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Flowers for the dead 1 A cross o'er the heart, and a crown o'er the head ; Scatter them lavishly over the lid, Till the roof o'er the sleeper by flowers is hid. Then, speak the warta words that wonld ten? derly-prove, Bow voa valued that sleeper, his work and his love: Many will hear it and some with surprise, For they learn of it first when the cherished one dies,. What if the.sleeper himself never knew That you valued his worth, and with charity true, Had mantled his failings, infirmities, sins, With the love that starts questing where vir? tue begins. What if the sleeper himself cannot know Of your words or your Sowers-they fall as -the snow Shall fall cold oa that sleeper's lone grave. Impotent to warm him, to cheer or to save. Still, garland the bier and bepraise the cold dav : 'Tis the way of the world, let the world have its way : What if none knew that to you be was dear, Atone with jour flowers, a word or a tear. Yon heart, now so still 'neath the white floral cross, Beat the dirge of its needs, till its death-was jour loss ; Every drop of its tides would have surged to your feet, ? Had your flowers thea attracted, your words been as sweet. There are lives now endarkened by loneliest night, That your words might illumine as wavelets of light; Perchance in j-our circle hearts hunger-un? fed, For the words that would nourish, you never have said. Bring flowers to the living 1 Bring flowers to-dfj ! This, this the divinest, "moreexcellent waj Glad songs for the toilers uncheered, let us sing; Love's holiest offerings, in life let ns bring. Democrats m the Republican Camp. It is clear that the deadlock in the Hoase has been brought about of set purpose by the Republican minority. The Republican plan is to empty the Treasury by giving the people's money aw^y-uo matter for what purpose It is evident from frhe action of the Rules Committee that Mr. Randall (protec? tionist,) of Pennsylvania, has joined in this scheme against the Treasury ?t was by the help of his vote in the committee that Mr. Reed and Mr. Can? non, Republicans, were able in an un? precedented maoner. to force the Direct Tax Repayment bill to the front, over? slaughing and settiog aside bilis of the committee important to the public wel? fare. That the intention was what we saj -to empty the treasury^-is confined to the fact that in the only one other case dM Messrs. Reed, Randall and Cannon interfere* with the discretion of a com? mittee a? to 'he order in which it would present it-* bills, and iu that case also the bill Messrs. Reed,. Randall and Cannon forced forrard is to take mil? lions out of the Treasury to pay to States. The object of Messrs. Reed, Randall and Cannon is to efFec, in an under? handed way, that 'distribution of the surplus' which Mr Blaine some years ago advocated with the expresa pur? pose to maintain the Republican system of needlessly.high taxation. To the help of this Republican I scheme come a certain number of Dem? ocrats On Monday a vote was taken in the House to adjourn, which would break the deadlock, bat at the' same time put the Direct Tax Repayment bill aside and thus defeat it. Eighty men voted for adjournment, and all these eighty were Democats. Not a Republican voted op that side Of the lol who voted against ad? journment-who voted, that is to say,* to continue the deadlock rather than have the bill to empty the Treasury laid asile and defeated-of these 151, 121 were Republicans and thirty were Democrats. * * * * From South Carolina, voting with the Republicans, were Cothran, Dibble, Elliott and Herophill AU these Democrats voted with the Republicans to give a forced prece? dence over important public business to a bill depleting ?he Treasury. Not voting on that occasion were ninety-three. Of these thirty-six were Republicans and fifty-seven were Dem? ocrats. It is supposable that these non? voters were absent, perhaps sick ; but.. it will be seen that many more Demo? crats were absent or did not vote thau Republicans. All but thirty-six Re? publicans were on the ground and voted tc deplete the Treasury. Fifty-seven Democrats were absent or noo-votio?, and by their absence helped the Repub? licans to continue the deadlock. * * Thirty-one Democrats veted with the Republicans for a raid on the Treas? ury aod-seven fifty Democrats were ab? sent or non-voting and thus weakened the*resistance of their party to the Re? publican scheme. And this io the face and eyes of the Democratic platform, which declares in plain language : We are opposed to all proposition* which upon any pretext xvould convert the general government into a machine for collecti'ig taxes to be distributed among the States or the citizens thereof. And again : - ? - ---- e ... % Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa? tion. We denounce the Republican party for having tailed to relieve the people from crushing war taxes, which have paralyzed business, crippled in? dustry and deprived labor of employ ; ment and of just reward. in the face of these declarations it is j the solemn duty of every absent Deroo I erat to return at once to his place and j help by his vote t?. defend and sustain j the Democratic platform and protect i the Treasury. It is no time fur absen? teeism. As to the thirty-one Democrats who have chosen to march into toe Repub? lican camp, wc advise them to march j back as quickly as possible. This thirjg j will not end here. It will be heard from u. the fall canvass. Thore are jet ; men alive and in private life bitterly re- j grerting their vote for the 'salary grab/ j which cost them their public life. But j this Treasury raid is worse-worse by eighty or ninety milsons than the '.'.al? ary grab.'