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4 t i.i* di*rtitiM ha! t*gun to
, J if atn-'r.g tbe ilI-a>*sortxl colo-•
~.1 <trrnt witoia a month after
4 F oparture. It was nt a homo-
wap***, and it would perhaps j
* j - m almtl rmanently concor- J
, iiy t'\ nt. But Marcb'i going
r til' if-itiuMf ru.ture. While
t e tb'-ni guiding, snviothitig,
ii their daily work me op|Msing
Iw. re cur'l. Toey respected
t -uj atwl tartllf ow n-d their ob-
grant ude to him. For, In fact,
4 (kmt ti UtM dly, and
. t ■ upon hi* land as* bis guests. I
f .mu Miie| ikra*ilre to the j
i r i’i ha>l * iiui'-! all the j
it,, i r tiin, ijf, tii’. they were j
, 4' f-wved * ftttUm him made a
t • • delicate a nature tb i the
. at them would nave h aiutel to
a lute u ■ .• arith them. I.m
. w . lie li u ten ants and as
ta - ain leg eof respect;
t n . Ml. x-tb With til
. . •.■ * n m Itin hini
t i > . ut• n. From
* . . ;. r !•;* *r „r. he had i
, ,:e.i be* and (11 ul< lea; and
• : iiie.'et *n its peace
* , ' .-.t with laborers con
.-**<•■- u ..n- th-ir first pro*.
v. veiv w< U bavcfl u
-4 * ,ai a,, a* a \i. • n of con
i -r ••. at ail. vents, went
*•- 5-1 *•> Ibe forebodings
• <l * and have tormented rh <l *tie
i • enterprise
■ it | u-r arrival in Judea
. ; . i.l -v r> .ular n-p rtsol in
t*. • t ' v ~ . U*.l at all
. • <l* ; aruire a sens** of I
. -it# . ~n.'• Ilf* * r .1- well-being, j
s u* rr -tin tlv iir. l weightily i
I *e - m ax-mi terliiii; i>f any other '■
rn. . ut it m t*r personal 1
1m .i .> . !a< h site ipreaVy
• >l rrihiT • C ><d account. It was
\aj/tt *r. hf II hacinw of t fat whom
• - . ! a.i I'iinn f With ii:i idea of
*-•*•-* rtf ah i,> had asked L ncolu
. ...:*■• I . i nM>
! a.l that <Bt oti within tk~ little
in *htca he *a president pro
I*. ■ ->•> r. at tfrat
i .*u. -it with nt thc*>r ch o.
. B ln tt l: b-t s 'liivalial
* ■• ml. ll** weekly k ,r i- r bad iu-
*i cootaii .and linrni of a
• . * • *ti- • which would dubtleaa
> a am *l. Hot nHhii : cso had
• 1 -r t*r the at letter which
• ; * :<i*r li&.l u lb** t* t at break
*•••*. • iiMantt lag i iiiow-
It k. ator'a Visit.
r ' ija."* l ' Mr*. K bo’s, r.s she
ft: a ,r f t*ie paper."that there
% k>4 of iiu ; in p*o re - at (5.m1.
I*a It Will grKVe t!ia!"
n * it-he* -lit and 4 ash wao the pro
• * cn.Ll ..an i for.
• net a* it h>- were here,'* she ad
- a link a t ii'tellbft lite.
' s* f !**■ *t*i * r.u r*. “it’s not a*
* - •** ,i e. <* • l t uat ilia not a n
i , .’ll edl” exclaimed lier aunt,
,ki* ua* (ton that th** phrase hs in
>*•*:. ‘ Mf hat .-on and >!r. I. n* > lud**?
• . : u: -it mu-t
i*f# •w# up without warning. Ait.
oa.a h.i*e written it it wae
• a*. ,l a di l mink."
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i nw returned titahaw with n tfd
i . k*ra f r doubtful tow*.
• * know," mm* sml. --Ah, what
• nr -.-ce.i.earnestly.
I ah Ml yet plain to h* r that ID Ml |
• the and tur uo.e was infallible
ii. .* mtaty.
kh *w nt i *wf it than I. You are
* falsi yourself, tfenr. You
>• erstaud tic Sc things.”
-v; t*u I don't. On, aunt. I'm
• sd —u *4et ab.'ut * V’sb-excl .tn. and,
•*i a.sriticd perpl* xity not native to
• e .ad s m.*m :.t, drawing: th*> let*
• e usly thro j bh r Ungers.
Y - Show hw l frai she Burst out.
i . s.ice.” returned Airs.Echols,
** -a.a steal:*.
8 *We.i, that's it. It’s hot m? personal
■*'*' I -a Site wdSaieot liejflt so much
■ as. f.Hi know I sent bun aw.iy. 1;
■•• t * s aapgwn* ttr ugh his absence
■a*- ran ln.r forgive rnys.il*"
■ *f siemheriu- mat you me vnt right,
9 ft.*’, u dear. Kut task’* not the yuw
■ '• Sms muai ii|'p*n."
1 *•;’* wnat I think. Hat hot*—
V. ssso let ns go t<-day.”
■ a *-*r chU-L. vuit are you thinking
1 J Iftt written F and* we should
§ • we,k longer, tv, eh uld sur-j
**t *f a w bole day's h-uing.”
* **..ew ob-tacles in the way,”
9 '* • and. : *:ug with deterininatiou.
1 *1 i caa *e do*”
9 • *.• m ad We w ill go. It will lie:
■ ■* s s ato be tin-re. It lolulera- !
ti -* <ki|* ii not know of the occa
* ak nt anguishiax weight k her
■T' * r 1 ! ..lea. but #uep.-r
---■ genuinene*. of her anxiety
' * * ita and ibe a u both too
* ntid !•)•* much attached to her
■ • a .rnwded day, lor their passage
14 * ■ -o-ae>! in too corn'll auil aii
**•> • with tv m wa t<
and. The furniture also was to be
rj ibt* r -'rus once tin-re
rwd aod left to me friendship
•tom. Tse burden which these
. ■"* up<*o Constance was
! V •**< re and when it was all over
- • -wcWit, tfleir boxes and pack
—■ sr -si down and strapped upm the
1 * *s- saak wuain that friendly re
[* s. -wag 4y exhausted.
■ * ia;>d*ord of toe inn came out to
* **''■ ® *azes her thoughts went
*• -esp her fatigue, to the time of
d-panure from Ju lea. She re
wr - wean r'signorant efforts for the
. kr *ant Cynthia and berseir
* a>l *O-tie. and m her in tn >ry there
’ • • ’ paiulul vivtdaess the picture of
-o-r Media; t-y me coach door
• * 5 1 * * n ’l hi* head hared.
* too* a, fidelity and confident
o m face returned to her with j
e remembered the strong, calm j
*'** which he ha<l answered her I
* rusiinf phrase. “Yu must not ;
, • ,*• **** had said: * Not while !
*. ,**’. Sttrritr sue had trusted i
* ' f"r the fiftieth time sac asked i
1 “Sat had tempted h.m to this fa-
I in the midst ot greater con-
I ”*? se m strange that she should j
‘"T much thjught to this pro-
M * of the flight be- ,
B la which she had oeen taught !
■ mortal pain tb<* int* nsitv of her
B . " ®* lrUoU< * her to avoid the sule j
■ 1 1 engrossed ail her woniaclv '
■ 1 j” i >' -upy her
StaT' wauh * ,u ber i
■ --.-it to
un'u,'ji ts *{* •ailing !
