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A LEGACY OF HATE. He used to kiss me ou the hair, My winding hair that wanders so? 21 left a perfume fine sud rare Which faded ?ow. Be used to kiss me on the "brow, Upon my brow that seems so cold. - His breath was warm. I wonder now If I am okL He used to Idas me on the eyes Poor, tired lids that shake and fall! Kow they know weeping-eyes sc Tr?an No more at alL He used to kiss me on the lips, False kisses, ah, my lipa so red! To burn and sting like poisoned whips Till I am dead! -Post "Wheeler in Kew York Press. A LOVE TRAGEDY. they be sich a darned mixture of f cebu's, They lore and they hate in a breath, They'll be false to one love in five minutes, And they'll stick to another till death. As to minds, they ain't got none, I reckon. It's heart as prompts all as they da ' ? t Bave I seen some nun things with these wom? en? Yes, I ?ancy I have-one or two. "Mole Jarvis O'Morley" <G. B. Sims). Tb* story* of Ellen Crawford and ber y two lovers may serve as an illustration of tbe Sims philosophy. She's jost a woman, pretty, tender, loving and good. . But Ellen Crawford was not exempt from tbe little weakness of her sex She ~ did not know her own mind. She yield ?ed to the mistaken impulse of an undis csphned beast and wrecked her own life i and those of tho two men who loved her to their own destruction. A husband seeking solace in drink curses the waywardness of woman; a sullen, angry man bereft of her who would have made his happiness stalks, gun in hand, over the mountain side, cursing ali humanity, and the authoress cf tile mischief sits by her father's fire? side, sad eyed and weeping, breeding over the fragments of a wrecked life. Martin Dome was a strapping boy of 12 and the pride of the little village of Hayesville, N. when one day he heard thai; Br. Hardin, a physician fa? mous in that part of the country, had retired from practice and was about to pass the rest of his days in that beauti? ful spot. [The doctor dame, bearing with him * pr?t?y baby of 3 years, whom all those around him knew as Nellie. Her black eyes, curly hair and dimpled, rosy cheeks soon became one of the most attractive sights of the village. Marim'Bome watched over her as she grew up, and in his big, lumbering, awkward way fae loved her-loved her as baby, as girl, as woman. But he nad never dared to mention the matter. At 13 he could thrash any man twice his size in those parts; he could "shoot straight," even for Carolina, where "shooting straight" is part of the edu? ction, and he sat his horse like an Apache. But in the presence of the divinity who held his fate in the hollow of her hand he was ever the big, awkward boy< . ? his.knees seemed always in the way, his fingers twice as lumbering and thick and heavy, and be could only stand stock still and turn red and blush like a schoolgirl and stammer,y "Lor, Miss Ellen!" whenever abe tenoned on the question of the weather. She knew that he loved her-had known it as soon as sha was old enough to know anything. Somehow at last she found a way of making him tell her so. When her father, in pursuance of his long cherished plan, sent her to Nash? ville for the completion of her educa? tion, it was known all over the coun? tryside that the young farmer and the doctor's daughter were to be man and wife some time. She left Hayesville a specimen of dainty, unsophisticated rusticity. She came back a clever, cultivated, witty woman-somewhat masterful, some? what impetuous, changeable as the winds, but all sweet and womanly. The change in her most striking and ominous of all was the change in the expression of her eyes as they rested on Martin Dome. The light that had once ' been there was gone, and Martin Dome knew why, when presently there came to Hayesville John Crawford, a young man she had met in Nashville. He had the ways and manners of the city; he wore city clothes as no country bred man could wear them. He had the su? perficial veneer polish that comes of a three years' course in a western college. He was of her caste. "It has all been a nil stake, " she said to Martin one day. ''I love him. Tba man I marry must have my heart " And in the heart of the man whose doom she spoke there stirred the deep, fathomless well of passion that had been hidden under the placid surface of his rustic life. "Who is the man?" he cursed. "Is it that white livered puppy from the city who has taken you away from me?" "I won't answer you. You've no right to ask," she cried. "He's a gen? tleman, which you never were. It is Mr|Crawford, if you will know." "Then I nope I may never kill him." Those were his last words. The next moment he was gone. On the day of the marriage all Hayesville and many people who had known the doctor in the world outside were assembled in the village church. One great gasp of sur? prise and horror burst from the crowd as Crawford, the happy bridegroom, en? tered the church, limping on a crutch, his head swathed in bandages, his face battered out of all recognition. "Thrown from his carriage while driving, " he said. And only Dr. Hardin ?sew that Martin Dome had waylaid him in the woods and beaten him al? most to death. In the city of Knoxville the young couple were living happily, but it was noticed that Mr" lawford was always tired and ill, mat her step dragged and that the light had gone out of her eyes. Of Martin Dome only, one thing was certain-that he was somewhere in the mountains and that he had joined the moonshiners and that the officers wars after him. One night Dr. Hardin and his two noys wore found unconscious "by ?he roadside, dabbed into oblivion by White Caps. "Ufartin Dome," said everybody. Yet beyond his hate there was no evidence against him. It was known positively that he had left Tennessee and gone into Tesas, and every one felt happier. "We're waiting for him; he'll find ns here when he drifts back," said the old doctor with a qniet smile. At sun? rise the next morning the villagers brought home the dead body of his old? est boy, shot through the heart in a fight, and the fight had its origin over the jilting of Martin Dome by Ellen Crawford. . ...