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? V- _ Continued from First Page. today when she traveled np here to ? at the picture. She can't ec m0 near Without coloring and shaking. " Ernst became still more solemn, was evidently io profound thought. "Yon must be careful and not fc with her young affect ions," Stanley < tinned, with a rather hard hearted sr. . such as we accord lo tho heart troul Of old maids. "I shall not dry vie with them." rep' Ernst, witlra seriousness which sllen the American. During Stanley's next visit Ernst ? to him: "I have peen seeing for mys und I pelievc von are right." "Right? Oh, about the shadow?" "No. Apont Miss Chanet Hokum, pelievo she is in love with me." "Well, what aro you going to c laughed Stanley. "? kai put one thing to.do. If ?wish to marry me, I must marry her. owe her my life. I owe her this piotr which you say is goot. I haf lived her money. As a man of honor I m sacrifice myself to her; that is, if ? wishes it What else can I do?" "Good Lord! don't be a fool," rem . Strafed Stanley. "You don't love 1 of course." "I haf tho very highest resbect for I She is an ntmirable woman. " :**Yes. I know. I suppose so. I this is carrying- resp jr4 and gratitud? little too far. She ia twelve or fifi? Tears older than you. You could not happy with her. Come nov.-! don't hasty." "I will not bo hasty. It all debends whether she lofes mo a great teal. y Mil see." Whon Ernst, convinced that Ja: "lofed bim a ?rrcat teal," felt hims bound to declaro an affection for her a ask her to bo his wife, tho poor, lone hitherto unloved girl was fairly bro!; down by the revelation. She burst ii tears, threw herself on her old, hard so buried her face in tht* threadbare cashn and sobbed oat a spasm of mingled j fend terror. "Oh! can this be true?" she fina burst forth, when she became eonscio of his hand in hers, "is it true?" ? demanded, sitting up and looking eagffl at him -If it isn't, take it bach. lio: ? tell it me any mere, it would kill mc to find out it isn't true-oh, il would k ase." "It is endire?y drao. my tear Cuanei was the adorable falsehood of tho chiv; rons German. "1 ov e ali to you. 3 life will not pay thc debt. . But I do n insist upon marriage excebt when y? wish it. You must drodge fer yourie when it will be bruder.t. " At this moment Janet caught a view herself in her mirror. Flushed with j and love, sho looked almost hand?om ?nd it seemed to lier for a moment th She was young and desirable. Drav.-n ! Ernst's pitying embrace, she believed th it was the embrace* of affection, and si let her head fall upon his shoulder wii the words, "Oh, my earling: " Henceforward they were engage . though when they would bo marri; neither of them could say. not even tl old and wise (only half wis.e) Janet. Wit . her, lifo was a delicious dream, forget fi altogether of tho bard past and carole: often of the doubtful future. With hin life was a point of honor and of duty, s .obedience to self respect and a renderb: of obligations. His ways were natu ally so caressing, and he was so console; liously assiduous in his attentions to ho that ho thoroughly deceived even ti suspiciousness of her humble and sh nature. In the main she believed et tirely in his affection, amazing as the a miisition seemed to her, and much as si doubted her worthiness o^ii. h is qu:1 possible that there was not at that tin; in New York a happier woman than th: almost penniless oid maid, betrothed to young artist who was encumbered wit debts, and who did not love her. Sue are the joys of this world: half cf then 'at least, delusion; the other half trans i tory. / . At last "The Rescue" was sold. Star ley went with Ernst to the pi:turo flea ?rs; demanded, with much pomp cf mar near, a private audience; exposed the car ras in the best light, and asked ?oG for it. "It is worth it," confessed Mr. Moineai "Only there is no name. If you won! pat your name to it. Mr. Stanley':" ''Mine! I am only a portrait painter. "Yes. But yen aro known. Jt Won! Sell the picture." "Gif him thc name," interposed Ernst * ' with the eagerness of a beggar gras^iu at alms. '"It's a downright su indie, " said the ger: ' erous American. "I couldn't do such ; group to save my Kfe. I won't tak the credit of it." "Both names?" suggested the dealer i: * genius. * It was agreed to; the picture went c: the market as the joint production o Stanley and Hartmann. Tho latter, per f?ctly satisfied, and indeed overjoyed pocketed the $500? the former, rh spit of his private disclaimers, pocketed some thing considerable in thc way of glory. At Ernst's reouest Janet Holcum ha; kept a strict account of her expenses i: his behalf; and although he had usc sharp economy, the balance against Li:: amounted to ?4S0. On reaching home he went to her room, gave her a smile 0 childlike joy in response to her smile 0 . anxiety, and tossed tho sum cf his earn ings into her lap. Instead cf hailing hi good fortune with gladness, she see*uc< to shrink from the money, laid il cordi; On a table, rose to her f 111 with a pa!; face, and said in