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Editti Wilder’s
Journal.
By METTA E. S. BENSON,
Author of “ Barbara Dare,” 11 Her True
Krieiul.” “Ilr. Vetnor’s Ix>ve Af
fairs," "The Missing Ring,"
"Love's Sacrifice,” etc.
CHAPTER VII.
I was met at the door by Martha, Mrs.
Volney’s hous keeper, and who has been
in her employ for such a long term of
years that she considers herself as one of
the family.
“Good afternoon, Miss Wilder. Mrs.
Volney is in her room, and wishes to see
you at once. She knows you arc come,
so I nec ln’t climb the stairs again. But
just lay oft your hat, pleaso, it’ll seem
more chirpy to her 1 think.”
“Why, Martha is Mrs. Volney really
ill?” drawing oil my glo .es, as 1 turned
to question her.
“She ain’t far from it, I can tell you.
And I knew by her tone that she, too,
liad noticed Mrs. Volney’s failing
strength, and not without alarm.
Mrs. Volney was seated by the open
window. She turned her heal as I
pause 1 at the door, and smiled faintly.
“Good evening, Edith. Take the chair
by the window yonder, please, the
bree/.e seems very refreshing after the
sultriness of the day.”
Smiling, I made answer: “ There is
always something beautiful, to me, in
the approach of night fall. Mrs. Vol
nev. It brings with it such a sense of
quiet and peaceful folding away.”
Her face saddened. “On the con
trary, and especially of late, it impresses
me with a feeling of gloom horror almost.
But have you heard iroin Joyce?”
I half rose from my chair. “O, no ac
cident has happened I” she hastened to
reassure me. “ Here is her last letter.
Read it if you like.”
It was brief and full of herself—her
social triumphs, tiic high admiration she
everywhere excited, and Leon's pride in
this univesral acknowledgment of her
beauty.
“81. c is very happy,” Mrs. Volney said
when I had finished reading.
“After her own manner, yes,” I re
plied. “But you wished to see me,
Mrs. Volney.”
“I sen 1 , "for you, Edith, to solicit a
very great favor of you. lam unusually
lonely since Joyce’s marriage. lam not
strong enough for the demands of society,
and there is some trouble with my eyes,
so that 1 can read but a few minutes at a
time. I can think of no one whom I
could have about me as a companion
save yourself. I like your quiet,thought
ful ways, and the unobtrusive kindness
which has always characterized your
intercourse with me. I will make your
salary double that you are earning at
present, and you shall be free to go and
come as you please, with the privilege
of a daughter.”
She must have read negation in my
face. “Do not deny me, Edith! If you
understood how much I really need you
I am sure you would not refuse my
request. ”
. What could I say after such an appeal,
but that I would consider the matter
until morning.
* * * * * *
“There can be no choice of action,
Edith, to him who clearly sees the
right."
It was Rose who uttered these words,
Rose, with my hands clasped close in her
own, the moonlight touching her face
with a halo as of glory.
“But think of it, Rose, I was driven
from a quiet home nest last year by the
happy event of Edna's marriage. With
out a murmur I sought another, and now
that lam so contented, O Rose, why
should I be disturbed, 1 exclaimed, with
a burst of passionate tears.
“Conic, Edith,” she said after a mo
ment, “let us find if (here are no blue
sky and sunshine in this picture. You
will earn more money, have more leisure,
and can therefore be more helpful to
‘my people,’ as you call them.”
“But these are watery sunbeams. You
have not created sunshine yet.”
“You must wait the coming days for
that, dear. It may bo you will find in
this new and broader pathway, work so
ennobling, duties so sacred, that you
will count ail other delights your life
has known as dros3 in comparison.”
“I cannot think that, Rose, when I
recall what dear delights have beautified
my life.” Yet I drew a certain sense of
comfort from her words, and had time
to think of the difference my going
would make in other lives than mine.
“And what of your mother, and Dick,
and of yo irself, Rose?”
Ail the light faded out of her face,
leaving only a grayish pallor behind.
“We must go b ek to the old manner of
living again.”
“Listen to me, Rose. Mrs. Volney is
is no more to me than any other chance
acquaintance. She is a proud, aristo
cratic woman, who lias paid me without
stint for the services I have rendered
her, but beyond this Las never ques
tioned— ‘was 1 sad or happy?’ Now that
she has come into a time of weakness she
turns to me for some possible good she
fancies lam able to give her. For this
woman's sake are you willing to relin
quish the enjoyments and advantages of
this dear little home, and with your
mother and Dick go back to the old ten
ement house.” She moved uneasily, as
•thougti she felt the red-hot pinchers
tearing at the quivering flesh.
Then she grew quiet mid her face
passed slowly into one of its higher
phases.
“ Yes," in the lowest possible tone of
voice, in which 1 could detect no slightest
quiver of indecision; but there win
some subtle sound in its deep under
tones that instantly pictured before
my mind the Garden of Gethscmane.
I arose and walked the floor to and
fro, then rime and knelt beside her.