■MttSKa.’vs
• wio, rather for March than tor her- •
Bn'of U? 1
be not lustlv
***** au
•cense her? She had warned him; hut If
she supposed this among possible events
ought sneno' to have prevented him alto,
pettier? She could not remember what
ah- bad thought; she only knew that she
had felt implicit faith in Mr. Keator. And
yet as she looked about to find food for
the self-accusation, which was a kind of
and -p- rate pleasure, it seemed an incredi-
I !e innocence that she should not have
foreseen that a man tilled with such a
passion as his must fail in the diffi -tilt
temptation he had set himself. But she
always returned to ner old belief in him,
aud when she asked that to say how she
could have suspected him cf a wrong un
der whatever trial silence answered her.
She knew that she could not hav- had less
than the unquestioning confidence in him
which he bail abused; and her feeling to
ward him. sa coustantly since their in
terview, was of honest grief for his fall
rather than resentment for her own Inju
ry. She had been p-rfectly truthful in
telling him that she believed, it the lot so
determined, she should not be found an
indiff rent wife. She could not help cling
ing to the frank liking and esteem for him
which seeuu-d to havebeen immemorial!)*
part of her nature, and even in her anger
she had known that something which
he would not say extenuated his ruinous
failuie. Her imagination did not go so far
as the visi<*n of herself as his wife when
be should have abolished the Mr. Keator
she bad known by abandoniug the minis*
try. She preferred rather to conjure her
self back to the time when she hail been
ab'e to look upon the spectacle of herself
as his wife, at certain rare moments, with
a vague, il alloyed, saiisfactiou; when oc
casionally it had seemed to her that bis
persistence might some day accomplish
its end for very lack of rivalry.
But since then Mr. March had come,
and love with its gift of new eye 6 had so
cheapened these easy theories that as she
looked back upon them she used her com
passion. The thought was fruitful in
memories, a nd all her memories seemed to
be full ol March. As the bitter fear that
he was now forever lost to her recurred,
notwithstanding her resolve, she gave
herself up to tta- luxury of her sorrow,
and tried to think that the treasured fact
of love, even renounced love, would al
ways console her pain. But at the mo
ment it was itself a far too painful
thought to belong pun>U2d. She found
time, however, to upbraid herself for the
pride which had bidden from him the lull
measure oi her affection and to determine
that it when they met again she was not
Mr. Keator’s wife he should know how in
comparably dear he was to her. She was
suddenly seized from she knew not whith
er with the whim-ical fancy that she
sh mid find him at Qiiinnimout. lie bad
com- as unexpectedly before. She longed
to cist som; of her wearisome bu den
uiMn him. In his presence it seemed to
u-r that *nc should be strong for anything
tae future held.
Sue aeorned tbe hungry wish that en
dowed her witu an iru tgination ot its ac
. *>ij*livim Mit. But next day when they
found Lincoln awaiting them in the 1
eo.u-b-yar-l -he experienced a desolating
-. use of disappointment in not finding
M iron standing liosid • him. As he drove
th-m to the house in wtiicnConsLinC'' had
- pent s*> many ft *p v days and in which
love bad first coin *to her she was dis
tinctly conscious of a future weighing
upon tier w ith tue unsought gift of days
* Inch would have lost aii value. The
happy *ioi;rs K.ymwl permanently over;
j.,*! ii i;* this was what older people meant
by *s|ierienoe. It was certainly not
wftat sae bad meant; but she remembered
ho -v she had sigh and for it even if it should
prove all wounds. So tar it had been very
g.-nerous to h*-r, and she bravely said to
nerself that she must take the evil with
tne good. Here was an opiiortunity to
! show that she had been in earnest in her
1 w illingness to pav for experience at any
price, to prove herself worthy to know
| I lit-.
Lincoln told them that the trouble at
rnt h*d *om *what subsided, but that
h- fear.si the dissension beyond remedy.
“I wisu March were here!” exclaimed
the young man.
“Yes, indeed,” murmured Mrs. Echols,
fervently; but Constance only looked at
him anxiously as ne added:
“Berhaps he may come yet in time.
That is what 1 have beeu hoping for. Tills
dirtknilty began in October,” he c*>n
fessed, as he chirruped to the horse. “I
thought it ietter not to write you, but l
did write March advising him to return
at once. As I reckon it he could have
in-on here a fortnight ago with favorable
winds, but making every allowance hv
iii o lbeb- re w ithin a tew days. 1 should
have given u,> the contest last week if 1
had not he and on that to nope.”
“You forget hii agreement,” said
Constance, sadly.
Lincoln glanced at her conpassion
ateiy.
• No; but I bot>e ho will break It.”
. ‘-Au, so do l!” cried Constance. ‘‘So
| ,io ir
on the second day after tbeir arrival
- Lincoln came over to call upon tnem, and
| Constun-ti was n*t surprised to sec him
i accompanied by March.
! Constance n- ver understood how Mrs.
ii hols and Lincoln so swiftly made
suowu their iuuui.il sympathy for: he sit
uati-in an-1 vanish and, but at the moment
-tie was not inclined to question any
: thing. She glided into bis anus and
son tied out the st >rv of her sorrows oil his
’-ft*- ist. .Moaningly sac went over the his
| tory Mr. K-.-ator’s fa 1 and ot his de
! mand up *n her. Of the lot she had not
*p n- n when sh“ told him of her pledge
; iu the fl.-g illery, and sho did not venture
1 > tto make known to bun the arbitra
m- nt to which she had entrusted her late
an<i bis.
M arch was, however, too much occu
pied with the pleasure ot seeing her again
to make far-reaching inquiries, or even to
trouble hi in sell so mucu as might have
been expected regarding the main disas
ter. For the instant it was sutli dent to
see her veit tkeu by an infirmity so little
part of her usual disposition. His love
was founded, as love always is, upou his
sense ot her unlikeness to other women;
but with the curi ms fatuity of the pas
(mou he would not nave her like all other
women in her worn tidiness. Her weakness
endeared her to mm, and the affection
wi.ica he had oun>el lor months over
flowed in ms caresses. -I-tst then it was
the richest privilege in the world to eoui
lort her. and he dal not suffer his connec
tion with the cause of hergriet to chasten
Ills pleasure.
“Hush,darling, husi!” he w-hispered,
as she duisoed her recital. “Wnal > iff.-r
--ence does it make* You still care a little
j for me, don’t you?”
She neid him off quickly with a light of
passionate cevotiou in her eyes that told
: him more than h-j bad i>eeii allowed to
know. It touched him with a mild rap
-1 ture.
He folded her in bis arms.
I “Then, dearest, there is no other fact
in the world. How gr • edjMre should be
to ask auvthing morel”
He smiled down upon her where she lay
looking up at him.
“Oh, no, no,” she denied.
But the glorified light on her face did
not la le. and she devoured his glance with
an almost fearful trust.
“I haven’t told you,” be said, as he led
her to the sola, “my mother is charmed.
As tor my lather”—he paused with a
smile—“my father has given me an ex
cellent precedent for marrying an Ameri
can.”
"1 fear you’ll never marry this one.”
she whispered, with a pained little laugh.
“Y'iu uon’t know her nor me,” March
returned, with a fond pressure of her
hand.
“But, Mr. Keator!”
