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Colonel Price on the Public Schools.
HAVE been reading with a great
deal of interest the little pamphlet
Issued by Colonef W. P. Price, Sr.,
tn regard to the public schools of
Lumpkin county. Geanria.
After four years experience be has de
cided that winter schools for country chtl
. dren are decidedly the best. The argu
ment he presents is a good one.
Studying tn thg, hot summer months is
not an easy task for the pupils and it Is
hard on the teacher. With the thermome
ter near NO degrees In the shade it is hard
to do anything but rest in the shade also.
There are many interruptions with
camp meetings and religious revival® of
various durations, and then fodder pull
ing and cotton picking come on very soon.
The child must help its poor parents cou-
• siderably, when labor is scarce and very
high in expense. if all must be hired
Hon. Mr. Price sayq.: "I have conversed
with the most intelligent and thoughtful
people of the county, among them many
mothers, and without a dissenting opin
ion all have agreed that schools kept in
the winter months are the best for the
children and all concerned. Os course to
accomplish the best results the houses
must be made comfortable tn every re
spect. Then we can have five months of
study without a break of any sort, except
'a few days at Christmas. The work
should begin in October and the schools
will open just as rapidly (in Lumpkin
county) as the houses are made ready.**
These points are well taken and will fit
all the counties as well as Lumpkin.
He has some good ideas about teachers.
He thinks every teacher should be at least
as high as second grade; for a teacher to
do good work must be well equipped, and
•when we recollect the hundreds who are
given teacher's certificates every year, it
would seem there should be an ample sup
ply to recruit from. To- employ unsatis
factory teachers. Colonel Price says. "is
to throw the school money away." Much
of the poor results in country places has
grown out of the employment of poor
teachers.
s The Normal school at Athens, supported
by the state, graduates or gives certifi
cates to hundreds every year, if I am
rightly Informed. The Normal and Indus
trial at Milledgeville does the same—sup
ported by the state. There should be no
school money wasted on poorly equipped
teachers. The teachers should be well
equipped and such a grade as third grade
‘ought to be abolished.
No third grade is wanted In Lumpkin
county after this year, and the argument
is irresistible, because the state offers find
opportunities for educating teachers and
the taxpayers foot the bill, and the teach
er should be up to the mark, or go at
some other business elsewhere.
There is terrible complaint about school
books. An old teacher gave me an ex
ample of the poor working a few days
ago. When his little girl was graded she
was told to get a simple little reader.
The child received the reader on Friday,
and read it through from back to back,
three 3times * before Monday morning,
when she carried the little book to school.
To stay In her grade, her class, she is to
■ pudder along far a whole term with that
• little reader that she already knows by
heart. He also said they bad nine years
in the ,clqf schools and the children are
kept back In these little trifling readers
and tbs result is. the child has no spur, no
ambltioh and drops into a rut. that be
comes a deep rut. sure enough. In nine
years
Perhaps there are insurmountable dlffi-
* culties tn every plan that is being tried,
but it does seem a pity that nine years of
application must be paid for by the state
and city when people used to get a very
reliable education in English and Latin in
three or four—maybe less time.
Alack! and alas! The poor country child
gets a dribble, a pitiful dribble, as matters
stand new. in many counties, but the
school tax piles up all the same.
The public schools are running out all
private schools, and as Hon. Mr. Price
aptly says; "The people must get nearer
to the schools snd the teachers. Grand
jury mer. and school trustees can be a
mighty help in agitating the question of
education.” It has long been my belief
that each county should have absolute
control of its own school business, and
all the agitation and notoriety that poor
methods and poor teaching deserves.
Mammon Morgan Worship In Europe.
When Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan went
abroad this year the newspapers were flll
'ed to overflowing with reports from his
triumphal march over the continent of
Europe.
Says Senator Depew on landing from a
European steamer:
•The people in Europe think of Mr.
