his name iunnedi ately afier breakfast. I I'ncle Sam was a restless man, and i would not sit at table for more than lnilf an horn* if he could decently avoid t doing so. lie was. of course, quite uarcslraiued by the presouce of my t'aihi er and me. and had therefore no sooner swallowed his breakfast than he > rose and asked his brother if he wore I ready to accompany him on a walk i around the estate: which, lie observed, , would afford a good opportunity fur ; discussing certain proposals he had ; to make. My father agreed, and I re. tired to liiv room to open the copper bo:.. . 1 had u<> key to the box: nor would , probably a key Rave been of any use, . for the lock was much corroded. Uy the aid of a strong hunting-knife and r tlie exertlou of as much force' as I could command. 1 prised open the lid. and the whole of the contents fell out ? i on the Iloor. To my great disanpointr J incut, an examination proved these . t to consist of several neatly tied bun. j dies of manuscript and a manuscript [ j book, discolored by age and of mouldy , ! odor. While I was engaged in cx, ; auditing these papers with closer ati lenthm than tliev nonpareil to h'* t ! worth, old Jolm entered my room to I j inform me that my aunt was waiting ; in the drawing-room for nte to show 1 her orer tlu- house. Carelessly throw. ing the bo\ and It? contents into a ! drawer, I followed the s'ervant down* : stairs. i t j CHAPTER V. holdlxhiust nall. As soon ?s l reached the corridor which led from my room to the stair* ens? I perceived my aunt waiting for iuc on one of the spacious landings " which niariv each digit1 really a room ' ami partly furnished a-- such, being set out with settees and the walls adorned ? with paintings, armor and ancient 1 v, capons. She was dtv-sed for walking and ' ticrhtll* fi.litu* ilr/>?e irhi/.li .li/l | no: roach the groitnd hy two or three i inches. and a large ihiinsborough bat. j As sin* .stood looking out ol the open | window. small gloved hand grasp Jul: her umbrella while she thought; fully tapi*td her hoot with the ferrule, i 1 noted her well. Undoubtedly my 7 nt Gertrude was very beautiful. If features and tig are of classical proportions. height somewhat exceeding 1 1 the average, delicate complexion and i large eyes, capable of tender and va1 | rietl expression. atiile a woman to | Ve so considered, then my opinion ' i migiit no; bo dissented from. I i She was regarding the green mead i ovs which lav at fhe hack of our [ j house- typical Suffolk meadows, intersected by a shallow stream fringed 1 with willows, and dotted here and shore with red oatth and was quite 1 unconscious of being observed. In : one particular only was my Jirst iiu press ion of her changed. 1 had thought - she was about tliirly. but it now - seemed impossible that she coulu be so old. } My aunt was too observant of the . peaceful English scene before her to . notice my approach, and I had to call - | tier a\*T.iion to my presence by wish ; iu.ir her a good morning. - j "I am quite impatient to explore ! your wonderful old house." she said, ' | after we had exehanged the usual forr : inal greetings, "but pray don't allow . tne to interfere with your ordinary > | daily engagements. Your uncle and I ? j don't return to Loudon till Monday, so ' there remain two more days for me at ! Iloldenhurst. Another time will suit . me nearly as well, if you are busy ; now." r j "I am never busy," I replied, "and I rarely make engagements. I have \ very few friends, and no enemies?s? far as I know. Nearly all my time since I left school has been passed at Iloldenhurst ? walking and riding about the place and reading and playing to father." "What is it that you play''" "The pianoforte. I am very fond of music, and so is my father." "You must play for ine this evening. I am a poor pianist, but some x>eople think I can sing." said aunt Gertrude. I replied that I should be delighted to do so. While this conversation was in progress we had walked as far as the entrance hall, which I thought was the host place wherein to essay my skiil as showman. This hall was a largo square apartment with floor, walls and ceiling of (lark oak. Opposite the great door, and distant from it about twenty feet, was an enormous lireplace with a chimney piece of white marble fantastically carved, surmounted by a portrait in oils of a red-faced middle-aged man clad in a leather jerkin, with collar of preposterous width, and a flop hat of such "liberal proportions that an Italian peasant might have envied it. supposed to represent the founder of my family. He looked little enough like a man who would ingratiate himself with his king or anybody else, but as I subsequently heard my uncle* remark, it is probable that Henry VIII. was a better judge of women than men. On the right and left of the tireplace were wide staircases which led up to corridors. The walls were nearly covered with pictures, chiefly family portraits, relieved here and there by weapons and dears' antlers hung in various devices. Doors led out ot the hall Into the dining room, library and two parlors or reception rooms, and from these doors to the great entrance door wore laid narrow strips of carpet ?a highly necessary precaution, for. as some people have painfully learned, a frozen lake Is not more slippery than a polished oak floor. Iudeed. I well remember when I was a young boy the amusement I derived from peeping over the banisters of the staircase to see ray father receive his guest, the newly appointed Bishop of Norwich. The Bishop was a fat man, intolerably ceremonious, and with an ever-present consciousness of his newly acquired dignity, but he was unacquainted with *1? !