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We would be glad to help you on the way rejoicing, bj supplying you with a choice Family Bibie may style and price: tv.eoty-two dollars', down to a complete, substantial, and beau? tiful Bible for only three dollars and fif;y cents. My address, Mavesviiie, S. C. Yours faithfuilv, HARVEY W. BAKER. Dec 21 o FORGET i ' -' ' .*- --i7' : - i-:-? Like- tbe breath of the rose?, sT?rhi?g g?2 TV sin ruber against yourjcheefcr-'' Like a heart pulse, softly dying By passion rendered weale Like a whisper faintly heard,;' The recoil of a tiny,word- ; ?? Into the distance tiyinsr Dearest, I hear you speak : Forget nie not-forget me not ! ? - 'Tis pleas?nt pain to part When love i$ not forgot ; ForgK me not-forget me not ! Your words are in my heart : Forget me ti pt Kot like an orsran, peatfog Down the cathedral sis?e, To the black robed figure, kneeling, With the more than earthly smile But an echo that no man knows, . . That lingers? aod tbrillsj. and goes Into" the distance stealing I hear you all the while : i Forget me not-rforget me bot ? 'Tis pleasant pain to part . When love is not forgot ; Forget rn? not-forget rae not ! - Your words are in, my heart: Forget nie cot! : Like a hymn of gjadncss;- showing The strength'of the holy spell Like the tearful jov outflowing At the chime of the vesper bell-. Like a prophecy, told anew, Butever and ever true Into the distance going 1 hear your sweet farewell : Forget me not-forget me not ? 'Tis pleasant pain to part When love is not forgot ; "Forget mernot-forget me not I' Yon-- words are in my heart : Forget me not ! i ' . Tl S \ -"T-~ ? ? BY-CHARLES Jr BEL LAM V ? Copyrighted by the Author, .-md published by arrangeaient wid t bim. ? ?COXTIXCED.I * : : CHAPTER XIL ' A NEW GALATEA. Bertha rose from her chair slowly, like ono in. a dream, and looked long and earnestly at Philip as he ?tarso toward her. Thero was p. red spot on.cirhercheeky^Bd^er%yes c-e?med" |H???rhatcraHy-.large" and bright. A&firstf hc.iaaciod it was out of joy at seeing him. -Tuon she smiled as if she*:hadiK>t tIfcugfc?o?? i?/before,-but with ? s?xah^e^g?ntlekcss -that-11 was intensely pathetic. "You dont como as often as you used, but you have always been very good and kind to ide, Philip," she said vaguely, as if rehears? -dug the virtues pf the departed. His heart came7into his- throat, and he could cot speak. "VRas thisher coming-back to bim? It was more like a funeraL She motioned him to sit near her, and then start? ed and seemed to listen. "Have I been very cold and hard with yon. Philip, when you wanted me to love your She laid her bot fingers on his hand, but her eyes wandered lmgeringly around the parlor walis. "It is nothing; my own sweetheart," -he an? swered Lor anxiously; "only say you love me now." . ; She did not seem to hear . him. "I must have made you suffer. I did not understand you know, what it ail meant." She had taken bis hand, and bent over toward hint with a troubled look on ber face Sae rested one hand on bis shoulder, and ber hps almost touched his forehead. "Do you forgive mcT she said softly, ana yet ber voice was as dispassionate as au angers whisper. "Why, there is nothing to forgive," Philip answered, his words of love frozen on his lip*, there w-as something so tembl? in tho mysterious mood that was urxm ber. '"But do you remember," he added with a forced smile, "what you promised for to-morrow P "Tomorrow P she drew back from him fearfully; "to-morrow," she repeated as h the word had some mystery in it. "Have I promised you anything for to-morrow r It was not Bertha Edmgsworth at all. as be had known ber-it was rather as be had dreamed she might be. In the common? est of women are elements of character, germs of emotions, that in their height and ?fused, together can glorify her to a. creature of resistless power and dignity, with holy uro shining in ber face. It is the sleeping god? dess men worship in women, for worship is the truest form of love, and when^tbat wor? ship is lost the part of love for which a man would make a hero of himself aud rise above every groveling tai l-l in his nature is lost, too. A woman may sin and not repent: she maj* seem as shallow as the surf on the shin? ing sand just before its ebb. but so long as a man believes in the goddess in her be waits on her folly, be strives to gild over ber sin in ennobling reverence for her possibilities. "Why, to-morrow was the day you prom? ised to let me talk of "I remember." She drew back from bim and clasped ber while hands for a moment over her forehead: "and have you been thinking e. great deal of it?" "Why ?ot to-night. Bertha?" be begged in sudden fervor. But she started to her feet like ono in mor? tal terror. "Oh no. not to-night!" Then she came n*-ar bim again, end looked down with a new sad smile as be held her hand to his lips. "You don't mind very much, do you.' I am not very much of a woman really." she said wistfully, "if it wasn't for the habit yon have fallen into." Then she glanced at the clock on the mantel. She followed bim to the door. "How sad the moonlight is. I am afraid of it," she said as she held out her hand to him. Then lie heard a broken-voice coming, it seemed a lone way to bis ears. "Ob, Philip, aren't yon going to kiss me good-good night.'" Hisj>ass:ou he had thought crushed came over hun in ? storm. He gathered her yield ing form in his arms as ff ho never^wouid lose ber aga i i, and kissed her trembling, an? swering lips a dozen, times and ber w et, anx? ious eyes. "Bertha, I will not go," he whispered hur? riedly. *? ? cannot leave you so. *' But she had gently released herself from Dis embrace. She tried to smilo at bim through her tears. "2?o, no, you must go." Still he hesitated till a strange eagerness carno into tbe bine eves. "X", no, von mast go. Cioodbv, Phdip." As be went down the ^ps and out of tho gate, the chill of the last expression in lier eyes hung about his heart Then ho stopped and looked about. Sne had closed the door, but something whifco fliitteredon the step! It was her handkerchief, with tao perfume she always used in its delicate f.