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TIvLKGRA 1*1110 NEWS
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DI SPA TC1IKS.
Short . and Crisp Items of General .
interest to Our Readers.
Several <. , warehouses , , have , been , burned
on the * ionic Wtb front at Vienna,
Annina. I he Ion, is £300,000 None
OI Uio n. nr by shipping was damaged.
Henry E. Smith A Co., the largest
wholesale dealers in boots and shoo
in Worcester, Mass., have assigned,
Tho liability amount to 3200,000,
and the a s are about 3240,000.
Walter Wellman and party have ar
rived at Tromnoe, Norway, from the
Arctic regions, where, their steamer,
the Kagnvold .lari, was recently crti-h
cd in thi; !<•(•, compelling them to
abandon their attempt to reach the
nortu pole.
Til- IK.Iic.1 -irreati my Hint three of thu an.
•r.-lml- in th- anlmrlia
It......, Maly, w-r- a pint t„ M,i„.
«te ITernii r (Tia|ii. Tim Imml, to lie
mail hy tint m-anraina ha«l hcou pro
pared, an 1 Giganti, of thus#* arrested,
had been chosen t throw it at the
premier.
A dispatch from Rractoria, ill the
I riinsvaal f Africa) republic, says the
Kaffirs are besieging Aagtha, and are
treating the Boer population with
atrocious cruelty, Numbers of Boer
farmers are reported to have been
murdered by the score. An armed
force is hastening to the rcHCiie.
The board of trade firm of Boogo,
Trazor A Go., at Chicago have assign
Cl 1. The fluctuations of the corn mur
kes and the failure of the Hawkeye
(■oininission Company, of Omaha,
Nel»., jn believed to have caused the
failure. Boogo, Frazer k Co. were
officers ami heavy stockholders of tho
Hawkeye company.
I he eighty-eight Coxeyites who were
captured in the police raid at llyatts
ville, Md., last week and committed to
the house of correction as vagrants,
W c re put to work Tuesday building
good roads for the state. They are to
increase the width of the roads lead¬
ing from the institution and will have
plenty to do during their three months’
stay.
1' ire, which caused a loss of about
$250,000, broke out Wednesday after¬
noon on the top floor of a live-story
briek building in New York city. Tho
building was occupied by It. C. Will¬
iams A Go,, wholesale grocers, and the
damage to their stock will amount to
about $225,000, while the building
’I was damaged to the extent of $25,000.
be loss is fully covered by insurance.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
The labor convention at Columbus,
G., for the purpose of taking inde¬
pendent action in politics was called
o order by President MeBryde Wed¬
nesday morning in the Trades Assem¬
bly hall. The only approach toward
speeelunaking was by Temporary
Chairman Bramschweiger, who said
Hint the convention was only tho re¬
sell of n movement among tho trade
unions all over the country in favor ot
united and independent political ftC
tion.
A Washington special says: The
next tho departure forty-eight hours will mark either
from Washington of all
ol the 170 or 175 epmnionwealers re¬
maining lu re, or tho imprisonment in
the district jail of any of them who
will not accept transportation. This
was decided on a conference held
1 uesdny between the district commis¬
sioners, Major Moore, tho superinten¬
dent of police, and Frank Hume, who
has aided largely in obtaining railroad
transportation for the commonwealers.
1 he Indiana state democratic cou
vention met in Indianapolis with a
full representation of delegates, num¬
bering over one thousand seven hun¬
dred. At 9 o’clock Wednesday inorn
ing the resolutions committee was still
at work. ft. leaked out just prior to
the time for calling the convention to
order that tho stumbling block was
the endorsement of Senator Voorliees.
The Yoorhecb men on the committee
demanded his endorsement, while the
friends of Governor Matthews insisted
that the latter should bo landed and
the senator condemned.
At a special meeting of the directors
of the Washington, D. G., board of
trade Wednesday on the subject of the
coming convention at Washington
Thursday and Friday, August 30th and
31st, of southern boards of trade, gov¬
ernors, mayors and merchants and
manufacturers to consider the advisa¬
bility of a permanent exhibit of re¬
sources of the south, it was decided to
hold the convention at Willard’s hall.
