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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. [inLerprise. IliH \\ EEKLY A1 (Jeouoia. K r $l IN CLUBS OF FIVE. (ho Covington Postoffioe ■ 111 clubs of five or more H f)„ll;ir. Six months 75cts. Four Ktlis, 50 rts always in advance. |ATRO N I Z E k Old Enterprise. 1 "rides no fences.” lumps no nominations ■1.25 in advance, [clubs of five sl. I Advertising Rates. ■ora! N : i' lOcts per line first inser ■-20 reins jn-r month. Business Ad ■iicim iits l?l ]ier inch first time—so etl Hkmbsequent insertion. I CONTRACT ADVERTISING: ■ce. | 1 mo. | 3m. | Cm | 12 m. ■oil] $2.50 I 5.00 I B'oo 12.00 ■ | 4.00 | 8.00 | 12.00 18.00 ■ i fi.oo I 12.00 I 18.00 27.00 Kni: 7.00 | 15.00 | 25.00 40.00 ■ | 12.00 | 25.00 I 40.00 60.00 ■ | is.oo | 40.00 | 60.00 100.00 ■’hen any issue of interest to the ■pie of this county arises it may be ■ended upon that The Enterprise ■be ready to discuss in a way and liner which no sensible man can ■construe or misunderstand. We Ind ever ready to labor ■or the cause that lacks assistance, ■the wrong that needs resistance Brthe future in the distance, lithe good that we can do.” leorgia Methodist I FEMALE fHOLLEfiE ¥■ pull Term begins August 29, and pes December 14. Spring Term begins January 9, and ns June 19. Board 810 to sls per month. -RATES OF TUITION. Tuition and Incidentals Fall Term, •oaths, $9 to sl7. 'ull corps of teachers. Apply for lalogue. id T. McLaughlin, A. M„ viagton, Ga.] President. L SIMMS &To Real Estate Agents, Kington Georgia. ® sure to give us the and renting of ou r property. of commission jw. Suable property on K d for sale. Try us. . I “ es traced and per ked. !° Pay unless a sale or rents coi ned. SIMMS & CO. ranklin B. Wright, COVINGTON. GA.— Physician & Surgeon. Sen tl ' tr ' cs ’ Gynecology, Diseases “eases f,r. * hildren, and all Chronic " e her. P r . lva,c nature, a specialtyl Ns u r .,' 1 a m .v command, which wil- Nlino C{ ”, tem * the calls of the sur- N 1 r ' V ’ ns well as my city prac- N| U.IN b. WRIGHT, M. D P \ R M LOANS, B YW. SCOTT, j °vington, Georgia. I 'Till v ' te p. s *ton VVni! ate ''°“ns on Farms in hf I’* 1 ’* Years' t™* 1 a,l< * Rockdale counties TOf r,mß la n a like it ’ t < ' ns * 1 ' ar> 4 see h<> w ***&e4i, ’’ Interest will cost you less W. SCOTT. 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,