Morgan as a supernatural being. Well,
perhaps I ought to change that word su
pernatural. but they do look upon him
as a marvelous person. Everywhere I
• went in England, the people were talking
about Mr. Morgan and his plans, won
dering what they were and what he was
going to do next. I think they are afraid
of him in away. and imagine that be
is going to do something awful.”
We all understand that Mr. Morgan has
no other claim to fame than his rapid
• accumulation of great amounts of money.
He is not a great painter, or sculptor, or
writer, or statesman. While he may t-e
very generous to his own. and a capable
person to consult as to the best way to
put out your money at interest, he is
simply a money getter. He knows how to
amass it for himself and his partners,
but he is remarkable for nothing else.
Granting his supernatural ability to
amass wealth, does that entitle him to
the worship of either English or Ameri
can peoples? Why should the people be
afraid of him and imagine that he is go
,ing to do something awful?
‘ Emperor William, of Germany, clamored
for his presence at his royal table, and an
Austrian'newspaper man remarked- in
print that Mr. Morgan's check book was
responsible for the invitation, for he would
not have been an Invited guest in the roy
al palace at Berlin if be had not owned
’a check book. His money was the attrac
tion.
He hobnobs with King Edward and roy
alty basks In the light of "supernatural'*
wealth, while the money king may be
prepared to tip the monarch. It is cur
rently reported that the impecunious
prince of Wales courted close intimacy
with millionaire Americans and whatever
was done in the green tree is possible to
be done in the dry. Perhaps he only bor
‘ rowed from Morgan and the billionaire Is
willing to swap checks for royal smiles
and favors.
Senator Depew speaks In emphatic tones
of Mr. Morgan's recognised authority in
FREE FOR WOMEN.
Ten days' Home Treatment sent Free to all
sufferers from Female Diseases Cured me.
and will cure you A<l drees MRS DICKEY.
Dept. M . Box SW. Columbia, 8. C.
England, and perhaps he speaks by the
card.
I never Imagined this great Morgan com
et would cross our small orbit In Geor
gia until the reports came thick and fast
that our state road, the Western and At
lantic, now makes obesiance to the mam
moth railroad king as one of his very
small dependencies.
I don't imagine I have glimpsed a ghost,
but I feel sorry we are occupying a posi
tion which looks like a very tiny piece
of string fastened to the tall of the comet.
Perhaps Senator Depew Is correct when
he fancies everybody is afraid of the mon
ey giant. If we, down in Georgia, could
climb up high enough to examine the
also and shape of his little finger, doubt
less we would feel as the senator does,
who Is commonly supposed to live, move
and have his being In a railroad syndi
cate, which he obeys in the United States
senate as Its moat humble servitor and
moat fulsome panegyrist. "Bein' as we
*um are not thar." we are not “skeered"
like the senator would appear to be from
the Intervl w here qu.t?d from. Ignorance
is therefore spared some cf the severe
tremors that familiarity must needs suf
fer. and where "ignorance la bliss it is
folly to be wise."
But seriously, have we not reached a
contemptible place In the history of civil
ization when "moneybags" is a greater
power than either goodness or greatness
in the homes of the royal and powerful?
Docs this extravagant worship of wealth
indicate a decay like old Rome suffered
and perished under?
Queen Alexandra's Fine Personal
Character.
Without any question England* ■ queen stands
today at the head of royal women, born to the
purple and perhaps her personality is the most
attractive of all noted women now living on the
globe.
Not only is she a worthy successor to Queen
Victoria, but she Is far more attractive as a
beautiful woman with gracious. captivating
manners The dead queen acquired her fine
manners—Queen Alexandra was born with
them.
Doubtless her life in Denmark when a young
girl was of advantage to her gracious tact and
quick perception, because her father had no
claim to the crown when she was born and
was not elected to the Danish throne until the
same year in which Alexandra became princess
of Wales, namely. 1863.