The parlors of Willard’s hotel will be
tho headquarters of the convention. A
large attendance is expected, particu¬
larly from southern boards.
AN ENGAGEMENT REPORTED
Wherein It Is Stated that Seven Chi¬
nese Ships Wore Sunk.
fh ,A telegram was received at London,
■[ dnesday, from Yokohama, Japan,
^sunk «»ying that seven Chinese vessels were
in a recent engagement with the
Japanese. This report lacks confirma¬
tion and probably arises from the state¬
ment cabled from Yokohama saying that
news bad been received there of a bat¬
tle which took place on the 11th
instant between the Japanese and
Chinese fleets and the Chinese were
driven off. Inquiry made at the Japa¬
nese legation at London failed to elicit
any confirmation of the report. The
French gunboat Lion, which was pres
eul at the sinking of the transport
Kow Shiug, and which was reported
to have rescued some of the latter’s
men, has arrived at Tieu-Tsiu.
A FATAL FLASH.
Lightning Strikes a Tree ami Kills
Seven Hall Players.
About 3 o’clock Friday afternoon a
crowd of boys and men met on a
small prairie, nine miles south of De
Kalb, lexas, nud were playing base
ball. A shower came up during the
game and they all ran to a large oak.
Lightuing struck the tree and the fol
lowing were killed outright: John
Jacobs, Walter Atchley, Tom Blanch¬
ard, Will Hentley, John Jackson,
Chria Petty, Will Walsh, About a
doaeu of the boyn wore hbtt, aud it
thought ton*® 08<*ta wiR
the MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSTHY OA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1894. -EIGHT PAGES,
TRADE TALUS.
What Bradstreet Says of the Business
Outlook.
Bradatreet s weekly trade review
says;
Evidence continues to accumulate
thftt the earlier portion of July wit
nesse^ tbe )o*o«t pbmt in the ebb of
the v»mttlfercial tide, in the reaction
hi ter tho moderate revival in the
July bank clearings thiB rear
furnished a list of twenty-nine cities
with larger aggregates than last year,
while the J«ne report furnished only
Gghbc n cities with totals larger than
in June a year ago.
“The practical ccftshtioh of various
sewre industrial disturbances of the
year has emphasized the tendency to
improvement repotted by telegraph
^oters Iruin manufacturing and commercial
the past Wevk. A further in
ion of the tendency to lmprove
is seen in the week’s advance of
cents per ton for steel billets, and
? n ”* at tho domestic wool mar
nets today are more in favor of the
" * , ‘" t "'g b " v « ''<*>>/<* rc p cents year,
„‘ “»*. *«t ,
b ” N cw V » tk "'•** <*
k(r b , 1,1 ' on r-imivnl expecta¬
tions of a tariff settlement, with the
unt x pec ted improvement in railroad
earuings and the stopping of gold ex¬
ports as additional factors.
“Southern railroad shares attract
increased attention and favor from the
relatively good conditions in that sec
lion.
“Boston repot ts Massachusett’s cot¬
ton manufacturers find business un
satisfactory, but manufacturers of
men’s wear, woolens, etc., report prod¬
ucts moving freely. Chattanooga ad¬
vices are that groceries are moving
more freely, with collections fair,
while in Atlanta jobbers in nearly all
lines report more activity in shipments
although rains have damaged the crop
somewhat. Favorable weather, good
crop prospects and a bright outlook
for business characterize tho situ¬
ation at Augusta and Jacksonville,
Fla., the wholesale trade has ex¬
panded. A fairly good demand is re¬
ported from Savannah, and although
there is no improvement at Memphis,
the outlook is more encouraging.
South Carolina crops havo been dam
rged by rains, but Charleston reports
lumber and naval stores markets more
active. Neither Birmingham nor New
Orleans advices contain news of im¬
provement in demand, dullness char¬
acterizing the situation at both places,
and at Galveston trade is reported
slack in dry goods and notions. ^
GOV. TURNEY RENOMINATED.