-dfls. lin r-u ?> ried it to bis face-ic was almost as if be touched ber. He stood hesitating a morai nt j -a moment big with issues to them both. ? ?l? remembered her tender words and tho rare caresses she had had for him; he forgot tho undertone that had so painfully inter? preted them. It was as if he had tasted of some priceless vintage of wino. He would return in an hour and taste again. Ah, ho had waited patiently for the montent when . this woman of stainless marble would turn | io flesh! And now his foolish heart counted j all its hard lessons for no; ! (.:g, but boat high with triumph, "To-morrow." She under? stood bim, then, but bow modest and timid she was. To-morrow would bo for them both the brightest day of their lives. Sbo j was not startled at herself now, no wonder, j it the revelation of tho depths of such a ; heart. She wanted a little time to calm her- ? self ; to get wonted to the new woman that I looked out of ber eyes. 1 He had made up his mind, and the. mocoa went- tinder a black cloud for anger." But it I was. only for an hour; then he would corney j back. ." ! ?larket hall was crowded, and Curran was j speaking at a pitch of impassioned eloquence ; beyond anything Philip had ever heard. "''What overwhelms you is your own ener? gies fused into weapons of deadly warfare; it is their cunning which tums your myriad hands against yourselves. Where else can they find tho force to vanquish you? Th? rich, ere but few. Whose hand? but yours j ? ire strong and numerous enough to carry ! but their plans? The longer you submit tho ? stronger they entrench themselves with your flesh and blood. Every week some new trade Dr profession is invented to rna ko;xcspecta.ble and steady some new discovered method of I living out of thc poor; every month some new law is passed in the interests of the money power." s; Ke paused for a moment and" then went on with more bitterness. "Every month the upper classes grow more indifferent to the foundation on which, ihey rest-of throbbing, agonizing human Cosh. Not satisfied with tho terribie natural distinction between . wealth and. poverty, they invent codes of manners and devise elaborate systems of what they mincingly call etiquette. Car? riage with thc poor is inexcusable. Even familiarity with mferioxs-a great' breach of "propriety" they call it. T'Aey ask not is a man honest and true hearted, is he kind? but is he wealthy or did he ever soil his hands with work-? Not is a woman beautiful, is _ she modest? these are ol-lit?e gecount; but is?* she well-that 'is, richly-connected? If her father cheats others she may be admitted to their circles; if he is unfortunate enough to S be cheated, never. Ah, the shame of-it, that ~ makes no account of hundreds of millions of human creatures of untainted blood, of un? clouded intellects, except as mere beasts of burden; to deny them social privileges, and whip the boldest cf_them back into the dark? ness of ignorance "and contempt.' All the lights of knowledge must burn for the few alone, all the soft influences of culture and the elevating pleasures from art and genius are for the few alone." He folded his arms over his broad chest and threw back Iiis head in one of his grandest movements, s "And how have they earned the right to ?x-all themselves mankind, to" drink-alone at the fountains of knowledge and inspiring beauty, with never a share for the millions sweating under the burdens their white jimds have put upon them? No carpets cr .rpriceless'web are too Cae' for tb??r io\vly womenVfeet, rubies are not rare enough for their jewels. Music beats out its heavenly harmonies for them alone, with its treasured meaning of uncounted centuries. Fainting .lavishes their- eyes alone with the pictured realms of inspired fancy. Literature scrapes and cringes before them, with its stores of wisdom.w" Therine threw out his arms and came for? ward to the edge of the platform, for one last personal appeal. A hundred that could not .understand all he said, thrilled to vague r?vo?t'*under his irresistible " magnetic force. "Your bodies, whose ont,* pleasure is sleep, ,-wkose only gratification is to stiletto daily "-recurring ' necessary munger, your bodies could enjoy every luxury and beauty; ah. and the common Christian comforts would bc sweetest luxuries to you. which have palled on the sated senses of the inch. Your minds and souls could grow fine ar.il broad - and calm in the education their pampered condren scoff at. and the world progress more in a year than in centuries before. An? you are a thousand to one: the joys and comforts, the blessed possibilities of a thou? sand lives a^ainsi/ tho iaserisate ?recd of ow> mar: tor more, and mf com? mendation brought an answer o2 heany good feeling. Ono or two of the women in the galleries actually said he was handsome. **i2y fricnls," be began, but somehow he did not care to lift his eyes to meet the Jiind look in the trustful eyes, "I don't think there is-any occasion, I mean, friends" What did he mean, he knew . >tter than they what occasion there was. Ho?? dare he ask them to wait and hope, for when had a corporation, a heart fer mercy' lie knew better than they, that to-morrow would be the last day when a strike would bo nicely of any ef?eet. The}- might defeat his father's scheme if nothing else, a scheme that would make them servants nb longer of a man, but of a pi tiless business principie. He looked about the room at last; ho