a strange voice, "Well you are free. " "No, my tear Chanet," he replied. '. ?tm your slave." "That is not what I vast." H;e stam mcred, trembling visibly. ..! cannot sub mit to any such widerst rinding. Mr Hartmann, it is my duty to tender yoi your liberty." "My tarling Char.ot, what LOOS xhh mean/" asked Ernst, putting his ant around her waist and drawing her *o him. fiMy self respect impels mo to ir." sLt. said, beginning to cry. "I fear that yo* proposed to ino Out ol a sense cf oeiiga tion. Thc obli^rat'cfii i-> ::ov/ c^-icc-lc-d. Ii was weal: in mo to accept you. I mnsi 'make aucnds for it. indeed, Indeed ! - must-you arc free." The gentlest caresses, tao sweetest pro testations answered her end overwheJmec her fainting resclution. A?or a minute, and a very little : linute it wac. too, she -could not heip letting ncr head go on his shoulder and sobbing oat: "Oil! can J believe you? You maio ins SO perfectly "happy t&at I must belleo you. Oh. you are my life, my all. I worship you." For a wed: or more this sunshine ci con?den?o and joy shone through an un? clouded heart. Sne loved her man-her first man, remember-gathered late in her maying-with a sort of double affection -the lore of a betro&ed and of a mother. And becauso ho returne3 it, or rather be? cause she believed that Lo" did, tue felt that she owed him a lifo o? ?ratitude, adoration, obedience, every sv/eCt sen? timent and every good work. She ?waa amazingly influenced by him; one might almost say, revolutionised. A teetotaler, believing that the wine rec? ommended by Pani to Timothy was not intoxicating, and that ali drinkers of ale sud cider deserved the names t f tipplers and guzzlers, she found nothing hateful sow in the smell of ?ager A hater of tobaoeo, she filled Ernst's pipe. An ad? mirer of Johnsonian dietion, she talked to nim like a little child. There is no kiiow whither this youth might not have carried this mature woman. She was in? fatuated. From one point of view, it was laughable: from another, it was beau? tiful and pathetic. It is not tn tho nature of things that a woman of who-is engaged to a hand come man of 20, should remain always calmly sure of her conquest. An event was approaching which was destined to cast upon this happy heart a shadow of uneasiness. As Jauet sat, one holiday afternoon, beside ber Ernst, watching tho growth of meaning and beauty under his pencil, she said to him abruptly, "My little cousin will be here soon. " "So?" replied the painter without stop? ping his work. "I must get her a bres <nt; shall il pe a toil?" "A doll! She wouldn't thank yon. She $8 19years old." "So!" exclaimed Ernst, looking up in Surprise. "Then she cannot po fcrv ?ttk" " j -'J .have ?ot kfT a situation in my ! school, oho "has finished nor educ end must begin to earn her living." 4'That is ?oot," smiled the artist, will make one family." "My darling, I wanted to loll y< Hesitated Janet. "We must say no about our engagement for tho prc That is, I would rather you would m it makes no difference tr yea." "Why?" asked the painter, stoppin work and staring at her in surprise. "Because," stammered and blushed engaged old* maid-"because I ashamed. Not of you! Oil no, des But she will think ii so queer. And it may never come to anything-we a poor. At least 'it may bc1 a long first. Well, until our way is a little clear before us, I would rather thc gagement should be kept a secret, are not annoyed, are you. Ernst?" "No." rejSied Ernst, calmly, not ru Standing too well, and not caring < enough. "Well," continued the shy and fas ons Janet, "then it shall be so. "Wc be just good Meats in the eyes of IS until-until it sliCT seem best to let know." On tho morrow orri ved Nellie Fish plump, lively, laughing little blonde, eyes of a deep turquois blue, hair of ligLtes: and flossiest flaxen, a face s what broad and nose, somewhat si beautiful in the German peasant s but urUemably beautiful. Ernst, was present at thc meeting of tho cousins, glanced at the visitor so quent ly and with an expression so fu mysterious meaning, that Janet's int? was aroused. At the first ehance io aside she said to him. "Well, wha you think of lier?" "She looks like the one in Cherma: he replied," lost in meditation, his both tender and somber, his soul in o years and ian<is. Janet turned pale. Does tao reader divin* what she f saw? Well, it happened. Ernst's heart was empty. Janet not inhabit it; had not even enti into it. The unnamed girl whom he loved in Prussia had by heroic off been so far expelled from* it that he not desire ever again to see her. her.formcr residence there imd so mol tho abode that eny one who resera! her could seize upon it, occupy it, and it. What nov.