The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, January 10, 1891, Image 1

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6 VOLUME XVII.—NO. 784. ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY JO. 1891. - ■ 'fSL PRICE: 82.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. THE WONDERFUL SOUTH. Narrative of Her Unprecedented Material Progress. The Story that Continues Astound and Startle the Modern Universe. to National Bank of Waco. Mount Lynn is the highest point west ot Waco, from which It is 2'-miles distant. Its eleva tion gives it commai ding views of the conntry for many miles. The purpose la to make it a suburban residence city, and to establish a sanitarium, the pure air and the hot water from subterranean springs both warranting this enterprise. Railroad engineers, wbiie running a line through Boone county, West Vir ginia, discovered, on the face of a moun tain on the Pond fork of C >al river, the outcrop of 11 distinct veins of coal, rang ing from 2 inchef to 20 feet in thickness, and aggregating 08 feet and 11 inches. A correspondent of the Wheeling Intelli gencer, who reports this discovery, says: “One vein is pure car.nel coal, 12 inches thick; ano'her has 34 inches of pure cannel coal overlaid with splint coal, and another vein of bituminous coal is 20 feet thick with 2 feet of ‘parting' 7 feet from the bottom.” Other railroad engineers, according to the some correspondent, “have lately traced the Pocahontas held of coking coal from the head of the Guyan river, where it was supposed to end, across Indian Ridge to Pinnacle, Otter and Barker, across all the forks of Guyan river, through Wyoming county, across into Kalelgn, and following the PeDey valley through Payette connty into the familiar New river coal country. Through this entire section there are from two to hve workable veins of coal, one of them 10 feet thick. In some places they dip a little below the water level, but the outcroppings, as a general thing are to be seen on the mountain sides.” * » “Immense tracts of coal and timber land are being bought np by the capitalists. A short time ago Mor gan, Drexel & Co , of Philadelphia, rep resentfDg the Vanderbilt interests, pur chased 50,000 acres of coking and coal land in Raleigh county, and have already completed a railroad survey. The Ches apeake and Ohio Railroad Company har. also bought large tracts and has an ongi neering eorp3 out laying down a new railroad line. Tie Baltimore and Ohio people are also endeavoring to got a share of this undeveloped wealth, and have purchased 76 00 > acres of coal lands from ei 8. nator J N Camden. The syn dicate represented by J lines G. Bialne, S nator Gorman, ex Senator Henry G Davis and others have also made large purchases, and many smaller purchases of 10 000 and 20,000 acie tracts are con stantly being made throughout the coal and timber regions of the State.” ^The Georgia Rolling Stock Co., a cor poration now organizing in Macon, Ga., h is a policy that other new companies would do well to adopt. This company has an authorized capital of $1.00u.0t0, and will engage in the manufacture and repair of railway cars. In Older that the l^-ocuiMiicb aiiu wutkinguhji. of .naCOil* may have a direct interest in this enter prise, it has been decided to issue to them, and to them only, first preferred guaranteed 7 per cent, stock to the amount of $100 000. Subscriptions for this are payable, 10 pei cant, when or ganized, 10 per cent. 60 days later and 10 per cent, a month thereafter until the entire amount has been paid. Under this plan a man buying stock of the par valne of flOO would have 13 months In which to make his payments. It has been the experience of all those places in which building and loan associations have been well conducted that habits of economy and thrift were formed among the stockholders that inured both to their individual benefit and to the wel fare of the community. Great manuf&c turing establishments that, like the Brewster Carriage Co. in New York, have permitted their workmen to become sharers in their profits have fonnd them selves gainers in all respects. In these days of labor unions and strikes such concerns are absolutely Bafe from trou ble, be' ause their workmen are as much interested as are the larger stockholders in having the business flourish. The same is true of all concerns in which A Philadelphia Devil. The night employes at the roundhouse and workshops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Fifty-eighth street and Darby road, according to the Philadelphia Press, say the devil has appeari d on the earth, and has been bothering them in their labors for the past