“Ah, yes,” repealed March, "Mr. Kea
tor I”
“You can’t fancy how I hare longed to
see you since It happened!”
‘•You don’t blame me, then?”
“Blame vou!”
"I hesitated to break our agreement.
Nothing less imperative than this trouble
at Oerrit wou.d hive brought me over.”
“1 don't need proofs of your truth and
loyalty,” she said, “and l did need you.
So they did at (ierrit. I cared even more
that you should come for that than for
me. I can’t forgive myself that It should
have happened, but it you bad not come
in time I couid never have faced you.”
“Did you feel your charge so much as
that, dear?” he asked. “I should have
at> ndoned the experiment before I lett if
l had supposed it would burden you so.
It wou and merely have hastened the eud.”
“Why—wby, you don’t mean— f*
“Yes,” said March, quickly, as if the
wound were still too tresti to exjiose.
“You don’t intend giving it up?” she
haif entreated.
March turned away.
•1 have given it up,” he answered, with
sad brevity.
>he laid her hands softly on his shoul
ders.
“Poor Owen!” she said.
“No. you inusn’t uity me. All reasona
ble persons would say that I ought to be
congratulated.”
He stroked her hand thoughtfully.
Then he gave her a swift smile as he
looked up.
“But we are not reasonable peo le,” ho
ended, with a sigh which perhaps stood
for a mingled emotion.
“No,” said Constance, calmly. “It’s
muoh pleasanter,” she add 'd
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1885.
“Yes, but It has it disadvantages. If I
were not unreasonable I should think
myself well rid of a foolish philactery. As
it is, I am saddened—saddened by a di
mi utiou of my faith in certain possibili
ties, of course; but chi-fly that these men
should lose by their folly* all that tho*e
possibilities might have done for them.”
“And you have disbanded the c dony ?”
said Constance, bringing him back to the
mam facts.
“Yes, they all professed to be very
sorry and some ot them were honestly re
pentant; but, of course, that was the only
thing. They would have disbanded with
out me. I don’t know why they should
be grieved wnen I save them the trouble.”
“Ah, they loved you,” murmured Con
stance.
“They are willing that I should pay
their way home,” said March, tersely.
Constance 6miled.
“Well, that is a proof of likin?,” she
answered. “They wouldn’t let everyone
pay their way.”
“Unfortunately no ono tempts them.”
And after this they were silent lor a
moment.
“Owen dear,” said Constance, at length,
‘•I se-m very safe—very securelv yours
sitting beside you here,don’t I? But you
don’t know wnat may be going on in
Judea—yes. even at this moment.”
Her voice snook and she made the first,
advanceol her life in running her hand
vaguely over his head.
‘•Oh, I didn’t tell you—how could I tell
you?” She drew herself away. “Owen,
Mr. Keator is to decide it by the lot!”
“Constance!” he cried, aghast, as he
started up.
“1 feared you would feel so.”
She bit her lip and tremulously turned
her face to the sofa ba k.
He t-ok her gently by the shoulder and
drew her about.
“Constance; Constance dear, don’t vex
yourself about my failing. Surely you
you have enough e'lse. Hut why did you
never tell me that this blind chance was
to be the final judge between us? Why
did vou leave me in ignorance until no w V’
“Until now it was never important.
How could I dream of Mr. Keator’s fail
ure? What good would it have done
you?” cried the girl, attiictedly. “And,
you remember,” she added, with the ghost
of a smile, “that you were interested in
something else when 1 told you the story
in tnj fly-gdilery.”
“Oh, never mind,dear; never mind! We
have the fact now. That is enough. But
1 never thought of thisl” exclaimed ue,
heavily. “D> you think I should have
been so light-hearted it I had imagined
that this was all our happiness hung
upon ? When you told me just no w I was
a little shocked at Mr. Keator’s failure,
but L was not surprised. Perhaps it is
easier for me to understand it tnan for
you.” He smiled faintly. “In tha na
ture of tbiugs you can’t appreciate the
temptation; ypt 1 thought he would re
treat.’ ’
Constance sighed, remembering bow he
had endeavored to retreat aud how .he
had prevented him.
“L> > you mink you would?” she asked
him, with melancholy gayety.
“I’m not a clergyman. li's not a ques
tion of sacrificing my ministry.”
“That makes it harder, but he won't
turn back—not uow.”
March turned away desperately and
went over to the window. Tne ground
was covered with snow, and tne snow
birds were bopping about on its glisten
ing surface and calling one another troin
the gaunt tree tops.
“An, you musi see he puts it beyond
reparation by tnis public exhibition. If
it is favorable to him, this lottery, he will
not have the surrender ol his ministry to
■ estrain him. 11- will have install reason
for remaining in the cuurea by linking
your name witu his in tnis devilish de
vice ot tne lot. Tney talk of marriage as
holy. Think of deoidiug sue h a thing by
the choice ot bits of paper! It is child
ish!” exclaimed March, pacing the room,
“It is hideous!”
Constance turned her anruised face to
him.
“ • The lot is east into the lap,’ ” she
said, gently, with a memory of Mr. Kea
tor’s solemn quotation; -‘but the whole
disposing thereof is oi the Lord.’ ”
March came quickly over to where she
sat.
“It is natural that they should defend
it with quotations.” lie paused a mo
ment, thoughtfully. “It must seem just
and them. They would not do any
thing mat did not, and no ilouot it is as
good a way as auother. Marriages must
be so much matters of chance, iu any
event. Hut it’s hard!”
‘ lie has mv promise,” she said, very
quietly. “You must remember that; and
whatever the la.lure for him or ruiu for
us we rnush’l feel that he is going beyond
that.”
Her hands were locked in her lap, and
her f tee wore an expression ot acute
misery.
He sunk into a seat beside her on the
sola and drew her to hint.
“You are right, darling; you are al
ways rigat.” He kissed tier softly. “Ami
1 am exquisitely wrong. You wilt always
hod me so, Hear. Peihaps you inightb t
t r accept Mr. Keator, however the lot
decides.”
Sue gave him an indulgent smile, but—
“On, wo tuusu’t laugh.” she said, “fmuk
if it should come Luel”
He caught her closer.
“Don’t talk ot it, dearest. Talk of
deata, but don't talk of my losing you!”
A light knock cam :at the door and she
rose and took from on ; ot the negro ser
vants the mail-bag which Mr. Eubols
sent to Quinuiiuout daily. Among the
letters sue found one tor herselt.
“It is trout Mr. Keator,” sue exclaimed,
softly, as she turned it over.
March w aited siieutly wnile she opened
it.
“It must have boon written tho day af
ter we lett,” sue murmured, as she began
to read.
“Wnat is it, dear?'- asked March, at
length. —Does he relent ?”
She gave a hard little laugh.
*‘l have arranged all as you wi9h,” she
read. “We shall be taken together in the
lot on Thursday. 1 will write.”
“Whatdoes he mean?—-as you wish?' ”
asked Maron, tersely, as he started up.
“He wanted to give it up—to retreat.
When he had made his declaration he was
s irry lor it. Hut tueu, of course, it was
for me to insist.”
“And you insisted
“Ah! you don’t hume me, Owen? You
Woiil in't have had uie do less?”
“11l line you, darling? I never imagined
any ibiug bait so hue. Oil, Oonstauoe,”
ue whispered, as he took uer cheeks be
tween his hands, “it will always tie my
dearest privilege to have known you even
though we must always live apart.”