read aright the confidence in the eyes of the com? pany. He believed lie might make them wait, but had he a right to ask it? Hero were a thousand souls in the mills, impatie ; at injustice, as they thought; he could oller them no hope, not one straw; his hands would be forever tied af ter to-morrow. Ead he a right to restrain them? "Friends, I know not what to advise you, since I am so weak to help you." He sat down arid a cheer rang loud and hearty to the roof, but he felt himself in an agonizing position. On the great questions at issue be? tween the employers and the workmen; the rich and the poor, his mind was slow in com? ing to a conclusion. He admitted most that even Curran said, while he listened, but ho**' to help it was the question beever asked hiiu self. Surety nobody was profited by flying in the face of great economical laws. BUD them what were laws, and'what were falla? cies? Veli, if he did not know what was right, could bo not follow his father's urgent wishes? Was he making a generous return for tho love his father had lavished on him, if he should disobey bira now? As ho sat there his vivid imagination pictured the cor? poration inoperation. Some lillie injustice was being done, and lie mentions it to the overseer. "Thom's orders; vou must see the suj.^nnteiident'" He could see it all so plainly. He .knocks at the superintendent's door and is re? ceived with the attention due thc chief stockholders iv:n; hoscos his bland, smiling face, his sleek, well 'paid smile. Ho speaks of the rill?; which perhaps works to rob son? particular set o? hands wholly without their fault. ~i>i:i 1 have n<> authority to change it, though it d -s see:n hard; better see the agent." Philip imagines his discouraged step, as Ii*- mal?es his way tv the ugeut tv? Ixr re? ferred to asetof indifferent directors, who "rcaily know nothing about thc matter, but I do not feel like running against tho in? terests of the st....!.: holders." VlTtdle Phi?ip.sat tryingto:grasp his duty of that momo nt. he lx?came conscious th ut it j was verv still and that no ono seemed ?li?, j posed to follow hirh. Not a few i:n:>at'"en': faces Were tamed askance toward hin:, li: rose and crossed-thc..room-.-to go out., but al- j most r& the door he hesitated. He must sa} : "PerhapS-it fenn*-all quita-as plain as yoe. j think. 1 Thy h?-rher wn or shorter h-'-rs j you made the ? ro?t "ii the mills smaller, arv j voa not afraH . r nc':- ; woul ! le*?.ve us ho- j bunk bj : : . I- se;; cheaper, or . ?se'bo j ca;-ie.i invested go elsewhere, where it cnn j m?!:-, more ?-I'??J? : >7?JW you got smalt wa ,. S j Kirdong I:-.-.!-?. bat ;.. tho ollar cases you I might lose wi rk aiiogeihi r." Then he. J NI "iliad, ? don't AI y do t or that; ? will no; ask anything of you. Lut if there is a loss it will be on you." When he left tho hall he felt liko.wnlkihg about a'little while, to calm his mind. Ho chose lue routs that would lead past tho lit:Io j tenement- house where the." had fed him with cold potatoes. It was only a month ago. He ; looked ia through the windows. The sich j woman yet lay on the sofa, the some soiled ? plaid shawl for her coverlet; there was thc ? same baro deal table, and a pair of dingy I chairs before it. The desolation made his . heart sick. Then he looked up at the ?windows . cf the attic chamber where he had slept that .other night, Pc was all dark, but he imagined ;the glaring white walls, with the queer little block of a Jppking glass hanging there, and tho backless wooden chair that had to serve for a washstand, and his low bcd, with the gins shawl for Iiis counterpane. What great fbi rigs he had dreamed, that night, he should do for thc new cause that bad fired his heart, new to bira, but old as civilization. Ile turned away with a pain in his heart, a pain for the wrongs of the millions of the sons of toil who have never come into their inheritance. He turned tip the road that led to Ids own home on the hill; be could see the gleam of bright light from his fathers study, whore with his smooth faced lawyer, he was perfecting his plans for tho morrow. And then ho seemed to bear his own words and bis own tone as he had spoken in the meeting echoing oddly in bis ear. Had he undutifully sacrificed his father to bis help, and would it be from bis fault the strike be feared would come to? morrow? Could his father point bis trem? bling fingers at bim when the mills should stop, and the prospective stockholders de? cline the investment to-morrow and say: "My own son is to blaine. With one word be could have prevented it." Then Philip turned bis back to the lights that seemed to reproach him intolerably, and walked slowly down the hill again. Ah! what fear for capital, it always shifts ita burden upon labor. A woman's form came quickly out of a shadow, and laid a hand on his arm. It was -Ane Graves, with a shawl over ber head, Servant girl fashion, but TC; it the ghastly ^effect of moonlight on her face that made it "'so pale ? "Wasn't you at 3&ss Ellingsworth s this evening ?" "Why, yes," he looked at her in astonish? ment, "and I was just going there again." "I didn't know but she might be with you. I was at my father's, and when I came back. I couldn't find her, and her lint and shawl were goxc." "She has gone out with lier father, per? haps," suggested Philip, startled more by her manner than her words. "But he has been up at 3lr. Breton's ali Ihz evening. And you Imow she never goes out alone." "Sometimes she does." he said, as he went with the gild. "I met ber quite away frons homo one night, but she seemed a good deal frightened." "When was it?' Jane Graves stopped short, and when be had told ber a quick, involun? tary cry escaped her Mps. and after that ])<.