several D’ghts. The devil has transformed himself fnto a big ape with a long-tongued tail, and spits fire ir >m his mouth. His infernal high ness made bis first appearance Thursday night, and created a panic among the 100 or more employes. Engineer Sierner, who runs a fast ex press to Baltimore and Washington, had the honor of diecovcring the demon as he was taking his puffing engine into the roundhouse at 12 o'clock Thursday night. He says the devil swung his five-foot tail till it whizzed like a buzz saw, aud with “flamy ’ mouth shot through the brick walls of the roundhouse. As soon as the devil got within the building be gave a yell like a screech owl, and ail the lights went ont. Then ne belched forth fire and jumped on the engines. Stricken with terror, the employes rushed pell mell out of the building. Night Foreman Rod erlck and Caller Hansom stood at one of the doors. They say he would jump on top of the locomotive and tbe next in stant he would be ia the ash pit, screech ing and expectorating a flame of fire. From the roundhouse tbe devil madea straight streak for the mac bine shop, and so frightened the workmen there that they took to their heels. A copper smith named Connors was shaping a pipe, and he says the devil snatched it from him and gave iijpi a rap over the head with his forked tail. The devil also overtook an employe named Banes and pulled nio whiskers. Some of the terrified employes found Officer Taylor of the Twenty-first dis trict standing on the cornerof Fi’iy- eighth street and Darby road Ho laughed at their story of the devil being on t e face of the earth, and started to the ma chine-shop to make the acquaintance of the alleged demon. Waen Office Taylor stuck his head i r the building he saw the devil-ape” beicuiog fire and roaring. The policeman found he had no use lor the internal monster, and skedaddled The employes stood shivering outside the building until -1 o’clock in the morn ing, when they say the otvil took hia do naiture down the railroad track toward Darby. Full ot fear and trembling they returned to work. The devil did not make any reappearance on Friday or Saturday uight. On Sunday night, how ever, the roundhouse employes say he stuck his head through the wall, and, after belching some fire, disappeared. .. iVULi wore >'4i jrejjpsi. H »a ■subuuca fright to? fear that ne may re turn any evening and create tLe same rumpus as on Thursday night. They pro test he is the real devil, and say it is ab surd to assert he is nothing more than an ordinary ape, when he has such supernatural powers. Stealing Women in Touquin. While in most parts of the world, ex cept Africa, slave-catching is becoming a thing of the past, tbe practice is still carried on to some extent in Tonqnin in spi .e of the efforts of the French to put an end to it. The slaves who are wanted there are only women and children. Slave dealers find women and children in the forests, away from the villages, drag them into the mountains, and sell them to Chinese merchants, who cairy them Into some of the western provinces of China aud sell teem to r.ch families. This odious traffic began about twenty five years ago. Formerly Tonkinese wo men were almost unknown in Caina. The practice of exporting them as slaves came aonut in this way: mechanics and salaried employes in all I Jn isG5 the Chinese soldiers who in kinds of business are stock to ders. The ] V aded ionquin, which was ia revolt plan of the Georgia Robing S.ock Co. is j against China, found themselves incum- cininently wise and safe. bered by prisoners taken from the Ton j kiness. They did not know what to do The Memphis Appeal Avalanche pre- with the prisoners, but at last decided to „„„. j i ship them to China and soe if they couid sents t-s readers vci ,n a Sjuvcmr edition uot ge!1 j t was at this time that commemorating the fiftieth anniversary emigration agencies wire recruiting in of the founding of the Appeal. As a | China thousands of worimen to toil on work of art it ranks among the first of' r ' r ‘ ‘ ll ’ T '*’“ the guano islands of Chili. The hun dreds of male pmooere were easi’y t!s posed of to these emigration agents and the women and children who were among the unfortunates werti sold to such productions, its covers being high ly illuminated with choice pictorial rep resentations of tho Appeal’s progress ro tbe Isst fifty years, and of tee city of j well-to-do Chinese. Memphis duriogthat period. Thevaliey T ils opened a now trad", although of the Mississippi is shown in colors, I at first it was not easy to sail tho women, with rail and water was s correct y given, because wealthy families did not wish to and the lints in every