The aged king of Denmark wn« born In 1818—
so that he was far from young when the
nation's choice fell upon him. after the royal
line became extinct, and there Is a ven* pretty
story about the simple home lite of the future
queen, before she met the Prince of Wales and
while Her father was only a poor princeling
with no thought of royal honors.
The title of princess was not even hers at
birth, but was granted to her father's children
when he was selected as the heir to the throne
of Denmark.
She made her own dresses, turned and altered
them and did the many things for herself that
poor counts and dukes are accustomed to have
their daughters do when the Income is small
and expenses heavy.
But the daughters of King Christian were
gifted la good looks and capable energy. They
made notable matches, all three of them.
Princess-Alexandra's hand was sought by the
heir apparent to the British throne, and Prin
cess Dagmar. next to her. wedded the csar
of Russia. This beloved sister is the mother of
the present csar. and she holds the honored
position of empress dowager, although she is
still In her prime. The affectionate children in
this early simple home were being trained and
tutored In many things which made them the
most attractive women tn al! Europe. Perhaps
there never were two handsomer women on the
thrones of England and Russia than Alexandra
and Dagmar of Denmark.
As they advance tn years. Instead of losing
their charms of beauty and manners, they
grow more and more attractive to their sub
jects and to everybody else.
They had a fine mother, one well fitted to ad
vise and control her young daughters. She her
self was devoted to music, and I remember see
ing the picture of this capable mother sur
rounded by her extraordinary daughters (many
years ago) with the story of their beautiful
home life.
The secret of their success is easy to find.
They were al! women of fine character, blame
less In life and conversation, rare flowers that
bloomed In perfect loveliness amidst the follies
and absurdities that never touched their own
lives in their early Denmark home. That youth
ful discipline was good for them. It tempered
the fine steel and made them useful aa well
as beautiful when the white light which beats
upon ail thrones fell upon these lovely women
In high places. No breath of scandal has ever
been heard of Alexandra of Dagmar; and.
while the Prince of Wales was known to be
familiar with all the “vices of a gentleman"
and credited with some that belonged to the
blackleg and rake, the lovely princess never
loot sight of her own responsibility to her vows
as a wife or her duty as a mother In her adopt
ed home.
The English people are unstinted in their
praise of her Innate nobility of character and
prodigal of their admiration for their prudent
and love-worthy queen.
At no time has this respect or admiration de
clined. from the day she was wedded at Wind
sor in IMJ, to the day of her coronation in
IXO.
She must be a superb creation to hold such
a place In the affections of her adoring subjects
for so long a time without abatement. In noth
ing was her prudence and good judgment more
obvious than during the many tedious years
from IMS to 1901. when the English crown was
so near and yet so far from her own brow. Nev
ertheless. so far as known, she ever remained a
favorite with her royal mother-in-law. who was
privileged to do aa she pleased, because of her
age as well as her authority. Queen Alexandra
is one of the finest examples of womanhood in
this era of the world's history.
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
How to Can Corn.
Ten cupfuls of corn, one cup of salt, one cup
of sugar. Stir all together and let stand until
it draws juice. Then boil it twenty minutes,
after which place in new glass jars, and seal
up tight.
When used nut a little fresh water and let
the corn stand a while to draw out some of the
salt.
To Be Rid of Wartg.
If you can treat warts with electrolysis. It
is the beet recommended, but lunor caustic,
nitric acid, acetie aeid repeatedly applied will
generally take them away.
If you are wise you will melt some soft wax
or spermaceti and spread around the wart so
that the caustic may not blacken the fieeh.
Castor oil Is said to be good; also chromic
acid.
Tomato Butter.
Scald twenty pounds of ripe tomatoes and re
move the Ikins: put them in a porcelain kettle
with four pounds of apples, pared, cored and
quartered. Cook slowly for an hour, stirring oc
casionally to prevent scorching. Add eight
pounds of sugar, the juice of four lemons and
a tablespoonful of ginger. Cook and stir until
it is as thick as marmalade. Put in tumblers
or small glass jars.
