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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
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leorgia Methodist
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pes December 14.
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viagton, Ga.] President.
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THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
TOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
rim FIELD OK LABOR— SKKTIIINO CAUL
DRON OK EUROPEAN INTHIUUR—FIIIES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
There was a mutiny among the con
riels at Orbetello, Italy. Thirty prison
ers and several jailers were killed or
wounded.
In Paris, Franco, the approaches to
the Maierie were thronged on the occa
eion of the marriage of Gen. Boulanger's
daughter to Gapt. Driant.
I lie Pall Mall Gazettt says that except
tor the chance of catching the Irish vote
by abusing England, it thinks that no
uno in America would care two straws
what Lord Sackville wrote or thought.
Advices from Suakim say that the
rebels attacked the town, burning a
aarebra around the water fort on the left
and shelling the fort. They were re
pulsed by a heavy tire from the ships and
foits.
An explosion of natural gas in Schul
theis’s tannery, at Lima, Ohio, killed
John Schultheis, Peter Klein and James
Hubbard. Schultheis was burned to
dcutb, the others crushed by falling
walls.
Geo. H. Vanderbilt, a well known con
veyancer of Philadelphia, Pa., disap
peared, taking with him various sums of
money given by friends to invest in mort
gages and said to aggregate about
$15,000.
At Boston, Mass., twenty-one women
in convention nominated Miss Alice 1).
Stockton, ot Wheaton, as the candidate
of the Equal Rights party for governor of
Massachusetts. The candidate is 20
years of age.
An attempt was made to burn the
Canadian Pacific bridge at Headingly
wan. The fire appeared to have been
the work of indignant settlers who sido
with the Government in its troubles with
the Canadian Pacific.
A cablegram from Port Au Prince,
Ilayti, received in New York on Wednes
day, announces the capture bv a Ilavtian
man-of-war, Toussaint L’ Overture, at
Cape Haylin, of the British schooner
Alta, which ieft New York with a heavy
;argo of arms and ammunition.
The steamer S iginaw, of the Clyde
line, recently refitted at Cramp’s ship
yard, Philadelphia, was at her dock in
New York, loading for n trip to the
West Indies, when she suddenly listed
toward the dock, water poured in her
open portholes and the steamer sunk.
She will soon be raised.
An aceident to the Czar’s train on
Tuesday resulted in the killing of twen
ty-one persons. The minister of war
and the commander of the body guard,
were injured. The Noblo brothers,
Baku petroleum refiners, spent $25,000
in entertaining the Czar. They present
ed to the czarina a diamond bouquet
holder, valued at SIO,OOO. Another
petroleum firm at Baku spent $20,000 in
honor of the Czar.
A Mexican Central passenger train was
“held up” sixty-two miles below El Paso
by three masked men. They came on
the engine over the tender, and at the
point of a six shooter forced the engineer
and firemen to stop the train and get < ff.
They divided lhe train and left the pas
senger cars, and ran on six miles, when
they again stopped, and robbed the ex
press cars, getting over $2,000. The
robbers w r ere Americans.
Gaines Longonotti, a bartender, in
Denver,Col.,had some words with A. Case
aver tiie piice of some drinks. Case
was ordered from the saloon, and as he
was passing out of the door Longonotti
shot him dead. The murderer was ar
rested and lodged in jail. Since his in
carceration lie has been suffering with
nervous prostration ami was taken with
aonvulsions. In his terrible agony he
imagined that the murdered man was
torturing him.
While testing a rope fire escape at the
Mohongahela House in Pittsburg, Pa.,
the rope broke, and three boys, James
McClure, John Dodd and Daniel Nagle,
were precipitated from the fifth story to
the pavement, a distance of seventy
feet. McClure and Dodd fell head fore
most and were killed instantly, and
Nagle had both arms and legs broken,
and will probably die. The agent of
the fire escape, H. C. Wilson, of Zanes
ville-, Ohio, who hired the boys to come
down the escape, paying them five cents
each, has been arrested, pending the
coroner's investigation.
Shortly before noon on Thursday, an
explosion of hot metal occurred at the
Sable iron works of Zug &Cos., in Pitts
burg, I’a., killing Workman George
Smith, aged twenty-nine years, and se
riously burning Joseph Kleeu, aged fifty
years; his son, age 1 about thirteen years,
and John Zuto, aged twenty-seven years.
The men were employed in the furnace
department, and were engaged in pour
ing the molten metal iuto the buggy,
when it was accidentally upset, and the
hot iron ran into a puddle of water. The
terrific explosion followed, demolishing
the furnace and a portion of the mill,
scattering th#metal over the men.
Near Bhdrsville, 111., a gang of men
were repairing the iron truss bridge
which spans the Big Muddy River, and
an order was given to loosen a girder a
fraction of an inch. The girder was one
of the main supports, and one turn of a
wrench swung tiic bridge out of plumb,
and without a moment’s warning the
vast mass dropped to the water fifty feet,
below. Will. Thompson was instantly
killed, and Arthur Mcliei, Jas. Camp
bell, D. WoCeld, John Edmunds and
Theodore Harris, were fatally injured.