- happened to the yo man was apparently love at first s?? but vras really no more than thc tr: ferring of an old love to a new object. Week after bc first met Nellie Fisher thought of her could fill Lim with d dons reveries, while the thought oi troth plight to Janet Eoicum was si clent to make him meditate once m upon suicide. And the giri? ile and she met ev day. and two cr three tunes a day. spite of his conscientious etforis to c trol himself, there was in his manner ward her a teaderness, which, re-en for by his beauty, his graceful address, ; tho glamour of his artistic ability, co not but move thc heart cf a child of who bad never hoped for so tine an mirer. In ? little while Nellie began Cutter at sight of him. and to pet him spite cf her fintterrngs. "Isn't ho charming'.'" sha said to i cousin. "Doyen think so?" replied Janet, h gratified and half anxious. "I rea:Iv like his accent now. I thoui it ridiculous at ?lrst.'* "So did I." "What docs she mean?" queried Ne? marveling at this dryness and brevi "Oh, I suppose I know. He is poor, s I am poor, arid wc mustn't-flirt. W -? suppose we-mustn't." She weilt to the glass, looked at 1 lil}* skin, wished her nose were long arranged her flaxen hair, and wonde: whether he liked her. "Do you know how voil could f?at mc?" she said before long to Ernst. "Hov.-?" he asked coolly, for she tem; ?*d Lim in a distressing manner, and felt th?t Lc m\mt allow himself no < pandon. "OL! you don't won't to do it," she : plied, with a little sunny pout which s Lau and which was irrepetible. "? am sure I wish to bleaso you," said, unable to bear Lea- pout. "How c I fiat ter you?" "You ?could put mo into one of yo pictures." "I should be charmed to do it," ? mitted tho over tempted artist. The next day the two women bein Nellie's bewitching face, drawn and c cred with ail tho fervor of an art wh; loves, smiling from Ernst's canvas. T younger blushed and bridled with joy see herself there and so beautiful; t elder wore a fixed, mechanical smile, a said repeatedly, "What an excellent Iii nos:; : He had never put Janet's face into 1 creations. r-iic did-not blame him ? that; ?he believed that ho could co not kv.g agreeable with it; she surveyed h< ec-if in ?he glass and sighed, "I am ugly!" But io see NclLie on that eas painted by his Laud and painted so we it was (L*viag a dagger into her beati: hca.t. That very cay Ernst, in a fit of no", remorse and self socriice, said to Jan Li private. "T wish you would let mei form Nellie cf our troth plight. I thu it would be petter." She grew cc faint, under theteiTic revelation which ho Lad unintentional made, that for a moment she could n answer Lim; and even when ehe'spoke, was only to ask for delay. "Stop!"' she said, pressing her ham upon her cy*s. "Let m i t)r'nk. ? mu consider this." He offeree! to sKdc Lis erm around h waist in Lis usual caressing style; bi she gently stopped him, looked earnest in Lis face, smiled with an unspeakab piteousness, and gently glided away: L who?e manner saying, "AL. my dariin yon don't wish to do it, and why do y< do it?" "Is it possible that she goraprehem me?" thought Ernst, folding his arms ar slinking hts head with the air of a mt who is trying to stand firm against hin self, ile appreciated fully the self ahn gation and heroism of Janet's charaetc he knew rh:;* if Le once confessed to hi that Le did not love Lor. she would ii stantly free him from his engagemei) and there was ti-'- Lua^re of Nellie plea? ingwith him f<>r his sake, i: not for he: aiso, to make the confession. Ile shoe J i.is !:. .id and set his teeth until hohe faced down the temptation, and had d . <-med that, whether Janet permitted lt < no;. Lt- would inform her cousin of tl ! betrothal. I But during the day, while superintend i in^ her classes with her usual conscicj : tious thoroughness, .Miss ??oicum als came to a decision. On reaciring LOMO i ; the afternoon she sent Nellie out on som distent errand, an.i then walked slow! up to Ernst".-, room. "My tear C'hanet! I am so glad to sr you!" he said, coming towards lier wit extended hands and Lis s we? test smil< ; "My poor child, you look tirc<?." hcaddec" i glancing pityingly at her unusually pal i fare. "There, sit dov.;:, und take som 1 rebose. Do you see my biri ure? I Lav j^ade some changes." ii.nsiuj^ier patient eyes to the canvas Janet peWeived that the portrait of Nelli had boen so altered as to h.; no ionge recogniz*;ble. Throbbing erith admir&tioi for this ma::- who could divine lier hear so perfectly, ft^d who could do what mus Lave been hatefui to hin: at the mere bid ?lin:; <>f his s"-;s:ti ve conscience, she ros? up wita suddenly flusht/* cheeks, scize< beth Li:; hands, printed O??C Kot kiss oi his smooth, white forehead, and thei drew baek. holding him at anns"'length in order t . worship him. "Ernst. I know what you have done,' ehe said, firmly. "1 thank yon foryoui noble intentions. Hat sacrifie?? for sacri? fice! it is my turn now. Ernst, my own darling, we must separate. I was born for you. but you were not born for me. Wc must end this engagement. I must end if. or despise myself. 