* had almost to ran to keep up with bea - Now and then hrt Vied to laugh at the tc? rors this foolish servant jtirl had put into bil mind. Bat could it be Bertha had taken an? other evening walk? Sbo was too beautiful ff>r the exposit res of common iife. Was heaven envious of such happiness as lie had expected in their reconciliation? Why not strike him, then, and nether? Why, it might have l>een she bad tried to overtake him, to call him back. "Hurry faster." be muttered, catch? ing the girl's arm roughly. CT APTER Xni. CLASS PREJUDICE. But the hor.se looked so sedate and alto? gether respectable that yt seemed impossible but that everything was is usual in-ide. Tho doorstcod invitingly cpcn; as it .should on such a balmy summer evening, the light streaming bountifully out on the walle. A catastrophe surely would have left some sign, some mtahmark somewhere to curdle one's blood from afar. How foolish of this black eyed malden and him to rush at the top of their speed in an agony of suspense only io find Bertha sitting at the parlor table riijjd ey; tl sud serene as b* had used io know ber: She . had only sicpi>ed across thc slrect perhaps. How she would wonder to soe him hurr;. ing in Lis unreasonable fear into her pres? ence! But he w<>nld pour into ber ears such a torrent cf words of love that she-wdulcl bk . s him a thousand times that be had come back, and their happiness would date from to-night! Perhap?! she bad tender confi d. aces for him, too, of how wonderfully sho hal grown into th-.: love he bad longed for, and she would whisper to him that the few weeks of estrangement had been a.bdessing of God for lier, and bc nee? 1 never again com? plain of the coldness of her love. Life ir, not so serious and tragical an a.Tair as one sorac tiracs thinks: tilings don't always plunge into the ruin they are pointed toward. By the time Imuips?epped into the door, he had fully discounted his expected relief; indeed, bad almu>i persuaded himself that he had nad no misgivbrgs, there, seemed so ?ttle sense in misgivings. j But he diii not find the blue eyed woman ho loved at lier parlor table. He tocked for a crochet needle or a square of canvas, which might show the marks of recent work; d ut tl je round table was'in perfect order. Thc little book shaped card basket stood near the bronze base of the drop lamp. A large red morocco bound volume, called "The Dresden Gallery," was tilted up a little by a bluo and gold book of Swinburne's poems, on which it had been laid. The gracefully carved book- | rael: was full, al! but one space the volume of ! poems might have fitted into. "Just as 1 arra-?ged it after tea," said Juno j Graves, moving tmeosily about. ? "For heaven's sake be still," ho exclaimed, j He stepped out into the hall. "Why, here is her shawl," be said, w$th a j lightened heart. "It is ber heavy shawl that is r-one,* thc j girl looked peculiarly at him when she added almost under he r breath, "the one she taires on evening drives." Philip shot a glance of sudden intelli? gence at her, and terrible suggestions and j recollections came crowding their hateful meanings upon him. The mad blood seemed congesting about bis heart, and yet his face blazed like fire. "(WI God'" "be shout'".! hoarsely, "if you dare to breathe it I will choke the envious life om, of you." Then he caught the bell knob at the door and rang it fiercely, and then again, Ix'fore irs echoes had ! eva -d, and again .-iud again. "And is there another fire, your honorf" ! Tile ! road faced chambermaid bad come I up from ?i? kitchen and stood with arms j akimbo, trying to make jar rich Irish voice : heard above tue sounding gong. "Db y(?u ?mow where your mistress is?" "Xo-a: if fd.e be not inside, indade." "Didn't sh?* 'fro over tb a neighbors some- I ? i wheiv?' questioned PhilipMeagerly. - "Not thai i knows on.* ir." "Ibis anybody been h?ire? Didn't you tend I di >. T. y- ninny ! " "Tb" b. il didn't ring till now, s'r: but lav? ' ne ?hirdc a bf:.** and tho wommrnmlxd ber bead m-dh* lively. "Quick," cried Philip, between hope and ? U nr. ' j "D 'n't scare ino, sir, OT Ican'tdo m?Uu:d:.."" ile moved bis feet:. rcith^ssJy.on-theil!laid ! ha'." ?loor, and die badbowd Ids la-ad KS if j stat lying-the artist's design; bu?, i? was for ?'ear ha should cae1! so;"jje terrible signin- ! canee in Jane Graves* bkam come un, a :.! I '-bought i heyra u niau cona; lo '.he dareandthin go bhek; bat the bell didn't ri ?ig. sir,: and I didn't make no Count V.;i ?t. N-v-dr. ! bevn'? Kearn raissiis mvunn* round si nso, and I ''.nows she b r ail over the bouse before,-' j The crt ai i ir?-'s tongue vas u:do.-..-d aa'. .:;K3-k?-piOn lalking; bu* " eih:> had I::.:\:. thc br- ?ad stairs and tl ". ?v.-u o; --a I!, j cb-i ? ?>? t:?.' rodea he t-a?light *.* a; Bord ila's. in another moment, t . . iris biaz-yl rp ! . lAie cedingand be Stood. \. lid ey^d. i.> .:.;v>: j froiU Kide to side as if 1 > thought t . J: sd a heart breaking story written all over tho gold papered walls. Th- a his eyes became : fixed <>a the black walnut bureau wita i's ! long mirror cming down t'irougJrthe may i-un down stairs and show your pretty I present" i He turned his strangely bright eyes to the wall at the foot of Bertha's bed. "My picture, too. How the girl's heart must have glowed night and morning over ii." IL-took it down and held it l>efore him a rn- u?en r. "A foolish face," he muttered between his teeth, the vvild merriment-fading cut cf his feature:?. Ile bent and laid the picture gloss upward 0:1 the floor, then he ground it viciously beneath the heel of his boot, und walked uv. ay without deigning to cast an? other look nt it Bertha's pure bed. which' her gre.cefrd form had. presseil so many years-an inscrutable ave or-.