-K. Y. Herald, April 12. Tbe average Mexican laborer supports his family on ten cents per diem, in-j Tested io corn and beans. ' New York Abandoned. The Philadelphia News comes but with the startling proposition that the Republican party in the tight for the Presidency this year, should 'let New York alone'-this upon the ground that New York is a safe Democratic State and that it will be a waste of time, money and energy for the Re? publicans even to attempt to carry it in the Presidential election, and that the forces wasted in New York could be employed to very great advantage in a more inviting and a much more promising field. The News sets out its argument after the following fashion : .In 1884 New York repudiated the Republican candidate for the Presi? dency. In 1884 the gigantic ma? chinery of the Federal offices was in the hands of the Republicans. It was used to gain the victory for the party. It failed. This year that machinery is in the hands of the Democracy. It will be used to help them win. More than this, the State offices are more Democratic to-day than in 1884, and the State has a Democratic Governor to-day whose sole aim is to carry the election for his party far more than the Governor of 1884. .Since 1872, and including that year, New York has gone Democratic eleven times cut of fifteen. The four times when it has voted the Repub? lican ticket were exceptional. Once was the Greeley year, which 'don't count'' ; the second time was when Tammany bolted with nearly 78,000 votes ; the third time was when Gar? field carried New York by 21,033 votes only, and the last time was the year of his death, when 'sentiment' helped the Republicans. 'Again, take the actual Republican vote since the last Presidential elec? tion They are : 1884 . 562,001 1885 . 490,321 1886 . 460,637 1887 . 452,811 'With a constantly decreasing Re? publican vote, and a constantly in? creasing prohibition vote, the latter of which is now more than duuble the only legitimate Republican plurality in fifteen years, how. can any sane Republican doubt that there is little chance for Republican success this year, especially when the attitude of the mugwumps, an important factor not considered in this article, is still favorable to Cleveland, who has votes, offices, power and nearly everything else in New York at his command 'If the Republicans desire success, they must turn their eyes westward to a man who, with a good Eastern man can carry Indiana and the doubt? ful Northwest and New Jersey and Connecticut. 'The next President, if a R^pub Hean, must come from the West.' - -toe?- -^g- ? - Mr. Clemson's Bequest. Thc Laurensville Advertiser says Capt. G. YV. Shell, of Laurens, has received the following : DEAR SIR : Mr. '-iernson died last night. His property, both real and personal, goes by will to the State for an agricultural college. Besides spe? cial bequests, it is certain that $80, 000 will be at our d?posai lor our college. If the State does not accept then the (7) trustess will carry o'ut his ?vish.es as well as the means will allow. Col. R E. Bowen, Pickens : M. L. Donaldson, J. E Bradley and J. E Wannamaker, Orangeburg ; B. R. Tillman, R. W. Simpson and my ?elf are the trustees. If the State ac? cepts it will appoint six additional ! Our. college is a certainty; our cause j is strengthened, and we will go into the canvass with victory perched on our banners. What arguments will our opponents meet us with, now the Question ot expense is met ? All honor to Mr. Clemson. An early day had better be named for our meeting In haste, sincerely yours. D. K. NORRIS. April 7, 1888. -ii ?i - <.<>- m ? Preached His Own Funeral. Dr. Nathaniel W. Pridgeon, of Oconee County, Ga., on last Sunday preached his own funeral in a pine grove about two miles from Athens, Ga., where a temporary pulpit and seats had' been prepared for the oc? casion. His text was taken from the 9th verse, second chapter of 1st Co? rinthians, and 8th and 9th verses 2nd chapter Ephesians ile is now 84 years old Ile had his coffin made and carried to the place where he was to preach his own. funeral. This cof fin was placed just in front of the pul? pit, and the place was so ' crowded that the reporter lor the Altanta Con? stitution was assigned a scat on the coffin. Just imagine an old Trian in a pulpit in the old field, surrounded by thousands of people, preached his own funeral, with his coffin just in front of him, and a newspaper re? porter, with his pencil and scratch book in hand, sitting on a coffin, and you will have a faint idea of a real occurrence in two miles of Athens, Ga . last Simd .y at 11 o'clock. Dr. Pridgeon is of that religious sect I commonly called Campbellites, but among themselves called Christians, j Ile is very much opposed to funeral ! preaching, arid denounces the prac? tice as the '(rfispring of iniquity:' There were, according to best infor? mation, about 2,o00 people in attend? ance. Such a scene couid only come from Georgia. No other State could equal the Empire S'^to in such pecu? liarities. Let Georgia go up head ! An Oki Adage Applied. *It is a m^un hird that befouls its ! own nest," is an oil adage thar applies i to newspapers that 'run down' fir nn derr.