1 do end it- 1 break it. "con are fre?. There!" She tore herself away fren Lim and attempted to rush out of the room. "Chanetri Chanet!" Le caiied. spring? ing after her and seizing 1er in i.is anns. "It must not pe so. You ar." the noplcst woman on earth. ? worship you. 1 can? not lose y??u." "Oh, don't!" implored Janet, looking up at him in despair, for he was taxing lier almost beyond her strengt li. After a moment. ra?tying; all tie- power of her soul., she addejj. "See here. Km?: ! Jet us ; speak the truth. Do you love mo better j titan vou love any one eise?'' j ?lmv could he have the seeming cruelty j to answer her ''No?" He did what mest j gentle hearted men would have done-ho told her a pitying, self sacrificing false? hood. He said, "I do." See was too clear sighted to bo deceived, and too high souled to accept an unwill? ing heart. "Look at this Bible, Ernst," she con? tinued, drawing from her pocket a little Testament that never quitted her. "Put your hand upon it ;" and here, seizing his fingers, she clasped them around the book, i "Now tell me whether yon love me better than any other." "You trife me into a gorner," replied the artist piteously. "Well, I swear. I swear tlu? I resbect unt atmire you more than other htunan peing. Is it not enough?" "Do you love Nellie?" "She is so like"- he stammered. "Weihajhe will soon be in love with you," said Janet, with a hist supremS effort. "Take lier. Make lier happy." She had been leaning away from him. She now turned, with the revulsion of a billow, thx*w her arms around his nek. ? covered his face with kisses and tears, and then once more leaned back from him to look at him. "That is thc end of all between us,"she said, in a hoarse, deep voice, totally un? like her usual ut teran-, c. "Henceforward I ? shall do my duty, and you must help me i do it. One thing-never tell Nellie this: j it would darken her happiness. And now j -good-by." She dragged herself away from him, ran down stairs, and locked herself in her rocm. "Mein Gott!" murmured Ernst, left to himself. ."I shall lose a heart worth den tousand of mine. But it is petter. She is wiser. I could not lofe her. I should end by making her unhappy as now-und more co. She fe wise for us poth." The next day, to the astonishment and annoyance of Nellie Fisher, but by the j positive dictation of Janet Hokum, the ! two women removed from their lodgings j to a cheap boarding house. There was* ! however, one good thing about the change: the boarding house had a parlor where : Mr. Hartmann could bo received with a j sense cf spotless propriety; and, what was delightful, he always had to bo re j coi ved by Miss Fisher, the elder cousin ' excusing herself on pretense of business, , illness, etc. One can easily see that all [ this had to end in a second troth plight, : and that the partie"? to it could not be ! other than Ernst and Nellie. It was j "petter;" youth must have youth; lovo I must have love. In these bargains mere ' respect and gratitude are not a fair cx j change^for the unreasoning, instinctive, ! potent impulse of the heart. I Almost the first use that Nellie made of j her betrothal was to run down to Ernst's j studio; entirely, she declared, to look at i thc new picture; but mainly, no doubt, to j look at the artist. She, too, liko Janet I before her, observed a change in the per ? sonages of the little drama. She had ! never known that her likeness had been j obliterated, and she did not discover it j now, for it had been restored in all its ! beauty. But in the face of ene of the j principal female figures, a face which, j though not absolutely handsome, was j sublime with an expression cf noble and j tender resignation-in this face, which j looked up to heaven as ii it had descended I from thither, Nellie recognized the conn j tenanco of Janet Hoicnm. ?"Why! you have g*3t in Cousin Jennie, j too," exclaimed tho delighted girl. "Oh, I vcu creature! you have made her finer than me." "I wanted to tignify the bainting." said Ernst, simply, "with the bortrait of the pest woman in the world." "Isn't she!" replied Nellie, pressing her i face gratefully against his shoulder. "I j am so glad you do her justice.' lowe j eveiything to her. Oh! I wouldn't cause ! her a grief for the world." j The picture having been sold to Mci j neau for the large sum cf $750, it was dc j cided that Ernst's prospects of success i were good enough to justify marriage, i and Janet ruled that Nellie must go home ! for that purpose to the residence of an i old aunt in Connecticut, j The Cfirl having departed. Janet felt able to have one interview with Hamann, ? not with thc object of indulging in any I weak reproaches or bemoanings. bat to j bid him a las? farewell. She was geing { to Ceylon, she informed him, as English j teacher in one of the schools of tho j American Beard of Foreign Missions. . ?jp? M . fm? V uOhl I wouldn't cause her a grief for the world.1 "Oh. it is too far!" implored the young man. "If you must go away, let it pe j still in this gountry. There is tho Freed I men's Bureau schools in the south." j "People return from the south," she ! replied. "I must go whence I shall never j return." J It was the only complaint, the only cry of despair thift was uttered by this martyr, i at least in human ears, j When Stanley heard of Miss ??oleum's i proposed departure he said to Ernst in ' surprise: "I thought she was to be your mis j simrary. What! have you taken the mit ! ten? Oh, you clever ??