“ Rose, you have scaled my fate. I will
goto Mrs. Volney in the morning apd
remain with her as long as she may de
sire; but in the meantime you shall
promise to abide at ‘ Rose Cottage.’ 1
want a home into which l can feci free to
intrude at all sorts of odd hours. I want
to come sometimes and sleep fn the room
which is inexpressibly dear to me be
cause it is so near your own. O Rose,
I would rather die than that this home
tie which unites our lives should be sev
ered! You will not refuse me ?”
“Put in that way I cannot,” stooping
to seal our compact with a kiss. And
"UT COUNTRY: MAY SHE KVKR MB RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY I" —J*rKß<iN
thus, with her face close to mini*, she ut
tered a few words of prayer,—such beau
tifill, glad, earnest words -and my min.:
pictured another scene; I saw the great
hosts of Israel coming up out of the ses
when she does not feel equal to the ef
fort: ami myself be as cheery as possible
at all times.
Yesterday morning when we returned
from our usual early ride, and James,
(the man of all work) assisted Mrs. Vol
ney from the carriage, she said : “Drive
as far as you would like to, Edith, Martha
in safety, and in the midst of them was
Miriam, singing her song of praise.
July 2.
I have been two weeks with Mrs. Vol
ney in the new role of companion. My
duties are very light and pleasant. I
have only to tend aloud to Iter at times;
brighten the rooms with fresh flowers;
write her letters; entertain her callers
will do all that 1 require until your re-’
turn.”
I thanked her and fumed the ponies
In the direction-of Rose Cottage.
Taking Rose with me I drove out to
where the road wound between fields of
growing grain, which the warm west
wind transformed into billowy, beryl tint
ed seas, and came to us ns we rode along,
laden with the peculiar sweetness of new
mown hay. After a mile or so, a strip
of dense Dcputiful woodland came down
to the very roadside. Woods that were
lull of slumberous shadows, fresh earth
scents, tall graceful ferns, and bright
lmcd blossoms.
I alighted and gathered ferns, and
flowers,and little tufts of ex |uisitc moss,
so that Rose might hold them in her
hands, and carry they back with her into
the noise and dust of the city. Her face
was radiant, and her eager exclamations
of delight seemed almost pathetic when
I remembered that all her life long she
had been shut away fiom the quiet re
treats of nature.
‘ You do not appear unhappy,” Rose
said, as we rode slowly homeward.
“I am not,” I responded, “and I am
surprised at the ease with which I have
become accustomed to my ncwmauncrof
life.”
“It has proven one of the pieasant
wayside things God is always keeping in
st ire Jo surprise ut with when we brave
ly go forward in the way lie would have
us walk, whatever it may cost us of per
sonal sacrifice. You will be finding
those little surprises all along the road,
Edith.”
“I used not to believe in this personal
supervision of God: but with the richer
thought of to day I am able to under
stand how ho can make a human heart,
wet by the tears of its own sorrow, fra
grant with the flowers of faith and joy
as easily as be can set the fields abloom
after a time of fierce storm or gentle rain.
•And I see with this broader vision, Rose,
because I have sat at your feet and
listened to your teachings.”
A look of pain flitted over her face,
then vanished, leaving it radiant.
“ No, I will not shrink away from
your words of honest praise," she said
meditatively, “for I remember a time
when I sat in the deepest darkness, feel
ing that life, —my. life, because of its
pain and its helplessness,—was a curse.
At last there moved into the rooms next
to our own, a man and his wife aud
children, and the wife’s grandmother,
very old, and feeble, and totally blind.
It was in mid-winter. They were dis
tressingly poor and very often were both
hungry and cold ; but the spirit of that
helpless old grandmother pervaded the
entire household and made it the most
beautiful family I ever knew.
“Why is it,"lasked her one day when
mother had led her into our room to keep
me company, “that you are always
happy? Tell me the secret of your jov?”
“Balces alive, child, it ain’t no secret!
“But it must be, grandmother, since in
spite of your desolate sur.oundings you
are so happy.”
“That's just it, child," she replied
with a little quaver of laughter I shall
never forget. “Happiness don’t come
from the outride of a body, but from the
inside. And when once you’ve found its
source, its for all the world like a nat’rel
spring of water, it keeps bubblin’ up and
fillin’ ye so full there ain’t no room for
worriinent. And bleis God, child, it’ll
be so through all eternity.”
“Happiness comes from within,” I
repeated the words over and over, until
the thought took root in my heart, and
grew, and blossomed, so that life was
rich with their fragrance—content,
peace, joy. None of us are solowlv that
we may not set some tiny wave of bliss
in motion, that shall grow unceasingly
in width and power until it reaches the
far shore. And where is that, Edith?”
“Why, there is none rose, Rose. It is
—forever.”
“Wonderful, is it not, dear?”
I just reached out aud touched her
hand—the one that held the flowers—
and the silence between us was unkroken
until we said “good-bye” at Hose Cot
tage.
Sundat Afternoon.