Many others sustained fractures of legs
or arms, besides cuts and bruises. A
valuable team of horses were also killed.
The bridge was the largest one of the
kind in the state, 170 feet in the clear
and 48 feet above high water, one span
reaching across the river.
A Republican procession, composed
chiefly of colored men, met a Democratic
nrocession at Twenty-sixth street end
Sixth avenue New York on Wednesday
evening and a riotous struggle ensued
Store window s were smashed and several
men a*' reported injured. Numerous co
- inhabitants of the neighborhood,
who had turned out to see the immense
Colored procession, fell to and assisted th
colored paraders. Missiles flew in all
polico station. Ike stou ,
closed between Twenty-eighth and Thar
ticth streets. fto4 I°£ - ~
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNI'RY /”— Jbffeuson.
drawn revolvers protected their property
the best they could. There were fully
fifty |ieople injured in one way and an
other. till frtun the torches poured over
the streets and caught fire; men on
hoischack dashed thiougli the streets
injuring many.
thanksgiving day.
President Cleveland’s proclamation is
as follows; Constant thanksgiving and
gratitude are due from the American
people to Almighty God for Ilis good
ness and mercy, which have followed
them since the day He made them a na
tion and vouchsafed to them a free gov
ernment. Willi loving kindness lie has
constantly led us In toe way of propriety
aud greatness, lie has not visited with
swift puuishment our shortcomings, but
with a gracious care He has warned us of
our dependence upon His forbeurunce,
and has taught us that obedience to His
holy law is the price of a continuance of
Ilis precious gifts. In acknowledge
ment of all that God has done for us as a
nation, and to ihe end that on an ap
pointed day the united prayers of a grate
ful county may reach the throne of grace,
I, Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States, do hereby designate and
setapirt Thursday, the twenty-ninth day
of November, instant, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer, to be kept and ob
served throughout the land. On that day
let all our people suspend their ordinary
work and occu| ations, and in their ac
customed places of worship, with prayer
and songs of praise, render thanks to
God for all His mercies, for the abundant
harvest which have awarded the toil of the
husbandman, during the year that has
passed and the ricli reward that has fol
lowed the labors of onr people in their
shops and their marts of trade and traffic.
Let us give thinks for the peace and for
the social order and contentment within
our border, and for our advancement in
all tlmt adds to national greatness. And
mindful of the afflictive dispensation
with which a portion of our land has
been visited, let us, while we humble
ourselves before the power of God, ac
knowledge his mercy in s ttiug the
bounds to the deadly march of pesti
lence, and let our hearts be chastened by
sympathy for our fellow countrymen who
have suffered and who mourn. And as
we return thanks for all the blessings,
which we have received from the hands
of our Heavenly Father, let us uot forget
that He has enjoined upon us charity;
and on this day of Thanksgiving let us
generously remember the poor aud needy,
so that our tribute of praise and grati
tude may be acceptable in the sight of
the Lord. Done at the city of Wash
ington, on the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and
in the years of the independence of the
United States, the one-hundred and
thirteenth. In witness whereof I have
hereunto signed my name and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
Grover Cleveland. By the President
T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State.
YELLOW FEVER.
The following telegrams were received
in Chicago, Id., from Decatur, Ala.:
“To Mayor Roiche, Chicigo: Can you
raise us some money for yellow fever
sufferers? Our fuuds are exhausted, and
we are in great need. C. C. Austin. P.
A. Howard, President Belief Committee.
To Rev. George Lorimer: The relief
committee are now asking for hi lp. You
urc authorized by them, and by both
mayors to ask aid of the Chicago board
of trade, and mayor, as well. D. W.
Given.” Over 2,000 persons have been
provided for in Decatur, Ala., and both
provisions and money are exhausted.
The following telegram has been sent to
W. 0. Duryee, secretary of the Fenian
dina committee in New York: “Fer
nandina. —New cases, 10; whites, 1,
O. B. IMurray; no deaths.
All the cases under treatment are
doing well. We arc endeavoring to
keep able-bodied men at work on the im
provements and are mcetiug with good
results. I have to-day been looking
over the work done, and think the mon
ey used in this direction well expendeo.
The fever still continues to increase out
side the city. Three vessels have come
up to the city. The Fort Clinch has been
secured for the accommodaiion of the
crews,whonre notallowed in thecity. The
weather is cooler and more favorable.
R. 8. Schuyler, Secretary Howard As
sociation.” President Neat Mitchell re
ports twenty-nine new cases of yellow
fever in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednes
day, nineteen whites. Only one death.
Total cases to date, 4,156; deaths, 354.
HARD TIMES.
Tho Norweigan steamship Hong Alf,
arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., from Jama
ica, having on board Capt. Jacobson and
sailors belonging to the Norwegian hark
Inga, which was wrecked on the island
of Cayman, while on a voyage from
Montevedco to Ship Island, Mississippi.