Tennessee Democrats Hold Their
State Convention.
The Tennessee democratic state con
vention in session at Nashville, ad¬
journed after unanimously renominat¬
ing Governor Peter Turney, The
platform indorses the president and
congress in connection with the repeal
of the federal election laws, recognizes
in Mr. Cleveland a wise, patriotic and
honest leader, and commends him to
the people without reference to differ¬
ences of opinion on political and
economic questions, heartily endorsing
his administration. The platform de¬
clares in favor of a federal tax on in¬
comes, in favor of the repeal of the
ten per cent, tax on state bank issue,
favors arbitration between labor and
oapital.
The financial plank is as follows:
“We believe that the steady decline in
the prices of all products and the steady
depreciation of money during the past
twenty years is largely due to the de¬
monetization of silver by tbe republi¬
congress of 1873. We are in fa¬
vor of the bimetallic standard as it ex¬
isted before that time, and the coinage
the United States, without reference
to tho policy of other nations, both
amt silver in such manner as will
maintain both metals in circulation at
parity. ”
EVANS WAS NOMINATED
For Governor of South Carolina by
the Reformers.
Three hundred and twenty delegates
met at Columbia, S. C., Thursday, to
nominate the reform ticket. The con
vention is overwhelmingly in favor of
John Gary Evans, he having 262
delegate invention 3.
The < was called to order
at 12 i0 by Chairman Sligh. W.
Gibbe Whaley, of Charleston, was
elected temporary chairman of the
convention and R. L. Gunter, of Ai¬
ken, was made secretary.
Mr. Klugb,of Abbeville, moved that
as there were no contests, Ihe commit¬
tee on credentials be dispensed with.
This was adopted. M. R. Cooper, of
Colleton, was elected permanent chair¬
man. Mr. James, of Sumter, offered
a resolution that a separate box be
placed at polls on the dispensary ques¬
tion. This was rejected. W. D. Ev¬
ans, president of the State Alliance,
offered a platform substantially reiter¬
ating the Ocala demands. The plat¬
form was adopted as a whole. Mr.
Coleoek moved to proceed to the nom¬
ination o; governor and lieutenant
governor. llr. Marchant, of Pickens,
moved that an entire ticket be nomi¬
nated by ballot. This gave rise to the
fight of the day.
TWO THOUSAND DISCHARGED
Front the Union Pacific Road as a
Result of tho Strike.
Over 2,000 men have been formally
discharged from the Union Pacific as a
result of the great strike, and others
are being rep' seed daily. Two hun¬
dred and fifty engineers and firemen
are included in the list. Some of the
engineers and firemen were with the
company for twenty years and up
wards. In most cases the men do not
blame the company for their action,
saving they were misled by the Amer
iean Railway Union, and that they
made a mistake by going out at all.
Know Nothing of It.
Tho officials at th-.- Japanese lega
tion iu London say that they have
heard nothing to the effect that seven
Chinese vessels were sunk bv the Jap
anese fleet on August 10th-or 11th.
The report j B discredited.
The Stockyards Strike Oft.
The strike at the stockyards at
cago was declared off Thursday
ing. The men agree to return
work at former wages. Out of
naen who asked f«r work, only 50
accepted.
SOUTHERN SPECI ALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE bAY
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
The TefitiesSCc Coal, Ifon and Rail¬
road Company reports that their
miners, who have been oh It strike
fon*- months have agreed to go to work
on the company’s terms, which means
384 cents per ton for mining coah
J liis puts 2,000 men to Wotk in the
district.
McCullough, A Columbia, S. C., special Says;
Lucas, Normeht and Ap¬
pel!, citizen*? of Daflingtou charged
With the killiug of Constable Pepper
in the Darlington riot, were given a
hearing in hubeas corpus proceedings
befofe Judge W atts WedfaeedaV. Mc
Collough was granted bail at §2,500.
He gave it, The other three men Were
discharged for want of evidence.