I have just returned from “Rose Cot
tage.” Every Sunday at ii o’clock Rose
holds her meetings. Strange that in
finding Louis and Aggie Adams, I should
have found Rose s work; but from the
day when Mr. Adams eaine for his chil
dren until the present, not a Sunday
has passed that he has not come to sif
at Hose's feet with the rare devotion of a
Pilgrim seeking some sacred shrine.
Mr. Adams had a long and severe
struggle with his habit of drunkenness,
but bv the help of Dr. Brownlow and
Rose, he was able at last to conquer h s
besetting sin. For months he has been
a sober and industrious man. He has a
comfortable home in a quiet and respecta
ble neighborhood. There is a marked
change in the apparel and bearing of
him.elf and family and it would be im
possible, I think, to find a happier wife
than Mrs. Adams, or two children more
lovable in every way than Lou sand
Aggie.
This work of Rose’s has grown very
gradually. At first it was only Mr.
Adams and the children, aud Mrs. Owens
always had ready some bit of refresh*
meat, and Rose would give to each of
the children a pretty card with a motto
upon it, which they were to commit dur
ing the wuek, ar.d from our small library
Mr. Adams was told to select a book to
occupy his leisure hours. After a time
he asked the privilege of bringing an old
comrade along with him who was try
ing to reform. And Aggie came one
day leading by the hand a shy little
ragged waif, between whom and Edna
there sprang up a mutual love. The
child possesses a marvelous gift of song,
and only to-day Edna said, passing
her hand caressingly over the auburn
tinted hair: “The world shall hear from
my little girl some of these days.”
Sometimes Dick would bring in a
homeless little bootblack or newsboy
with his Sunday papers under his arm.
And if one came once he was sure to
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 18. 188!).
come again and again, bringing other*
with him, until ut last Dr. Brownlow
suggested the fitting upof n la r ge, pleas
snt room, and for wh en wo hud no other
us ■, in which to hold these weekly
meetings.
Edna furnishes cards for the smaller
children, and through the kindness of
Mr. and Mrs Benton we have several
copies of the Youths' (,'o-n/nrni n and the
Youths’ Tem/uraooe Hunter to distribute
among the attendants. Dr. Brownlow
solicited funds from some of his more
wealthy patrons, and by each one of us
putting a shoulder to the wheel, Rose
lias a library for “her people” of more
than 100 choice volumes.
At these meetings Rose has always
some bright, beautiful things to snv,
—iimplc, earned, hopeful, helpful words
—and men, women and children sit en
tranced before her; Edna has charge of
the singing; Mr. Adamsand Dick look
after books and papers; and so Rose
seeks to have each one learn the secret of
a happy life, by finding some work to
do; and herself is happy, because she
knows that her life is not being lived iu
vain. That the influence of her gentle
deeds will survive her, ns the subtle
sweetnes* which clings to the roue, long
since dead as dust.
July 12.
For day* thf heat has been intense.
The flowers droop their sweet heads in
the yellow glare of the mid-day sun, and
even the shadows of the tall, umbrageous
trees, and the perpetually falling spray
of the fountains, seem unrefreshing.
I am conscious that Mrs. Volney is
slowly failing. There Jias coine upon her
of late a slight, hollow cough, and a
daily chill, hardly perceptible, but a famt
foreboding of life’s decay. That the
secret sorrow which she is enduring is
accelerating, the death of this proud and
susceptible woman I have not a doobt.
This morning I placed her couch in
such a position that she could obtain a
full view of the fernery, and where the
falling mist of a small marble fountain
made low, slumberous music in the air.
She was silent for a long time, while I
sat by an opposite window sewing upon
a dress for one of Rose’s little girls. At
last she said: “Will you bring a book
from the library, Edith, and read aloud?
I think I must be a trifle nervous this
morning.” She said this last with a sad,
flitting smile. ’
“ 1 will do so with pleasure, Mrs. Vol
ney; hut what shall it be, prose or poe
try? Wise or fool sh?” Again that fleeting
smile, as I paused midway of the room
to question her.
“Let it he prose, and something that
will set me thinking. Sometimes it is
better to think other people's thought*
than your own.”
I came back with one of Emerson’s
books in my hand, —his “Letters and
Social Aims.”
I named the subjects in their order.
“Read the one on ‘lmmortality,’” she
said
When I came to that part where ‘the
modern Greeks, in their songs, asked
that they may be buried where the sun
can see them, and that a little window
may be cut in the sepulchre, from which
the swallow might be seen when it comes
back in the spring,—she turned her face
toward me and smiled, though her eyes
were large wilh tears.
“It may be a very foolish thing to tell
you, Edith, but 1 have often thought
that sometime the robins would come in
the early spring, and sing their half
plaintive, wholly sweet songs about my
silent resting place, and that I should lie
there dumb and unheeding. There is
something inexpressibly saddening in the
thought.”
I was surprised into silence by the
pretty poetry of her words, so different
from any I had ever before heard her
utter. 1 tried, too, to think what Rose
would say to her, then trusted my own
intuitions and replied :
“Your thought is a very beautiful one,
Mrs. Volney, and I think we can com
fort ourselves with the assurance that
if it will make us one whit the
happier to know when the robins
ret rn in springtime to the dear,
familiar places, the knowledge will not
be denied us, nor can the little thrill of
gladness that always comes at sight of
the first robin. For Rose—my Baint
Rose—has taught me that death is simply
birth into a beautiful life, with a glori
ous new body for the freed spirit, and
witli al! the old loves and ideals, just as
much a part of us as now, only tenderer,
clearer, more intense.”