C'apt. Jacobson says that soon after the
vessel struck on the i-land, she was
boarded by nearly two hundred colored
wreckors, who made a bold and daring
attempt to take possession of and rob tho
vessel. They made an attempt to gain
an entrance to the after cabin, and were
only prevented from sodoingat the point
of a pistol. When the savages were
driven from the vessel’s deck, the crew
landed in their life-boats on the Island
of Cayman. They were the only civil
ized "people there, ami subsisted two
weeks on cocoauuts and a lift e gin they
had saved. At the expiration of this
time, Capt. Jacobson got possession of a
small sloop, in which he and his crew
made sail for Jamaica, which they
reached after a week of suffering.
JAPANESE MILLS.
K. Kikuchi, of Osaka, and K. Abe, of
Tokio, Japan, are in Chicago, 111 , and
say that that they have been to England
to purchase machinery for cotton and
woolen mills to be erected in their re
►pective cities. Kikuchi says he wi.l
employ about five hundred persons in his
cotton mill, paying girls 10 cents a day
and the most skililul men 30 cents a day.
He will get tho principal put of his raw
material from China, but some of inferioi
quality is grown in Japan.
BLOWN UP.
The tug A. W. Lawrence exploded
her boiler’wbile cruising in the lake oil
North Point, Wis., killing Capt. John
Sullivan, Engineer Johu Sullivan, a cous
in of the captain, Fireman Edward Sul
livan, and Lineman Thomas Handley.
The boat was t>iqwn tQ pieces.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1888.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OK ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES—TUB COTTON CHOI*
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CUOT RETURNS.
Al..tilt.ll A.
The Etna Iron works, of Tuscumbln,
has gone into blast.
The control of tho Anniston Land
Company lias be n sold to N rthern capi
talists fin $600,000, which amount w ill
be invested in various industrial enter
prises in that city.
W. L. Dudley, a well known bridge
builder, employed on the Louisville &
Nashville C'almba bridgo reir Helma,
missed his footing and fell, lie fe l oil a
hard bank and fractured his skull, anil
before a physician could be brought to
him, was dead.
In the twenty-four hours ending
Thursday, eight new cas< s have devel
oped in Decatur. They have ull been
exposed as nurses ami policemen for
weeks. The health officer says: “I
have expected new ciscs from time to
time, but was not prepared for such an
cxplo.-ion ns this.”
Near Barry, Walker county, on Thurs
day, a young farmer named Huds >n,
while hunting in the woods, found to
infants, one white, the other colored.
They ware evidently a week or ten days
old and were almost famished when
fojind. Hudson to k the infants and
placed them in the care of a colored wo
man and notified the authorities.
The state railroad commissioners have
filed their reports for ttie year ending
June 30th, 1888. Ihe report shows that
there i. in operation in the state 3,205
miles of railroad, including branches and
sidings. There arc 75 miles of dummy
line track in the state. Five hundred
and thirty miles of new railroad was
constructed during the year which end and
on June 30th.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A patty of negroes went into the woods
to hunt opossums in Chatham county.
They were (quipped with axes to cut
trees, and with pine knots for torches.
The party caught two opossums. A
quarrel as to the ownership of them
nio-c between John Alston a:.d YVilliam
Brooks. Biooks lifted his nx and made
a strike at Alston, with the intention of
cleaving his skull. Alston made aspring,
caught the nx, and witli lightning quick
ness dealt Biooks a blow on ihe head
with a heavy pine knot, smashing the
skull and causing instant death. Al
ston at once fled into the dark woods.
Near Carysburg, on Thursday, as a
passenger t: am was moving rapidly, the
engineer observed a white man stauding
just beside the track. When the engine
was in fifty feet of the man, he sprung
directly in front of it and stooped, turn
ing his head toward the engine. In an
instant he was struck and cut to pieces.
For a distance of fully 200 yards his blood
and flesh covered the rails. It was found
from persons who saw the deliberate sui
cide, that ilie mim was George A. Har
ding, a well known citizen of Northamp
ton county, iu which he had long been
an invalid, and.took his life to end his
suffering.
A man named Dixon, aged about 75
years, arrived at Greensboro and related
a most startling story. He said lie had
been overtaken by two armed men,
whose intention to first rob aud then
hang him was evidenced by their calling
him to halt, at the same time demanding
his money aud producing n rope. The
interference of a boy with a gun, how
ever, prevented the double crime
of highway robbery and lynching.
Dixon hails from the West, and had on
his person a ticket stamped at Kansas
City, Mo., to Raleigh, N. C., also about
ane thousand dollars in money, beside
papers, checks, etc., to cover several
thousand dollars.
MISSOURI.
A sensation was created in the crimi
nal court in Kansas City on Tuesday
morning by the suicide of Jack Fleming,
deputy marshal, who drew' a revolver
and blew his brains out, while the court
was in session.
The Anarchists of St. Louis arc deter
mined to make the anniversary of the
Chicago executions tlic occasion of a big
demonstation. The Apollo Theatre has
been secured and an elaborate program
me has been arranged, which includes a
play called the “Innocents Condemned
to Death.” Speeches will precede the
play. Invitations have been sent to all
labor organizations. The receipts of the
night will be given to the families ol
the Anarchists executed one year ago.
The attention of ttie police lias already
been called to the proposed celebration.