* ? a?1. *1^^..-. ilit* qu;uuit*> <u puiu>ui'u uuit iiuum. Scarcely had this divine crossed our threshold ere he lay on his back, brandishing his leas rhythmically in the air. until restored to perpendicularity by the united efforts 01' my father and old John. My aunt was greatly interested in the pictures, and asked more questions about them than I was able to answer. Nearly half an hour was spent examining the entrance ball, and I had to state plainly that at this rate of progression a day would be inadequate for The accomplishment of our task, and to suggest that we paid less attention to each object of interest. We wnnilwinl !ntf? 1lir? lihrnrv enro lessly turned over the old parchments which still lay on the table, and looked at the oaligraohy and seals; examined tile covers of many books and the title 1 pages of a few?treasures, all of them, such as would excite the admiration of the most phlegmatic of bibliographers and move not a few of the tribe to larceny, including a perfect lirst copy o? Grafton's Chronicle, copies of -'.hakespoare's plays printed when their author was yet writing and acting in Ix>ndon. early copies of Spens'er and of most of the Elizabethan dramatists, as well as many old Bibles, products of the early printing presses of continental Europe. These books, worth, as I afterward learned, nearly as much money as the entire Holdenhurst estate, did not interest my aunt as much as I had expected, and wo quitted the library and went Into the drawing room. "What a beautiful face and how cleverly painted!" exclaimed my aunt, pausing in front of a portrait by Watts which had the place of honor in our drawing room. "I was studying it jusc before you came down stairs. Of course it is your mother. You are very like her, Ernest." The iaib-ious inference from my aunt's sentence, and her use of my baptismal name lor the first time disconcerted me greatly. On many occasions had I suff?Ted from a natural pronencss to blushing, but surely my self-consciousness had never beeu so acute as at this moment. The blood mounted quickly to my face. I could feel its warmth and realize the absurdity of my aspect, but was unable to think clearly, and not knowing what to say, remained silent. My aunt noticed my confusion and further remarked? "Why, I declare, you resemble her mo:-e than ever!" I think my aunt must have repented having caused me so much confusion, for she suddenly turned the conversation. and inquired If any of my moth er's relations were living. I confessed my inability lo answer this question positively. "My grand.father was a very unfortunate man." I said. "He had a large family, but lost his wife and all his children except out? before lie was lifty. Disliking the home where he had suffered so much about five years ago he determined to set lie in New Zealand, and we have had the farm he used to occupy still waiting for a tenant. He wrote to niy father to inform us of his safe arrival there, but he lias never written since, and uiy father's letters to him have been returned by the postofflce' as undeliverable." "And what about his remaining child'.'" To be continued. "I am glad." said Willie's nnar.ia proudly, "to hear that my little boy "hose to apologize rather than to tight." "Sure," replied Willie. "The other fellow was a good deal bigger than me."_ , ' W v ; " i COLLEGE NOTES. A college of dotresiie seicn!s to be established at University of Chicago. 1'hivid Sears, of Boston, a graduate of the c!.;ss of IS IT. lias give;: S-oO.OOO to Harvard University. After this year there will he no appointment of valedictorian and salntatorian at Yale University. Mrs. Margaret T<. IVissner. Tt-gisjrar of Union died recently ai her home in Schenvcindy, X. Y.. of pneumonia. The Xfi*-ii?tr:5*i Federation of Women's Clubs lias givfn tin University of Michigan $J?{) for a scholarship for women. The Northwestern University is to establish an American Insiituie of Hermanns as a part of its College of Liberal Arts. An epidemic of measles recently broke out in the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Wis., over loo students being altlicied. Tim Women's Gymnasium and Field Association of Oberlin Ctdlege lias been established and has raised $1200 for an athletic liehl. O.Heiai annoiuieemenf has been made flint sixty-six Princeton students have been dropped from the university for deficiency in studies. The legacy of $20,000 left, to Yv'csleyan University by Mrs. Stephen Wilcox has just been transferred to the college by the executors of the estate. At a meeting of the trustees of thf Catholic University a decision was reached to add a department of pedagogy and a bureau of statistics ,iu Catholic education. The Governor and Council of the fltate of North Carolina authorized President Mclver. of the State Normal and Industrial College, at Greensboro, to borrow $80,000 on the State's credit for rebuilding the burned dormitory. The Minneapolis Times remarks: "Somebody made a curious statement the other day with regard to the reform of raiddl2-aged cririiin-als. Ho said that the reason for these reforms I was not upon any moral grounds, but j merely because the men had come j to seo by that time that literally the way of the transgressor is hard, and briefly that crime