She smiled.
“It is to-day, you know,” she said.
“Yes, Thursday,” he assented, in griev
ous meditation. “Even now they may be
deciding our fate.”
“We shall hear Saturday,” she said,
tbougnttutly, as he drew Ins’ haudsaway.
“Not to be tuere to change or prevent;
that is the bitter thing. Oh, Constance,”
he cried, “it is intolerable! We are stand
ing by here with tied hands and our future
is Being parcelled out to us.”
“But parcelled out by God,” she said,
wistfully.
He took up his hat and coat. Constance
did not attempt to stay him.
“Ah, let us hope *o!” he said, with a
groan.
He stooped and kissed her and was
gone.
XXIV.
Rose came into the library in her walk
ing apron when she had heard her brother
enter the house alter his visit foConstance.
He was sitting in nis leathern chair witn
his head bowed upon nis band. Stto went
softly over and t .uched him. He glanced
up witn a quick smile and drew her
greedily down to him. He felt the isola
tion wh;ch follows every species ot
wrong. It seemed to him that Ue had put
himself at odds with the world. Rose
was his one sure friend. She was a com
panion sail upon a sea otherwise Iright
lully desolate, and he believid he knew
that no storm would induce her to aban
don him.
t>tie looked at him steadily a moment.
“Y'ou would rather not tell me, brother,”
she said, ever so gently.
“How do you guess so well, little sis
ter?”
She nestled against him on the great
chair arm.
“Because I love you, dear, I think,”
she answered, as sue pressed her lips to
his forehead.
He took her hand.
“Always love me, Rose. Promise me
that you will,” he begged.
She saw the piteous seriousness In hi 9
eyes. She perceived that he was much
in earnest .
“1 promise,” returned she, simply.
“Whatever befalls?”
“Wuatever befalls.”
“Oh, 1 need it, Rise! I shall need it
more and more now.”
It mu-t have been a cruel trial to re- j
strain the questions that were on her lips, j
She was deeply concerned: she was fear- j
ful of she knew not what. But she brave- I
ly curbed her affectionate curiosity.
“Remember, that 1 trust you,” she
merely said; “always remember that.”
“Am I likely to forget it? It is because
I am sure of H that I ask you to make
trial of It for a few davs. Believe in m
for as long ns that, at all even s. In good
time you shall know all. I would not
hide a word from you. But now—l shall
be in sore need of all v*>ur faith in me for
a day or two.” He turned away quickly
“I cannot cloud it. Bear with me for u
little, Kose.”
“Far always, brother,” and with the
perfect tact of her love she slipped Bilem
ly out of tbe room.
H-r trust indeed sustained Mr. K ato
In th-days which followed. It was th
single beacon by which he found his way
in the fog which life had sudiieuly be
come.
The two days succeeding Constance’s
departure were alwavstilled to tils tn m--
ry witn a sickening contu-ion ol thought.
His mind seemed to have grown blank;
but it was the sort ol blank on which de
lirium writes a thousand irrelevancies in
her invisible ink, crossing and recroes
ing; then hurniuu them into intelligibility
arul setting them instantly fading again.
His brain whirled. He could not com
mand it long enough to make with bim
selt a consecutive argument of Ms situa
tion. He came to his meals in a daz-,
aud tired Kose by sitiing vacantly silent
and eating nothing of the delicacies witn
which she strove io tempt him. When he
kissed her good-nignt she could have
wept for his haggard face.
Conrad tried to make him aware of his
sympathy with a trouble touching which
he could frame no guess. But his well
intentioned kindness failed, as it had
failed with March.
Mr. Keator was haunted by one pur
pose; pursued by Constance’s demand
that be submit this question, which had
become the question of his lile, to the Jot.
In the labyrinth in which he groped this
path at least was clear, abd he followed
it. with the desperate tenacity of the mad
man who knows his one bit of knowledge
so well. He did not look forward beyond
the awful decision. He did noi dare, if he
cousidered a moment in the forlorn strait
to which he had come be was certain that
he should not go on. He clung to toe let
terof Constance’ademana. That at least
he could obey, and be went about the
preparations for carrying out her wish,
finding a kind of salve to his conscience
in this blessed sense of iiresponsibility.
Of his own notion ne never could have
done the thing fjr which he uow carefully
laid tbe train.
Several missionaries, as their wont
was, had written non to provide wives for
them at the first meeting of the contei
ence, aud th re were besides two young
inen in tbe settlement who had reached
the marriageable age and were <!eir mis
ot such pann-rs as the lot might appoint
to them. In the proper exercise ot his
power the minister called a meeting of the
conference tor the purpose of satisfying
these wishes. Of bis own determination
he said nothing.
on Thursday morning the elders began
to gatuer iu response to this summons in
the room at the rear of the church used
lortheii deliberations. It was an apart
ment much employed liy Mr. Keator in
his own work, and in summer it becam
his siudy aud he wrote all his sermons in
it. Tie light flooded it tnrougn many
generous windows so deep set in the ma
sonry that the heat abandoned its mis
sion before it reached the inter or. In me
spring the lilac an 1 syringa bustles, and
the like simple shrubs nun' th-ir iresh
tlowers in at the open casements; and b -
tore the little private d'Hir through w hicb
in summer tbe geuiie mountain bre> z -
made tree of the room. A monster horse
ehestuut from year lo year sent forth its
trembling shoots, declared itself in swol
len olossom-, snadowed the wali with iis
prodigal foliage, and final!v in tbe autumn
s-nt it down in a shower for the minister
to tramp through. Tne room was very
dear to him with its treasury of associa
tions; aud as he looked about now at
walls decorated with portraits of tue de
voted laborers for tbe church in the first
hard years ot its life in America, and at
tne lo*ugshelves burdened with memorials
of tneir sufferings and conquests he ex
perienced a sudden pang. Tne hateful
sense ot the discordance of the thing he
was about to do all the mild virtu*', tbe
unpretending rigor, the scorn • f wrong
which me precious lives ol these inen
had made vocal for all succeding genera
tions of tbe church’s ministers ant a
sharp pain through his heart. Was he
not sworn to maintain the tradition of
their stainless purity? The pure benig
nant visage of Count. Zinzeudorf, th.
founder of tne church, loose i down at
him our. ot one of the frames. It seemed
to the minister’s guilty fancy that a re
proof contracted his open lorehead. Tu-t
firm lips with their trace of sternness ap
peared ab ut to rebuke him fbr tne dis
honor he was about to bring upon hunseii
and tne church.
The minister turned away un asilv and
fr..iu bis removed seat watched tne g ith
eringoi the elders; was it po-siole that
on the morrow he might hive lost tne
right, to sit among these good m *n, that
his office of guide and counsellor might
oe filled by another, that anotU>-r might
make his own the associations that had
so long been dearly his, that Ue might sit
in his room composing admonitions to
his fi .-k and taking the scent of t'i** lilac
aud syiinga in the early Spring? tie
looked at Ciuul Zinz udort again; lie
seeth' and to smile upon him encouragingly.
He danced at the eiders; but ha did not
need to look long, lie knew how pityless
they could be. It was the crucial mo
rn- nt —the one reasonable moment at
which he might have turned back. B.it
a suggestion ot thedevu insinuated itself.