instance finely j have servants with black teeth, the re drawn Its contents embrace 32 pages I suit of the practice of betalnut chewing. of wtll wiitten text, setting forth t- past, present and future of the Appeal and Avalancwhich joined issue in .November, 2890. Tne reminiscences of Col. Matt Galloway are most interesting, aud his editorial career on the Appeal and Avalanche faithfully chronicled. A leading feature is the beauty of its pic tures in half tone, embracing viowa of tbe Mississippi north and south of Mem phis, and the collection of portraits of leading representative citizons of that city. This souvenir wili be readily ac cepted throughout the country as a bright production of one of the leading progressive newspapers of the South west. I a the counties of Johnson and Carter, in East Tennessee, and in those that ad join them in Nor.h Carolina, lies the Doe mountain iron district. Welsh miners have made cuttings in the vein in John son county a ci?t a .nce of 11 miles, and find that it varies from 75 to 120 feet in thickness, with an unknown depth. A Johnson City correspondent of the Knoxville Journal states that this prop erty is owned by Philadelphia aud B is tol capitalists, who value it at $2 500 000 The Bristol & E izubethion Railroad was intended to develop this properly. The owners of the iron mine are building the furnace at Bristol. T :e same correspon dent states that the Vlrf inia, Tennessee & Carolina Coal & Iron Co. own other large ore deposits in Johnson county at the mouth of Roan’s creek, where they have a force of miners at work whose pay roll amounts to more than $600 a week. The same company 1b said to be expecting to build one or more Iron fur naces at that point. They are r-ported to control tbe mineral rights to 80 000 acres of iron beari"g la nd in that district, and 8o small a price, however, was asked for them that ali the women were finally sold. Today these women are in much demand in some parts of western China. As servants they aro gentle, obedient, and laborious, and are oo highly es teemed that they command a good price. It is a very lucrative trade, and fiun dreds of poor women are every year dragged a way from their homes by these pitiless dealers in human flesh. Many Chinese are engaged in the business. It is gratifying to hear that the French are making good prrgrcssin their ef forts to stamp out the traffir. Tory have visited very severe punishments upon some Chinese whom they have caught stealing women and dragging them into the mountains. Cause of Failure. One cause of failure to secure blooms is injudicious watering—deluging at one time and withholding at another,and pay ing no attention to the needs of the dif- erent varieties. The appetites and needs of plants are as varied as those of people, and their temperaments diff er, too; there aro the sanguine, the sensitive, the phlegmatic—each requiring to be dealt with accordingly. Wnile one plant will thrive, notwithstanding the utmost neg lect, and subsist on almost nothing, an other must have nourishing food and warm drink. It is a good plan tc adapt t li 3 water to the temperature of the room, and always be quite sure that tho drainage is good. (J ten a plant will droop and look sickly, when, if the mat ter is looked into, it will be found that water stands in the bottom of the jar. A bent wire is always useful in this case, lor oy penetrating tbe holes at the bate to own over 200,000 acres cf coal lands in of the pot, and salrrirg the earth, pas- KeMucky ana Southwestern Virginia. Mount Lynn, Texas, is the name of a new town adj icent to the flourishing city of Waco, which has been laid out by a company con-posed mainly of New Eng land men, who piircha;ed the property and incorporated under the lavzs ofMaino as the B»-Waco Lard Co., authorized capital $1,000 000 Tuer fficc-rs are: P.es- ldont. M. w Halsey, p esident Prndtn tial Loan & Trust Co of Boston; vice- president. Fr<-d. L. Coburn, of Coburn Bros., Boston; treasurer, H. H. Savage, president Boston Land Improvement Co.. Wakefield, Mass ; secretary, Wilfred B. Rich, Etq., Boston; bankers Suffolk Trust Oo. of Boston and Provident sages will be maue for i.ne escape of snag nant water and gas. Then water freely, being sure that the water runs through quioalj;dratn all off’, loosen thesollat me top of the jar ami wis-hnold moisture until the p ant is again healthy. The caila, as is well known, requires plenty o'quito warm water; if in a Gourde j .r boiling water may be used in tie lower jar and will wonderfully hasten growtn and blossoms. Fuchsias are thirsry plants, esfc c ally when in fl r.ver, end moisture is necessary to (he Cuine-e primrose. The majority of pian.s require a weekly bath; in taut, nothing so invig orates them as a shower bath of tepid water. Those which cannot be removed readily for tbe showering, may have their leaves sponged.