When cold cover closely with tissue paper
brushed over with the white of an egg and set
In a cool dark place—Mrs. Rorer's Recipe.
Kindness to Animals.
It Is said that when kindness to animals is
taught to children they becoqre kinder to tach
other. In a large public school in Edinburgh
out of about seven thousand pupils that were
taught kindness to lower animals not one were
afterwards found charged with a criminal of
fense in any court. Out of two thousand crim
inals inquired of in American prisons some
years ago It was found that only twelve had
any animal to pet In their childhood. There
should be humane education taught in all
schools—private, public and Sunday schools.
A Prescription for Roaches.
Dear Mrs. Felton: I want to send you a
prescription for roaches. Dissolve two
pounds of altimn In three or four quarts
of boiling water. When it is about boll-,
ing apply it with a brush to every joint
and crevice where they use.
Another: Scatter powdered borax pro
fusely around in their haunts. I trust
you will get rid of these pests.
TOUR UNKNOWN ADMIRER.
Borax I know to be good for destroying
ants. It is good to keep skippers away
from meat.
Sanguineous.
Chauffeur—Tea. his machine is the "Red
Demon.”
Gaslene—Why. when he first got it a week
ago he called it the “Blue Demon."
Chauffeur— Tea. I know, but after running
ihto half a dozen people he found It too much
trouble to keep cleaning off the red that ac
cumulated on It.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1902
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CHAPTER XVI.
THE END OF A MODERN VILLAIN.
Two days after McLeod's flight from
Hambright the press dispatches flashed
from New York a startling two-column
account cf the attempted assassination
of the Hon. Allan McLeod, the Republi
can leader of North Carolina. In the
terrific campaign in progress, and that he
was compelled to flee from the state to
save his life.
Gaston was elected governor by the
largest majority ever given a candidate
for that office In the history of North
Carolina.
McLeod wak promptly rewarded for his
long career of villainy by an appointment
as cur ambasrador to one of the republics
of South America, and the senate at once
confirmed him. The salary attached to
his office was 115.000. and his dream of a
life of case and luxury had come at
last.
For six months he had been quietly go
ing to Boston paying the most ardent
court to Miss Susan Walker, whom he
had met at' her college at independence.
She was a matured spinster now ap
proaching sixty years of age, and worth
$5,000,0(0 in her own name.
He had easy sailing from the first. He
joined her church in Boston, after a
brilliant profession of religion that moved
Miss Walker to tears, for he had told
her It was her love that had opened his
eyes. And it was true.
McLeod timed his last visit to Boston so
that he arrived the day the city was ring
ing with the sensation of his attempted
assassination, and the desperate fight he
was making to uphold law and order in
the south.
When Miss Walker read that article In
her paper she resolved to marry him im
mediately. She gave McLeod a wedding
present of a half million dollars. He wept
for joy and gratitude, and kissed her wdth
a fervor that satisfied her hungry heart
that he was the one peerless lover of the
world.
CHAPTER XVII.
WEDDING BELLS IN THE GOVER
NOR'S MANSipN.
Two days after McLeod and his bride
reached Asheville on their wedding trip.
General Worth received a letter which
threw him Into a paroxylsm of rage. Sal
lie's wedding had been fixed for the day
of the inauguration of the governor.
The Invitations were out and society in
a flutter of comment and gossip over the
romantic and brilliant career of young
Gaston, and his luck in winning power
love and fortune in a day.
Tho letter was from McLeod, at Ashe
ville, informing him that his daughter
was already married, and that Gaston was
simply seeking his fortune by a subter
fuge, and showing his power over him
by humiliating him at the last moment
before the world. He enclosed a tran
script of the marriage record, signed by
the Rev. John Durham, and witnessed
by Mrs. Durham and Stella Holt. This
record was certified before the clerk of
the court and bore his seal. There was no
doubt whatever of the facta.