Under a recent decision of Judge
Ramsey, of the state court of appeals,
the traveler who rides on a free pas', and
is so unfortunate as to be killed, leaves
his heirs a good opening for n lawsuit,
regardless of the “condition” under
which the pass was granted. The case
decided by Judge Ramsey was brought
by the holder of the pass who sustained
injuries while riding on the Mis-ouri Pa
cific Rond. The court instructed the
jury that it was the duty of the defend
ant to have done all that human care,
skill and ingenuity, could devise in the
way of safe coaches, tracks and ma
chinery, and to keep the same in proper
repair, that even though they might be
lieve that plaintiff did not pay for riding
on the train, that such fact did not af
fect the issues in the case and was no
defense.
VIRGINIA.
Petroleum has been discovered in an
artesian well being sunk at Houck s
tannery in Harrison, at a depth of GOO
feet. The discovery has created a great
stir among the people.
Fire destroyed Moorman’s tobacco
warehouse, the Dental Chewing Gum
factory. Hoff, rman’s sash, blind and door
establishment, and Ainslie Bio’s, carriage
works, in Lynchburg.
While taking a boot in on the U. 8. 8.
Constellation at Fortress Monroe, an an
prent ce, mimed Cooksie, fell overboard.
A companion, W. A. Smith, jumped into
the water to rescue him, and both were
drowned.
FI.OItlllA.
8. A. Jamison, of Altoona, committed
suicide at Cedar Keys by cutting his
throat, lie hud been despondent for
some time.
Surgeon Porter, at Jacksonville, tele
graphed to Washington that he has
■closed one of the hospitals at Sand Ilill,
as there no longer exists any necessity tot
two.
Cl BORGIA.
The 102d annual session of the grand
lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for
the state of Georgia, convened in Macon
on Tuesday at Masonic hall. Most Wor
shipful John S. Davidson, of Augusta,
presided. He delivered a splendid ad
dress at the morning session. It is said
to have been one of the finest produc
tions of the kind ever heard by Georgia
Masons.
The case of Isaac Albritton, one of the
jurors in tho Eddleman murder trial,
was before Judge Richard Clark in At
lanta, on Wednesday, and the testimony
brought out some severe remarks from
the judge, lie ordered that the prisoner
(Albritton), be confined iu jail for 80 days
and fined him S2OO. A rigid investiga
tion will be had of the Eddleman matter
by the graud jury.
Arthur Watkins, of Huntington, was
shot and instantly killed, on Tuesday
afternoon by Marshal Rosebrnugh. Wat
kins had been arrested iu the morning,
and while awaiting trial gave the officer
the slip. Roseubraugk followed aud
coming up with him, ordered him to
halt. He responded by drawing a knife
and rushing at the officer, when the lat
ter shot him, killing him instantly.
The jury in the case of George M.
Eddleman, a real (State dealer in At
lanta, charged with killing Tom Gris
ham, a railroad man, last Summer,
brought in a verdict on Monday of “not
guilty.” An indignation meeting was
held at night in the square in which the
artesian well is located, and arrange
ments perfected by the citizens to burn
the jury in effigy in front of the court
house on Tuesday night.
Henry and Mary Johnson, colored, who
live near the line of Jones and Jasper
counties, went to church, leaving their
children locked up in a log cabin. The
eldest of the children was about eleven
years, one seven and a baby girl about
ten months. The fire happened about
half past ten o’clock, but how it origi
nated is not known. Johnson and his
wife were coming home from church and
saw a bright light in the distance which
they thought was near their house.
When they reached home they found the
cabin reduced to ashes, and the two
younger children had perished in the
flames.
KOI'TII CAROLINA.
Samuel A Towns, mayor of Greenville
beat'Wi linm L. Morrison, superintend
ent of the graded schools of that city,
I reaking a big walking cane on his head.
The cause was the whipping of the
mayor’s son, a pupil, some months ago.
The British steamship Glengoil, Capt.
Holman, was cleared at, Charleston, on
Wednesday for Bremen, Germany, with
8,000 bales of upland cotton, weighing
3,062,031 pounds, being an average of
495 pounds to the bale. This is the
hugest cargo of cotton ever loaded at a
wharf in Charleston.
At Sumter, Col. Joseph 11. Earle,
attorney general of South Carolina, and
W. H. Thomas, of Edgefield, a farmers’
movement politician, engaged in a street
fight about a newspaper article abusing
Earle. Fists only were used. After
wards, Earle attacked Thomas with a
stick, but frieuds interfered.
The celebrated corpse trust case, which
made such a sensaiiou in Charleston, has
again been brought to public notice.
A conspiracy was formed among a num
ber.of whites and negroes, by which
certain life insurance c-mpanies in New
York aud the YVest were swindled out of
thousands of dollars. The conspirators
insuring fictitious persons and passing
off corpses procured from the potter’i
field, as the decea-ed personages. The
case has been reopened by a suit insti
tuted y the heirs of Pat Foley, who
kitted himself some time before the ex
posure of the conspiracy and who is sus
pected of having been concerned in the
conspiracy, to recover a policy of $5,000
on his life.
TENNESSEE.
Cholera is among the fattening hogs of
the Concord section and nlany are dying,
Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
filed in the court of chancery at Knox
ville, a bill of complaint against the
consummation of the lease of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway
to the Richmond & Danville.