She spiang from the cofich and
walked the floor hastily to and fro, with
the palms of her hands turned outward,
as though to ward oil a cruel blow.
“An eternity!’’ she cried. “O, God
forbid! I could not endure it! Better
the dreamless sleep of annihilation than
that!” She sank upon the couch, pale
and panting for breath.
Quietly I went and knelt beside her;
rearranged her pillows, and passed my
hands over head aud hands in slow, ca
ressing touches, which calmed her almost
instantly.
“O, Edith!” looking straight into mv
eyes, and with such unutterable longing
in the depths of her own as must have
brought an answering gleam of sympathy
into mine. I bad never seen Mrs. Vol
ney'a face so pale—the lips pressed to
gether with such a look of pain. I had
a feeling that the moment was not far
distant when the secrecy was to bo
broken. But 1 could not speak. I could
not say: “Confide in me, Mrs. Volney.
Let me help you bear this burden which
is wearing your life away.” Even if I
could have trust and my voice I should
have feared wounding her. I waited for
her to speak, but she remained silent,
and ufter a time turned her head a little
away from me, with her eyes fixed
as on something incorporeal. The sac
ramental moment passed. I went
back to the window aud to my sewing
again,conscious of a disappointed yearn
ing—a shutting out from something that
was a part of my own life—and I could
not hinder my imagination from taking
a slow flight ovei what seemed possibili
ties.
July 28.
Mrs. Volney's physician was late in
coming to-day, and he lingered longer
than usual with her,in a low and earnest
conversation.
When at last he was gone, I found
her lying upon a conch drawn up before
the open window, her face very pale and
turned toward the west, where the sun
light lingered in a rosy flush.
Bhc moved slightly at my appioach.
“Edith,” she said,almost in a whisper,
“at last I know the truth. When th*
leaves fall from the trees I shall die."
“ I tried to speak, but the words were
hindred by struggling sobs, and great
tears that fell fast. I knelt down beside
her and she laid one of her weak hands
upon my bowed head.
Whea I had grown quiet, she said.
•till in that low voice: “Is it possible,
Edith, you c ire so much for me?”
"I do indeed love you, Mrs. Volney,
very, very dearly; hut 1 am selfish to acid
to your sorrow, when I should seek to
gi\c you coinfort, instead.”
“ You have comforted mo more than
you know. Edith, for if you do really
love me, then I can trust you, and I must
trust someone! I can no longer bear my
burden alone " Some tremulous emotion
pos-cd into her entire being to that alio
•poke with intense effort.
[to UK eovrisui'n.l
THE GREAT
WORLD OUTSIDE.
XIHOME OF MOST INTEREST
ING NATTERS.
ÜBKAT LiBOU AOITATIOX— SPUIN'! STURMS
DEATHS OF POOMINKNT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS
FIBES, SUICIDES, ETC.
Dispatches from India say* hundreds
of houses have been destroyed by fire at
Surat. The loss is placed at $1,000,000'
The jute mills of Buchemm & 1. ell,
Brooklyn, N. Y., were destroyed by fire
early Thursday morning. Lot*, $400,-
000.
On the appearance of Boulanger at a
soiree on Thursday night, in Brussels,
the French embassy immediately took
their departure.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland was
elected a life honorary member of the
Manhattan Club, at a meeting of the
board of governors.
The Catholic arcl b shop of Philadel
phia publishes a statement in answe r to
inquiries about his views ou the prohibi
tion amendment. He is against legisla
tion as a remedy, and says an appeal to
individual conscience is the true remedy.
The steamship Chattahoochee, of
Savannah, Ga., arrived in New York
on Wednesday, three days overdue and
pretty well stove up. She encountered
one of the heaviest gales ever experi
enced on the Atlantic coast, aud came
near being wrecked.
It has been discovered that, owing to
the faulty construction of a New Jersey
law recently passed in regard to city
governments, Trenton will be without a
mayor for three weeks, ami that the
newly authorized fire and police com
missioner cannot be appointed.
Sebastian Merdam, a German farmer, of
St. Cloud, Minn., was engaged in plow
ing Thursday. Four of bis chil
dren playiug in the field and fol
lowing the furrows, found the roots
of wild parsnips and all ate of
them, and became violently sick.
Three of them died in terrible agony.
On Thursday, President Lowery, of
tfie Minneapolis and St. Paul Street Car
Cos., issued an order reducing the wages
of all employes. The company claim it
is losing money, and that it must retrench
in order to float bonds wi'h which to
build new cable lines. The men are sul
len and uncommunicative, and a general
strike is looked for.
The town of Fairburg, 111., has been
quarantined on account of the prevalence
of scarlet fever. There are more than
twenty cases of the disease in the little
town, and six deaths have occurred.