The grand lodge of the Knights and
Ladies of Honor met at Jackson, Miss.,
Tuesday, in the thirteenth annual ses¬
sion. Thirty-two lodges were repre¬
sented. The address of the grand pro¬
tector, grand treasurer and the grand
secretary show the order to be pros¬
perous, Tho total membership in the
state is 1770. Twenty-one deaths oc¬
curred during the year and $34,000
was paid to beneficiaries.
The great coal miners’ strike in Ala¬
bama is now a thing of the past. Wed¬
nesday night the miners’ executive
committee met with President Baxter,
General Manager Debardeleben and
Superintendent McCormick, of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Company, and signed and agreement
and the strike, through a card
from President Tournier, of the min¬
ers’ committee, has been declared off.
A Savannah, Gn., special says: Mr.
H. M. Comer positively denies that
there is any foundation lor the rumor
circulated in the city that the reorgan¬
ization plan of Drexel, Morgan & Co.
for the Central railroad properties had
tallen through, and that the reorgani¬
zation would be taken charge of by
Senator Brice and General Thomas,
who had, it was said, formed a syndi¬
cate for the purpose of securing control
of the underlying securities.
The North Carolina statehouse alli¬
ance met in annual convention at
Greensboro, Tuesday. About 75
per cent of the counties of the
state were represented. An effort
is being made to put the alliance on
its old footing. The officers now* see
the mistake of bringing politics into
the order, and the delegates are trying
to avoid partisan questions. At the
afternoon session the question of es¬
tablishing a statehouse exchange was
discussed, and aroused great enthusi¬
asm.
Tuesday the North Carolina state
agricultural department summarized
the crop returns for July as sent in by
more than a thousand correspondents.
Tho condition of crops is as follows:
Rico 90, corn 101, cotton 94, tobacco
83, field peas 92, sweet potatoes 91,
peanuts 89, sorghum cane 90, turnip
crop seeded will be 94 per cent, condi¬
tion of fall planting Irish potatoes 80
per cent. As to fruits, apples are only
21, peaches 15 and grapes 63. The
corn crop is the finest ever known in
the state.
The populists of the seventh Missis¬
sippi congressional district in a meet¬
ing at Jackson nominated Dr. A. M.
Newman, of Franklin, for congress
over Dr. S. W. Robinson, of Rankin,
the populite nominee of two years ago,
by ft vote of 24 to 8. This was the
largest populite congressional conven
tion ever held in the city. J. F. Mc
Dongall, of Kansas, was present and
addressed the convention. Old-time
republicans mingled and shook hands
with the populite delegates.
JOYFUL JAPANESE.
Fresh Troops Being Rushed Into Co
rean Territory.
A dispatch to tne London limes
from Shanghai, says that Japan is
pouring fresh troops into Corea, and
that upwards of 50,000 Japanese sol¬
diers are now in the Corean territory.
The Chinese fleet is remaining passive
In Japan the war fever is intense, and
universal. The press and popular ora¬
tors are preaching to excited people of
vastly ambitious schemes, including
the conquest of China or at least the
conquest of the Chinese province of
Manchuria.
The first meeting for several weeks 7
of the house ways and means commit
tee was held Thursday afternoon. M»’.
Wilson, the chairman of the commit¬
tee, came back from West Virginia in
order to be present. The purpose of
the meeting was to consider the bill
introduced by Mr. MeMillin, of Ten¬
nessee, to correct the paragraph of the
tariff bill which makes free alcohol
used in the arts aud in medical com¬
pounds. It was ordered to be re
ported favo rably witho ut division.
S A N TO GUILLOTIN1ED.
President Carnot’s Assassin Meets an
Ignominous Death.
Santo Caesario, the murderer oi
President Carnot, was g illotined at
Lyons at 5 o’clock Thursday morning.
A few minutes before that hour the
condemned man was led from his cell
to the guillotine. His arms were
firmly bound behind him. When the
attendants seized him to lay him under
the knife he struggled fiercely to free
himself. At 4:45 o’clock all was
ready. Caesario shouted: “Courage,
comrades! Long live anarchy!” The
knife fell at 5 o’clock precisely and
Oaesario’s head dropped into the bas¬
ket.