-.N1 the cities in which they arc published Of course, statistical facts must be stated in season, but, a loose. I careless and to say the least of it, an untruthful reference to a community is : reprehensible in the extreme. - i-i ~m+~-*mmmmi-. ! A couple, married at Jamaica, L. L, j a few days ago, had been engaged for thirty years. They waited for the old folks to remove their objections, which j they did when they died. j Our Stat? Contemporaries. A Highteous Judgment. Greenville Neizs. Attorney General Earle's decision j that the surplus funds of batiks are sub? ject to taxation has caused a commotion, as he doubtless knew it would ; but it will be very heartily welcomed and ap? proved by the people. There ?9 much talk of the harm that will be done by the ruling in driviog the surplus accumulations out of the ( State and forcing them into investment io non-taxable State bonds, but we can see no real force io it. When money is in demand at good rates on safe se? curity it will be forthcoming ; otherwise it will be locked up anyhow. Even if that were not the case, there is no jus? tice in exempting from taxation surplus, frequently'idle, money while the farmer, mechanic and merchant' are taxed on the capita! ' they depend on for their livings. We are told that high taxation is likely to drive away capital. In the first place full and honest returns of all property is a quick and sure method of reducing the tax rate ; in the second, to make the owners of money feel the pinch of high taxation is an unfailing, plan for bringing them into Hoe with the poorer people who have been suffer? ing all this while because all their pos? sessions were under the public eye and made to bear weight for their value, j The 'narrow-minded/ 'reactionary,' i .three-for-a-quarter' people will be de? lighted to have in their long-continued efforts to reduce taxes the aid of the Charleston and Columbia capitalists who have suddenly discovered that the tax rates are too high. Col. Earle was made Attorney General by the people, and be is proving that their confidence was well placed. His action is an illustration of the fact that every office j should be filled with men who can be j depended on to stand by and think and j act for and with the people in every j emergency and situation. - i - The State Convention. Camden Journal. The State' Democratic Executive Committee met io Columbia on last Friday and decided to call the State Convention to assemble in Columbia on May 17th for the purpose of electing -delegates to the National Democratic Convention which will meet in St. Louis, Mo., on June 5tb. This is the only work announced for the State Convention, and we think it was eminently wise and proper in the Committee in not calling it to make nominations for State officers. It is probable that the Conversion to nomi? nate a State ticket will be called to as? semble some time during August. However, the Democrats should not be caught napping, but they should turn out in full force and send their very best men as delegates in order that, anv other business that mav be brought mf rn* C before the Convention may be properly di.-posed of. - Two State Conventions. Marlboro Chronicle. The State Democratic Executive Com? mittee met in Columbia Friday. By i this Committee it was decided that the j Convention to elect delegates to the I National Democratic Convention should be called to meet in Columbia on the 17th of May. The committee recommended that this contention should not make nomina? tions for State officers, and in conse? quence a second State Convention will be necessary. We think this is well eoough. It is not always best to crowd too much work into a short space of time, and besides, it is not at all* nec? essary that the State ticket should be nominated so early Columbia Record. The Democratic Executive Commit? tee of Edgefield County has invented a way to raise a campaign fund, which should not be imitated anywhere in Carolina, and which should be repudi? ated by the candidates themselves. Each aspirant must pay ?5 to the com? mittee The names of the candidates are then published by the committee. The scheme seems to contemplate the saving of a good portion of the candi? dates' fees, to be used as a campaign /und. How this novel plan will work remaios to be seen. But the Execu? tive Committee of Edgefield ought fo remember that in thus seeking to make a s-harp bargain with the county papers they strike a (gentle) blow at those who do more work, in the line of their business, with less pay, for the benefit of the party, than any other class of people. Of course this, in the minds of many, is just as it should be. The proprietor of a newspaper has nothing to sell, except some printed sheets His advertising space is valueless. Ile must, publish his paper anyhow, so it matters not what quantity of stuff he inserts free of charge Ile is at no ex- i pense whatever. Printers and press- ! men, all hading ample means out of j their trade, work for nothing. Paper i dealers, appreciating the deserts of j newspaper rapn, charge them nothing, j So that what little money comes to thc publisher's till is just so much clear profit He ought to work fer nothing, ; so far as he can. and ought at lesst to ? do ali the free 'puffing' and advertising : that per.pie may wish. The EdjjeSeid ! Committee are ou the right lir-e. in- :. deed i 1 Si. George's ??cete. A good deal is being said of tho nd- j vi>abi!ity of nominating State officers ! by a primary election. We are opposed . to it entirely, as we cannot see that the j primary pian has put. anv better men rn j office in thc counties tba* have adopted j it, than went in under thc; con ven t?oa ; system, while it, is infinitely mor;- trou- j ble, and ?he opportunities for ct uni? ina- j ! ti on s and unfair play seem equally as j great ifStaio officers were lo be nom- i ina?ed by a primary election, and a n a- ? jori ty cf the votes cast be required to j nominate there would probably be two ! elections required, and if a plurality j rule were adopted there would almost certainly be dissatisfaction with the ry- ; suit. . Barnwell People. Several years ago Senator M C. But? ler undertook to reform the public roads j of this State and wrote aa open letter which bad an extensive circulation and DO results. Under date of the 2*2d nit., he has written another open letter advocating that efforts be made, money appropri? ated by the State and cheap rates given by thc railroads, to induce 'American farmers and mechanics