A mammoth enterprise is now on foot
by which Chattanooga is about to secure
an expenditure of a large amount of
money on river improvements. R. C.
Cook, of Clinton, Mass., is the leader in
the movement. The syndicate which
Mr. Cook represents will buy all boats
plying between Decatur, Ala., and Chat
tanooga.
Joe Williams, Hardie Pope, Hardy
Lewis and Jack Bailey, made their es
cape from the jail at Kingston, on Tues
day. When the sheriff and jailer opened
the doors the quartette pounced on them,
and after securing the sheriff's pistol
made a break for liberty. After a lively
chase in which a large number of citi
zens joined, the prisoners were all re
captured.
A coal train collided with a passenger
train on the Tennessee Valley branch of
the Knoxville & Ohio Railroad, near
Shamrock. C. L. Daggett, conductor of
the passenger train, and David Henshaw,
a brakeman, of Coal Creek, brakemau on
the same train, were instantly killed,
their bodies being mangled almost be
yond recognition. Ed Edward and
James Craig, of Coal Creek, passengers
on the taaiu, were seriously if not fatally
wounded. Other passengers were badly
shaken up.
TKXA9.
At Dara j , the Dallas Cotton Mills,
employing 250 bands and operating 11.-
000 spindles and 200 looms, were started
on Tuesday iu the presence of a largo
gathering.
HIS POSITION.
Dr, McGlynn, the excommunicated
priest, wishes to return to the t atholic
Church. Ho said so in Cooper Union
hall, New York, on Wednesday night.
Dr. McGlynn confe-sed liiß de-ire to re
turn to the fold of the cl.urcb, saying:
“A gentleman whom I met in Rochester
exprosseJ the hope that I might soon be
back in the church. I would like to be
there. I would like to exercise tho
functions of my Chr stian miuisiry."
WANT PEACE.
The International Peace Arbitration
Society met ia Paris, France, on Thurs
day. It was resolved to organize an in
ternational congress, to meet in
representing America, England, Ir.trice
and other countries favorable to the plan.
Thu late Sultan of Zanzibar is said to
have been the father of 232 children.
What a cheerful time such a father
would have in trying to rent a house
from a Now York landlord.
INTO THE DARK.
I gam into the dark, O lovel
I gaze into the dark.
The creeping shadows chill me, and the night
With wide outreaebing arms, holds thee
afar.
O yearning eyes! your love midit wondrous
light,
More fair than falls from moon-ray or
from star,
Hmiles out into the dark.
I reached into the dark, O lovel
1 reach into the dark.
I can not find thee, and my groping bands
Touch only memories and phantom shapes.
O empty arms! be glad of those sweet lan-ls
Wherein your love all loneliness escapes
And smiles into the dark.
I call into the dark, O lovel
I call into the dark.
Thera comes from out the hush below, above,
No answer but my own quick-fluttered
breath.
O doubting heart! dost thou not know thy
loro,
Across the awful stlentoeai of death,
Hmi!e3 at thee through the dark!
— J. F. O'Donnell in American Maja.ine.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
BY M. M. CAS®, JB.
“Two pretty girls on the boat at any
rate,” said Harry, as the three friends
alighted at the wharf. “There should
be one more, though—one for Tom,
poor fellow, he has no knack of making
acquaintances.”
“Yes; it’s too bad about Tom,” re
marked Phil, derisively.
“i do not care to meet any one,” said
Tom ; “you shall have clear field to-day,
hoys, t act is, I'm tired of talk, espe
cially society talk; it s all hollow. If I
could exchange thoughts for a while
with some interesting party, 1 think I
should quite <n oj- it.”
“You might as well be a deaf-and
dumb man,” said I h I.
“Suppose you travel as one this, after
noon,” said Harry ; “you will hear can
dor enough;” and the novelty of the
proposition secuicd its laughing accept
ance before they had reflected on its ab
surdity.
From that moment Tom was deaf and
dumb, and, strolling forward on the
boat, he seated himseif near the two
young ladies, and his fiends, in a spirit
of merriment, began a make-believe con
versation with him on their lingers.
“Tell him we'll lie back after a while,”
sa'd Phil; “e.lso, that we’ll see to the
tickets, and that he can just sit here and
enjoy himself as well as he can. Poor
fellow, it is hard to be so afflicted, even
if one has a million !’’
This information having been com
municated, apparently by the signs, the
two sauntered away, leaving Tom with
the ladies, w ho had been interested spec
tators of all the little pantomime Of
course, they had their views to exchange
on such an unusual event as a deaf-atid -
dumb compiignon ilu voyage worth a
million, and h ate began immediately, iu
her impulsive way:
“Isn’t It sad, Milly? and he so young
and handsome, too; yes, he would be
called so—that is, in some places; we
would have thought so at Madame Ber
trand’s. His eyes are good, and his
moustache—no, it isn’t red, not real red.
It’s blonde, it’s that tew color, not terra
cotta, but like it, you know—that love
ly new russef. And worth a million,
too; I suppose yd give it all to be able
to hear. I wouder if ho can talk, and
if he was born so: if not, it must seem
all the worse: and those friends of his,
how hearties? they are to leave him
aloael Possibly no one else on the boat
knows how to talk with him."