_
When Baby w«s sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she Iwcame Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When sh e had Children, she gave them Castoria
They Gave It Up.
The congressional democratic con¬
vention at Texarkana, Texas, adjourned
after a ten days’ session trying to
choose a successor to Hon. t>. B. Cul¬
berson. The convention adjourned to
ml is Puis, T*i,, Aufnit PQtfe.
SEEING THE PULLMANS.
They are Charged with Doing Business
Without Warrant of Law.
Attorney General Molohev has filed
in the circuit court clerks office of
Cook county, at Chicago, a petition,
for a bill in equity against the Pull¬
man Palace Car Company, calling up¬
on it to show cause why it should not
be prohibited from'further doing bus¬
iness under the laws of the state. The
petition sets forth that it has violated
the franchise* conferred upon it by
the fet-rte in numerous particulars and
lays stress upon the fact that it is eon
ducting a hotel business and a real
estate business * at Pullman without
Warrant oi laiV.
Anarchists Acquitted.
The great anarchist trial at Paris
elided Saturday in the acquittal of all
the thirty defendants on the charge of
anarchy.
Boll Worms in the Cotton,
Boll worms are destroying cotton at
an awful rate in -west Texas. Planta¬
tions of from twenty to two hundred
acres arc strirmed of all tha holla
K know Nisi! though Switzerland be
for the freedom and democracy of it on
Institutions, there is no country i _
the world that is so drastic and se¬
vere in its treatment of inebriates.
The laws vary in detail in the twenty
two cantons, but iti their essential
principles they are very similar and
provide for the punishment not only
of those persons,, who indulge in
strong drink to excess, but also for
the people who supply the liquor in
question. Drunkards are visited witl:
penalties amounting to a maximum
of a year's imprisonment with hard
labor with three years’ interdiction
from exercising the franchise and
from the purchase of an alcoholic
drink, while the dealers and innkeep¬
ers who permit their customers to
become intoxicated or who furnish
liquor to “interdicted” persons are
likewise sentenced to the payment of
heavy tines, imprisonment and for¬
feiture of license. Altogether, Switz¬
erland can scarcely be considered as
a drunkard’s paradise.
Srn George Clark is a strong ad/
vocate of the union of the English
speaking race. These now number,
all told, 120,000,000, of which there
are 70,000,000 in the United States,
and at least 76,000,000 in North
America. If the English speaking
natives and colonies were united td
preserve the peace of the world, any¬
thing like a general or continued war
would be impossible.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Codec —Roasted—Arbnekle’a 22.75 39 100 1b.
cases. Lever inga 22.73a. Green—Extra
choice 20c; choice good 19a; fair 18c; com¬
mon powdered 17c. Sugar---Granulated 5c.
5c; cut loaf m
wliito extra C 4c; New Orleans yellow clari¬
fied Orleans 4>£a4%c; ye.low extra G 4%e. Syrup
New choice 45c; prime 35@40c; common
20@39c. Molasses—Genuiuo Cuba 35@38c; im¬
itation 22@25. Teas—Black 85@55c; green
40@G0c. Nutmegs 65@85c. Cinnamon 10@L2^£.
Alispice 10@llc. Rico, Dead Singapore pepper
llc,Macc $1. dc; good Sy^icommon
daixy, 4%c; imported $1.40; Japan_5@5%c. Ico Salt—Hawley’s
cream $ 1 . 10 ;
Virgini 70c, Oheese-flais 12@!2%
White fish, half Obis. $4.00; pails 6to;
Mackerel, half barrels, $6.OO@f5.50. Soap.
Tallow, 100 bars., 75 lbs $3.00@3?5
turpentine, <50 bars, 60 lbs, 11c. $2.25 a 2.5J;
Candles—Parafine lie; star Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 CHIa3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5gross $3 75.Soda-Kegs,bulk 4%c; do 111) pkgs
5%c; cases, 1 lb 5%c. do 1 and %lbs 8c, do%lb
6 %c. Crackers—XXX soda 5>£e; XXX butter
(5%c; XXX pearl oj-sters XXX 6}-£c:shell and excelsior
7c;lemon cream 9c; ginger snaps CJ^e; 9c; corn
bills 9c. Candy—Assorted Canned goods-Condeused stick French
mixed 12al2%. Milk,
$6 00a8 00; imitation mackerel$3 95a4 00. Sal¬
mon $5 25a5 50; F. W. oysters $1 75; L W
$135; corn $2 50 a3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $3 packages 10. ; Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump.