<g! You know tho .j difference between au old maid and a ??sw j one." "See }?<rrc," said the German, with solemnity." "I do not want you, one of my pest vriends, to &**bise me; und I want you to resbect Mis3 Ilolcum as she j ought to bc resbeeted. I will dell you i everything, und you must dell no one." Before lie had half finished his story of ! the broken engagement Stanley rose from ; his seat, dropped his cigar and walked up j and down the roora, rubbing his eyes with j his hands just like an affected boy. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, when the nar I rater Lad ceased, "if she wasn't in love I with yon. I'd be tempted to marry her i myself. She's not a cinchen, and she's j not a beauty, but sties pure gold." i "She's a berfect lady nnd a ?,'rand gen ? tlcman in one."said Ernst, j The urgencies of the board sent Janet j off tn Oyhoi !.<-;'.<rc ti."- marriage. Hart j mann and Stanley accompanied her as far as the Narrows, and then from the deck '. <.{ ile> tngwatched her as she leaned over 1 tia- taffrail, waving farewell to friend* 1 and native land. As tn;- lonely/figure of tins, loving, j self sacrificing, heroic, sublime martyr j faded from their sight the American said: . "God bless her!" And thcGennan added, j with his eyes full ?if tears: "Sancta i Chanet, ora pao m>bis!*' ? THIS KM). Hie Clerk Met ti ht ".Tatrh. i A lank, lirapy, raw boned countryman. I one ol those men who travel with an oil . cloth gripsack, and win. wear rakish lin. n dusters and carnot slippers, leaned over j t.';*' desk of an uptown hotel-at least, so the jtory runs-and informed the ?derk i that her?.! hke "tew hov a room f.ir 'few ! days." Th?: clerk happened to bc talking i hcrse just tuftt, and he paid about as ; much attention t? ?he countryman as i be would to a tar b?p.F- After waiting ! in open mouthed silence /or a while, th<> j stranger tapped the clerk On the arm to j draw his attention. Hegel a supercilious nod for his pains, and the clerk continued to explain to his friends why ho had jmt his salary on the mumal that didn't win. Still, ir; silence and patience th'- po"r yokel rested agaitrst th" desk. Finally lie blurted (?ut. a query as to whither er not tho "heouse was goin' to unt him ; up." Not. the least. notj<-<> from th" j clerk, who wais now explaining his reason for playing a horse for place when he ought to have bet on hiin to win. At last, seeing that tho countryman was completely squelched, he jabbed the register in iront of him, Mung a pen at him in a way that spattered ink all over thc distingue's linen duster ami glared at the chopfallen visitor while he scrawled his name on the register. "Do vor. know," thc yokel asked, when he had finished, "that von put me in mind of o' Clay?" "Oh. you're vcr}'kind." the clerk re? turned, graciously. "Of conreo, you mean the great orator, Henry-Henry Clay?" "No," came the drawling response "no, jest the common, ordinary clay-the kind they make slop jars out of. I'll take my key, please."-New York World. Device for Paving Explanations. Louis Nigg went to an amateur base? ball game a few days ago. There arose a dispute between the side which he was patronizing and the opposing nine. Louis went down and tackled tho umpire. He was discussing the question with that omnipotent individual when the man at bat committed a foul tip. .The ball shot almost with the celerity of a cannon ball and struck Louis square upon ono oyo. For days afterward dozens and dozens of people approached thc young man and questioned him as to the reason why his cheek was so black,- and why his oyo had assumed so much prominence. It was rather wearying. "What's thc matter. louie?" "Who hit you, Lou?" "Did you fall?" "Were you splitting kindling?' "Did you step on a hoop?" "Geing to get a divorce':" These and several scores cf like ques? tions wera addressed to him. Ho an? swered them good naturedly at first. Then a tired look overspread his features and gradually his appearance indicated great agony." When he seemed on the .point of collapsing he rallied and asked for paper and Mucilage. Later-Mr. Nigg appeared among his friends with a piece of paper pasted over the injured eye. On tba paper was writ? ten: "A i 1 tip."-Detroit News. An Examination on Matrimony. 1 suppose it will not be lomr before in female seminaries they have lectures on divorce. There arc always various forms of lectures on matrimony. And as div orce is growing to be a regular experience, why, it will be just as well that some? thing about the law on both subjects i should be taught in schools. Time was : when thc mother was proud to seo ber i daughter settled in life by marriage. But j nowadays Ibero is so much uncertainty i about it that old folks have to keep a ? spare room always ready for her return. ' Dy and by in-colleges we will have a reg ! ular examination on the subject. i "Vvlmt is tho difterence between rnar I riagc and divorce?" ! Answer-Marriage contracts two into I one: divorce expands one into four. i ''What \'6 marriage, anyway?" ! ' 'Marriage ls an experiment for the beno ; fit of a second husband." j "What is divorce?" I "Divorce is a vacation in matrimony." j "Which party is wrong in a divorco j case?" i "Thc partv that gets married again I last." "What is a marriage license?" "A pawn ticket for love." J "What is thc divorce court?" j "A matrimonial clearing house." "What is the register of marriages?" j "The doomsday book of women." j "Why do men marry?" ! "To enjoy tho luxury of deceiving wo ? men." \ "Why do women marry?" i "Heaven only knows."