“But I presume he can write,” said
Milly. “He looks intelligent enough.”
“Indeed he does," responded Kate;
“and more than that, he looks cultured
and scholarly; aud notice in what good
taste he dresses ; nothing to indicate his
wealth, no jewelry—yes, there’s a watch
chain, but it’s small aud it’s allowable,
it’s necessary, it subserves a purpose.
He wears no rings, and you notice how
taper and white his lingers are? and—
See the ship go sailing over there against
the hill. Vou know, Milly, we must
not talk of him when he’s looking
•traight at iis —these deaf people are so
quick; he could tell what you said by
the motion of your lips. Whenever he
looks around we must talk of shiprs, for
fear that—There goes another one; that
is a steamer, Milly; you can tell that,
Milly, by the steam and it’s going
through the water. There, see how I
met that crisis,' I never moved a visible
muscle You must excuse me if I tell
you all sorts of foolish things about
shiprs when he tarns those deep eyes on
me. They are beautiful eyes, Milly,
soft and brown and good. I think he
is agood man—that is, he would be if
he could hear and talk; not goody good,
but a man of character—a gentleman
under all circumstances.”
“(Jh, do take bnath, Kate,” said
Milly. “llow you rattle on, no matter
what the subject I But tell me, would
you marry such a man ”
“Do you mean if I loved h’m?” was
the reply. “Whv, of course, I would
marry any one I loved.”
"Put 1 mean,”explained Milly, “could
you love h mi”
“( h, that's one of your pu.aling
questions,” replied Kate. “That do
pends-if he loved me, perhaps; if ho
prized me above all other women, if I
was necessary to his happiness if he
should prove to he the one man in the
world for me, why, his infirmity would
make no difference. But here comes
Agatha. Do you know I wish she
wouldn’t come? She’s deceitful. I
someway have no coniidence in her since
that Percy affair. She en.ouraged him
for months, until his father failed. But
let us shock her; don’t tell her the mys
tery of our friend here, and we will hor
rify her.”
They might have succeeded hid it not
been that Agatha had just been talking
with Harry on the lower deck, and, un
der pledge of se rccy, lie told her of the
joke which he began to realize was more
on Tom than on any one else. So Agatha
went forward, at Harry's suggestion to
see what was going on, and also deter
mined to make a good impression on
Tom, whom she knew by reputation.
“How do you do, Agaihar” said I- ate,
affably. “Won’t you s t here with us
awhile? This is the coolest place on the
boat, and the most pleasant, too. We
have such a charming companion ; look
at him, Agatha—isn’t lie handsome? He
is a little sunbrowned, but that is be
cause lie ti avels: he hunts and fishes and
flirts, and leads a very happy lile. He
has money, too, inve ted beyond the
reach of fa lure, and he is of stalwart,
manly build, and eyes—Milly, there is
another ship, there somewhere; I can’t
see it yet, but I will look for it—and, as
I was saying, he looks self-reliant and
dignified, and kissable and adorable,’
“Why, Kato, are you crazy?” said
Agatha.
“ Not that I am aware of, Miss
Agatha,” replied Kate, loftily.
‘■But, Milly,” continued the new
comer, “how dare sho talk so in his
presencet"
“Oh, Kato means no harm,’’ said
Miilv, blandly. “He is a gentlemanly
fellow and doesn’t care what we say,
and he is sunburned and dignified; Kate
was right.”
“Is he a friend or relative of yours?”
asked .Agatha.
“Relative? No,” said Kate. “Friend?
Ido not know. I am his friend, and
his name is Tom. Whether ho is my
friend or not, remains to be seen.”
“Well, ladies,” said Agutha,
“your conduct i, to say the least, Inex
plicable. I certainly should grieve to
hurt the feelings of this gentleman, or
of any person. Perhaps you may not be
giving offense or doing anything uncon
ventional. I do not wish to misjudge
you —th re is some mystery about it that
1 cannot fathom. But 1 must go below
witli mamma.”
“Well, said Kate, after Agatha left,
“that was a curious position for her to
take: as though we were ]>ossibly doing
nnythiug wrong—the ideal Her wftole
speech is unlike her; there is, as she
snys, some mystery here.”
“Indeed there must be,” replied
Milly. “.she have feeling! She has
none for auybody. Something in her
\oice reminds me of the day when she
told the madame how she had been in
\eigled into that excursion, of which
she was the promoter.”
“Yes, I remember just how she
looked,” said Kate. “I tell you there
is treachery here. Let us go to the cabin
for a white. Someway I feel un
easy.”
When they had gone, Tom rose,
walked to the side of the boat and
seriously contemplated jumping over
board His cheeks burned at the posi
tion in which his folly had placed him,
and he was so angry at his frieads as to
have given them little grace had they
appeared just then. It had been awk- j
ward, terribly awkward and distressing.
IVhy hadn’t lie left when first they began
to talk I He had placed one of the
brightest, sweetest, most beautiful girls
he had ever seen in a fa'se position which
would always mortify her, make her bate
him aud make him hate himself. He
had been a dishonorable spy, an eaves -
dropper; he had listened to private
conversat on. Thoroughly vexed and
chagrined, he went below, and meeting
his friends, said, very sternly:
“boys, through your amazing idea of
a joke I have disgraced myself. Unless
you do just as I ask you, and help me
out, I never want to see or speuk tc
either of you again.”