does not pay. There j 13 probably a good deal in this remark. No lesson is so powerful as j the lesson of inevitable results. The harvest is not worth the outlay, and often when a criminal finds this out he reforms." i THE ML/ I Creat New Offc ! United States lj to May i Contest Opened Ja i 01 p For tho exact, or tho nearest to 3 of Cotton received at all Unit 1st, 19C4, both inclusive ? For tho next nearest estimate-... ?] For the nor.t noarost estimate.... K ror tho 5 noxt nearos: estimate, 'ji F?r the 10 next nearest estimate 3 For tho 20 next nearest estimate If For tho 50 next nearest estimate W For tho 100 next nearest estimate I * ? Additional Offers for Besl > Made During Different | of the Contest, sj For convenience the time of the coi test is divided into estimates receive by The Constitution during four p riodo?the first period covering froi .tne beginning of contest to Februai 10, 1901; second period, from Febr ary 10 to March 1, 1904; third perio March 1 to 20; fourth period. Marc 20 to April 20. 1904. We will giv the best estimate received durin each period (in addition to whatevt other prize it may take, or if it tak no prize at all), the sum of $125.00. SThe four prizes thus offered a 5125.OO each amount to I Conditions of Sending Subject to the usual condi 1s now on. Attention is called to 1. Send $1.00 for The Week 2. Send 50 cents for The 3. Send $1.25 for The We TIMATKS in the contest?that is, 4. Send 50 cents for ONE SCRIPTIO.*. Such a remittance make a number of estimates on warded at the same time ostimai without subscriptions, the sender fered for only ten estimates in one CHIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPT PER ITSELF IS AN ACKNOWL CAREFULLY RECORDED. 5. The money and the subs The estimate, the money and the i Secretary Hester's F 1 cotton season'. jj 1 1897-98 1893-99 ' I809-OO $ (900-01 f 1901-02 1902-03 The figures above or? certified bv S< Bfuruish t?ic oiliciul figures to decide tl f9 I Address AIS Orders to ' iiniBiiB1 ^iiiiihiii ihiim > t i If ? THE x BameriJ | I THE NECESSA I IN THE PHESIE S The Review of R m necessity, in recognition c 9 readers "up with the time H In Presidential elec 9 OF REVIEWS is more magazine." Everybodyw I informed about this or ths fi forged to the front; to kr dates and personal factors plete picture at hand of 1 fl history. 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BHBBBHBBBBBBBBB STA WTi ir Upon Receipts < Ports From Septer 1st, 1904, Both Inc n. 18th, 1904; Closes VISION OF PRIZES the exact, estimate of the total nu: ed States ports from September 1st, $20.OO each >8, 12.50 each >st IO.OO each v )s, 5.00 oach ' 98, 3.00 each ! Estimates J TWO GRAND ! Periods ! First?For (list 1 f those estimates (n a- 1 the above 1S8 prize >d 500 bales either w figures ni Second?For di3 d j those estimates (n h ! the above 188 priz e | ing the first consol R lng within 1,000 1 g of the exact figure ???? Crond Toti it In case of a t 500.OO money will be eq? ; Estimates in This Poi tions. as stated regularly in The Consti the following summary of conditions: ly Constitution one year and "A ith it Of Sunny South one year and w .h it 01 ekly Constitution and Sunny South botl one estimate for The Constitution an ESTIMATE alone In the contest IF YC merely pays for the privilege of sendinj Koolo mat- QonH THRER ESTI lino uaoio, j uu uiuj ? ? os are sent. If as many as ten esrirnat< may forward them with only ?3.00?thi order. A postal card receipt will be ?e IONS. Where subscriptions are ordered EDGMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE R cription and the estimate must come in subscription go together. THIS RULE Ii inures Covering: the Per TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS. itn Nt September to 1st Mar (InoliiHivel .pi following year. The period covered by tine mtcbt. . * ' 8,333,862 7.993,451 a ox o i ox W,W?0| 6,346,312 7.218,179 7.378 027 ecretary Henry G. Hester, of the New O his contest. ^ THE ATLANTA CONSTBT I" ? 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This bridge is being erected by the King Bridge Co., which has a force of hands employed at Clifton unloading this bridge. When erected this will be one of the finest bridges in Spartanburg county and will cost $4.000. Its span will be little less than 200 feet, and 16 feet in width. TUTIoSf if Cotton at All nber 1st, 1903, I kliuivp 9 . April 20th, 1904.1 iiber of Bates , 1903, to May $ 2.500.00 1,000.00 i 600.00125.OO - 125.OO C 200.00 250.00 ' 3QO.OO $ 5,000.00 CONSOLATION OFFERS. riliution among ot taking any of s) coming within ray of the exact $ 1,000.00 tribution among ot taking any of es and not sharatiou offer) comjal33 either way 8 1,000 00 at 87,600.00 ie on any prize estimate the jally divided. ^ rt Receipts Contest. union each week, the contest JF ESTIMATE in the ronteat. <E ESTIMATE in the contest, ti one year, and send TWO ESd another for The Sunny South. >U DO NOT WANT A SUB; the estimate. If you wish to MATES FOR EVERY |1.00 for?s are received at the same time 16 splendid discount being ornt for ALL ESTIMATES RE. THE ARRIVAL OF THE PA[AS BEEN RECEIVED AND IS the same envelope every time. 3 POSITIVE. iod of the Contest. BALES IN COTTON CROP. nia is merely for your information and ia J >t the subject of this present contest. It i. ven only a. an additional aid to an intelli'lit estimates. ? 11,199,994 11,274,840 10,383,422 9,436,416 10,680,680 10,727,569 rleaus Cotton Exchange, who will < i