and manufac? turers to become land owners and make permanent 'settlements among us.' We like Senator Butler very much and wish, for his own sake and the public, good, that he would quit the letter writing business. If he would take time and go out in the country and talk with the land owners he would find out that he is on the wrong trail. Our people want to buy, not to sell land. The Party Lash. Newberry Observer. If the ' Democratic organization is ever broken up in South Carolina it will not be because a few men io Co? lumbia vote against a 'regular nomi? nee'; but because tue 'party lash* is held 07er the heads of Democrats all over the ?ftate, and they are commanded by self-constituted masters to 'vote the ticket' without regard to the voters' opinion, preference, or conscience even. . Tbs attempt bas been made hereto? fore on various occasions, to subordi? nate personal responsibility and indi? vidual conscience to party fealty. , This toing has gone far enough. White men are tired of it, and they wili not endure it much longer. The first thing the se?f-coictituted bosses know, there is going to be a rebound that, in the expressive slang' of the day, will 'make their heads swim.* Democats should vote the 'regular ticket' whenever they can do so consci? entiously. One can sabordinate his own judgment cf a nominee's ability or fitness for office to the preference cf the majority ; but should one, under any circumstances, vote deliberately for a man he believes to be corrupt 7 The writer of this has never 'scratched' or 'bolted* a regster nomination ; but be does not hesitate to say "that there is no power on earth that could induce him to vote for a man with such a record as was proved against Smith, no matter how many primaries had nominated him. We do not assume that the Dem? ocrats of Columbia who voted for Smith believed him tobe.wrrupt, but those who voted against "dim did-and, so be? lieving, they could not consistently do otherwise. Dr. Simonds and the Banka. Abbeville Press and Banner. Dr. Andrew Simonds, President of the First National Bank of Charleston, has been interviewed again. This time on taxing bauks. It seems to us thai he submits io an interview more fre? quently, and with more grace than any man on the continent, if the Doctor were not a good-natured man, he would certainly weary of interviews. But [ Dr. Simonds basa wonderful ftrnd of information and a wonder.'ul faculty for forecasting events with which to reward the enterprising interviewer-no matter whether the subject is finances, sanita? tion, po?tics, sociology, or dot?-estic and foreign missions. Licensing Doc?ors. The State Board of Medical Exami? ners held a meeting in the city yester? day, with the following members present: President, Dr. A. N". Talley; Secretary, Dr. J. C. Willcox, of Darlington; Dr. S. M.'Orr, of Ander? son ; Dr. C. E. Taber, of Fort Motte ; and Dr. T. Grange Simons, cf Charles? ton. At the discussion of several matters relating to the examination of appli? cants, the Board deterarined lo examine all applicants who have graduated from any institution outside of the State. The following applisar?ts were ex? amined and licensed ; Dr. Charles C. Johnson, Columbia, Howard University, Washington, D. C., Dr. Frederick Lee Saodera, Oran de? burg, Georgia Medical College ; Dr S. Wayne Gamble,- Charleston; Dr. John S. Folk Charleston ; Dr. John C. Buchanan, Winnsboroj Dr. A. G. Hayden, Charleston ; Dr. Oscar Missil dine, Charleston-all graduates of the South Carolina Medical College. At the last meeting of the Board Dr. J Ii. Hopkins, of Hopkins' Turnout, was licensed His name was inadverten? tly omitted from the proceedings furnish? ed foe- publication.--Columbia Record April ll. -g> -r ?. tm - Dr. J. Ford Prioleau, a prominent physician, and for n.-any years dian of the faculty of the medical college, of Charleston, died at his SOD'S residence in Beaufort, on April ll. He served through the war as surgeon of Gregg's brigade. The regains were interred ir: Magnolia cemetery cn the loth. C J In 1350 the English sparrow in America occupied the area of a. single tree or tree box. I'Tow he disports him? self over an area of 885,000 square miles in thc United States and 150,000 io Canada. _ ? Ufr . ~> 'i* r ^7r*r " - - - - Courting a Wido^e. There's as much difference between courting a damsel ?nd an attractive widow as there is in ciphering rn addi? tion and double rule of ihrce. C'Wt mg a girl is like eating fruit-all very nice as far aa it extctrds, but doing the agreeable to a blue-eyed bereaved comes under the head nf preserves-rich pungent syrup For delicious courting, we repeat, gives us a ?ive widow. I'laitmouih Neh , Journuh. pstrrsnn's Mvj<ui>ic for May is ni band, and ils cont ?nts are. varied en one. h tu suit the mest fastidious tastr*. "Peterson"' ii noways so fresh and Wright. t!i:it one might thir.k it still in it? teens, ?'..-'?. id of almost ready to celebrate its semi-centennial, i" J : ii snhscri'-ers always look on tt as a friend tb-?! e.ir-.r::>t li? dispensed with, and nov: r.ri'-s ;wer fail fe regret that they h.itv not lu: ? heSire n>*i?e its neo o .i i tt ta n co Capital Stories .-IT-.;! poetry atc (heirnlc, not thc ?.xcpptiojr, and ?rgether with its;superb steel-pia'eand other illustrations, make llic- co? ten is of euch non th a rich Teat in ::? mnttf-rs of di es?, toilet, and needlework. "Peterson'' designa and snirges-?-?ons ?re frc.-h j ?nd nor*-!, and impractical hin:.