When the general handed this letter to
Sallle she flushed, looked wistfully Into
his face, saw Its hard expression of
speechless anger, turned pale and burst
into tears.
Her father without a word went'to his
room, and locked himself in for twenty
four hours, refusing to see her or speak
to her.
On the following day she forced her
way Into his presence, and they had the
last great battle of wills. All the iron
power of his unconquered pride, accus
tomed for ;a lifetime to command men
and receive' Instant obedience, was roused
to the pitch of madness. ”
“If. yqu marry him I swear to you a
thousand times you shall never cross my
doorstep, and you shall never receive one
penny of my fortune. He is a gambler
and an adventurer, and seeks to make
me a laughing stock for the world!"
‘•Papa, nothing could be further from
his thoughts. He has always loved and
respected you. I assume all the responsi
bility for our secret marriage.”
"Then sharper than a serpent's tooth Is
the ingratitude of a disobedient child!”
"But, papa. I waited five years of pa
tient suffering trying to obey you,” she
protested.
“I had rather see you dead than to see
you marry that man now. and have him
sneer his triumph In my face.”
“We are already married. Why talk
like that?" she pleaded tearfully.
"I deny it. I am going to annul that
marriage. Felony is ground for the dis
solution of the marriage tie. A ceremony
performed under such conditions, when
one of the parties is in prison charged
with felony without bail, is illegal, and
I’ll show It. The lawyers will be here in
an hour and I will take action tomor
row.”
‘•Never, with my consent!” she firmly
replied. She left the room, consulted with
Iter mother, and hastily dispatched a tele
gram to Hambright summoning Gaston to
Independence immediately.
~ nen this telegram came he was In his
office hard at work on his inaugural ao
dress. outlining the policy of his adminis
tration. He was In a heated argument
with the preacher about the article on ed
ucation. which followed his recommenda
tion of the disfranchisement of the ne
gro.
He had advised large appropriations for
the industrial training of negroes along
the lines of the new movement of their
more sober leaders.
"It’s a mistake.” argued the preacher,
"it the negro Is made master of the in
dustries of the south he will become the
master of the south, gooner than allow
him to take the bread from their mouths,
the white men will kill him here, as they
do north, when the struggle for bread
becomes as tragic. The negro must ulti
mately leave this continent. You might
aa well begin to prepare for it.”
"But we propose to train him princi
pally in agriculture. ,We need millions ol
good farmers." persisted Gaston.
"So much the worse, I tell you,” re
plied the preacher. "Mqke the negro a
scientific and s tccesful farmer, and let
him plant his feet deep in your soil, and
it will mean a race war.”
"It seems to me impracticable ever to
move him.”
"Why?” asked the preacher. "Those
over certain ages can be lert to end their
days here. The negro rias tost us atready
the loss of $7.0(0,000.000. a war that kllieo
a half million men. the debauchery of our
suffrage, the corruption of our life, and
threatens the future with anarchy. Lin
coln was right when he said:
‘There 13 a physical difference between
the white and black races, which I be
lieve will forever forbid them living to
gether on terms of social and (iolitlcai
equality.* •
••Even you are still laboring under the
delusions of ‘Reconstruction.* The Ethi
opian cannot change his skin, or the
leopard its spots. Those who think it
possible will always tell you that the
place to work this miracle is In the south.
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Exactly! If a man really believes in
equality, let him prove it by giving his
daughter to a negro in marriage. That
is the test. When she sinks with her
mulatto children into the black abyss of
a negroid life, then ask him! Your scheme
of education is humbug. Y'ou don't believe
that any amount of education can fit a
negro to rule an Anglo-Saxon, or to marry
his daughter! Then don't be a hypo
crlte?"
“But can we afford to stop his educa
tion?”