4 y 2 r;'nickel mixpd, pints $3 10; 90ca$l celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain Powder—Rifle, or 20; quarts,
$1 10al 75. kegs $3.25; %kcgs,
$1 90; %, kegs$l 10. Shot $1 25 per sack.
■ Flour. a.iu mid Meal.
Flour—First patent fjj. $4 25; socond patent
$4.00; extra fancy 10; fancy $3 00; family
$2,90. Corn—No. 71c. Mixed, | 1 white G8c. Oats, 72c. No. Mixed 2
white, Seed Georgia,
45o; white 556;-, rye,
75a80c. Hay—Chc'ie • timothy, large bales,
$1.00 No. 1 timothy, large bales, $1.00; choice
timothy, small bale** $1.; No. 1 timothy, small
bales, 95c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 90 j.
Meal—Plain 68 •: J/G.ted C5e. Wheat bran—
seed Largo meal—$1 sacks 30 88c, ptjr | small cwt. sacks Steam 90c. feed—$1.10 Cotton
per cwt. Stock * cas $1.25al.30. Grits—
Pearl $3.75.
Country Produce.
Eggs 14a 15c. Butter—Western creamery
18a20c. other Fancy Tennessee I5al8c; choice,
6al0, grades 4a5. Live poultry— 20a22^c.
Turkeys 7<£8e per lb; hens
Spring chickens, largo 16a18c
Decks, 18a20c. Dressed poultry—Turkeys
Wall l$/4&15c; potatoes, ducks, $L65a$i.75 12%al5c; chickens, 10al2}7.
pei bbl. Fancy
per bushel, 65a7 - , Sweet potatoes new,
$l.00al.?5 per bu. •-Honey—Strained, 8al0c;
in the comb, 10a 121 Onions 75aS0 per bu.
Hlf bbl. sacks $1.25,1.50. Per bbl. $2.00a2.50.
Cabbage, L%a2e,
Pt /vision*.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7^c, ico-cured bellies
10c. Sugar-cwe i.jhams i3il4i, according
to brand aud averagyv California, lOJ^c. brea t
fast bacon 12c. LaJ leaf 8J£c. Compound 6%.
'•ottmi.
Market closed nu«nal. Middling. 6-9 16.
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The Passing of Day.
Blue bloom is on the distant hill j
Mystic grays the mid-air AIL
The low winds say;
‘‘Farewell to Pay;
Evening Is on her wav/’
She walks the waters and the land;
She and Quiet, hand in han
The low winds say,
“Sweet sounds, obey;
Soft colors fade away."
And all the lovely colors go;
All the sounds; and very low
The winds say on—
Po they say on ?
No whisper. Pay is gone.
--John Vance Cheney, in The Century.
OUTWITTING FATE.
BY MBS. M. L. BAYNE.
Mrs. Bentham was going on a jour¬
ney and had refused to let Mr. Bent¬
ham accompany her. It was in vain
he urged, argued, coaxed, command¬
ed ; his wife insisted that he remain at
home until at the expiration of a week,
when he would be at liberty to follow
her.
“I will take Katie with me and leave
Johnny to come with you. Then if
anything should happen—”
“But nothing is likely to happen,”
commented Air. Bentham. “It is
absurd to suppose that some spe¬
cial—”
* < We will notall be killed together,”
calmly pursued Mrs. B. “i never
want to put all my eggs in one bas¬
ket, and I am not sure, that it xyould
not bo better to leave both children
with you.
“No, thanks, ” said Edward hurried¬
ly, “that would hardly be a fair di¬
vision. If Katie had one of her night¬
mares it would require more skill than
I have to manage her.”