-San Francisco ! Chronicle "Undertones." 1 creon Messengers at Sea. Tho scheme suggested by the French i Society Colombophile is a novel, indeed, I an important one, and it seems rather i strange, now we arc told how much ad j vantage is likely to result, that it was not thought of* before. It consists in sending pigeon messengers from ship to ? shin, the same being on the broad seas ! and" far apart, or near an enemy's country, ; and needing re-ciforcement. A cote has j been established aboard the dispatch boat I St. Loris, the consort and constant at i tendant upon thc Couronne, lino of battle ship and school of gunnery at Salins c'?yeres. At its recent departure from Toulon, whither it comes every three weeks to re victual, thc St. Louis brought young pigecus. v/hieb quickly got accustomed to their floating cote, and to tho noise of ar-, tiliery lire, the St. Louis firing at least OOO shots a week from lier great guns. At distances small at first, but finally reaching 200 miles at sea, tho pigeons were released with messages, those of the St. Louis going to their home cote on the Couronne, and those in the latte? flying to tho j St. Louis. There have been few mis : haps, and, strangest of all.- the pigeons do not fear, so far as can bo seen, the iiro of ?be great guns, at times arriving when they are in full play, and in tho midst of heavy clouds of smoke coining from tho buming powder. The idea is to keep up constant intercourse between distant fleets which may bo operating against an enemy that may appear in forco at any moment and ?t 'any point.-Scientific American. Teoplo of .XeT Brunswick. They are a .splendid people here. There is a certain dignity about every ono of them far- moro striking than v>ith any English in England. And what is better, they are trnly'kind hearted and polite. I used to know, a quarter of a Century ago: some of those graud old Hudson Day com? pany's factors; and fine fellows they were -brave, cultured, chivalrous, gent?o and good, but with a roaring sort cf way with them that suggested tho entrancing Man itobaii Indian summer with a lurking, howling blizzard element beneath. These aro like them. Climate has had to do j with it; true culture of brain andorawn, dori. They ere near enough to the states to bo emulative; far enough from Eng? land to abhor incivility. They-and all New Brunswick folk are less pretentious than we; moro toler? ant than"others of their nationality. In all that makes sociologie distinction, these people are immeasurably bettet than rJngiishri?cn, and infinitely less the time server.-: and snobs than somo Amori ? cans. 1 should say they had got further j away from tho England wc profess tc r condemn than many of us whoso checks I should Hame for '-.ur cockney apings: that they r.vro, in moderation, level headed? ness, clean culture, and in the freedom from feverish ambitions and vanities, far in advance of most of our communities; that they possessed tho best of Old World equipoise and conservatism, and of New World virility; and that if by any j good fortune of diplomacy cr war their j country should become our country, wo would secure a fine bit of possession end as admirable a class of people ns are now within our farthest boundaries. i Edgar L. Wakeman*s Letter - 11 - .*.. -- A Safe Investment, ls ono which fa guaranteed to bring yon fat. ! ?5factory results, .*>r in case of failure n ri-turtr I of purchase price. Cn tiii> safe plan you cnn buy from our advertised Drusr^i.-r ;i bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery fi r Consumption. It is guaranteed to bring lelief in every case when u-i ci fur :>ny :?iTedon of Throat, laings or Chest. sue!i as iV-fisnuiption. Itl:tmnri<>ti ?f Lungs. ??ronchiiis, .A >t hiring Whooping Coiijjh ("r. np. et . , rte i? i.> pleasant H nd agreeable lu laste, p?rf:etly sifn. n nd can ahvny.? be do? pended upor>. Tri:?I bottles free nt J ?- W. DcLor.riV.-. Di ug :-i ?.r? . 1 Mer?! Wins, Wo dc.-ire ?;> say to cur citions, th:rt for year-; wo have been .-'.Ming L?r. King's New Discovery for Consumption, L>r. K:ng'.< Xew Life Pills, Luck ?en's Arnica Salvo ami Kleetric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that ss::! as well, or thai have given such universal satisfaction. We i!o no! hesitate so guarantee them every ti:;!.-!, and we .-land ready !.> refund the purchase [?rice, if satisfactory results il" pot foi!ovr their usc. These remedies im vc won their grent popularity pure!) on their merits. J F W. Debor mc, Druggist. 