“The more you educate, the more im
possible you make his position in a Dem
ocracy. Education! Can you change the
color of his skin, the kink of his hair,
the bulge of his lips, the spread of his
nose, or the beat of his heart, with a
spelling book? The negro is the human
donkey. You can train him. but you can't
make of him a horse. Mate him with
a horse, you lose the horse, and get a
larger donkey called a mule, incapable
of preserving his species. What is called
our race prejudice ts simply God's first
law of nature—the instinct of self-preser
vation.”
Gaston was gazing at the celling with
an absent look in nis eyes and a smile
playing around his lips.
"You are not listening to me now, you
young rascal! You are dreaming about
your bride!”
Gaston quickly lowered his eyes, and
saw the messenger boy who had been
standing several minutes with his tele
gram. ,
"What can that mean?” He handed the
telegram to the preacher.
"It means he has discovered the facts,
and there is going to be trouble. He is
a man of terrific passions when his pride
is roused.”
“I must go immediately.”
He closed his office and caught his train
after a hard drive. When he reached
Independence and ordered the driver to
take him direct to Oakwood. What had
happened he did not know and he did not
care. Os one thing he was now sure—
Sallie’s love and the swift end of their
separation.
His heart was singing with a great joy
as he drove over the familiar avenue
through the deep shadows of the woods,
and turning through the gate saw the
light gleaming from her room.
"God bless her, she’s mine now—l hope
I can take her home tonight!” he cried.
She had walked down the drive to meet
him. He leaped from the carriage, kissed
her and asked:
"What is it, dear?”
"McLeod wrote him about our marriage,
and now he swears he will bring a suit
to annul it. Leave your carriage here and
come with me. If he don’t send these law
yers away and receive you, I will be rearyy
to go with you in an hour,”
“Queen of my heart!” he .whispered.
“You are all mine at last!”
She called her father from the library
into the parlour and stood on the very
spot where Gaston had writhed in agony
on that night of his interview with the
general.
He started at the expression on her face
and the tense vigor with which she held
herself erect. His suit had not been pro
gressing well with his lawyers. They had
tried to humor him, but had declined to
express any hope of success In such an
aetjon. He saw they were half-hearted
and it depressed him.
“Now, papa,” she firmly said, “it will
not take us ten minutes to decide forever
the question of our lives. If you take an
other step with these lawyers—if you do
not dismiss them at once, I will leave this
house in an hour, go with the man of my
choice to his home, dnd you will never
see me again. You shall not humiliate me
or him another hour.’ 1
The general looked 'Kt her as though
stunned, his voice trembled as he replied:
"Would you leave -jne so In an hour,
dear?”
"Yes, Charlie Is waiting there on the
porch for me now, and his carriage is
outside. I will not subject him to another
insult, nor allow any one else to do it."
The general sank heavily Into a chair,
and stretched out his hands toward her in
a gesture of tender entreaty.
“Come Child and kiss me—you know I
can’t live without you! Forgive all the
foolish things I’ve said in anger and pride.
Your happiness is more to me than all
else.”
She was crying now in his arms.
"Go, bring Charlie. The youngster has
beaten me. I’ve fought a foeman worthy
of my steel. It’s no disgrace to surrender
to him.”
In a moment she led Gaston into the
room, and the general grasped his hand.
“Young man. for the last time I wel
come you to this house. Now, it is yours.
You can run this place to suit yourself.
I’ve worked all my life for Sallle. I give
up the ship to you.'*
“General, let me assure you of my
warmest love. I have never said an un
kind thing or harbored a harsh thought
toward you. I shall be proud of you as
my father. I have loved you and Mrs.
Worth since the first day I looked into
Sallie’s face.”
The invitations stood. Gaston returned
Immediately to Hambright, and on the
morning of the Inauguration, accompanied ,
by Bob St. Clare, and the chief justice
of the supreme court, he entered the
grand old mansion with Its stately pillars
and claimed his bride. The chief justice
performed a civil ceremony, and the party
started on a triumphal procession to the
capital. The general was bubbling over
with pride in the handsome appearance
the bride and groom made, and tried to
outdo himself in kindliness toward Gas
ton.