The boys, who had heard lomcthing
of the facts through Agatha, laughed till
the tears streamed down their faces;
laughed, in fact, until Tom became so
enraged that they dared not irritate him
further. 8o they readily promised to
assist him in any way lie might desire.
Tom remained below, sullen and re
ticent, until they reached Hockledge
Landing. There he and his friends left
the boat, and when once on the wharf
ho saw to his dismay that a party, in
cluding the three young ladies, had also
landed, and that the steamer was already
under way. He must keep up the farce
for a little longer, at least until the next
boat back. l eaching the hotel—and
there was but one—he took the landlord
into his confidence and evolved the fol
lowing ingenious plan of action: He
was Mr, John Baird, who had come in
over the mountains to meet his twin
brother, Mr. Tom Baird, who had come
up on the boat. To this notable scheme
his two friends heartily assented; but
once away from him, they fairly roared
when they reflected that Agatha was in
the secret, and would probably disclose
it at just the wrong time. In pursuance
of the plan, however, Mr. Bennett, the
landlord, begged of Kate and Milly that
he might introduce Mr. John Baird,
who just come in from the Rockkili
Y'nlley.
When Baird was introduced, although
he had changed his clothes and aprpear- i
ante as far as possible, Kate’s stately
hauteur and Milly’s withering acorn al
most froze hia blood.
“I believe we had the prleasure of
seeing Mr. Baird on the boat this after
noon,” said Kate, icily. I
“One Mr. Baird, I’ve no doubt,” said
Tom, recklessly. “Mr. Tom Baird, my
twin brother. Poor fellow, you doubt
less noticed his infirmity, only of recent
date, too—very recent, in fact; he
wouldn’t come down to night—he
avoids society, naturally; he’s a great
hand to rise early and be gone all day in
the mountains, and at night take dinner
in his room.”
“So wc shall, doubtless, be denied the
pleasure of meeting h m:” said Milly,
ironically, but half convinced.
“Not at all,” said Ba ; rd. “I shall in
sist on his joining us to-morrow evening.
It will never do for him to make a her
mit of h mself at his time of life. So
young—that is ”
“Your twin brother, I believe,” said
Kate, with a mocking something in her
voice mid manner.
“Yes, oil, yes,” continued Tom. “We
are quite different, though, as people
observe when we are toaether.”
“Indeed,’’said Kate, with a doubting
courtesy; and then, as Tom lelt them,
she added: “Milly, what do you
think?”
“I can’t tell,” replied that young lady.
“Wait uutil we see them together."
“Yes, wait until we do,” said Kate,
her old doubts returning with added
force.
Agatha,however, understood the situa
tion, and thought to make the most of
it by cultivating Mr. John Baird, us she
affected to believe him. In this she made
but little headway. Meanwhile, it be
came notorious through the hotel that
Mr. “Tom” Baird had rambled away to
a village down the river, nnd had thence
gone to the city, telegraphing for his
valise. Some credible people had seen
the dispatch, and it was qu teas well
known that a valise had been sent to Mr.
Tom Baird at his city address. These
little incidents, though perhaps Dot en
tirely convincing, at least gave Kate nnd
Milly an excu-e for treating Tom
courteously—a toleration of which he
made the most, endeavoring, by every
attention, to reinstate himself in
their good graces. The fact is, Tom
was desperately, hopelessly in love with
Kate; and she was so far interested as
to remark, without seeming offended,
several little inconsistencies in his story.
•‘I observo, Mr. Baird,” said she, '
“that your friends, when speaking in
haste, are as apt to cull you Torn as
John. Doubtless they confound you
with your unlortunate brother. You
must be very like.”
Thereupon l oin makes some incoherent
answer or observation in a pained, re
proachful way, and changes the sub ect.
At length there whs a re.elatiou which
’’ate could not overlook if she desired
to; lor Agatha, jealous that her arts
NUMBER I.
were Tain, and that Tom should be
monopolized by her rival, at last said:
“How long, Kate, are you going to keep
up that stupid farce? Why, I knew all
the time how it was, even on the boat;
Harry Bishop told me. Deaf and dumb,
indeed —Tom Bairddeaf! Whata joke!
I presume, however, you regret that he
ie not.”
“And you knew and did not tell ue!”
said Kate, slowly, and with deliberate
scorn. “You teach me the value of your
friendship, Miss Vine; you knowingly
witness our mistuke in order to further
your own eolfi.-.h ends.”
Bho turned away proudly, passed
down the long porch, and slowly away
through a winding forest path. Her self
control was superb. Yet at last, when
far from the beaten track, in the heart of
the woods, she seated herself on a rock,
buried her face in her hands, and shook
with sobs which she could no longer re
press—sob; born of bitter mortification
at her mistake and the notoriety which
it must soon obtain. Suddenly her name
was spoken, and Tom stood before her.
She sprang to her feet, her eyes blaz
ing with fire, her face queenly in it*
acorn.