The families, in which the disease pre
vails, are not permitted to leave the
premises, and provisions are furnished
them by a committee appointed by the
town board.
The tugs Saugatuck and Cuyler, hav
ing on board United States Marshal
Waters, of Grand Rapids, Sheriff Mc-
Kenzie, of “Soo,” and Sheriff Metcvier
and thirty deputies from Detroit, Mich.,
all heavily armed, left to capture the
barges having Moiles Bros., mill aboard,
and a desperate conflict between the op
posing factions is feared. The barges
are now lying behind Trout Island, in
American waters. They arc badly cut by
ice and the captains are afraid to venture
out into the lake with. them. This is
the milt which the owners were endeav
oring to carry to Canada to avoid debts
in Michigan.
Rev. Sam Small conducted one of the
most exciting temperance meetings of
the prohibition campaign at Pittsburg,
Pa., on Wednesday night. Ho was de
nouncing the liquor dealers vigorously,
as “law-breakers,” when Jacob Kellar, a
wealthy liquor dealer, objected. “He is
one of them,” cried a man in the audi
ence. “You’re a liar,” cried Kellur.
The latter became demonstrative, and
was ejected from the church amid great
excitement. Resolutions were passed
requesting the court to refuse Kellar a
renewal of license. One old lady tccamo
so much excited that she rushed up to
Kellar as ho was leaving the church, and
struck him in the face with her fist.
FIRED ON ÜB.
Capt. Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie
A. Bucknam, which arrived at New
York on Wtdmsday from St. Domingo
City, reports that when off Saona lalan 1,
at about noon, he sighted a vessel team
ing towards his vessel ,from laud, then
distant six or eight miles. The craft
proved to be a Dominican war vessel.
She laid her course to intercept the
Bucknam, but could not do so owing to
the strong breeze then prevailing, and
fell astern half or three-quarters of a
mile. When nearly in the schooner’s
wake, much to the surprise of the crew
she fired a shot which struck the water
ouly a few yards from the Bucknam’s
stern. She then gave chase, but with a
good breeze the schooner soon distanced
her. After keeping up the chase for
about two hours, she gave it up and,
putting about, steamed for land. What
her errand was oan only be conjectured,
os the Bucknam was far outside of their
jurisdiction and on the high sous, where
they could have no legitimate right to
overhaul her. The American flag was
flying at the schooner’s peak all the time,
it having been hoisted us soon as the
•tcamer was made out to be a war vessel.
HARRISON ARREBTED
Russell Harrison, son of President
Harrison, was arrested in New York on
Thursday, on the charge of having pub
lished in his paper, the Montana Live
Stock Exchange, an article taken from a
Buffalo paper, accusing ex-Govcrnor John
Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, with hav
ing stolen jewels from a Washington
lady.
ihe total appropriations made by each of
the several Congresses since 1874 are as fob
lows: Forty -thi rd, $1549,791,991: F< >r ty
fourth. $594,643,272; Forty-fifth, .$703,605,953;
Forty-si xth, $727,6%,003; Ft >i*ty-seventl i ,
$777, OSS, 94*; Forty-eighth, $655, ‘269,:
Forty-ninth, $746,243,514; Fiftieth, $817,878,-
075. Total, $5,627,817,561.
DRAMATIC STORY.
INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE
GREAT STORM IN SAMOA.
USAVE AMERICAN SAILORS—THE NATIONAL AN
THEM PLATED WHILE DEATH ArPBOACMED—
GERMAN OmCIALH ACTING gUEEB.
Intelligence has just reached- Ban
Francisco, Cal., by mail, of the recent
terrible disaster iu the harbor of Apia,
Samoa. *ceue* on tho Vnn
dalia had distracted attention from the
two other men of-w r ar, which still re
mained afloat, but in the afternoon the
position of the Trenton and Ogla had
changed and they were almost on tho
reef near tho point where the Eber struck.
The Trenton was coming down upon the
Olga and a collision seemed inevitable.
The condition of the flagship was must
pi table. At 10 o'clock in the morning
tier rudder and propeller had been
carried away by fooling with a piece of
wreckage. The shock was so great that
the pilot wheel on deck was whirled
around like lightening and every spoke
in it was broken. The two men who
were at the wheel at the time were
thrown violently to the deck and one had
his leg broken. To add to the discom
fiture of the steamer, water poured in
through the hawser pipes and flooded
the decks. The hawser pipes, which are
large openings in the bow through which
the anchor chains pass, were unfortun
ately locatodon the berth deck, instead
of on the gun deck above, as is usually
the case. In a short time the firemen
were up to their waists iu water and all
the fires were extinguished. From 10
o'clock in the morning uutil 6 o’clock in
the evening, when she grounded, the
Trenton held out against the storin with
out steam or rudder, rad her escape from
total destruction on the reef was miracu
lous. Bkillful management was all that
saved the lives of every man on board.