-- 'o house-? wires are always trustworthy. Our lady readers should al! take this magazine. Terms only Two Ool?ars a year. Address Peterson's Magazine, Philadelphia; Pa. ? prominentrnemher of tito Salvation Army was handed last Friday at Warsaw, N. Y., for thc murder of a half brother of bis sweet? heart, who opposed bis attentions. BY CHARLES J. EEIrLA?AY. Copyrlgiited by the Anther, ; tad published by arran?er.i?ut *wi J ? him. CHAPTER XX VEP.Y ODD. It was an hour later than usual the next afternoon that Philip pushed back his chair from the office table preparatory to goiag home. He did not acknowledge to himself a certain sweet excitement that affected bim as he rose to his feet, much Wk the cause of it; and he laid it to ordinary masculine van? ity that he paused a moment before a mirror before he went out It was not tho same face ho used to seo hi the glass. His black moustache had grown heavy and completely hid his rather unar tistic upper lip, but it was not that had changed bim so much. His forehead had some new lines in it and there was, somehow, a firmer look about the corners of his mouth; the youth and freshness that had lasted for twenty-six summers had given place on tho twenty-seventh. There was a self poise and suggestion of reserved force in him now that stood for some very rapid development of character. As Philip went up tho hill, his quick eyes caught a glimpse of a woman's dress by Sir. Ellingsworth's gate, and in a few steps more he could see it was the shade of blue Bertha loved "Why might it not be Bertha, why not, except that he was so eager it should be? He hurried as much as he dared-how strongly his heart was beating. She might turn any moment and go into tho house. He tried to think of what he could say to her if it was she. Yes, it was Bertha. Her faco was turned away, showing him only the perfect Greek profile and thc uncovered coils of her wonder? ful golden hair. Her hand rested on the gate as she looked off on the hills. How grand her thoughts must be to harmonize with tho su? perb dignity of her face. Philip felt guilty at disturbing her, but it had been so long. He came quito near, so near that thc mag? netic thrill of her presence touched him niora . deeply, more tenderly, he thoagk't, than ot old, but she had not turned He saw tho path of careworn lines across her forehead that had boen as smooth as marble. Thero was a faded look on her cheeks, less full than they used to Lo. an<l their exquisito color loes evenly spread Her hand was whiter and showed its blue veins almost painfully. His heart ached over her. his proud Bertha. "Why could not God have spared her! Ho would rather have died and saved her tho caro and suffering that had stricken her loveliness. Then she turned at the sound of footsteps, and a great wavo of tenderness swept over his soul. He looked at her so eagerly, sc gently that it seemed her face might soften a little, but it did not, nor was there any mark . of startled surprise at his coming so suddenly upon her. "It is you Philip?" Even her voice was changed, there was a new hardness in it. She reached out her cold white hand to him. For a moment he did not speak. It seemed as if his heart would break, there was such a stress upon it. And then he was afraid she might be ashamed before him, ashamed of the terribie injustice she had done him, ashamed of tho blot that had touched her name. But whatever she might have felt, there was no sign of any emotion on her im-, passive faeo. "And you are the mill owner now," she said "Kow odd it seems." She smiled graciously, but still he could not speak. He could only look down at the thin, blue veined hand he held, and keep back the sob that trembled on his lips for his lost love. And that smile and such words as those were all she had for him at last. He had to look away for strength to speak. Ile must think of some commonplace that would not startle her repose. Ah: there was the door? way where she had given him the first ardent caress of his life the last time he had talked with her. the night she forsook him. Did she remember, he wondered i He looked back at the cold, beautiful eyes, and the amused smile yet lingered on her lips. "Yes," it does seem very odd" CHAPTER XXI. OUT, DAMXZD SPOT. Philip dipped his pen in the inkstand. He was sitting in his study at home, later in th? afternoon than usual. Nothing r?important could have detained him so long from his fac? tory, and, besides, there was a look of unusual solemnity on his face. Philip Breton hud just written his wilL It was a very elaborate in? strument, prepared from memoranda* of tho ablest lawyer in tho state. A moment ago he had signed it, and tho names of the witnesses were not dry yet He had been uneasy for a long time that the destiny cf the thousand 'Creatures who worked in his mill, and of their successors forever, should hang cn so feeble a thread as ahuman life, which might snap be? fore kc could give spontaneous energy to the plans that now only lived in his brain. He wrote in large, plain letter across the back of thc paper, -"Tue Last vrill and Testament of Philip Breton." Then he read the whole in? strument over again-the magna Charta of Bretonville. How glad the villago would be when his will como to be known-when it was found that tho mill owner had not boon satisfied with what he could do in his lifetime, but had placed his benevolence on a perpetual foot ing, had reached bael: Iiis hand from his grave to shower blessings on the laboring poor God had committed to his charge, t?o mo mon had wives and children to work for, to defend, to hope for. If ho had been happy, ard blessed with love arni kisses, lie might have been like the rest, never listening Lo the groans of his poor under burdens too heavy for them' to bear. His' heart would, perhaps, have been full of tho little wants and trivial discomforts of his own circle, his mind busy with plans for* the future of his sons, while a thousand dreary hopeless lives WOP? themselves our in the struggle for their scant bread, with never ono' pitiful thought from" him. Philip Breton was relieved now that he had made* his will. He folded it carefully and put ic