She had deceived him. She had wantonly
broken her pledge—a pledge of wlne-e
value to him sne best new. Tue whis
perings ol forgiveness, of self-denia ,
which catne t > him from habit, he put im
patiently away. What W’as the residuum
of good in the world to him since she was
false? Should he be meroitu!? H*d she
spared him? Had she not herself urgtd
him to what he was about to and ? It
snould mercilessly rebound upon n*-r.
But in the righteous wrath whicn sudden
ly possessed bint he would not suffer her
to accomplish this act of which he bad
lor the first time a full, reckless percep
tion of the wickedness. He would do it—
Ue alone, John Keator—anu because he
wished to doit, not because she command
ed it.
The eldress of the single sisters came
in at length with her list, and all a
ready. Mr. lieator motioned for silence
and forced himself to kn-el down and
pray for a benediction upon iho decision
ot the solemn questions they were about
to ask bv the lot. Nothing bad ever
seemed to him so much like profanity;
but, as he went on, tne real anguish whicti
lay beneath whatever sense of the situa
tion he was able to pretend to Irmstll
translated itself in an hoeest fervor of
p tition. As he knelt there among all the
officers of the church there came over him
with smiting force a feeling of the tre
mend his consequence of the result and
he prayed for the watchful Providenceof
God with his whole soul, and as he had
never prayed before, tie rose with a
calmness in his heart that he had not
known since he had listeued to the wan
dering suggestion of the dying man at
Little Slab Hollow, tie had that sense,
in whieh the weakness of humanity al
ways finds comfort, of having transferred
the responsibility. H“ would indeed ask
for the trial of the lot of himself. lie did
not medn to shirk that charge, but be 1 jtt
the result with God. The eldress came
over and showed him her list, it was
briefly embellished with the names of a
dozen ot the most discreet members of the
single sisters’ choir. Mr. Keator pro
posed the first upon the list, Benigna
Gardeniiauer,for the missionary who bad
sent from Greenland for a wife. The lot
indicated that she was uot acceptable.
The minister who was willing to leave
tnis delicate question to such an arbitra
ment was of middle ago and had already
been married: it was therefore thought
best to seleet one ol the more sedate sis
ters. Caroline Riddlemoser occupied a
place near the bott >m of the list, but as
she seemed next to Benigna to most near
ly mee’. this requirement Mr. K-ator sug
gested that she be taken in the lot for
Brother Fiedler. The decision was affir
mative. The other missionary who was
ministering among the native Indians in
Ohio, was furnished with a spouse by the
sume simple and certain plan, and then
Mr. Keator named two brothers in the
settlement. Tnese had each a choice and
the lot was first tried lor the young wo
men of their own selection. Upon the de
sire of one the lot smiled, but the wish of
the other was denied to him and Mr. Kea
tor had reejurso again to the oldress’
list, upon which be presently found the
name of a young woman to whom the lot
assented.
Conrad Hied had come in secret to Mr.
Keator just before the meeting ol the
conlerence and shvly begged that he
might be taken in the lot with Dorothy
Veit.
“I am glad to see you are thinking of
marrying, Conrad,” Mr. Keator had said,
kindly. “It is a great rock of saletv lor
a minister.”
Conrad, keeping his face averted and
rolling bid ween his teeth a grain of wheat
which be bad found an immense aid in
the interview, had answered:
“Yes, 1 should guess so. bister Doro
thy is a good girl and a proper house
keeper, 1 should suppose, I have noticed
when aha came to the tprochen# —but
that’s neither here nor there. I wouldn’t
go for to choose any one especial—but the
ministers see more of tbe sisters than the
brethren, and—well, she’s a sweet crea
ture.”
At this innocent burst ot admiration
Conrad had blusned and Mr. Keator bad
'Mired him that he w ould propose his
name.
“Bur,” he bad added, “you must not be
disappointed if the lot decides against
vou. You will submit to th- Lord’s will,
snd even if the response should ba favor
able, vou Know, as a minister—for l shall
want to see you ordained soon now Con
rad—jour marriage will need the sanc
'ion of the elders’ uni’y conference.
G'.d grant that you may be blessed in
vo'ir love, and that if you must sacrifice
it vor. may be given the strength,” said
Mr. K-ator. with a haunting memory.
But fortunately Conrad was not called
uooti tosuff-r in any way. Toe lot was
propitious, and afterward he secured
without diffl udv he consent ot the eid
ers’ unity conference.
(TO BE CONTIXCKD.I
FINANCES OFTH K B* LVAPARTES.
Millions that the Emperor Took Out
During His Kelgn.
Since the death of the Prince Imperial,
says a Paris letter, his mother. Eugenie,
is in possess on of shares of landed prop
erty the interest and profits of which
bring her in the annual sum of 1.400,<>00
francs. Of this amount she has 1.000,000
in her own rii ht. and as regards the re
maining 400,000 francs, they form the
interest on the money which belonged
originally to her son, but which he be
queathed heron the understanding that oil
ner death it should fall into the hands of '
Prince Victor Napoleon. When Prince
Jerome's eldest son attained his majority
the ex-Empress allowed him 25.000 franc's
annually, in order that, with whatever
financial assisrance his father and
mo’her might render him, he
could live in accordance with
the dignity of tbe position he was
to occupy in French social and politi
cal life. Prince Jerome was only able to
lay down 5,000 or 0,000 francs a vear, and
his seouse, the King of Italy’s sister, was
too p,>or to contribute anything worth
speaking of. Toe result was that the
youug Prince, compelled as ho was to ob
serve a show ol gblat and grandeur, could
not make both ends meet, and submitted
his grievances to the wealthy Bonapart
ists alluded to. who resolved to allow the
youngsteroo,ooo francs annually on the
400,000 francs annual income,>nto the pos
session of which he was to fall on the oc
casion of the ex-Empress’ decease—the
interest as well as the principal of the
amount lent io be drawn from the estate
estate or the income when the legacy
would be in I’riuce Victor’s hands. Tue
condition of the loan was that Prince
Victor sh uld leave his lather’s house,
set up for himself and consent to be
recognized as head of the house ot
tbe Bouapartcs. These terms were ac
ceded to; but scarcely bail the juvenile
abandoned the Lares and Penates of his
-.nrihy sire than Eugenie withdrew her
25 OnO francs pension and rebuked ihe re
bellious son lor his tar from filial conduct.
Prince Victor is, however, doing well on
his 117,000 francs per annum, although his
moial and intedtctuul obtuseness anti
tne extravagances he indulges in are dis
gu-tuig many Imperialists to such a pitch
that there is serious question in Boua
partist circles of settiug him aside alto
gether and proclaiming as “heir to the
throne'* his brotner L ous, who is a re
marka*i|y clever aud seusihle youngster.
It is understood that the ex-Empress Eu
g-me and Prince Napoleon would not be
at nil displeased it the latter eventually
eame about.
I’ll-.TV IN THE EAST.
Hardy Arab Saint* Who Live on Scor
pions and Chew tiiass.
Ariihiit I.st'er in Cinci'inxti Enquirer.