—Vick’s Magsz ne for December. The Other Man’s Wife. A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE. BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER. Wf/v:. Cc xy CHAPTER IX. In the intercourse.of every-day life tbe fric tiou produced by mere thoughtlessness F far greater tlian that caused by deliberate selfish ness. In due time Major Detnis returnt d to Chertsey Camp from Loudon, reaching homo in the most boisterous good spirits posslb’e and bringing his wife a pretty diamond broach as an offering. He pro fessed himself thoroughly glad to be home again bat otherwise did net tell Ethel much of his movements except to mention casually now and again some theatre to which he bad been or some person whom he had seen in the Park or at Hnrlingham or St. Anne’s. “And how have yon got on, Ethel?” be asked. “Has Trevor been as good as his word and looked after yon?” “Yes. I have seen a good deai of him,” she answered. “That’s right. I want you to have a good time, my dear,” he said brusquely ; “all I bargain for is that you don’t Eee too much of him, you know.” “1 shall not do that.” “I daresay not for your amusement— but ycu’ll have to be cartful for your name,” wich a careless laugh. “Cosmo,” Ethel cried ia an agony— “don’t yon care anything for me—not even for my name, your name?” “Of course I do, to be sure. I was awfully fond of you whan we were mar ried, awfully so. Only a man can’t go on living iu paradise for ever, at least not with tae same Eve, don’t you know—it stands to common sense that he can not.” “Obi Cosmo.” “My dear girl,” said he good-humor ediy—“isn’t it much better to speak out plainly? You never cared a brass larth- iEg about me—probably if you had i should never have married you—gad, 1 never want: d to inairy anv other wo man, give you my word. Bui, as I say, one can’t go on for ever ana I don’t want to shut you up like a nun because I’m no longer as mad about you as I was four ysrn a»v—why, it wouldn’t be reasoD, »,d I Ay,, jmreasor.abla p :op!e, they’re A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL. SOUTHERN MEMBERS. Prominence of Congressmen from the South on Committees. WALLACE AN# GARLINGTON. HOY AND DOG. Tlie Latter Was in Charge of Second Oriely Relief. They Were Cut Apart After Junction of Eleven Days. Cheuncey F. Black, in a special to the World from Washington, In discussing the next House ana the probable effect c'.ih «'or'linn j nie 20 1,S49 of the election of a Southern Speaker Carolina, im.i “If the House shall be organized says with a Southern Speaker let us see about what eort of a from, it win present to the North and the West. Almost every great committee will necessarily be headed by a Southern man in most cases a far Southern man. The length, of their service and the positions they have won by their characters and abilities entitle them to those committees. For tne Ways and Means, Mr. Mills, if not Speaktr, would stand at the head, other wise Mr. McMillln; for Appropriations, Forney, of A.abama; for Cofoage, Weights and Measures, Bland, of Missouri; Com merce, Turner, of Georgia; Rivers and Harbors, Blanchard, of Lou isiana; Agriculture, Hatch, of Mis souri; Foreign Affairs, McCreary, Ken tucky; Naval Affiirs, Herbert. Ala baifir; Pus.offnea and Post Roads, B’ount, of Georgia; Indian affairs, Peel, of Arkansas; Territories, K lgoreot Tex as, U Springer shcu d b come Speaker; Railways and Canals, Cobb, of Alabama; Manufactures, Wilson of West Virginia; Mines and Mining, Rowland, of North Carolina; Public Buildings aud Grounds, Bankhead,of Alabama; Pacific Railroads, Crain, of Texas; Levees and improve ments of the Mississippi River, Stock- dale, of Mississippi, Education Ourutb, of Kentucky; Lanor, Catchings, of Miss issippi; Militia, Forney, of Alabama, un less promoted; Patenis,TilImau, of South Carolina; Pensions, Henderasn, of North Carolina; Claims, Mansnr, of Missouri; War Claims, SLone, of Kentucky; Dis trict of Columbia, Hemphill, of South Carolina; Revision of Laws, Cobb, of Alabama. Of the miner committees and select committees, whilst the share of the South would not be bo great, It would be very considerable, it is thus seen that, whether the Speakership shall go South or not, the South ac tne head of the committees maturing and controlling legislation will dominate tne House at auy rate. Wiih a Speaker thrown in, such an organization of the House mieht be made the paramount issue of 1S9-I, anu might be used with great lorce to rekindle tho sectional animosities of the unhappy past. NoSpeaker, Northern or Southern, can deprive the distinguish ed Southern Ropresoutativc-s above men tionea of their proper places upon tnese committers. Tcey have earned them. The traditions of the House require that they should have them, and „ o Lu no event could they or their section lose whatever but the sirigfo honor of the chair. Saould it take that—should it be accorded to thorn if they insist upon taking it—will the Dcinoc.atie campaign of 1-92 proceed the more safely aud surely was a South ern man in the char.