in Iiis inner breast pocket. Per? haps, ho thought sadly enough, if ho should dio this moment i*"- would be better for Bre? tonville. for his will might, waver while ho lived. Ile might nor. be able to sustain his high tone, but once dead, nothing could be Changed Thc words that un idle stroke of his pen could make null and void when once his hand became rigid in death, would leap* forth from tho written page into potent everlasting life. Suddenly ho remembered another occasion when, as ho had sat ;it this very table, he had been interrupted by the servant bringing him a letter-uo, it was a note from Bertha; And he had been very happy, fancying tho shadow had gone frota his life. J lejaro had opened this very table drawer when the maid had tapped at tho i door. He had boen searching; for something at thc time. Ohl it was one of Bertha's pict' ores, and it must be Itero still. In a moment more ho was unclasping a morocco cas_\ then gazing with such tenderness as one has for the dead on thc delicately tinted oval of Ber? tha's beautiful face in porcelain. The great blue eyes sccined to look surprise and re proach at him. Ii had been long ago. before' i so mue!i as a divan of s>. had tainted the ' holy innocence of her girlhood. Philip closed his lip- very tightly: hr? longed unutterably for her lost innocence; hs hungered so desperately for the maidenly-., purdy that rooked, out of these startled eyesC If she had ?lied then, he might at least havo cherished her memory. Vv'iiat had he don* ? that he should i JO punished so terribly* Thea i the memories of the day when tho picture { was taken came rushing back upon him. They two had boon sitting in her garden | on thc afternoon of a stun mer day. It was I two, three, almost four years ago. but he j could seo thc blooming roses and hear the ? cirovvsj kum of the bees as if it had bee yesterday. He had been reading a love poer to her; that was as near as lie dared como t love making; sometimes biting his voie soften and tremble a little over tho tendere passages. He was but a timid lover, an Bertha so royally cold. Suddenly glancia at her, he saw she was .ovcrcomo with th heat, and had fallen asleep leaning he shapely head back against tho rougir bar of tb? tree. Her fingers loosely claspe in her sloping lap suggested perfet repose: thc girlish bosom rose and feii wit her still breathing, and thero vras an esqii site pout on her lips, as if vaguely rnutinot] against the hardness of her pillow. His hear was boating violently as he laid aside hi book and seated himself on the bench by he side. But he dared not profane thc vesta purity of such sleep as hers : he devoured he faco with his eyes, but did not steal one ki" from tho red lips, though there was such sweet, mute invitation on them. But ho pu his arra about her and drew her toward hir as gently as if she were a sleeping incant, ani made her head rest on his shoulder. Then h looked down the red tinged cheeks, like th woods in autumn's tenderest mood, swept b; her long, golden eyelashes, and tried to fane; she was awake, though* her eyes were closed and that she was willing her head should res on his brci*st and her hair like fine threads o twisted Roman gold kiss his burning face. But she moved in her slumber, and the; hc-r star like eyes opened and looked mut astonishment into bis eager face.- Fc-r on startled moment she did not move, and ii sudden boldness fror? thc liberty he had al ready taken he pourcdliis cassionatc declara rions into her ears, covering her hair and ha forehead and then her cool white hands wit! kisses. '.You frighten rae, Philip.5' Her' quick startled tones as she rose to her feet yet ran< in his oars. She looked at him as half cf c mind to run away. "I don't understand you," she said, reproachfully. The porcelair picture is just as she was ?hen. "Why, Bertha!" He had risen, too; but sb< drew back fromhim.- *T love you. f want you for my wife." How coldly she had looked at his flushed, excited face. He thought it was the supreme moment in his life ; but it seemed to bo nothing to her. "Is that ali? Why, Ithought you were mad.* Ah. ard the same madness burned in his soul this moment. Time , could net wear it out. Shame, outrage, desolation could not kill it. He rose to his feet and pushed the tinted porcelain away from him. Mrs. Silas Ellingsworth was all smiles and grace as Philip entered her parlor, and she shook hands with him. lingered as cordially over tho greeting as if she liad quite forgot? ten ker pretty fingers had ever been on his throat. She made him take a seat and began to make conversation with" him, as if she sup? posed be liad called to see her. But suddenly she affected to bo struck with an idea. "Oh, I know why you arc not more talka? tive, you didn't come ter sec me at alb" She stepped to tho door. "Susanj cal? Miss Ellingsworth." "Miss!-' Then there was no' longer any room for doubt. Philip shrank at thc blow she gave bim. He had thought all uncer? tainty was gone long ago, but he found that up to this ven* instant ho had cherished a ^park of hope that Bertha had a right to the name of the man'she had fled with. And she was "Miss" still. His hostess way saying something, but he did not hear it. there was such a deathly faintness about bis heart. Then there came a step in tho hall.