“How dare you, sir, intrude again
upon met Again dishonorably, like a
spy?”
f “Miss NormaD,” sad he, with a quiet
earnestness which commanded her atten
tion, “1 stand on the brink of a cliff; il
is perhaps a hundred feet down to ths
rocks below. A few words I must say
to you, and then, unless I have wonyoui
full forgiveness, I will swear an oath”—
and he spoke with dramatic intensity—
“to throw myself down this precipice as
some poor atonement, the only repara
tion left me, for my folly and for your
tears.”
Wnat woman could be inaenst
ble to so much earnestness? What
woman that loved? What woman
could ask a man to jump a hun
dred feet down on jagged rocks? A
handsome man, a man with a million—a
man who, a3he told her, loved only her,
and offered to prove it by jumping any
time she gave the signal.
As, at last, they walked home arm-in
arm along the shadowed, sinuous path,
she said: “Tom, how dared you swear
you would jump if X didn’t foVgive you?
Would you have really jumped:”
“Ob, that’s q. leading question, my
love,” was the reply. “I probably
would have jumped, fori felt thoroughly
wretched at the time, and hated myself
for having caused you such pain. Then,
too, my dear, you may also bear in
mind that 1 did not really swear I’d
jump. I said in effect that I would
swear, which is quite a different thing.
Again, my dear Kate, the cliff is not
as high as I stated in ray excitement.”
“lousaid one hundred feet, Tom—■
one hundred feet to the rocks below.”
“Oh, did I?” Well, so it doubtlesais,
my dear; one hundred feel to some ol
the lower strata, perhaps —not to the up
per ones, however. One more kiss,
lvate, just one: this is really the last
chance. Around the bend we will be in
plain sight of the hotel.” — Frank Lel'u>'t.
Hawaii’s Leper Colony.
From a communication just received
from the Attorney-General of Hawaii wo
are enabled, says the Pall MaU Oa :’?,
to gather ihe latest official information
regarding the spread of leprosy in King
Ka akaua’s dominions. On April 1,1888,
there were 426 male and 227 female —or
a to*al of 653—lepers at the settlement
on the is and of Molokai, where they are
segregated by law from the rest of the
population of" Hawaii. From that date
to July, 18*7, 21 male and 3 female
lepers weie sent in. Owing apparently
to a strict enforcement of the law, 186
male and 113 female lepers were added to
the aettlement between July, 1887, and
March I, 1888. The deaths in two years
numbered 230, and 74tl lepers remained
alive upon Molokai—492 males and 257
females—on the Ist of April last. At
the (hospital at Kaka-ako there were at
the same date 53 lepers, and it is offi
cially estimated that upward of 400
others were at large at that periqd.
The disease is spreading, owing, it ia
alleged, to the refusal of the native
Hawaiians to believe it contagious. They
offer a stolid, passive resistance to the
law requiring lepers to be sent to Molo
kai, hence the discovery of new cases it
rendered extremely difficult to the in
spectors and “leper detectives” of Hono
lulu. In some cases the Government al
lows healthy persons, near relatives of
the diseased ones, to accompany them to
and serve them at the quarantine settle
ment at Molokai. Much difficulty is
found in limiting the number of
“koknas” or helpers, for many of the
healthy wish to go with their deceased
frienda not only from affection but to
obtain rations and shelter and clothing
at the Government expense. That tho
disease is contagious is an inference from
nothing but its spread. -Many persons
live for years in the closest relations
with lepers without becoming leprous.
Father t amien, the priest, who hereto
fore devoted his life to the Molokai set
tlement, having lived among the afflicted
people for over ten years before he be
came affected with the contagion.
Children of leprous parents have often
been know, in Honolulu and other por
tions of the Hawaiian groups, to have
remained untainted till the end of their
lives. The mystery as to the manner of
the communication of leprosy, and the
tact that no plain case of the disease has
ever been cured, add to the horror at its
gradual advance. Still the impression
of the Hawaiian authorities is that they
could succeed in stamping it out if the
law allowed them to segregate to the
end of their lives not only lepers and
suspected lepers, but all who have lived
| in intimacy with the diseased. The sup
port of the unfortunates is very costly to
King Kalakaua’s Government, and
threatens to impoverish it within a
measurable period unless the spread of
leprosy be in some way checked. A
| German savant alleges that he has dis
covered a cure, but so far it has served
only to alleviate the distress of a few
sufferers. There is some talk in official
circles in Honolulu of inviting M. Fas
teur to study the disease, with a view .to
suggesting some means of either curing
it or abating to some extent its viru
lence.
A Candy Store Captured by Bees.
An immense number of bees recently
made a descent on the confectionery
stalls of a market in Loudon and literally
took possession of them. Business was
stopped and the owners of the stalls took
to flight. It is presumed that the cold
and inclement season had deprived th
insects of their ordinary source of bus
tenance, and they were driven by famiu#
from the country into the town. —Neu
York Tribune.
If there is anything that makes a
thrifty man mad is to havo a checked
satchel, worth, with contents, about $3,
turn up just after he has put in a lost
baggage clflitu for $59. — Burlington
i if'roe rrett,