-?’- ft is undoubtedly iur. Black s opinion that this question should be answered in the negative. Tredegar, Ala., has made such pro • gress that the passenger department of tne Eus: Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia Railway Co. has considered it worthy o'special notice as one of tne special at- Irseii ms on that systtm. This has been given in r.he ft rui of a neatly printed and btauli ully ilrus-lrated pampnlec of 32 png .3, whic i in pleasantstyle tells where ai-n what Ireritgar is, ana what are the foundations for tue universal belief that Tredegar is destined to be one of the greatest industrial cities of the Sooth. A map of this great railway system on the last page shows the location of this new Industrial city in Alsbuu. Capt. George D. Wallace, who was killed in the late battle, was born in He was So many false reports have been pub lished from time to time in various news papers of the condition of Johnnie Gettius, his shinbone, and the dog which graduated from W<3t Point in the class j supplied the hiatus in it at the expense of 1872, and was appointed second lieu- of his own forepaw, that it seems worth , ’ x . . , . - whlla to say wliafc laa actually been done tenant in the Sevenh cavalry June 14 of iri tfae case. that j ear. He was oade first lieutenant ' From an authoritative and trustworthy Jane 25 187G, and received a captain's ! source the New York Evening Sun has nrvrwmicaibTi c2'-tr«ih*r *** i Qcc ,r 'learned that th6 boy and fcne doer were commission S -ptenber _o, 188o. He CQt aparfc Thanksgiving day, Nov. 27. It acfctd as adjutant if his regiment from j is known positively that the boy is do June 25,1876, to Jur*6, 1877. ! lug well and that the dog is still Rlive. Heat. Ernest A. larlington is also a ! There is strong reason to believa that the . . ; operation has oeen a success. Further native of Souta Cahbns, and was grad- , than this no newspaper can pretend to uat"d from West Point June 15, JS76 say. All the rest is vein imagining. Lieutenant Garlinflion was in charge of ! The operation ofj placing a portion of the second Ureely alief expedition sent ! a dog’s leg where it couid supply a hiatus out in 1SS3. It .insisted of fourteen | in the shin bone of a boy was penormed men, who tmbarke- on the steamer Pro- | by Dr. A. M. PnelpB Sunday, Nov. 16. The teus, at St. J jhns, .one 29 of that year, name of the patient was J rhn Gethius, a J uly 21 they reacted Do Carey island, i young boy who had previously had sever wh6rs Lieutenant Gariington disem-| si operations performed on him in order barsed and took opies of thereco-ds left there by the Naes expedition io 1S75 July 23 the Protns was crught in an ice pack and he party was forced to abandon her, jetting off' in their boats only twenty-ire minutes before she sank. A part ot the stores were transported to CaptSaoine and cached th6re for Mr. Grerlys party. He decided it was not practical* to proceed further north in the small bats and determined to crosB Smith’s soed and make his way down to the Greenlnd coast to Uper- navik. At cape Shsikletin, Aug. 23, he was met by a party if Eqlmaui sent to his relief, and ten <ays later the party embarked on tbe stamer Yantic and re turned to St. Johns. Gariington was se verely criticized for tot leaving stores at Littleton island, andthere ensued a con troversy between hliselt and Gen. Hazon regarding his course Gariington asked for.a conrt of inquiry which was ordered. This conrt, while coimending him for bis zoai, energy, ad efficiency, fonnd that he had erred inihe Littleton isiand matter, but attributd the failure ot the expedition to the “gave errors and omis sions” of Gan. Haze. The New York Pr«s saye: “C hauncey M. D.-pew carries 600,000 insurance on his life. When he tlks about insurance his text is somethin dike the old woman’s declaration that *ca» killed the cat.’ Mr. Dopew declares tbt it is anxiety that kills most men, or, rther which prevents them from livingoutheir natural ‘length of days.’ This anxby Is mostly for the family he will lead behind him, and when a man has a nmfortable amount of insurance, by wich his family’s wel fare wifi be made ecure, his anx ety ceases and he can lie on and on as long as it was intended hpbou'd live by his Creator. AlthoughMr. Depew does not have any auxi-ty to*ing him down to the grave in a hurr, I notice that he is quite particular inj* 8 habits of life. When he was last insoglaud he consult ed the groat medicalruthorities to know bow to attain longerty, and heregalates bis aatlDB with due jfcard to their pre cepta. Ho believes J right breakfast—a soft-boiled egg and dup of coffee—in a Jong walk in tbe doming, in alight lunch at midday anca hearty dinner be tween 6 and 7 o’dtek. He may go to ban ci nets and dinner hat if his fellow- guests will note h habitat them they will discover that hdarelj eats and still more rarely drinks oything at thorn, and that he never si no.” to strengthen an inch of bis shin-bone so that he couid use it in walking. Dr Puelps was pro eminently the man to attempt such an experiment. He had tried simple bone grafting in this case without success. In another case he had successfully implanted a portion of the living bone of a dog in a human subject, and the union was all but accomplished when the restlveness of the dog dragged the bones asunder before tbe operation was completed. As Dr. Phelps is pro fessor of orthofarfiic surgery in the Uni versity of New York he couid not afford to risk his reputation in performing an operation that was not practicable, feas- bile, and beneficial. The particulars of the operation have been often described. The dog was in cased in a plaster of parts jacket in order to prevent nis restlveness from spoiling the operation, as In a previous experi ment. Ths first joint of one forepaw was cut off' while the dog was nnder anesthet ics. An inch of the bone above this joint was then exposed and cut off’ with out severing its muscnlar and vascular attachments to the rest of the dog’s bony. Then the boy was placed nnder ether and the parts of Ms sola where the bone was wanting were exposed. Tne piece of semi detached bone was let into this hiatus and secured in its place by passing a straight piece of strong aluminum wire length svlse through the msrroiv of the dog’s bone so aB to project at both ends into the corresponding parts of the boy's shin bone. The muscles of the dog which were stiil attached to the piece of detached bone were firmly secured by wire sutures to that portion ot the boy’s flesh which sur rounded that part of his shin where the natural bone was wanting. in this way sufficient nutriment was provided for the piece of dog’s bone to Keep it alive until the capillary vessels from the soft tissues ia the boy’s leg had surrounded it, penetrated it, and assirui lated it with the boy’s b >tly. Signs of this assimilation were first st eu tfoe ttajs after the operation, when tue sains Of bnth ooy and tfog were stea to be united where they came iu. contact with each otuer. There were some fears at first t rat tne dog would die from tns unnatura! couflat-iee it from this plaster oi patis j tcket, bat judicious treatment maue this all light. Eleven days after the operation was performed the boy and dog were ont apart, with what result will only be known when Dr. Phelps brings the ease nnder the notice of the Academy of Medicine. -A- don’t j'bn know, besides, I can trust you—that’s the besi of you proud, cold women, you make very poor sort of sweethearts but you make devilish good wives—one esn always trust you.” Mrs. Dennis turned away with a bitter smile UDon her lipp, and the Major went off to dress for dinner and quite satisfied with his own generosity and magnani inity towards his wife. “The best of yon proud, cold women, yon make very poor sort of sweethearts bnt you make devilish good wives”—she repeated under her breath—“poor sort of sweethearts— good wives—ohl my God, if this man could only look into my heart and see just what sort ot a sweetheart I could be to some men—to one man, at least. Oh! Cosmo Dennis, if only you knew what a bad wife you have, bad, bad in every thought and wish if not in deed, if you only knew how little she is able to truet herself!” She was standing at the window look ing out over the tall white marguerites and the 6howy red geraniums, over the bit of garden and tho low paling against which the wall flowers grew and the sweet peas were; climbing over the row of huts opposite to the distant sky be yond. She looked in her trailing white tea gown and with her shining golden head, like a maTgnerite herself. How young aud lovely she was still, in years bnt twenty two, in looks a girl, and alas, in hopelessness and pain of heart, she