-and his familiar thrill of tenderness' at her coming. She lingered an instant on tho threshold, aa old habit of hers that gave him time to step forward and meet her. Mrs; Ellingsworth had risea, too, and was waiting to speak. It was only tenderness in Philip Breton's eyes as ho took both Bertha's hands so gently, but she said: "Am I very much changed, then?' and a pained lock flitted across her face.; Philip did not answer her for a moment, he was so distressed at her interpretation of the love that made his sight misty as ho gazed at her. "Well, I suppose I am in the way," re? marked the mistress of the house,-with in? bred vulgarity. She was smiling sweetly, but women's smiles do not always signify amiability. "I suppose," she added, letting her skirts touch her two guests as she passed out, "you want to talk over old times with Miss Ellingsworth." Kow. came the -last terrible assurance; Philip winced at thc heartless blow, "but not so much as a flush passed over Bertha's cold face. She accepted the name without even a shade of silent denial' or. her calm features, though it was tho badge of shame for her. "Oh, no," but he dared not look her in tho face for fear she should seo Iiis anxious pity for her. "You have been ill*perhaps, but I always thought you tho loveliest woman in' the world." ? She smiled as she let him lead her toa scat. "You always said that" Then she glanced sadly into thc mirror. "But it is more pleas? ant to hear now, for I know I amt not pretty any longer. " Could she tmderstantf th'at thc* chango thai had come over her radiant beauty only changed his love to make it deeper? Could she not sec the new intensity oi yearning in his eyes as ho raised them to her Cace ag-iia? He longed to draw her into his anns and kiss her tired face into eternal smiles; His love had been refined into anew r?ivinencss: a love capable of all sacrifices for herrthat asked no price, but would pour itself in an eternal flood against, her dull indifference, if it must be: a love more pain than joy, of unutterable yearnings for what ho believed she cculd nover have for him: that wo?d seem to grow on her unresjwnsiveness; that welled up tho mightier for her coldness: content rf hereaf? ter it might throw a little brightness on tho path her snowy feet should tread; content if she would but let him warm her cold heart with his tenderness. "Arc you glad to be at home.-" he asked, gently. "Do you call this home, with my servant its mistress?" For a moment it'was Bertha, cs she used to ?>o, her anger curling lier red lips and Sashing new jiro into her tired eyes. "Doos she insult you?" "It is insult enough that she is my father's wife. She caa not go 1 .eyoad that." "Shall you stay here al way r" asked Philip stupidly enough. "I suppose so; where else is there?" A wild impulso touched him; he loved her and she needed love, had he not waited long enough? But- a sud.len fear came into bis mind and chilled his nope like a frozen foun? tain. She might hav?? a child-how strange ho had never thought of it before. Ah, it would bo a strong love which cou id enduro that; a baby to hang oa ker bosom and tako her kisses, a baby with Curran-s face. I*To, he couM never boar that,- anything better than that. Her sin bo could forgive. Though it must linger forever in his memory, ho would bury it beneath moro blessed onpe rieaees. I love slvovld hallow ber. ho would kiss away Curran's caresses from her lips. But if there wore a chi ld Philip started violently and looked ct- tho door: ho fancied lie heard a sound like the pattering of infant feet. Ina moment Bertha would catch to her arras her child and Cur? ran's, and half smother it with a mother's kisses: "Isn't that a child's voicer ho cried,- rising to his feet and his eyes rested cn her in a new pitiful reproach. Ko thought she started strangely, -as if a mother's instincts stirred in her bosom. "Oh, no; it is or.ly Jane-I mean Mrs. Eliingsworta. What an innocent little laugh shebas." A child, with sweet winning way", is a strange thing to hate, a lovely little rose? bud to blossom no one knows how faultlessly by mvlby. But Philip thought be would har.? her cliild-Bertha's'child. perhaps with ld* dorling's star like oyes; ah. was it not Curr.-i-.rs, tc?, the symbol cf her shame? As her walked home ir? tho twilight he saw in each toddling baby i:i thc doorways jysd windows, an imago of his own materialized i ;ar arid horror. Philip looked back from thc hil! on winch stood his homo to tho vil? lage bis father had built up. Those mas: :vo mids with their thousands of looms were his; those long rows of white houses, each one cf which held a family rich in po:-sib;iities of virtue and hope, they all wore his. aud tho neweieinent of bright; icss and tarif; that had inudc the whole v?h??e a nursery cc-^??orir i and. Happiness was ms woriL l?emnci-imil was the great stone mansion with its arched gothic windows green with clustering wood? bine, it was his too. Hov.- powerless hrf thought Oil that wealth and material pow??' can do to solve one bf the terribie problem? ? heart makes for itself. Moodily he walked to his stable-:, KI a kind of vague longing for companiuiiship. and threw open the doors. Fopr horses stivxl iii their stalls witina, nobie J Joking creature! all of them. Theyturned their stately headl . toward tho sound of their masters feet: thc7 returned his love v.ith lo.ve^. One of .them whinnied welcome and laid back his ears as bis master carao into the stall beside him. "Poor fellow, good boy-;? Philip patted bis white neck affect ionatelyv - "Youwoald_dtf what yon could for me, wouldn't you, Joel I k?ctr yo? would, old fellow." He laid big An image of his oxen materialized fear. . cheek against the animal's velvet nose- <rBut you couldn't go fast enough to get rae Out of this trouble, not if you died to do ?C * . ' CHAPTER xxn. 'p mo BA2ETS3. - f Sensitiveness is a very nnfcrtn^itoquality in life since no object is molded mexx-?rd? ance with the strict rules of art, since thew is no character but has a repulsive spot in it, BO histor}* but with: its-dark- page. The happy man is neither too enthusiastic over t?te "vir? tues of his acquaintance,- which may bW acct dental or merely a pretty optical delusion, or top stern and unrelenting toward sins, which he fancies might have been virtues under different conditions^- Eut Philip Breton had fallen out with life. The great"worid seemed to jar him as it rolled. Each hour had revealed unguessed-meahscf suffering, and even the beams of genial sunlight had daggers for him. Yet it is hard for a man to understand that his fate may be pure, unalloyed pain.