“Come to think It over, governor,” he
said to him after the Inauguration, "It
was a brave thing in my little girl march
ing into that Jail alone and marrying her
lover in a prison, wasn’t It? By George,
she’s a chip off the old block! I do./t
care if the world does know it!”
“General, that was the bravest thing a
woman could do. She Is the heroine of the
drama. I play second part.” •
They did not wait long for the people
to know it. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon
an extra appeared with a startling ac
count of the fact that the governor's
beautiful bride had braved the world and
secretly married him when his fortunes
were at ebb-tide, and he was a prisoner
in' the Asheville jail.
That night when Sallie entered the ban
quet hall of the governor's mansion, lean
ing proudly on Gaston’s arm. she was
greeted with an outburst of homage and
deep feeling she had never dreamed of
receiving. When the governor acknowl
edged the applause of his name, he bowed
to his bride, not to the crowd.
The preacher rose to respond to the
toast, "The Master and the Mistress of
the Governor's Mansion.” and seemed to
pay no attention to the governor, but
turning to Sallie. he said:
"To the queenly daughter of the south,
who had eyes to see a glorious manhood
behind prison bars, the nobility to stoop
from .wealth to poverty and transform a
jail Into a palace with the beauty of her
face and the splendor of her love—to her,
the heroine who inspired Charles Gaston
with power to mould a million wills tn his,
change the current of history, and become
the governor of the commonwealth—to her
all honor, and praise, and homage!
“My daughter, it is meet that our w’ealth I
and beauty should mate with the genius '
and chivalry of the south. May it ever
be so, and may your children’s children
be as the sands of the sea!”
Sallie bowed her head as every eye was
turned admiringly upon her. The general
trembled, and, when the crowd rose to
their feet and reechoed, "To her all honor
and praise and homage,” and the gover
nor bent proudly kissing her hand, he
bowed his head and wept.
.Her mother sitting by her side with
shining eyes pressed her hand and whis
pered:
"My beautiful daughter, now my work
is done.”
As Gaston strolled out on the Jawn with
his bride after the banquet, they" found a
seat in a secluded spot amid the shrub
bery.
"My sweet wife!” he exclaimed.
"My husband!” she whispered, as they
tenderly clasped hands.
» "Tell me now who was the author of all
those lies about me to your father?”
"Why ask it, dear? You know Allan
wrote the last letter.”
“The dastard. I was sure of it from
the first. Well, he had the facts in that
last letter, didn’t he?"
“Yea,” she answered with a smile.
They rose to return to the mansion,
roused by the stroke of midnight from
the clock in the tower of the city hall.
"From tonight, my dear,” he said, with
enthusiasm, “you will share with me all
the honors and responsibilities of public
life.”
"No, my love, I do not desire any part in
public life except through you. You arff
my world. I ask no higher gift of God
than your love, whether you live in a
governor’s mansion, or the humbliest cot
tage. I desire no career save that of a
wife—your wife—she had her face on his
breast as a little sob caught her voice,
“and I would not change places with the
proudest queen that ever wore a crown!”
She said this looking up into his face
through a mist of tears.
With trembling lips and dimmed eyes
he stooped and kissed her as he replied:
“And I had rather be the husband of
such a woman than to be the ruler of the
world.”'
THE END.
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A British soldier tells the following experi
ence in the Transvaal: “One night X went to
the door of our tent rather late and was at
once attracted by an unusual object straight
before me. I went up to.it and found It to be
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In making a tour of the Transvaal to ac
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following the example which Sir George Grey
set in South Africa many years ago. Xt was
a red-letter day in the history of a household
on the veldt when Grey called and took coffee
and spent half an hour In talk. The chair he
sat on was sure to be preserved as a memento.
But this regard for him had a very amusing
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