-; r- over him: it teemed impious to looa: hf fell 0:1 his knees and buried bis bot fae: - in tie pillow where he fancied her head had rested. "Oh, my lost darling, my lost Bertha, you have taken all thc joy and hope of my life with you." and his slight frame shook with tearless sobs, hice the death throesof a break Then he rose in bitterness of soul to Iiis feet. Was there no way to drown the deep i settled v.'uin about his breast? Were there no j other women in the world? fie had heard times enough there was no salve for a broken heai-t-.;o quick ami sure as auother woman's k::*e;. Ec? almost stumbled over Jane Graves, who lay across tue threshhold in a dead faint. It was hut the work of a moment to bend ever her and Iii trher in his arms. But h ? wonk! :i--l let her lie on Bertha's bed; no, I not to ?ave her life; and he bore her through thc h al to another chamber. It was a slight girlish 1. -rm he held, and need not have been so unpleasant a burden. But ho laid her do.;-: 'a rhe first resting place ho could find, end lifted ker feet with delicate geutlenc-JS on tho bed. Ile removed the high pillows from a:.der her head, so that she could brea', he more easily, and, true gentleman thal h-- wa?, covered her pretty feet anil ankles v. hh some light wrap. vi-Vil WrtS V ? N N\> -OS?. _J Ile ahnost stumbled over Jone Graves. 1 A green li: ?td cologne boigie stood nearly and lie bethought himself to dash the cool contents hito her face, anti felt quite a doc? tors sur.-rise to ree any good r-wjlt f.-fiowhis j min?strate:;-:. Thc??ir:::;iiod blood >toIe;sIow- 1 Iv back iuio !:er oUve chi<:l:< ile heat over ? bor au 1 ?il"tel her shapely lit?lo hands, a? da int va*; a in*:ncvssV-a:?i* t?.? ?rratigo the .1 ia ?? graeeCul r;csiti<>u. How j-.rot ty ciVo v.-- -.- ::' '.. :. l'os were a little fad thai; was I . . ' - . i a vcrr ; ardomddetrimt A UK: mad thought warmed hishody; j whv wait till she opened her eyes, this r h {rm':-" lillie girl, and then swear to her that he l"v-. -.' !;< r? What was love t'aen that j such a prettv face and fenn as this r ?.oa?d j notl::iVeit? S?ie was no cold woman; her ? k!:v; s mai endearments^-bur. his eyes hid j grown e..) . and laird while he lepke? 1 ot her. ! If r'.jewere a Cleopatra she couid Iv?nothing j ^ h'm.d er kiases woiiluoidy stille bim whh j her ] r i:er i-;.':- -!:rr s-.;i i?r:e- :d>e!:i his J ] ', ^ ,;.;-<,w vd.:, i i' was to I-??.a*; ?nd no-pretty I j.'. : 1 ;-'c.: matter'how ?as voluptuous artifices ; ]'.'.; j rake hi- h?t h.oo.1 sarge thr?va h Ids ! v ht;, couii: std for one : .-ea- et the ieirn-T- j ..j ; it <>:iiy inoekeli ."die moved'a ? little :. . he ?a?; aa?! be started and went -vat > Thc V-irlU eves caeucd sh m ly ea the rich j s:,:h;-e-; "a s and tin- rare freshing cf t V ,- she vagu?.lywonders 1 for one d-> ? i'."e ;.i i:e avo?ko :??c rich gen? tle- i-a's i.'e a..d her old line cf pjvorty n :s . .h.? - Vv'hv. sh" vv*ai? in?':-, lilli:: :? -r 'ear was wet,"andthe.-rutiles ?v; her -.--e .lamp-d w^s col i gte. Thru .? ; ;>. 1 v' erV hing, and ros-? from tv ' : <-u-k si?" hud tri . iii y preivL . .-.g the??;:.;:;?? of h-.- form f,Ti tl ..? a.I..:?;'>..-:. .* mid th?*:? mr- le her v :y . : The -v.use v.--t< s > slii: lt fri ;h'- 1 /.-Vi' -vasas :f ev. ryl^ly ia la- v."..rid ? 1 while she lay tu her Te;id,. ilre rui'I ! empty, too, f?hd : he ou??n* thva- ; : l:;e o;-v.??d the pavh-r.h'..;.;:..:. felt as i .:. fiad Z?rich''uv ?:-i> ease the te.??Jou nerves; lui Erd??gsworth sat with ir.; h uid bowed on hi> hua.--;; be knew it ali: hi.; lioaie w;is desolate :; Uiy-.pridc^' oatrr.ge?.l. A: the tiO? be uncovered his ^ for a memeai rad locikctl wi*, and^th? cruel light frdhug on bas dir.tresscd tie-; revealed tir- m tr?ts of agc bis traa -a:: e..a:-.:.M,i li:e ord selfish ord eora pi a-f-at J.hdo-s??r.'.v bod so long softened ord coverc'h Ile suv." the gi-aceful figure of las ( ia;dd in a ri etty attitude ot hesitation on b..-; nook v remen ie ! "i a A; ' . J>. si::' '* * ; S' " '! !' do". ?I : CT!- 1 }.-. 1 e. l.?h>W Si 10 . ii' -he of h- r pleasure. UL- WU* aloue in the world but fur ber; deserted iii his o".vn bom? only for ber. "Come here, Jennie." he said in a broken j voice. j . She cam?; into the room, and a few steps j toward bim. Then she stopped. lier face was almost ar. pale us when she fainted, but her black eyes shone with unusual feverish brilliancy. "Give me your band, dear." The girl started, and half turned as if to ?cape. Then strange thoughts darted through ber brain. A warm, red Hush mounted from lier neck, and spread itself ia tingling waves of shame to the very roots of her b|ack hair. Sbo came up to him, and reached out her little hand. He pressed it gently, then ho laid it against bis cheek. Her heart bounded in sudden revolt, but she con? trolled herself with an effort of sheer will, and did not move, but her startled eyes sought the floor. And so thia was her pi-oud master. But what harm if he wanted to be foolish and sentimental? it was no matter to anybody now, no one cared for her unkissed lips. "Jeacis," he said at last, "come nearer to me." And she kneeled by his chair, in a sudden impulse she dared not define, not yet. She put her other hand in his, and lifted ber dark, wet eyes to his face. Then he bent down to thc upturned face, that never flinched, and in another instant he held in his arms ber form that seemed to shrink only that he must clasp her the closer. "Will you be my wife, Jennie? I never loved a woman as I do you. Will you be my wife. Jennie;-" "Yes," whispered the red Ups that never Once turned away from his thick raining kisses. In Bertha I-Hlings worth's own parlor it was, with ber mothers face looking down from the painted canvas, in the room where the daughter of the house had so coldly ea- j tertained the heir of the Breton mills. Ahl yes, and where she had taught Curran, tho ; prophet of the poor,' to leve her, and