felt like an old, old woman. She held her hands press;d bard together then, her blue eyes were full of pain, her face was wti':e and tired. “It is so hard to bear,” she said in the same hurt tone, under her breath,—“to live with him who has long! ago grown tired of me, and to have that other one —ab!” she broke off sharp and short, for ■-.cross the open space between her win dowandtbe opposite row of fcu'.s, she saw Jack Trevor walk quickly by. He looked at her window, and seeing her, saluted, witn a gay gesture and a bright smile. She forced her hand to reply and her lips into an answering smile, and then she dropped back into the nearest chair, wishing wildly that she were dead or that she had nevtr been born Into this wor d of mistakes and weariness and suf fering. “I am safe enough,” she told herself. “He cares nothing about me—Cosmo may trust me—I am Jack’s old IrienU and playfellow—that is all.” Sue was still lying back in the big chair when Mrjor Dennis returned, wearing evening clothes aud a smart smoki jacket, a quite gorgeous velvet aff'.’.ir w ith collars and cuffs of superb embrold ery. He turned himself about for her in spection. “I invested in a new smoking jacket whilst I was up,” he told her. “Pretty, isn’t it?” “Quite resplendent,” answered Ethel, her eyes still filled with Jack’s fair and cleanly beauty. “So I thought, but Bennett, in Bond Street, you know, says it’ll soon tone down. Do you think It will?” “How should I know. Bennet must be a better judge than I.” “Well, I don’t know about that,” doubt- lully. “But he made it, didn’t he?” She was trying hard to force herself to seem to be interested in his new attire. Yes, he made it, supplied the velvet, of course.” ‘And not the embroidery?” ‘Ohl tbe embroideiy—no, I got that elsewhere,” he replied rather awkwardly. Ethel rose from her chair, a somewhat satrical smile curling her lips. “I see. The new Eve gave you the embroidery,” she said scornfully, yet very quietly. “What a pity to waste It down here—you will take all the bloom off it.” Not at all—the bloom ought to be off,” cried h3, not sorry to find she had ac cepted the evidence of a new Eve—which, by the bye, he had not intended to let slip to her—so quietly. I think on tho whole that they got on better than they hau done for two years before tho Msj >r had ex9hanced into the 15ih. lu the old regiment Mrs. Dennis had often been dull aud in low spirits, s ie had been left a good deal alone and Major Dennis had never be n able to go away for a few days or even a few hours without fseliug more or less of a brute towards h-r. N >w no man in the world, 1 take it, likes to feel hi nself a brute; so he was much inclined to accept, the ex istence of Jack Trevor, his wife's old piayftllow, as an entirely uumixed bless tug. Taey spent the evening very quietly— the Major smoked a couple of cigarettes, and wrote two or three letters, and talked to her a little of what he had done in London. And all the time in Ethel’s heart there was raging a wild and fierce tumult. A cry rose up and wou’d barcfly be sitieffocr, that her life was hard -r to bear than it had been before, that the mockery of ;oing on living like this had become a very hell to her, that she neith er could r.or would continue it. Yet Major Dennis smoked and chatted complacently on, without a suspicion that his wife sitting quittiy sewing at a bit of filmy muslin a.d lace-work beside the table where the lamp stood, was feel ing any different to what she looked, a suspicion that her exterior of ica cov ered in truth a very volcano of fire, a mine which might explode under his feet at apy moment. “By the bye, Ethel, is anything going on just now?’’he asked suddenly, when it was getting toward bed time. “There is a garden party at Highfllght to-morrow,” she answered, thinking pleasantly of it because Jack Trevor would be there—“and I believe we are ail to be asked to an informal supper af terwards.” “Oh! at Highfllght! Are yon going?” “Yes, I have promised to go and—” with a laugh, “I have got a new gown on purpose for it ” “Really. Well, will the dogcart do to drive you over in?” •‘Oh yes, perfectly,” she replied. Accordingly, the following afternoon about 3 o'clock, tbe Major’s very high dogcart with its bright yellow wheels, came round to tbe little gateof their hut] A rakish gray was between the shafts a regular flyer, with satin coat and rest less heels. He showed a great objection to settling down at first but after a min ute or two brongbt himBetf info the pose ofa statue his head well in air and his handsome feet extended as far as possi ble. Mrs. Dennis did not keep him waiting very long, indeed as the Major opened