Lieut. Brown, the navigator, ordered
every man into the port rigging so that
tlie compact mass of humanity could be
used ts sails, aud ut the same time keep
the weight of the vessel on the side next
to the storm. Tho crowds on shore
rushed down to the water's edge aud
peered through the blinding storm to
hear the crash which would send both
men-of-war aud their load of freight to
the bottom. Running up the flag sud
denly, the, stars and stripes were seen
flying from the gaff of the Trenton. Pre
vious to this no vessel in the harbor had
raised a flag, as the storm wrs raging so
furiously at sunrise that the ceremony
was neglected. It seemed now as if the
gallant ship knpw she was doomed and
had determined to go down with the flag
of iter country floating above the storm.
The Trenton was not able to get out
into the bay again after her collision
w ith the Olga. Bhe was about 200 feet
from the wreck of the Vandalia and was
slowly drifting toward the shoal. It was
now after five o’clock, and the light was
beginning to fade away. In half an hour
the Trenton had drifted on to within a
few yards of the Vnndalia's bow, and the
men who were in the rigging of the lat
ter vessel trembled with fear as they saw
the Trenton approach. Feelings hard to
describe came over hundreds who
watched the vessels from the shore. The
storm was still raging with as much fury
as at any time during the day. Sud
denly a shout was borne across the waters.
The Trenton was cheering the Vandalia.
The sound of 450 voices broke upon tho
air aud was heard above the roar of the
tempest. “Three cheers lor the Vanda
lia!” was tlie cry that warmed the hearts
of the dying men in the rigging. The
shout died away upon the storm, and
t here arose from the quivering musts of
the sunken ship a response so feeble that
it was scarcely heard upon tlie shore.
Tho men who felt that they were looking
death in the face, aroused themselves to
the effort and united in a faint cheer for
the flag-ship. Those who were standing
ou the shore listened in silence, for that
feeble cry was the saddest they hnd ever
heard. Every heart was melted to pity.
The sound of music next came across the
water, The Trenton l and was playing
“The Star Spangled Banner." A thou
sand men on the sea or on tlie shore,
had never before this heard the
strains of music at such a time as this.
An indescribable feeling came over tlie
hundreds of Americans on the beach,
who listened to the notes of the national
anthem mingled with the howl of the
storm. For a moment only were they
silent, and then they broke forth with a
:-ry that rent the air and reached each of
i lie struggling men on the rigging of the
Vandalia—men who had exhausted
every means during the whole of
that awful day of rendering some
iis-istance to their comrades now
seemed inspired to greater efforts.
The storm was raging furiously at mid
night, and tlie stern of the Trenton was
forced back against the reef. The waves
continued to beat over her, put her
draught was so great that after she had
settled entirelv ou the bottom she was
still about her usual height out Of
water, and there seemed to be no great
1 anger of Inr going to pieces before the
men on board of her could be taken off.
Little could be done on shore but wait
for morning. Long before a rav of dawn
appeared, crowds began to gather on the
shore again. By 5 o’clock the wind had
abated, though tlie sea was still very
rough. However, natives volunteered
to man a boat to go out to the Trenton.
Semnnu, chief of the Apia district took
charge of the crew. It was still very
dark, and the trip was a most perilous
>ne, but the natives put tho boat through
the current in safety and reached the
I,OW of the Trenton. They wore given
i hawser, which they to*>k back to the
ihoie and made fast. But, little was
one. however, until daylight. All
hands were ordered to remain on tho
ship, as, tho storm having subsided,
there was no immediate danger. As
soon as it became light, four more haw
sers were stretched from the Trentcm to
the shore to guard against danger in the
event of the storm coming up again.
Two boats, manned by natives in charge
of Chiefs Semanu and Latunae, com
menced the work of removing
the Vandalia’s men from tho
After the storm had subsided, and after
the officers aud crews of the wrecked
vessels had come ashore, evidence of tho
awful destruction was presented on every
side. Tho German survivors remained in
that part of the town where the property
of the German Trading Cos. is located,
but the Americ ans were to be seen
everywhere. The officers had lost their
uniforms, and were dressed as common
sailors. Admiral Kimberly was tho last
to leave the American flagship Trenton..
The admiral was asked in regard to his
own experience during the storm, but
had little to say of a personal nature.
Ho continued: “Tho Arcs of the Tren-
ton went out ut ten o'oiock in tlie morn
ing, nnd our rudder and propeller Were
carried away ut (be same time. No one
Can realize the forco with which the
rudder was struck. I suppose a piece of
wreckage fouled it. The pilot’s wheel
whirled around with terrible velocity.
Every spoke in it was broken, and one of
the men ut the wheel hud a leg broken.
It would have been impossible tor us to
steam out of the harbor as the British
warship Calliope did, us our engines
were not towerful enough. We had on
every pound of steam that wo could
carry, and with three anchors we were
not able to hold up against the storm.
We fought aguinst it as long as we could
Jo so, but were finally driven back upon
shore." Consul Blacklock’s orders pro
hibiting the sale of liquor to tho sailors
bad u good i ff at, anil very few druuken
men were to be seen.