sbo the very essence of tho spirit be taught them to hate. But bow her proud face would wince now! If she were only here! Hor father, the haughtiest of men, to everybody in the great world beneath him cold as an iceborg, they said, arrogant as any duke of courtly circle, could it be be praying, with hot breath, the iove and tho hand of his servant maid: Could it be be holding her so fondly in lu's arms, where he might have gathered co}- dames of the stateliest rank, lavishing honeyed words and mad endearments on Ina poor servant girl, whose only nice dress it was be was crushing so recklessly' Ah: it was worth the cost, if she had to tear her heart out, for all that wealth omi buy will be hers. She nestles her horning face on his shoul? der a*ad tempts him to new caresses and new words of folly, that be may not remember yet what a strange thing it is that he is doing; that he not think of repenting until his enthralled senses shall mako him forget everything else rather than this sw?et hour. Her wildest dreams are realized. She will be one of the rich and the great whom the rest of the world bow down to. She will mako ber husband's-yes, this man to be hor hus? band, why should she be ashamed with him she will make his friends all envy him bis beautiful wife; and as for their faded, fash? ionable women, with Ump backs and blood? less veins, how it will please her to study tho signs of jealousy on their listless faces. And Bertha Ellingsworth's proud, false heart will ache wich shame over the low born woman whom her father has mado his wife. "Has the train gone for the west;" asked a breathless voice at thc Lockout station. "It's thirty minutes behind its time,"1 growled the ticket agent. It wa? Philip Breton, who went back to the post to tie his horse more securely. "Poor Joe, poor cid boy," the big white horse scorned more like to fall dead in bis tracks than to try to break away. "A pretty hard gallop, wasn't it, Joe, your breath will come easier in a minute, o?d horse." His time was precious, but ho lingered in an uncontrollable- terror cf what bo bad come so far to seo. Ho bad thought he wanted to make sure. There might bo some mistake in the note, or oven uow, if she bad changed her mind-but it was all foiiy, he saw ii now. He hail forgotten all reason in one wild long? ing to see Bertha again. But what was the uso of harrowing up his soul with new pic? tures ho would pray God in vam to wipe out of his memory? But be bad come so far, perhaps it would do no harm to look at her once more. He had turned and was walking along the platform; toward tho ladies' waiting room. He glanced up the long stretch, cf straight trttck and saw ia thc distance the bead light of the engine, which seemed to bim a pitiless monster; hastening on to soize bis darling and bear ber to some koi?e!ess -region of eternal night. Ho must hurry. Who knows i it nd gat be fate bad kept her rescue till this moment, and meant him to save ber. Ile pushed the waiting room door open. The seats appeared all vacant and expectant ; a big russet apple had been dropped on one of them by some interrupted traveler, and in another placo thc carpet upholstery was specked with thc white litter of a cracker and cheese luncheon. The whole atmosphere was too commonplace for a pair of runaway lovers. Philip took two or three steps into thc room, but it was only as he turned to go baric that be saw the settees wer?; not cpuitc deserted. lt was a group for a painter'-; loftiest genius, but tue artist must have a faith in love, which the world bas learned to scoff. The figure bf thc man may embody strength and dignity m unconscious perfection; it i? bent now in c. beautiful protective attitude toward the woman whose bead rests on bis shoulder. Her lips aro parted to reveal tho pearly gleam of her white teeth, but she does not smile. She has golden hr ir like a [ crown setting well down on the broad fore- j hen-d. audi there is the tint of red gold in her j cheeks like a perpetual glow of sunset. Bu" j : /, rv- rr-1-T?->=~3 Hi f/syt't SI Iv/,-M-fll /o' ?: r;- \ Zy&Zi ll teas a ijrov.p for a painter's loftiest genius. What palrder eau catch tao holy tondoraasj in tho ey. ? ; ?mt drink ut ber unsullied ! -e mly, the bivattdess w-nsder, tho rapt my sb-rv in his softened meo: V. I at inspired 1 radi ran picture * ho ?priver of the long, golden lashes aga'ms: '.-r cheek, and then ! be dreamy stir m.. bf the eye* ii te that now open wide, s-? bis imp-issnmed gaze may thriii tho bijuid depths i?f ? lue. Let the artist the: i for? ever fi Le can-the s: rile that ripples afc'as? ever r biseinatrd fae?-, a smile of (rust too i*rf:-.t-r--r shame. V. -...-as thats.rand so diite a human.soli that M ;: !'.>.'. the I'Vors 'rem each ethers Wh .?ard the wind, moan i.ke i bat ' .> an ? hbarp it w.? ''. But ii rv.iJ . . v iud, : '/tiny ?verequirealono. fTO T\-r rWTIVT? 1 William Ii. Orr.}', of;Chicago", who h:i< been in lilidimond. Ya. . several :i::ys closing rbe negotiations for thc purchase of Libby prison for the purpose of removing it to Chicago, ha? turad over to f bc real estate a pe nt having thc property in hand ?0.825. bein*: the amount of the first payment er ono-four'h of thc total puchare mopey The deed of transfer was to be signed Monday. O?v State Contemporaries. Fairfield Herold. We publish iu this issue a call by a ! committee for subscriptions to build a monument to 'Fighting Dick' Andersen. General Anderson was undoubtedly ono of the bravest men in the Confederate army, and we feel sure that all those men in Fairfield who served under him ! v. ill respond liberally to the call. Carolina Spartan. As the*National Convention meets the 5th of June, delegates will have to be elected in May-; That will necessitate our State Convention being called not later than