the front door, she came ont of her bed room. “Hello, is that the new frvck?” he asked—het’s have a look at you. ‘Fon my word it’s very pretty—I fuel quite proud of going out with you.” “1 am highly honoured,” cried Etfcel turning herself about—she was ia high spirits and his little compliment pleated her. It was c-trtainly a pretty gown, plain and simple of sof: creamy banned with a smart sailor hat bound with a cream rib bon, on her fair head, Sac carried over her arm a coat of stone coloured cloth with a coachman'b cape or rather ret of -a. .wiceV cohr ’ aire ass.es. “Uolciple a/v ->’ii be smothered if you wear thi % -r' he answered, “I Bhou/i y notliered in dust if I don’t,” she Aeplied— ‘but I think it will be enough to keep me warm comiDg home. You know it 1b twice as cold in that high trap as it is in the victoria.” A prettier or more winsome woman surely no man ever helped into a high dog uart, and Major Dennis swung him self into his place beside her, feeling quite in a glow of satisfaction. “’Fon my word,” his thoughts ran, “there’s nothing like a little outside interest and attention for smartening a married woman np. Why, I shall be fall ing in love over again if I don’t look out.” Mrs. Dennis cast a glance towards the mess—yes, the coach was there already. The Major saw her look. “Would you rather have gone on the coach ?’’ he asked. “Oh! I didn’t care at all.” “Because you couldn't have had the box seat and I’ve no Idea of your sitting behind, don’t you know.” “OM no. I like this much better,” she replied. They swept through the gates as she spoke, and once on a bit of open road the gray went like steam towards tbe town. “Don’t go through the town at this pace, will you Cosmo? ’ she asked. Mrjor Dennis laughed- “1 shall fiad myself in the police station if I do,” he answered. “I wonder if you would mind stopping at Jift'erson’s for a minute—only for a minute? 1 left my little scent bottle there to be re charged.’* He raised no objection and when they reached tho narrow High Street, puiied up the gray at the door of tbe chemist’s shop. ‘ is my little smelling bottle ready?” Ethel asfcel. ‘Yes, Ma’am—” and away he ran into tbe shop again to get it. What happened next was all over in an instant and Ethel hardly know how it came about, but just a. the man returned with the neat little white parcel in his hand and gave it to Airs. Dennis, the Major exclaimed—“Damnation” under his breath and gave the gray horse a cut with the whip such as bent him off'at a frantic gallop along the narrow street. Nor did he moderate his pace until they had got a good mile upon tho road to wards Highfllght when with some dif ficulty his master puiied him up to a walk. “What wa9 the matter?” asked Ethel who bad been holding on to the side of the trap In sheer desperation, expecting every moment to be dashed to the stones. “Nothing—nothing—I think something stung me,” and he put up his hand to his neck, as if to show that the mischief was there. “Was it a wasp? Does It hurt much now?” she asked; she had never loved this mac, she knew that he was tired of her. she guessed that he went '.fter other gods—yet in one moment she was all tenderness for Ms supposed hurt. He looked down into her anxious eyes with a smile which but barely covered the fear which still lingered ia his. “I’m afraid I frighten your wits out of you every nowand then.Echel,” he said with a rough Bort of apology. “R-ally, I’m awfully Berry—but the tact was I was startled and made a cut at the horse without thinking what I was do.ng—aud the brute resents being reminded ot the wMd at all.” “Then yon were not badly stung,” she cried. “No—a mere nothing; a year or two ago I should never have noticed it. ’Fon my word I fancy my nerves are going—I shall have to ent the Service and travel for a while.” “Alone? ’ she asked scarce above a whisper. Her lip3 had gone white, her cheeks were pile, her whole face seemed to have grown drawn and haggard in a moment, drawn and haggard and old. “Alone—of course not. I—but there, what's the use of tslktng about that? I’m seedy aud out of sorts altogether, but I shall be all right after a bit, when X have got, my nerves pulled together a little.” He laughed as he spoke and began to tals about other things, once or twice looking back to see if the coac i was in sight or not. They were more than half Way to Highfllght ere it appeared, how ever, and the Major urged the gray to put his best leg forward so that the others might not overtake them. By the time they pu led up at the portico at Highfllght, Major Dennis was in the wildest ana most boisterous spirits imag inable, but the color had not come haw ftyEfUBNifc