“A court was filled with the forms of
Arab men and women squatting on sa
cr.-d mats, and facing a platform where
eight A'abs engaged iu a fantastic and
lancinating dance. As the musicians be
wail to play slowly they moved tho upper
parts ot their bodies forward and back
ward and from side to side. Gradually
me music became taster, and taster and
faster they went, thr owing their limbs
amt bodies about in a’m -at inconceivable
positions, until £ could scarcely believe
teat tne rapidly whirling mass before me
were human beings,
“S.-veral hundred years ago there lived
in a pashabk in Arabia a learned mara
bout (priest) who gathered about him
inary dtseipies, but as his teachings were
not consistent vvuh the K irn he drew
upon himself the ennuty ot the reigning
pasha, who banished him and hisdlsclpl* s
to tue Desert, of Sthara. whither they
were taken and left w ithout food or wa
ter. Then the marabout arose, declaring
ne bad received tt revelation from Heaven
tel ing bun that nothing they would eat
would injure them. Accordingly they
feasted upou scorpions, snakes and
prickly pear leaves. When this miracle
came'to the ears of the pish.t, he en
ticed them by offers of pardon
to his palace. He threw them
into a dungeon filled with scor
pions, bits of crockery, glass and other
similar tonics, anil told them they would
not be released until they at ' everything.
It was no difficult task, as they had been
growing fat on the same sort of food,
flie Pasha, having seeu them eat, granted
tnem all a full pardon, and made Ad B n
his vizier, l’he descendants of Ad and
his disciples lormed a sect called Al-sa
ouas, who every year, on theanniversary
of the trial in tiie dungeon, celebrate the
event in the manner 1 have described. 1
am told that in some places the sect still
eat Bcorpions and chew glas.”
A Con*;re*iii.**Corm pounence.
WahHingUm
‘‘No, sir, we don’t live tn clover.” Aud
he drew in a long breath and settled him
self down in his thair as if resigned to
ids impending doom. “Why, it started
tms way—it always has a start; any
member will tell you—itstarted tnis wav :
As soon as I got to Congress I got a letter
from one of my constituents congratulat
ing me upon m> election, and saying that
he knew now there would be some legisla
tion; the constitution should i ot be vio
lated; 1 must introduce a bill in the
House to prohibit fishing iu mv district
with three hooks to one line—'twas un
constitutional. I answered that letter,
bewailing the utter disregard of Con
gress for the national tisheri s, and ex
plaining the utter uselessness of attempt
ing class legislation. That settled it. I
got tour letters trout that neighbordood by
returning mail, aud they kept on increas
ing until the entire population was repre
sen ed by autograph letters. Mvjprompt
ness toausAer any and alt letters was
heralded all over the country, aud I was
asked to pass all sorts of bills, trotn one
to regulate the length of prayers to oue
lor the suppression of kissing at pound
parties. One man wanteil to know wheth
er the rope Guiteau was hung with was
hemp or cotton. 1 referred this letter to
the Department of Justice. The Attor
ney General Indorsed it to the warden of
the jail, who returned it to me with a
minute official description of the rope—
the material, length and manner of make.
This contributed largely to increase my
oorresi>ondence. Everybody who hail
something to write about that no one else
would notice was told my address, witn
the assurance that I loved to write let
ters. A large number of my letters now
are irom applicants lor places under the
new admmi.-aration. One man wanted
a place that would take him to Cauadt;
he did not know what particular place.
His doctor had told him that it would
benefit his health to live there, and if I
would ju-d look arouud and find a place
there for him with a pretty good salary
attached ho would like it. But, by the
way, he had children just growing up.
1 might take this into consideration and
get him located where there were good
tree schools.
“Another lellow wrote that he would
leave it to me to pick out his place tor
him. tut I mustn’t get the salary below
$1,200. He thought I’d be a better judge
ot good places than he was.
“Some men may refer these letters to the
wate basket, but it don’t do. They
must be answered. I must write; good
by. I mustn’t waste more time talking.
I’ll havo to sit up late to make up for it.
1 must write. The walls are closing
around m->.”
“Well, my good fellow, what can 1 do
for you?” and be turned to a suppliant
in soldier clothes, who stood at his elbow
wiili persistency in his tace and a glazed
cap in his baud.
“I’m an American by adoption. In ’59
I married an American woman with a
mule—her grandfather left it to—”
But at this point the petitioner was
thrust aside by a Mexican pensioner who
wore three medals and bad been personal
friend of Win. Scott’s, and wanted his
pension increased. .
Throat Disea,
commence with a Cough, Cold, or Sore
Throat. “Bro ten's bronchial Troche *”
give Immediate relief, bold only tn boxes,
vnoc wo cents.
THE RAJAH’S CLOCK.
Skeleton Hands Strike tbe Honrs and
Fail Back In a Bone Fite.
Truibful Jim Townsend, says the Vir
ginia (Nev.) Chronicle, entertained a
crowd of eager listeners with a descrip
tion of a wonderful clock be bad seen at
tbe country seat of an East Indian nabob
near Madras. On entering the spacious
courtyard of tbe Rijab’s castle, the first
thing that met the Captain’s gaze was a
number of human skeletons, apparently
tUn >wn in a promiscuous heap in one
corner of the courtyard. He at first sur
misd that they were preserved as tro
phies of the prowess of the Rajah's an
cestors. and were tbe bones of mea takut
prisoners Irotu some hostile tribe.
On inquiry he was informed that they
were a portion of an immense clock stand
ing in the centre of the courtyard, with a
large copper gong suspended beneath it.
While he was scanning the fa *e of the
e ock, tbe hands pointed to the hour of 12,
when in an instant the pil- ol bones
showed signs of life. One of the skele
tons. rising to his (eet and seizing a pon
derous iron club in both hands, rushed
across the courtyard and struck the gong
a resounding blow, and was followed t>y
eleven other skeletons, each one after
striking the gong returning to the place
from whence it started and falling dowu
into an apparently shapeless mass of hu
man skulls and bones.
The Captain stated that he was sadly
pained on returning to Madras a few
years later to hear that this wonderful
piece of mechanism had been destroyed
by the Rajah’s orders, and related in a
melancholy tone the cause of its destruc
tion, which happened in this wise: The
Rajah had been on “a bonze” one evening,
and had returned to his castle near mid
night. On entering the courtyard he felt
a little tired and grasped the’post, hold
ing the gong for support. Scarcely had
he done so when the hands
pointed to the hour of midnight. The
first intimation the unfortunate Rajah
had of the hour was a tremendous two
handed blow dealt by one of the skele
tons, wlih the iron club, in the immediate
vicinity ol his coat-tails, followed by the
other eleven skeletons in rapid succes
sion, whose arms appealed to be specially
nerved for the occasion. Tbe Rayah was
found insensible a few hours later by his
attendants, and when restored to con
sciousness his indignation knew no
bounds, and he immediately ordered the
destruction of the clock.
She Coohril f,-r Qur.n Victoria.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
“Please, sir, 1 want a pass to England,”
said Mrs. Mary Montgomery at the City
Hall yesterday, addresssing Chief of Po
lice Whalien. “1 have been promised a
position in Gladstone’s family as a do
mestic if I can ever get there.”
There was something about the charity
applicant t*> show that she did not belong
to a low class.
“How did you happen to come to Ameri
ca?” inquired a reporter.
“I came over to marrv my Charlie, but
he died before 1 landed,” was her mourn
ful reply. “I’m a lady,” she continued.
“L used to bake biscuits for Queen Victo
ria. Many a time she sent word to the
kitchen to tell Marv Montgomery to bake
her some yeast bread. Biscuits were al
ways a favorite dish with Her Majesty.
She liked dumplings, too, and l prided
mvseif in baking the finest dumplings
that were ever served at tbe table.”