the 25th of May. The question that should now bc discussed is this. Shall we have two State Convenions.' or shall we make the nominations for the State ticket at the May Convention? Oar first thought is that it will bo better to nominate Slate candidates later in the year. The peoplo will have more time to discuss the merits of the dif? ferent candidates. About the la3t of August will be time enough to brin? oat the State ticket. Talk About Politics. Netcs aud Courier. Thus far there bas been no mention of any candidates for the State offices. It is generally understood that Solici? tor David R. Duncan will run against Congressman Perry. Capt. Geo. E Prince, of Anderson, Capt. W. C. McGowan, of Abbeville, Col. R. A. Child, of Pickens aud the Hon. M. F. Ansel, of Greenville, are candidates for solicitor, to succeed Col. Janies L. Orr. As solicitor Duncan will cot bc a candidate for re-election, candidates for that office are appearing in all coanties of his circuit. Col li. C. Watts and N. J. Holmes, of Laurens, Col H. L. Farley, of Spartanburg, David Johnsou Jr., of Union, and G. S. Mower, of Newberry, are spoken of as persons ID the path of the lightuing. There are faint rumors of opposition to Congressman Dargan from Solicitor ?T H. Newton, of Marlboro and Col. Presslcy Barron, of Clarendon. The present indications are that Con? gressmen Cothraa, Dibble, Hem phill and Elliot will have no opposition in seeking renominations. Congrebsman Tillman will have a hard fight to get back to Washington. It is said that the Hon. D S. Hender? son, of Aiken, is anxious to meet him in a primary election contest. Rumor bas it that Gen. J. W. Moore, of Hampton, and Gen. J. F. izlar will be judges before many years. Candidates for county offices are ap? pearing in nearly all of the counties. Be Up and Z3oicg. Camden Journal. During the campaign in 18SC the ! farmers movement gained considerable headway in our State, aud a good many Representatives to the Legislature were elected upon the promises then made by them as workers for reform and for the farmers1 interest. But, alas ! the same old story is repeated. As soon as those representatives were elected the rncot of them forgot all their promises and went over to the side of the politicians, leaving their fanner constituents to take care of themselves as best they could. Such extravagance as was practiced by our last Legislature was net er before known uuder the rule of the Democracy, and even the radical regime itself would have paused at before passing. Will the farmers of the State again support such men for office? They should not; and if they wiil stop and think for a moment they will not. When a man has betrayed the trust reposed in him he deserves no more consideration at the hands cf his friends. Reform in the machinery of oar State government is necessary, and it can bc accomplished with ease if the right kind cf men arc put in office. The time is at hand a^ain for us to send in new men, aud as a matter of self-protection it is our duty to make every candidate show 'his hand' plainly on all thc im? portant issues before the election comes off in erder that we may know what to expect from him if be is elected. Any ouc who is too independent to auswer the questions should be regarded as an enemv and left at home. I is a rieht thc people have, and they should de? mand to know the views of every can? didate before his name is considered by them." \ Thc politicians will make a desperate effort to capture the State government, and if they succeed no one is to blame but the farmers and laboring classes High taxes will prevail as long as thc . politicians are in power, and no >uch j word as reform wiil be known to fh em-j To intelligent men this is sufficient; warning. Think it over. Don't Give up the Ship. President X?rris's Appia! to the Farm- j ors of iii' ?State. -- i To the Farmers of South Carolina : \ believe that the lively intens-: man- j ifeMvd by you for the past two years in the press, m public meetings, in the by? ways, at home or abroad, and in throe" ^tatc conventions licid in Columbia, a: teuded with loss of tillie and a consider? able expendirure of means, which many ; could iii afford, meant something more j than a capriciousness of purpose. The first of these conventions coasiu- j crod many things. The second, more clearly perecm?^ ; our n?cessit?s narrowed ifs delibera- 1 ti obs materiaiiv. specially rec ?rnmend- ? log a separate agricultural eoitege, the ' establishment of an expertweataj .station f in connection with rho said college, that | the beard of agncuituro should be di? vorced, as far as possible fre?r, pohttcs and its members ehesen hythe Farmer's ; Asocial tun., and that the law orgamz- , ina* the board sdlocid be so amended as ; . . .ri-. ! to lcicrc?se ?ts mem ne rs o'om Jive .c ten, with the power of eiec'iijg its own sec- , ndarv. Tho last convention, held after ! the lapse of twenty mouths from the ; first, ?nd after the recommendations ? emanating from the second had been I earnestly discussed both publicly and privately, unanimously closed its ses? sion by affirming the above recommen? dations, although before the vote we* ordered, an earnest empli?cafion had been made them of thc plan af:c*~ards followed by the Legislature. ; It is for you to say whether or no your wishes have been met. instead cf one strong, well-equipped experimental stat? iion, in connection with the agricultural coilege, we have three weak enes, afc which a large per cent of their income will be annually expended -in 'dopiieat-' ed* officers, instead of a rea! *>?r?cal tural college, separate and apart fran* the influences of the South Carolina Co: ?ege. where it was hoped . boys would not only be educated and trained in'the mysteries of successful