The town is still under a marine guard,
aud Mataafa’i police hare also assisted in
maintaining outer. Men from tlie Tren
ton uttd Vandalia have sepurate barracks,
and have rented temporary tents for
shelter. The Nipsic men are still living
aboard their vessel, aud the German sur
vivors are quartered iu a warehouse be
longing 11 a German firm. Working
parlies arc kept busy all the time on the
wrecks of the Trenton and Vandalia, aud
articles of every description are washed
ashore from the vessels and piled togeth
er in a large yard. Divers have been at
work, and many articles were saveel iu
that way. Although 140 men lost their
lives during tho storm, there have not
been more thsn forty bodies recovered.
For the first day or two, the bodies of
Americans were buried in a cemetery
connected with the London mission, and
the bodies of Germans were buried in tho
French Catholic cemetery, but it soon
became impossible to identify the bodies,
and owing to the warm climate, it was
necessary to bury them where they were
found. American memorial services
were held in the latge yard in which the
Trenton men have their quarters. Tho
services were very brief, and were
conducted by Chapluin McAllis
ter, of the Trentcm. Over sev
en hundred men from the three
American men-of-war were present,.but
uone of the German officers attended.
The storin does not seem to have changed
the political situation of Samoa so fur as
the natives are concerned. Both p irties
are still camped in the same positions
they ItHVo occupied fur several months
past. Mataafa's men have nut given the
slightest intimation that they intended
to take advantage of the unprepared con
dition of the Germans, und it is not like
ly they will make any attack upon Ta
maße’s force pending the Berlin confer
ence. The German consul, Dr. Knappe,
is still pursuing the spiteful course,
which his always characterized his ad
ministration of affairs there. Notwith
standing the noble work of the Samoans
during the storm, Dr. Knappe posted
printed notices, a few days later, decl r
tng that the Samuans daily steal produce
from German plantations, aud warning
the public not to purchase anything from
them.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Darien claims that she will ship 120,
000.000 feet of timber this year.
The steamer Rio Grande, of the Mal
lory line, wus damaged $25,000 by fire at
her dock in New York on Sunday.
The German bark, Emilie, which left
Pensacola, Fin., March 2d, for Brake,
was abandoned at sea. Three of the
crew were drowned.
James Lawrence CareW, member of
Parliament for North Kildare, Ireland,
who was sentenced for four months im
prisonment for offences under the crimes
act, is ill in the hospital of the Belfast
jail.
The steamship Scrvia, which arrived
at New York on Sunday from Hamburg,
reports, in a dense fog, struck the pilot
boat Commodore Bateman about mid*
Ship, sinking her at once and drowning
Pilot Jolut llandrian and a colored cook,
Harry Halford.
A private letter received in New York
on Saturday from the city of Mexico,
says: “Four of the men arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the derail
ment of President Diaz’s train a few
days ago have been shot. The execu
tion wus carried out very quietly.”
Twenty thousand men threaten to quit
the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad and tie up its trains. Com
pulsory insurance is the cause of trouble.
Every employe in the service of the
company, and there are 20,000 of them,
has been given to understand that he
must sign a contract or be discharged.
At a banquet at Versailles, Deputy
Laugerre read Gen. Boulanger’s speech.
He contrasted the doings of the present
sham republicanism with the doiugs of
the Republicans of 1789, and said that
on tlie hundredth anniversary the re
forms then initiated will be completed.
MM. Laugerre nnd llerissue were atrest
ed on leaving tbc banquet hull. They
protested on the ground of the inviola
bility of the Chamber of Deputies nnd
were released.
THEY ARE ANGRY.
The coming centennial in New York
is to bring about another secession on
the part of South Carolina. The adju
tant-general of the state has issued per
mission for eight or ten companies of the
white militia to go to New York as an
escort to the governor of the state.
Among these is the famous Washington
Light Infantry of Charleston, who had
made great preparations for the trip.
They proposed to carry with them the
historic Eutaw flag, which was borne by
Col. William Washington in his tight
with Tarloton during the revolutionary
war. A letter has been received from
Gen. Cruger stating that the committee
declines to recognize the right of the
Washington Light Infuntry to any place
of prominence in the parade, and that
the Old Guard Veterans battalion and
the Boston Tigers are also to be forced
to parade with the militia. Some of the
Federal War veterans nre angry too, be
cause Gen. Cruger declines to recognize
any veteran organization outside the
membership of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
AGAINST CIDER.
An interesting liquor ease has just been
decided at Mount Pleasant, lowa. The
defendants were tried on the ordinary
liquor selling indictment. The witnesses
bail, as shown by the evidence, bought
cider in the defendant’s restaurant; the
question was, whether or cot cider is
dusted with intoxicating liquors. Judge
Travers ruled that while cider is at first
a non-intoxicant, it becarno intoxicating
in the course of time.
NUMBER 26.
SOUTHERN
BRANCHES,
LOPPED HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
KN rP.RPIUHKfl —MOVEMENTS Of BXUOIOUS
DODIKS—AFFUAYB, MISHAPS, ETC.— WDUS-
TttlAL ITEMS —NOTES.
lURAHA. I
The saw mill, planing mill and ball
1 million foet of lumber,belonging to O.