*.? Two years had gone-two years of hopeless waiting and watching by the father, robbed of all that had made the sunshine of his old age. His hair was white now, his step was feeble and halting, his voice was weak and tremu? lous. His 55 years had changed to 70. But one day a yellow envelope was put into his hand. It was a telegram j that bore the signature of T. E. Lake, a private detective: "I have found your man hiding in a saloon," it said. "I have him fast Come to Knoxville or-send Crawford and swear out the warrant for his ar? rest" Crawford and the father stood in the office of Commissioner Broyle. awaiting the arrival of the detective and the po? lice with their quarry. They came pres? ently, and the enemies stood face to face. The faces of the father and the husband gleamed with hatred of the man who stood before them in rags that would scarcely hold together, unshaven, un? kempt, haggard, poor and ill, with the hunger of many days and nights. And then all started to their feet as a \ graceful little figure that they knew stood in the doorway with hand uprais? ed, a light in her eyes such as her hus? band had never seen tber?. "Send that man away!" These were her first words. lier fin? ger pointed at the detective. "He shall not harm a hair of Martin Dome's head." Father and husband strode toward her and grasped her by the arms. "Girl, do you know what you say- \ do you know what this means?" cried the doctor. "I do," she answered. "Ho must not be arrested." Lake dropped his hold of the prison? er, stood with his mouth wide open and stared at the woman. "Let me be sure that I understand this clearly," said the husband af ter a ? panse. "Let me know that I am not j mad or dreaming. This is the situation as clearly as I can make out : This man has ruined your father, he has tried to kill me, he has brought about the death of your brother, yet you say that he shall not be punished." "I mean that if he be punished I will gc with him to the end of the world," she answered, looking at Dome with all her heart in her eyes. "What care I for what he has done? He loved me and we were to have been man and wife be? fore you and I ever met The wrong has been my wrong. Tbe fault bas been my mult from the beginning. It is all a mistake-all a dreadful mistake. " ? Her eyes softened and her voice melted into tears as she gazed upon the broken man before her. And he was weeping like a baby. "I tbought-r-I thought-you had for? gotten the old days when we were chil? dren and all in all to each other, " he sobbed. "I never forgot," she softly sa>.d. "Now, father, take me home. I sm tired of living this life. " " Will the husband kill the man who -holds the love of his wife? Will Domo kill the man who robbed him of his sweetneartr . ass: me men. "What fools men are! Sbowasn't worth the trouble," say the women. New York World. Ancestors and Ancestry? Now it must be admitted on common sense principles that the formation of hereditary societies has reached a nat? ural limit, and it is time to cry a halt. The reasonable conclusion is that these societies should unite in work, if not in organization, and justify their existence by practical deeds. The end, however, is apparently not yet. The ancestor quest drives its followers to absurd lengths. Forefathers conjured up rise I from the genealogical caldron in a sort ? of harlequin procession-the ancestor in buff and blue, the ancestor in scarlet tunic, the bewigged ancestor, the jack booted ancestor, until from the dim twilight of heraldic tradition the crown ! ed ancestor looms up in the shadow, ls there not something decidedly incon? gruous in tbe spectacle of descendants of those who bade defiance to the third George of the name seeking to establish kinship with royalty through Saxon chief or Norman freebooter? Does not this latest departure tend to prove that ancestor hunting has no limit, tha? it is simply a question of enterprise, re? search and credulity? If we may estab? lish the Order of the Crown, why may we not in due course welcome a new hereditary society, lineal descendants of the mariners of tbe ark, the Ararat chapter, with proper insignia-suspend? ed from a navy bluo ribbon, a dove bearing the olive branch: - Harper's | Bazar. No Need of It at All. "Have you given up your idea of mastering some European language?" said the courtier. "Yes," replied the Chinese emperor. ? "What's the use? There is no means of i telling which I will need in order to talk to my neighbors."-Washington I ! Star. Road Notes. The Good Roads association has form- j ! ed 27 branch sections cf that organiza- ? ! tion on Long Island rlone. I The city of Louisville will expend j $82,000 on its streets during the com- . ing year. England has 186, OOO miles of read i which have coat thc government ?150,- j 000,000 in tbe past ?00 years. STATE AID FOR ROADS. A Recognition That This Is the Solution of tho Good Roads Problem. The strongest impetus which the good roads movement has received in many years past was the passage by the New York legislature of the Higbie-Arm strong good roads bill, says the Chicago Times-Herald. It is significant of the rapid growth of public sentiment in favor of state aid to highway construction that the oppo? sition to the measure could muster only 89 votes. Under this bill, which has become a law, the state appropriation for this year to expend for highway im? provement will be ?50,000, which, it is estimated, will amount to 1 cent per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or 2% cents on the average $2,500 farm. The size of each year's appropriation is fixed by the legislature, and as the good results of the law become more