“But you always dose her. I’m
sure I always depend on you. But
she is not likely to have any more of
those. I think I will take her with
me—you see by going in installment
as it were, there will at least be one
parent left to bring up the children. ”
“Perhaps it would be better for you
to take both children, Anna; then if
anything happened to me you would
still have the family.”
“It might be,” mused.Mrs. Botham,
“but looking at it the other way, I
might be taken with the children, and
you would bo left entirely alone. That
would be too cruel—for you.
“Then we will do as you seem to
have decided, I suppose—go in detach¬
ments. It will spread us over a good
deal of ground, and it seems to be a
challenging of fate rather than a
means of safety.”
“I am not a fatalist, but I do be¬
lieve in taking common precautions
for safety. If the cars run off the
‘track when I am going, they will not
be likely to when you follow, or vice
versa. If the steamer sinks, you and
Johnny will be left to tell the story.
Whole families are swept off the face
of the earth because they persist in
travelling together.”
“I would prefer, Anna, that we
should be together if anything such as
you suggest happened. ”
“That is sentiment, Edward,” an
swered his wife ; “if one is taken away
the other must take up the unfinished
work which the one has left and con
tinue it to the end. ”
“Are you not putting yourself m
the place of Providence, Anna? ”
asked Mr. Bentham; “you seem to
have arranged our little scheme of ex¬
istence on a plan of your own.”
“Yes, according to the intelligence
that Providence has given me, ” said
his wife, and there the discussion
ended.
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rations for her journey to a distant
city where she was to take passage on
a steamer for Europe. Her little girl
was to accompany her, and Mr. B. was
to follow a week later and sail in the
next steamer.
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felt satisfied that a catastrophe would
be avoided; but her husband was du
bious. He was not afraid to have his
wife travel alone so far as her personal
safety was concerned, but she had
never made this trip, and he knew
that there were many things he could
do to make her comfortable, and assist
her when she was among strangers.
However, he acquiesced in her deci¬
sion, and hoped she would licit regret
it. For liis part lie could have no life
without her, and little Katie was the
apple of his eye.
Mrs. Bentham had no doubts of the
wisdom of her course and persevered
in it to the bitter eud.
When the cars had started, and she
had said good-bye to her husband and
little Katie in a section of the sleeper,
a feeling of indescribable loneliness
took possession of her, and a new idea
presented itself.
“Why in tho world,” slio said to
Katie, “didn’t I have your father go
on ahead, and we follow the next day?
Then ho would have been there to re¬
ceive ns and put us on board the
steamer. How perfectly stupid of me
not to think of it. ”
“It’s too late now, mamma,” said
little Katie ; “I fink it would be ever
so nice to have papa right hero with
us now. ”
“No, indeed,” said Airs. Bentham,
hurriedly, as tho cars began to rock
with increased speed; “ho is safe at
home and will take caro of little
brother. ”
Katie began to cry. “I want my
papa,” she moaned.
It was very vexatious and her
mother ordered the berth made up,
and at an early hour retired with tho
child. But not to sleep, Her head
ached sadly, and Katie was ess
and breathed as if she were going to
have one of those terrible nightmares.
Then she recalled the fact that she had
forgotten the dose that always cured
her. The bottle was at homo in tho
little medicine closet in her room. It
might as well have been in Fiji.
Sure enough, tho symptoms in¬
creased, and soon the child was in a
high fever, moaning and troubled in
her sleep, and the porter was called
and asked if he had any remedies at
hand—such as camphor or paregoric.
Now* the ordinary car porter denis only
in ice-water and shoe-blacking, but
this one was out of the ordinary. Ho
said with a rhetorical flourish :
“Madame, the indications are that
your little girl is inclined to sporific
ness. If you will modify your alarm
I will produce a remedical medicine.”
He then disappeared and returned
with a dose in a small medicine tum¬
bler.
“Why,” said Mrs. Bentham smell¬
ing of the mixture, “it’s the very same
thing I have always given the child.
How did you happen to get it?”