agriculture and made acquainted with the powerful le? vers of progressive farming, out where the allurements and inspirations of farm life would be constantly instilled into their minds and from which we might hope to have a fair percentage cf theta return to the. avocation* of their fathers, we have an enlargement of the annex only. Instead of a board of agriculture reorganized on the plan outlined by your convention, tuc legislature bas enlarged the present board, denying ir. the power to elect its own secretary, thus fatally crippling its eScacy. Without claiming that ail wisdom ra . with the farmers, it appears to nie, as I* feel it must :o you, that in these mat? ters affecting as and cur interests first and foremost, cur judgment and wishes should have been concurred io, not ia the grudging and half-way manner ia which we have been recognized, bat ? cheerfully and beartiiy. The more sa when the enactment of these measures into laws would have entailed little or no additional tas, as their maintenance would have chicCy come from money now appropriated by I?w for similar but unsatisfactory use. Congress b3S given to the farmers of South Carolina, ia common with those of other States, $15,000, and has secured to us besides, ?11,500, both sums to be paid annu? ally. Besides this tbc farmers of the State are paying about ?25,000, a year's inspection fees on fertilizers, to furnish a fund to be used ia their inter? est and for their protection. Who gainsays their right to say bow this $51,600 should be expended or who so bold as to deny that it would not be expended as it should be ? It ts largely through your labor that the State has collected its taxes during the five years immediately following our re? demption from Radical rule, not count? ing the above annual tax on fertilizers, nor the constantly increasing income from phosphate royalties, the poll tax, the ordinary and special county taxes, nor the constitutional two mili school tax, from which sources many millions have been extorted from as since 1876. I repeat, in those years the State has collected for its ordinary purposes the enormous sum of ?2.$57.000, and ia the past five years, (1S87 nor made up) the increasing sum of ?$,626,500. These vast sams have been freely givea Lo every variety of purpose, from ice tickets to canal digging, from soap and towels and matches to gilding the State House, and from extra clerical services to ?136,000 in salaries. And yet we are told that the State is too poor to give the meagre sum of $50 000 to commence to build up this insti? tution apon which the farmers were be gicniog to look as to their Mecca. The advocates of the scheo:e, adopted by the last Legislature, made no issue with the justness of the demands made by your convention, as witness rhe laws eularg ing the board of agriculture and the an? nex, and the establishment of experi? mental stations They diverted the breeze you have stirred to the sailing of their beat. You are ca'led upon to say if the Legislature, which has just ex? pired, voiced the sentiment of the ma? jority of the people of the State on these questions. These measures were not before tue people when ix was elected, and as a consequence ii was voted fer without reference to th* ra Will you, once disregarding the taunt that farmers will uot stick together, ut:i:e in your strength, num?rica dy, fiducially and politically, and secure to yourselves that measure of the Skate's fostering care which your importance deserves ? If yea decide to rip ht yourselves and gain that consideration in the councils of the State to 'which you are entitled and which is graciously extended to the farmers in umuy of our sister States, leaders will be found who are the peers of any who may oppose you Consider these matters as settled aud a genera? tion will live and die without seeing rheta changed. ? would not ?mpuga the motives of the friends of the recent legislation on these matters. They are South Cared in mt. s. equally interested with :.ny of a* in the State's prosperity and advancement, but i deny in toto f'e r superior wisdom ia dealing with questions pertaining so nea ny to the farmers" interest, fer I am persuaded mzuv, if no: mes: of the supporters ojf the bills pissed rc! in jr ?o these things are not cf our profession and necessarily do not, and cannot, think and feet as wc do in rederer.ce to them. I would respectfully ask the press of ;he State to give publicity to this ad cross, that it may be considered by ail cf the farmers of thc Scste. D. K Xonnrs, President Farmers' Asso'u of S. C, Hickory Fhd, [Vt; lid. --- - ?ci^ . -C* -> . ^t-^f - -- Weather for ?larel?. The Kev Mr. Hiakr, who according te the Mouthe:m Ca or. is 'lie best authority on the subj rt. ene whose predictions two serer Jailed, Las the foiiowins ?o sav a beat Marcia weather : 'March.' s:.ys Uer. Mr Hicks, 'opens wii'b a February storm about over, ft Unwed by faiiir-g temperature, until the 7:h to ?h. About the 8th a storm rermtf- of marked enerby and violence wtil begin,dusting amii about ?ho 13:h. :huivy snow ail over the "yortii, 'yn:i:;? to destructive sleet. Rato and -vnend tropical storms south? ward Gold dt*ys- will follow. Abouti the I ib h prepare for nex t danger per* io?], lt will las: from tee i9th to the ?Mic or l2?-h. During the vernal equinoctial period. s-rgraTared by the grawin sr Jo chm period, unusual activity may be expected in ai1, meteorological ph en erne nr. harlht}HG tees s ?re ' Twenty-three Republican and six? teen Democrat io Senators voted for lb?? Blair bill, and twelve Republicans acl seventeen Democrats ve-ted a^aiuts it. Party linos were pretty thoroughly bro? ken up. Senator [ja m pron voted for and Sedater Bu??er .-.?ra?cat? it. . ? ' . .,.. . -.- ^rS?^S '- .-?'-- d'- - . - . iv...:. -r- MM