discernible and more generally recog? nized it is not improbable that public sentiment will demand in a few years a much larger appropriation. Under the provisions by which a county is author? ized to apply for a portion of the good roads appropriation the law becomes a home rule measure. If the appropriation should be increased to $1,000,000 in any year, thc average tax on each $2,500 farm would be only 50 cents, which seems a trifling expenditure considering the immeasurable benefits that accrue to agriculturists through good highways to the markets. With such a notable example of what the state can do in the way of encour? aging the constriction of good highways afforded by her neighbor, New Jersey, the wonder is that New York did not inaugurate the state aid system long ago. Under the New Jersey law the state bears one-third the expense, the size of* the appropriation being deter? mined by the legislature. Under the stimulus of state aid nearly every coun? ty in the state is now building macadam roads, while there are already so many miles of stone roads in the state that it can be traversed in every direction without leaving them. Nineteen of the 21 counties of the state have this year made application for their shares of the appropriation. The action of the Now York legisla? ture is gratifying recognition of the fact that state aid is the u?'~ late solution" of the good roads proble J Thc^ Attitado of Trost. Writing about the attitude of "be? lievers" toward the future life, of whose details their knowledge is limit? ed, a correspondent of the London Spec? tator insists that it should be one o? trust similar to that reposed by Gari? baldi's volunteers in their leader. Quot? ing from a popular life of Garibaldi, in Italian, the correspondent says: "In 1859 Garibaldi's volunteers, some rich, some poor, were :aear Alessandria. On May 23, the camp of the Alpine Huntsmen was in con) pie te confusion. The improvised soldiers rushed to arms to the sound of the trumpet " 'Quick, quick!' said the officers. . We are to start ' " * Where are we goin&.-' "?That is a mystery. Garibaldi knows where, and that's enough.' "Garibaldi went through the ranks with words of encouragement to the weary and sympathy for the enthusias? tic and in person saw to every need." This motley host drove the Austrians in a 20 hours' battle 20 miles up the Stelvio pass, over the . glaciers of the Ortler and back into Tyrol. "The most unkind thing, not only the most imprudent thing," comments the correspondent "would have been for these volunteers to have been sup? plied with a full and accurate plan of what lay before them. The silence of God as to the future life is at least kind. Knowledge without correspond? ing power to act tends to become a burden. It would be no kindness to humanity to bewilder it by descriptions of an unrealizable state and to distract it from that daily path of duty which leads thither." Worriment a Stranaer to Edison. Two things are unknown to Thomas A. Edison-discouragement and worry. His associates claim that his freedom from these afflictions comes from the fact that he possesses absolutely no nerves. Recently one of his associates had to report to him tbe failure in im? mediate succession of taree experiments involving enormous expenditure of money and labor. But the inventor simply smiled at tho recital. The asso? ciate, worn out with the neivous strain of his long watch and disheartened by his disappointment, said impatiently, "Why don't you worry a little about it, Mr. Edison?" * "Why should I?" was the inventor's reply. "You're worrying enough for two."-Ladies* Home Journal. How to'vook Dried 2Fro.it Pot I*ie. One-half dozen dried apples, one-half dozen dried apricots, one-half dozen dried peaches; wash well and boil until almost done in a granite pan four or five inches deep with just enough water to keep from sticking and scorching. Then add three-fourths cup granulated sugar, one teaspoonful lemon juice, two table? spoonfuls New Orleans molasses, but? ter the size of an egg. Stir well; then add dumplings mado as follows: One egg, one-half cup sweet milk, a lit? tle salt (not quite one-fourth teaspoon? ful), one heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Mix so as to drop with flour and drop over the top o?: fruit. Boil 25 minutes, just in timo to serve steaming hnfc Road Brief-, Along poor roads land sells slowly. There is a demand for farming land and rural homes along good highways. Under her present road law 238 miles j of good roads have boen built in New \ Jersey. Hard roads make access to the farms easy at all seasons; produce can be ship? ped in any weather if the highways arc cassable. Twenty-Fifth Ordered to Tampa. Cbickaihauga, May 5.-Orders were received from thc d< parta? nt at Geo Brooks' headquarter- tbh afternoon that tho Twenty-Fifty infantry Col Burt, be t>?-nt immediately to Tamps. Ic wiil probably ?tart to-morrow muru ing. Tbe4" Wbive" is the beet oo earth. You will save rxoripy if >oo will flee Ran? die bet?r* bujiug a Piaoo, Organ or sewing machine. Greeoville bas tent ro tbe war a larger number of voluoteeirs ?ban bag any county or city in South Carolina. With oo big talk and no bluster the Greenville boys eohsted and went for? ward. It was tbe same when money was to be raised for tbe reconcentradas. Proportionately, Greenville did consid? erably n ore tbao any other community io the State. And yet there are not over a d'zeo people io ali Greenville who feel any special io ti-rt-st in the cause of Cuba The canse of "Uncle Sam" is another thing - Greenville News. TTING READY Every expectant mother has a trying ordeal to face. If she does not get ready for it, there is no telling what may happen. Child-birth is full of uncertainties if Nature is not given proper assistance. Mother's Friend is the best help you can use at this time. 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