1 Cigars, Cigars. We carry one of thc lu rm st storks ir? the city. E. J. Oreen fe Sun. Ladies' aud Micucj' Liutti Co???rs. 5c, at h. vi a. Ask Foi Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and bo sure you got ir, w?icri you want the host blood-purifier, f /?^ii A ^i*a -ts 'orty years i LiPbSb mT ?* unexaniP'cd sue l nt^a u ccss iQ ti10- c"rc ni I i"/^*vf Blood Diseases, you . /T*^V;NV can makc no inis \'y>Lf%\ s\ *A1:9 *n preferring y m$? C I1 Ayer's / Sarsaparilla I ' J ? //^TT fore-runner of mod '' M?*/ ern kl??d medicines, '^?y$"J T?5> * Ayer's Sarsaparilla ? v/5 is sti?l most pop* r^** ular> being in great? fe^^^^^er demand than all .w^-.jffiL others combined. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla is selling faster than "ever ' before. I never hesitate td recommend it."-George W. Whitman^ Druggist, Albany, Ind. "I am safe in saying that my sales of Ayer's Sarsaparilla far excel"those of any other, and it gives thorough satisfac? tion." - L. H. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa; "Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Pills are the best selling medicines in my store. I can recommend them conscien? tiously."- C. Bickhaus; Pharmacist, Koseland, 111. "Wo have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla here for over thirty years and always recommend it when asked to name tho best blood-purifier." - W. T. McLean, Druggist, Augusta, Ohio. I ha^o sold your medicines for the last seventeen years, and always keep them in stock, as they aro staples. . There is nothing so good for the youth? ful blood' as Ayer's Sarsaparilla."-r B. L. Parker, Fox Lake, Wis. ?Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives the best satisfaction of any medicine I have in stock. I recommend it, or, as the Doctor? say, 11 prescribe it over tho counter.' it never fails to meet the cases for which I recommend it, even where the doctors' prescriptions have been of no avail."-C.' F. Calhoun, Monmouth, Kansas. * Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer Sc Co., Lowell, Mass. Price SI : sis bottles, $*.. Worth $5 a bottle. ROYAL CICERO 8794. Won fir3t prizes at South Carolina Stale Fair, 1884-1885. Bred by F. J. De Grjtchy\ Trinity. Jersey. Born January 8, 1883. Imported in Dam November 20, ?882. DKSCIRI?'T?O??.-Solid-grey fawn, shading to black on belly and lejrs. with black tongue and switch ; fine head With mild eye, broad forehead, thin yellow horn?, with well defined fillet ; long elim neck? straight back, with body of great depth, set low on 6ne clean limbs; slim tail, with heavy black switch;, skin exceedingly thin and mellow ?nd rich in color; false teats of unusual length, with great distance bet Veen, remarkable milk veine, and good escutcheon : mild disposition. II?9 sire, CICERO, won first prize over all Jerseys in 2 year old class in 1882 ; and was sold nt auction in Ne* York fer $3,100. His get are very uniform, and possessed Of rich mellow skins, and ail the points that usually accompany the high clas3 dairy animal. As showing the appreciation in which they are held by breeders, the thirty calves of his get, imported and sold by .Mr. T. S. Coop?r?t auction in New York, realized an average of $604 each ; and his yearling son, out of vonni Carenne, has recently changed hands at $2,500. His dam, KHEDIVE'S VIRGINIA, was out of one of the grandest dairy cows on the Island of Jersey, and is regarded as one of the best daughters of Khedive. She was purchased by Mr. J. H Walker, of Worcester. Mass., one of the most scientific Jersey judges in the countrv, at auction in New Yor*, in May, 1883, fo'r ?2,050. Royal Cicero will make the season at my farm, three miles west of Sumter. Service fee ?55.00. Aug. 8-3m. J. B. JONES CAUTION Beware ot Fraud, as my name and the price are stamped on the bottom of all my advertised shoes before leaving thc factory, which protect th?- wearers a.?ainst hl/h prices and inferior >roods. If a dealer puers W. L. Douala* shoes at a re? duced price, or says he has them W ithout my same and price stumped on the bottom, put him down aa a fraud. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE. GENTLEMEN. The ontv calf 8.1 SEAMLESS Shoe smooth inside. SO TACKS or WAX THREAD to hurt the feet, easy" as hand-sewed and TV?IX NOT RIP. W. E. DOUGLAS 84 SHOE, tho eritrina! and Only hand-sewed welt $4 shoe. Equals cus? tom-made shoes costing from $6 to Sf. Wi L. DOUGLAS 83.fi0 POLICE SHOE. Railroad Men and Lotter Carriers all wear tlicm. Smooth inside as a Hand-Sewed .shoe. No Tacks or Wax Thread to hurt the feet. W.L. DOUGLAS S2./?0 SHOE is unexcelled for heavy wear. Host Calf Shoe for the prie?-. W. L. DOUGLAS 82.25 WORKING? MAN'S SHOE i* the best in the world for roach wear; on?.- pair oi:?hi to wear a man a year. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE FOR ROYS is the bett School Shot" in the world. TV*. L. DOUGLAS 81-7.-5 YOUTH'S School Shoe give* the small Boy? :? chacee to wear the best shoes in thc world. All ruado in Congress, Button and Lace. If not sold bv your dealer, write TV. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS. J. Battenberg k Sons, Agents, Jan. 25 SUMTER, S. C. FR?PRIBT This Firm is too well knowr pi'jf, but having been silent for t advertising by another method) 1 through this medium, that their ; p?ete a stock of BOOTS AN as can he found in any Retail St determined not to be undersold ; body, in any style, according t pocket books. From the cheape complete. Don't fail to call, if you want 1 PERFECT FIT1: Remember they are Shoe-make This is their Eighteenth Year i BUlTilA? Proprietors of The i Oct. 3 --PEALE? Southwest Corner Ms AN ENTIRELY -OF Family and Fa j It is our Honest Purp pete with any House in A Large Stock of Far i G-oods and Delicacies < hand. Staple Goods A] Prices Reduced to thc ] Orders Promptly Filled Polite and attentive Clerks wi efforts to please all who trade wi Sept. 12. THE ?P?L?C A. P. LEVY & C (Successors to Rc We bave constantly on b WISES, LIQUORS, CH And desire to call especial a Imported. FRENCH BRANDIES, IRISH WHISK KY, JAMAICA RUM, HOLLAND GIN, SCOTCH WHISKEY, We call especial ; Pure North Carolii Sept. 26. Which we get dire New Advertisements, j TO ADVERTISERS ! A list of 1000 newspapers divided into STATES AND SECTIONS will bs sent ofij application-FREE. To those who want their advertising to par, | we can offer no hXtir ftiettiurti for thorough and effective work than the various sections ? of our Select LO<*H1 List. GEO. P. ROWELL ft CO*, Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Oct. 3 10 Spruce street. New York. OHAS. C. LESLIE," Wholesale and Retail Dealer in FISH, GAME. OYSTERS, TURTLES, TERRAPINS, POULTRY, EGGS, .Ac. j Stalls Ko. 1 and ') Fish Market. Office and Fish House. IS and 20 Market St., j E.isi of E;*it Bay, CHARI'E&TO.V, S. C. Ail orders promptly attended to. Terms cash or city acceptance, Oct. 3 1 WKS&k&SiSB??Bimmtmih wu ORS OF HOE STORE. i to our readers to require any lie past two years, (doing their ;hey deem it best to announce shelves are laden with as com D SHOES, ore in the State, and they are but they will und-cr-sole every o their respective tastes and st to the finest, all grades are ;o walk on solid leather, and CTNG- SH0E& rs, and know their business, ii Sumter. & BRO. Sumter Shoe Store. \?? & CO. .IS IN If GROCERIES, dn and Liberty Sts, FRESH STO?K ney ose to be able to Com the City. icy G-roceries, Canned of the Season now on I ways in Stock. Lowest Possible Limit, and Goods Delivered. II aid the Proprietors in their th us. ?I SALOON, )0M Proprietors. sendorf &' Co.) and a complete line of 5 A RS ANO TOBACCO. ttection io the following : Domestic. SHERRY, PORT, CATAWBA WINE, BLACKBERRY WINE, GIN AND FINE RYE WHISKEY. attention ta our ia Corn Whiskey, ct fi ora tte st!!!. LODGING'S; ?\ DESIRABLE FURNISHED ROOMS for ??i gentlemen, or a married conple. Apply corner Sumter and Republican Streets^' Sept ll JOS. H. MONTGOffiERTfT ATTORNEY AT LAW.. SUMTER, S. C. CoHecikms a specialty. Sept. 20.-o S ilitarj C?p. CHURCH ST., SUMTER, S. C. ??. ROYSTON, PRINCIPAL. FOR RENT OR SALE. DWELLING WITH FOUR ROOMS, out house and stables in good repair, in the Western part of town. Apply to, Sept. li. J. M. SPAS*. I i ?? mill III i ii-i wu i 1" ? II ii ? 'mir i ? a i II '??????I'* WK ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LARGE A URI VALS OF j NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS, i - and wc invite che attention' of t?ic public to a choree complete and care? fully selected assortment of new and fashionable effects in Colors and Fabrics and the best qualities in I Dry Goods and Notions, ! j Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, && Wc arc prepared to offer our customers the advantages of a stock bought at "thc lowest prices for cash. We have ONE PRICE. Goods are marked in PLAIN FIGURES, so thc purchasing public need not be deceived. Call and sec, I Sc bl ?.) To the Publie Tffi. LADIES IPi???? SUMTE^S. C., Sept ll,M We beg to state that we hare engaged the servicesof MR. AAROy S?ARES. Our Mr. Bultman and Mr. Suares have just returned from the North -and have bought a fine .. line of the LATEST TRIMMINGS AND iiics m LAM m? Every Ho? complete, embracing F?n?y Baskets, Cologne, Wine Toilet Soap* AND dorset?; - *? _ i Cloaks and Jackets* Bress (roods* Pass?mentaxie?f tes, ?at?en?an? Surahs> Plain an<? Plaids, ! Best make French Henrietta? ? in Black and Colors, which we5 guarantee to be such. i. ?mis and Shoes/ CAPS, Groceries and Hardware In the past, as }Tou all Well know, wc hsvc kept ? linc se? lected stock cf Groceries, and , I we now promise to continue i the same. r: . \ " - ' " - ' *2 We will guarantee our pricesf j to be as low as first class goods? can be obtained in any &rg$ city. Polite clerks in atieiidancc; anr7 n? goods misrepresented/ . Samples sent on application and ali orders by mail will receiver prompt attention". Thanking thc good, people of . this and adjoining Counties for i their liberal patronage, we re* main, Very respectfully/ MIR & ??i i m a Sept. 19.