A. Dukes, four miles southwest of Clan
ton, were totally destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss, $25,000.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Cos., will erect a steel plant in Birming
ham. It will be remembered that new
directors and officer* were elected at the
annual meeting of the stockholders in
Nushville, April Ist. The new board hs*
decided to erect a plant in tht city for
the manufacture of steel by the basic
process.
In Walker & Terry’s saloon in Bir
mingham, Will Stone was shot through
the head and instantly killed by Mr.
Terry, one of the proprietors of the
place. Thu negro had been cleaning up
the saloon and a dispute arose about the
payment of the work. Terry threw a
bottle at the negro, and the latter
picked up a stick, when he was shot
dead.
A spirited meeting of white Republi
cans wsa held in Birmingham on Wed
nesday, and organized by chosing these
officers: Ex-Govcrnor W. H. Smith,
president;L. E. Parsons, vice-president;
Robert Barber, Montgomery, secretary.
Tbe organization has an executive com
mittee composed of two members from
each congressional district and a vice
president in each county. Resolutions
were adopted favoring white immigra
tion, home protection, Federal aid to
open rivers und harbors in the state, and
the organization of a Republican Pro*
tective Turiff League.
GEORGIA.
Governor Gordon decided another con
tested election case on Saturday, that of
F. I). Van Brockle vs. J. D. Morgan, for
the sheriffship of Bryon county. A suffi
cient number of illegal votes to overcome
Morgan’s maj irity were not clearly
proven to be illegal, and the governor
decided not to disturb the result shown
by the returns.
Col. Lyman B. Goff, a successful man
ufacturer of Pawtucket, R. 1., who has
been in Georgia for several weeks, has
organized a company with SIOO,OOO capi
tal for the manufacture of yarns, twines,
knitting cotton, etc. It is proposed to
erect anew mill at Pottersdale, near
Covington, utilizing the fine power at
that place.
Many people visited the ruins of the
house of Mr. Woods, near Clayton which
was burned and in which six persona
were burned to death. Mr. Woods, be
ing a millwright, is away much of the
time, and did not know of the disaster
until he walked up to the spot snd saw
nothing but a heap of ashes. When told
that the bodies of his wife and five chil
dren were in ashes, he became uncontrol
able, and had to be borne away. Mrs.
Woods must have been awakened by the
flames to find herself in the midst of the
conflagration, and rushing to the chil
dren, ull were suffocated and burned to
death. There was a camping party near
by, who rushed up to the fire, but not in
time to save life.
LOUISIANA.
Beginning with Slay 1, all vessels from
the tropical parts of America will hs
subject to quarantine at New Orleans.
MARYLAND.
A great sugar refinery is to be estab
lished in Baltimore, with a capital stock
of $1,000,000.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has
issued a circular letter to the Catholic
clergymen of his diocese, directing that
a special meeting be held iu all the
churches April 30th, the hundredth an
niversary ol tho inauguration of George
Washington ns president of the United
States, and that the church bells be rung
for hdf an hour as an expression of joy
and thanksgiving.
MIBSOURI.
Tlie carpenters’ strike in St. Louis it
still on, with no evidences of weakening
on cither side. Both the Masters'
Builders Association and Carpenters’
Brotherhood, hold regular meetings, the
lutter daily, but cannot come together
on tlie one point of recognition of the
brotherhood. On hours and renumcra
tion both agree. President Cook, of the
Master Builders’ Association, says, how
ever, that he docs not believe the master
builders will recede from their position,
and the prospects for a settlement of tho
differences are very slim.
The new statue of the Virgin, in the
chapel of the Convent of the Sacred
Heart at St. Louis, has provoked consid
erable criticism, even from the inmates
of the convout. It is described as being
a young girl in the bloom of youth, ana
when it arrived the nuns were more than
astonished; but they were assured that
it was done in Rome under the supervis
ion of one of the highest authorities of
the church, the desire being to have the
Virgin considered in her youth as well
as in her maturity. The statue stands
seven feet eight inches high, and was
carved from a single block of Carrara
marble.
NORTH CAROLINA.
During a recent gale, Portsmouth,near
Oceracouk inlet, was submerged, drown
ing cattle, sheep and hogs. The wate*
rose into manv houses and there was
great destruction of property. Inhabi
tants took to house tops remaining there
uutil the storm was over. Great suffer
ing was experienced, but no lives were
lost.
TENNESSEE.
A fire occurred at Dayton Sunday, en
tailing a loss of $22,000. It caught from
the ovens of a baker. The principal
losers are: Bickuell & Johnson, $3,000;
J. W. Hudson, grocer, $3,500; Garden
hire building, $5,000; A. W. Frasier,
$1,500; H. Spiuly, two brick buildings,
$4,000. None of the buildings were in
sured .
A syndicate of capitalists from New
York, New Orleans, Memphis and At
lanta, havo just consummated the pur
chase of 03,000 acres of land in Sequo
chee Valley, about three miles from
Chattanooga, adjoining tho city ol
South Pittsburg. The price paid for the
property, which controls coal, iron and
timber "land, was $540,000. The prop
erty is to be developed on a grand scale.