“A gentleman—a friend of mine
who has a little girl the same as your¬
self, madam, disaccoinmodated me
with this alleviating draught. ”
“Katie, wake up and swallow this
dear,” said Mrs. Bentham, lifting the
struggling child who was in the clutch¬
es of an unseen disturbing power.
“I want my papa,” wailed the little
one, but she swallowed the dose and
in a few minutes sank into a restful
slumber.
Mrs. Bentham was worried, and did
not sleep. She remembered that in
packing she had brought nearly every¬
thing of her husband’s and of Johnny’s
with her, and if the weather changed
they might need other clothes. And
there was absolutely nothing to eat in
the house, but of course, they could
go to the restaurant for their meals,
Somehow her disposal of faith did not
seem so clever, looked at in'the night,
by the light of a railroad lamp. If
only Edward were going to meet her
the next day! She fell at last into
a troubled slumber in which she
3
dreamed that she was the last of her
family, when t*hb was roused by tho
porter, who held up a cup of strong
coffee between the folds of the curtain.
“I must give him a quarter, ,T sho
mused ns she drank the welcome
draught. “I wonder if ho mistakes
me for the wife of some official of the
road, or does he give every woman
traveling alone the same attention?”
Then sho wakened Katie, who
yawned and said “papa” before sho
had opened her eyes, and when the
porter came she gave him the empty
cup with a quarter in it.
“The gentleman who requisitioned
me to fetch it, madam, demands a
dollar for the obligation,” said the
porter.
“What an imposition !” cried Mrs*.
Bentham; “a dollar for a cup of cof¬
fee! It is an outrage. Besides, l did
not order it, and will not pay it, so
there,” and her voice wavered and in¬
dignant tears stood in her eves. “If
my husband were here you would not
daro to overcharge me in this man¬
ner !”
“I can fotch the gentlemau instant,
erly,” suggested tho porter, and Mrs.
Bentham said angrily that sho would
see him as soon as she was dressed.
“What is it, Anna?” asked a fa¬
miliar voice, and Mr. Bentham, h ad¬
ing Johnny, appeared on the scene,
both looking like culprits.
“Edward?” screamed his wife, “you
blessed darling, where did you cmiie
from? Oh, I am so thankful! Why,
Edward, thero was a cup of coffee
sent to me and they are now trying to
charge me a dollar. Now, porter,
who sent that coffee?”
“Tho gentlemen are conversing with
you at this moment, madame.”
“Edward! You wretch ! But I am
glad you nre here. Bo is Katie.
Johnny, tell mamma how it happened,
like a good boy. ”
“The ear started and wo couldn’t
get off,” said Johnny, who believed
that was the truth.
“I simply outwitted fate,” said Mr.
Benham ; “hereafter we will travel to¬
gether—go one, go nil.”
And his wife murmured something
that sounded like amen.—Detroit Free
Press.
A Sexton’s Story.
“I was sexton of Grace church,*’
says a sexton in tho Utica Observer,
“when the Rev. Mr. Blank was rector
there. It was a summer night and
rather warm, so when the rector
commenced his sermon I turned down
the gas in the body of the church to
make it a little cooler.
“The text that night was, if I re
member it, ‘Let thero be light.’ i
was sitting in the rear part of the
church, not paying particularly close
attention to the sermon, nor, in fact,
to anything else. Suddenly the rector
exclaimed loudly:
<< < More light! More light!’
“I jumped to the stop-cock in thu
gas supply pipe and turned on the gas
full head all over the church. Well,
sir, you ought to have seen those peo¬
ple ! Some of them laughed right
out, and those that didn’t had hard
work not to. I found out afterward
that when the rector said ‘More light!’
he was not giving directions to me,
but quoting tho dying words of
Goethe, ”
Foundation Laid for Him.
“There goes a man who is on ihe
road to fortune, and lie deserves it,
too ; I remember distinctly when ho
laid the foundation for his present
condition.”
“What does ho do?”
“He raises poultry.”
“Is that where he got his start?”
“Yes.”
< t Then you are off about his laying
the foundation—I should think Ids
hens laid the foundation for him, —*
Atlanta Constitution.