- He is ever smiling through his tears and- trying to awake from his: despajuyasif it were but a dream of disordered fancy. So as the next morning came, and Philip Breton threw open bis door to go out into the sweetrscented Sep? tember air, ho felt happier than- for many weeks; the pea co that came over him'seemed to leave no place for'cruel distrust and unre? lenting pride. He even reproached himself for his ungenerousness of yesterday. The world of nature left no'unsightly -wounds and breaks in its whole dominion. . Gaping grave*" are soon covered with green grass and wild flowers: life gorings quickly out of death, and apparent ruin is soon forgotten in renewed magnificence. Why should he, then; let two Eves bo wrecked for one wrong- act in the past-forever past? . He swung down bis walk m"a netr buoy? ancy. He believed he had passed through thc cloud and come out into the clear light of reason. But at Iiis' gate a carriage rolled'slowly by' him. It contained a bridal coupIe, and he stopped to smile at them. The girl's face had no culture in it, but was sweet, and had the innocence of childhood That ungainly feV low, who now wore his first broadcloth suit. at whom she looked so fondly, was the only lover she had ever known. She had no se? crets from him, no past his jealous eyes might not scan without a pang. Her soul was open to him;- Xo whisper to her shame could eve* reach his insulted ears.- Her life was com? monplace, but no blot way orr'it,* np" guilty thought had over left its trail across her heart. Tue rough lad, who was bold enough to put his arm about her waist in broad day light could pour his foolish love making into'her eager ears" without stint. There wa? no theme lie mast avoid with' her/ no page ii* her life he must not cut He loved the soiled lily, loved it more tha?' all the fresh roses. Ail other women might' as well never have been born for bim; this werna:i he would have died for. Could her not protect her from- evii tongues? If she were trampled,- could be not lift her inte his bosom' If she were i:-suited,c?ald he not? put Ids man's heart and strength between her/ and shame? Ho would hurry to his darling,' throw himself at her feet, her past should bo buried, her bio should begin with his happi? ness to-night "Yon W?C?vto marry Bcrthal- I supposed you wi-rc acquainted with her paste? ls was bx 2i>: EllingswOrth's roora, where he sat in dressing gown and slippers, well back in his easy chair. He was looking at Phil ip Bre: on very curiously. He had really fancied bc *a-:dorstood h?man- nature before. **I suppose I am," answered Philip ampljy 'Ave?!; i knew niore of r*; than ? wish I did. She ran away with a beggar, and she has come back.- I disbke ?upleasaut memories,' so I avoid unpleasant information. You know lier- tor-her relations with Curran? Yes, weil.'" and tbo gentleman shrugged hi* slight shoulders,- -'no doubt you know whs* you are doing, you run your own risks. "Risks?" ^Understand me,- I r^ked but two quos-" ?ions-have you left Curran forever? do yoxt want to come home? I had heard sho had never 'boon married: Jane has heard it I feared, it. Do you wonder I did not ask, not caring for a disagreeable ca'-tainty. Well, do; your own questioning." I suppose the fact cf ber keeping her maiden nomo shows some-' thing." " What if bc? should find sh? was indeed married r.fter all, when he had at last dc-' rided he could not live without her; wbas? ker had at Last made np his mind tho.*? hs must have her if he took a burden cf life long: shame into his sold with her? Tlsat would bo" a wretched freals for fortun? tcr play witii him; but how foolish he was, did not hcr name provo that she "was unmart-iod? rrBut ? halo so tc'harrow up her mcrae--' rio.-,"' said Philip? ir? an unsteady voice; "to; make her confess; ber shame before me. ? should think that would bo a father's duty." ?*Can it bc, my dear Philip," remarked -ir. S?l?ngsworth, with his own brilliant smiley '.that you know me so little as to expect mo toperfor:n an unpleasant duty? There art? people that Hve thrs?-that never seem so much in their element as when engaged rat some act of scii sacrifice. You mus: really excuse me.'' s L, . When Philip went dc-wn into thc parlor Bert:?, was sitting there alone, and his fate' seemed thrust n;>o:y him. Before ho had tims to dread breaking the subject to her he stood at the bael*; of her chair, looking down on hey thin, white ?mgors moving over bel' embroil Cry work. He laid his hand very gently ore her shottlder. A1:. it was loss round than it used to tc. She was good enough to keep her eyes fi xe* I on her work. There was np shade of heightened color on ?er cheeks; nor did she't quicken h'-r breat hing. ''Bertha."? he bogan, in a low. sweet voice, "I ara geing to ask you something. - Still she" did apt look up. "If, at some time" before you died, a malt whom you liked came and asked yon tof marry him," he spokevery slowly, -us the-r* any reason why you must:say nor ?ot ono flush or nervous trc?nor> 51? threaded her needle again with1 tho red worsted. "What do you mean by rcasQAin "I mean," he said, in forced calm, "r: thora any barrier which tho laws make t?c prevent you from marrying hkaf Sinfj ho had bis gun to dream of raairrisgc, lvv had tbeaght onh- of the barrier' of her *^aam*-; be had not ; thought that tbM^ n-tijr^t be a harrier ?StoW"'^' hnpregnablc. But *r? came ov^ fe^-a? the more terribly no" . *That would expfein-hcr. hick of sbr J6j' her unbroken pride, *ha?g would-Jbo 'moce coo^st^t y^h ; his f *