’The old lady continued to chatter until
the Chief informed her that her only route
to England was to walk to New York and
take passage on a steamer for her native
sod.
(fttpcmr piuotrto.
Three Workmen.
‘■Do you know the three organs that do most
ofihework of removing iho w aste product)
from the human body?”
.Sitting in the office of the Brighton Indepen
dent, at. B ighton. Mass, Mr. li<l gar W.
Knights, the publisher of that journal, asked
me tile .--hove question, it was a hot day iu
Augast, 1884, and , naturally thought the sub
j cl too heavy for the w* alher. 1 was even
inclined to di*cu*s it because 1 knew little
or nothing about it— and f- ankly said so.
“That is about what I expected,” remarked
Mr. Knights: “moot people have a "Onderful
capacity lorigno anee iu that direction. The
three organs are the skin, the lungs and the
kidneys. Contrary lo popular belief, the ali
mentary canal l:a* very little to do with it.
The kidneys, either from overwork or other
caut-es, become doe i-ed. Nowadays kid* ey
trouble is very common. Almost every b <ly
has more or '"ess of it, if they only knew it.
Audi i a certain -tage it becomes not only
painful, but and ,ng* rous. In tae , cases are
known of people being beyond help before
they thought ihe a j selves in the least dan er.
My experience is to the effect that when
threatened with kidney trouble—whether it
is con t tutienal or the result fa cold—the
best thing to do is .o pla e a Benson’s Capcine
Plaster right over the kidneys. These piasters
work bett--r than H..y internal remedy I know
of. In most cases the relief is aim st imme
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cellent results even in advanced (Pages of Ukj
disease.”
“It- nson’s plus ers cured me of kidnev cotil
pldut, giving immediate relief.”—if. Fuller,
Sanitaria. I*o k count*, k’la
‘ I was troubed wilh inflammation of the
kidneys, used a Benson’s plaster nd gnt en
tirety well without any other medicine who -
ever." — W. H, Mitclieii, 10 Paruuliter street, I
Chicago.
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Statement of the American, National and
United States and Canada Express
Companies, Troy, N. Y. -
The strength of Rome lay not in h*r multi
tude, cor in her grain-laden fleets. These
were elements of sirengtn, but her never
falling resource lay in the self-control and
discipline of Kornau eohtie s. Discipline—it
is the very soul to all the wonderful meaning
pos-eased by 'he word “veteran.” Mr Bene
dict, of • roy. Is a veteran in the express busi
ness. “Thirty-three years,” he said to your
reporter, “I’ve stood at thisdeek.” I is the
ands iplineof years of experience which gives
him the position he holds in the trust and es
teem of these three great corporations. “We
have a business of *500.00" a year, and I’ve
been absent from this office hardly a month in
all tunt time, although I mum‘confess that
many times I’ve worked here when sufferiug
great pain, for I have been troubled all my
life with biliousness and djspepsia. My sys
tem had become so i educed Hud w eak that I
had no appetite, and my digestion wholly dis
ordered. I’ve tri and various remedies, but
almost two years ‘go I happened to hit upon
lr. Kennedy’s FAVORITE REMEDY'. After
using only one bottle or so I began to feel
stronger in every way. The great difficult',-
has b> en with my digestion, but this seems to
regulate it perfectly. I hav-. sir, great faith
in Dr. Kennedy’s FAVORITE REMEDY'. I
have bought end given a great deal of it to
the poor around here; those. you know, who
have no money to buy medicine of any kind,
for there are a great many trot:tiled with
bilious diseases and suffer on without aid. 1
always keep FAVORITE ItsMHDY iu the
fiou-e. I consider it the best medicine f.r the
blood in the market. Well, I must attend to
this matter tor the western part of the c-ity.
Say, vou tell the doctor I am coming down to
Eondout to see him in August. I want to
know him.” I left the veteran, still nt hU
n<*t, rejoicing in health and grateful to Dr.
ttea* Jidorrliemmta. _
W. Gr UT IViL AJN ,
111 BROUGHTON STREET.
WE WILL OFPBU THIS WEEK SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS IN
JERSEYS, PARASOLS AM) HOSIERY.
Ladies’ Black Jerseys at sac.; worth ft 43. cn
Ladies’ Black, Garnet act Navy Blue Jers-ys , “1)IIB, wnrtjilfO.
Lad rs’ B ack Jerseys, plaited back anil bow 0 f nbbou. fS 25; wortMJ TO
Ladies’ Black Jer-eys, scolloped at the bottom and braid and. t- •. worth J
L dies’ Black. Garnet, Brown and BK'ge Jerseys. *3 50; worth M J 5.
T adies’ Bbick Jerseys trimmed with llere.iles braid, $t S5; worth 4 • -5.
Ladies’ Jerseys, handsomely braided and beaded, at popular low prices.
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S JERSEYS
IN BLACK, NAVY BLUE AND GARNET.
Ladies’ Coaching Parasols, only a few left, at |1 t 9. „
La.lies’ Coaching Parasols, shaded satin (entirely new), 2; worth 42 50.
Ladies’ l o-tching P.v-ssols. heavy sat n, all odors, bal lop. $ * worth |3.
L-dies’ F mey I’ara-ols (new effect), c >nopy top, 43 T 5, 44 and |5. These goods must be
seen to be appreciated, and are worth !•% s*> and 7
Ladies’ l’arasols, new shape, in ten and sixteen ribs.
Handsome Parasols, Kscurial Lace, covered in Black and Biege, and a handsotsc as
sortment ot Fiue Panov Parasols.
Misses’ and Children's Coaching Parasols; also, those with the new canopy top.
SPECIAL.—On our front counter will be found five hundred pairs
Misses’ and Children’s Fancy Hose, light and dark colors, full regular
made, any size, at 25c. a pair; worth from 350* toSOe.
A. FALK & SON,
Successors to I. L. Falk & Cos.,
ANNOUNCE TO THE PUBLIC THAT THEIR STOCK OF
Spring & Summer Clothing
IS NOW READY FOR EXAMINATION, AND INVITE ALL TO GIVE TUE and A C LL
before making their purcha es. Their stock is composed of the flne-l and pr -ttiest line af
good to be f* und in the city, ent in the latest styles, and ma 'e by the best custom tailors of
New York. It consists of MKN’S, YOUTHS’. BOY-.’ and CHILDREN'S SUITS. Has also
laid in a large stock of GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, i M BREL LAS, TRUNKS aud
V ALISES. A few samples of these goods can he seen displayed in a handsome show ue |i i
front of their es'aMi-hmeut,. The attention of parents is especially called to their stock of
BOYS’ aud CHILDREN’S CLOTHING. All their goods are guaranteed as represented, and
purchasers will find sewed on each garment in their es’abiishuient, viz:
IVp gna-autee these goods as represented, and that the price Is s law as
same in niufactU’C Is soid anywhere in the 1 nited States. If not sa’isfaetor j*
and r- turned uninjured within 10 davs the Hill amount of cash paid will Ue
refunded-
fflottiiiiQ.
READ! READ!
IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
OUR SPRING GOODS ARK NOW READt
TO SHOW. WK HAVE A GOOD LINK OF
SPRING SUITS FOR MEN,
SPRING SUITS FOR YOUTHS,
SPRINGS SUITS FOR BOYS,
SPRING SUITS FOR CHILDREN,
SPRING CASSIMERE PANTS,
AND TIIK BEST LINE OF CHEAP PANTS
EVER SHOWN IN THE CITY. THE PRICES
ARE THE LOWEST. THESE GOODS AIIK
MADE UP IS THE LATEST STYLES AND IN
THE BEST MANNER POSSIBLE. V
EACH STEAMER IS BRINGING ADDI
TIONS TO OUR ALREADY LARGE LINE.
THE LATEST SPRING STYLES IN HATS IN
BLACK AND COLORS THE LATEST SPRINCf
STYLES OF NECKWEAR, THE “KING OF
SHIRTS,” THE BEST UNLAUNDRIED
SHIRT IN SAVANNAH FOB 50 CUNTS.
COME AND LOOK, EVEN IF YOU ARF.
NOT READY TO BUY.
Chas. Logan & Cos.
THE SAVANNAH
Clothinaand Hat Store
130 Consrress Street.
Bon ©.
GEORGIA BONDS
Fivs Per Cent—Thirty Yeais.
KxKCUTJVR OKFtt'li. i
TTVlir „ Atlanta. Ga., March 10 1886 }
I T.Vj ,Jl ‘'° tly of an act approved Dee.
1-81, author zing the uorernor to issue
bonds for payment of principal of Bonds ma
turing in 188'. and 188 , s. aled proposals will
be received at th" office of ihe Treasurer of
Georgia up t > 12 o’clock u. on APRIL 15, isss,
for throe million four hundred and fifty-five
thousand dollars ($i,435,‘00) Five Percent. (6
per cent.) Thirty Year Coupon Bonos, as
hereinafter set forth, bearing date July 1,
1886. Principal and interest payable iu the
city of New York, at the fiscal agency of
Georgia; and at the office of the Trta-urer of
Georgia, in the city of Atlanta. Interest
pavahie semi-annually on Jan. 1 and July,
respectively.
Bids will be receiv and for two hundred thou
sand dnl ars (<2oo,cod) of the amount to be de
livered on July 1, 1885. nd for two hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) to
be delivered Jan. i. 1886. the accrued interest
being withheld by the State. And for the re
mainder of the amount of three million four
hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars
6,000), (or so much thereof as may be ne
cessary for the purpose aforesaid), on June
’, ISsti, th i accrued interest wit held as afore
said. A- to last delivery.however, successful
binders will have the option of tendering any
Georgi ■ Bonds m during as aforesaid, at their
fab value, in paym. tit iheretor, at any time
after July 1, 18S5, and receiving new bonds.
Bids must specify amount of bonds desired
in muliples of one thousand dollars (Sl.OeO),
accompanied by ecrtifl and check or certificates
of deposit of some solvent bank for fie er
cent. (5 per cent.) of the amount of such bid,
payable to the orderof the Treasurer of Geor
gia. or by a deposit of bonds of the State of
Georgia.
Bins will be opened and declared by the
Governor and Treasure-, the State reserving
t e right to reject anv one or all of ihe bids.
The -tate will issue registered bonds in lieu
of any of the above named Five Per Cent.
Bonds as provided in said act at any time on
demand of the owner. Copies of the act of
the Legislature, and information touchingthe
proposed issue of bonds, will be furnished on
application to the Treasurer.
HENRY D. McDaniel, Governor.
By the Governor
B. U. HARDEMAN. Treasurer.
(fanDtro.
ATLANTA, HA., Feb. 17, 1885,
“Report on Analjsis of Assorted Can
dies received from 3!f ssrs. ACO'TA
& EINSTEIN, of Savannah, Ga.,
Feb. 0, 1885:
•‘The Candies are genuine, pnreand
ntiafinttenited : the flavors are deli*
cate and well assorted; the color- at.
tractive. Analysis shows nothin?
harmful in either the Caadr (body
itself, fl ivor or color.
“The ash (0 39 p<*r cent.) is potas
sium t irtrate chiefly, which is found
iu all genuine Tandy, *>nd is not in
excess. Roth flavors and colors are
such as cot mend themselves as pare
ami harmless.
“Finally, rigid analysis yields me
no adulteratiou or harmful ingredient
whatever.
“K. A. PRATT,
“CMSittUf Chcarist,”
©roreriro anD fruit.
FANCY Will
—AND—
FRUITS,
In Store and to Arrive.
IMPORTED and DOMESTIC MACARONI ,
loose and in 1-pound packages.
Nft.VV ORLEANS, GEORGIA and FLORI
DA STRUP, in barrels.
1,000 barrels E. ROSE and other varieties o
POTATOES.
200 barrels T. C. K APPLES.
200 barrels RUTA BAGA TURNIPS.
Clrnai Roasted Java Coffee,
Put np in 50-ponnd air-tiglit cans. It is the
best RO ASTED COFFEE ou the market, aud
will keep fresh any length of time. Try it,
and von will nse no other
HEINZ’- PICKLES, all style packages.
HEINZ’S CELERY' SAUCE; has no equal.
AGENT FOR WALTER G. AVILSON'B
CRACKERS.
J. B. REEDY,
BAY AND WHITAKER STREETS.
SHIP ME YOUR
SWEET POTATOES,
HIDES, WOOL, SYRUP,
Chickens, Eggs,
PEAS,
And All Kinds of Fruit*, Vegetables
ami 4 omit* y Produce.
I WILL GET THE HIGHEST MARKET
PRICE, MAKE QUICK *ALJSS and
PROMPT RETURNS, with Check lor net
amount, if desired.
E. E. CHEATHAM,
Wholesale ProduceCommbjiaT! Merchant.
101 Hay Street, • W*,
169, (69, i69*
AKRIV NO TO-DAY
100 BARRELS NOUTHEttH
TUHIV I P s .
so barrels cilotcK
A P P Ij JK H .
100 BARRELS CIIOICB
POTATOES.
IN STORE
ICO BOXES
FLORIDA ORANG-ES.
50 BOXES CHOICE
LEMONS.
—ALSO—
Corn, Oats, Day, Bran. Etc.
FOR SALE AT BOTTOM PRICES.
W. D. SIMKINS,
! BAY STREET.
Sotelo.
HARNETT HOUSE
SAVANNAH, CA.,
18 conceded to be the most comfortable aad
by far the best conducted Hotel in Savan
nah . Rates: 12 per day.
M. L. HARNETT.
St. James Hotel,
TAMPA, FLA.,
THOMAS WHITE, Uixion.
PROMPT attention glv n to orders for room*
by telegraph. The house is pleasantly
located either for business, travelers or pleas
a^Pbrprw.
Uartrtq Stove.
C"THEA?RST~V^KrETV s
J sold at Be. and loc.. worth three times th
money. We have just received 100 Glass
Pitchers, which we offer at 85c. We guar
antee that they cannot be bought for lees than
90c. NATHAN BROS., 186 Congress street,
pear Jefferson.
gatto
Something New in Advertising.
Pictorial H Bills,
SIZE 6x9 1-2 INCHES,
CONSISTING OF 10 HANDSOME DESIGNS.
Printed in Two Colors,
AT THESE LOW PRICES:
1.000 % 8 50
2.000 n eo
5,000 IS 50
o,vo 20 00
CALL AND SEE THEM.
MORNING NEWS
STEAM PMNTING HOUSE,
3 WHITAKER BT., SAVANNAH.
Samples forwarded to parties In tfiecountry
o* oppUaaCtoa.