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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 786.
ATLANTA, GA, 8ATUEDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1891.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
THE WONDERFUL SOOTH.
Narrative of Her Unprecedented
Material Progress.
The Story that Continues to
Astound and Startle the
Modern Universe.
The solidity or Southern progross has
another illustration in the valedictory
address of Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, Ga.
The gross income of this thriving city
last ye ar was fl.488,600.93. Of this amount
£165 0C0 was received from 4 per cent,
bonds issued to redeem the same amount
of maturing bonds. These were sold at
par without commission, something un
preetderted in the history of similar
transactions by Southern cities. The
actual income from all other sources
was £1,323 600 03 The exnendltures dur
lng the year were £1,204 594 50. The cash
in the treasury at the nose of business
December 31* was f259 755 93 Against
this were outstanding obligations due,
but not presented for payment, amount
ing to 1250.568 13, which, when paid,
would leave a net balance in the treasury
of £9187 80. There are also due the
treasury various cash assets amounting
to about £60,000.
The increase in the value of real and
personal property over 1889 was £5 510
301, ana this without any increase of as
sessments. Atlanta's charter requires
that the property shall bs assessed at its
cash market value. At public sales,
which are constantly taking place in the
city, property frequently brings more’
than double the assessment, and rarely
less than one-third over it. This is,
therefore, a very conservative estimate
of the city’s Increase. During 1S90, 92S
buildings were constructed at an average
cost o' £3 5C0 each, or a total of £3 248,000,
wuicb, Mayor Git nn pertinently remarks,
"would alone make a larger city than
many of those which a few years ago
were claiming to be the rivals of At
lanta.”
The nine items of large expenditure in
this report tell the story of Atlanta's
progressive spirit. These are as follows:
Public schoo’s
Sanitary alUi rs
Building sewers
Improving and paving streets.
Fire department
Police department —
Water works department
Lighting the streets
belief
ri.;
59 70
51 709 fill
101141 52
2.'d i:;: s7
( 575 U0
102 976 os
55 085 17
15 570 02
45 579 02
Four mining companies employing an
•gfjregate capital of II 500 000 are engag
ed in this business. The Cherokee fur
nace located there makes a coke iron of
acknowledged excellence. Other manu
facturing enterprises have about £250,000
in their business, and besides these there
are 50 mercantile booses and two banks.
The third annual exhibition of the
East Carolina Fish, Oyster, Game and
Industrial Association will bo held at
Newberne, N. C., from February 23 to 28
Inclusive. The preceding fairs of the as
sociation have been largely attended and
have awakened an interest In the water
products of Eastern Carolina that has
resulted in considerable investments in
the fishery industry and in oyster garden
ing. No pains will be spared to make
the coming <x> ibition surpass all former
ones Id attractiveness and practical
value. For particulars address Charles
Reigensteln, secretary, Newberne, N. C.
The production of cotton in Texas in
creases at a remarkable rate. DuriDg
the season of 1889 '90 there were shipped
by rail from the district in the western
R art of the State, 130 miles in length,
jing on the Texas & Pacific Riilroad.
between Baird and Big Springs, 3 895
bales. Six years ago not a hunareu
bales were grfiwn In that district. r| his
season the product is more than 7,000
bales In the same territory.
“The stcond, third and fourth items are
particularly noteworthy. A city of less
than 70 ( 00 population that spends an
nually uearly £410 000 for sanitary pur
poses, sewers and improved streets, will
take first rank In the estimation of con
servative capitalists, for they have un
bounded confidence in all places wbere
v«a«t KB s — ] <*•* .
an. ti.ves( In mem in preference to other
localities where a niggardly policy is pur-
■ ed.
Mayor Glenn leaves the city In charge
of an excellent successor, Hon. Wm. A.
Hemphill, the sagacious business man
ager ol the Atlanta Constitution. Under
her new mayor Atlanta will advance
steadily In her prosperous career.
Testimony to the greater progress of
the South over other sections Is some
times found where leaBt expected. Even
the statistical .report of the United
States Po8tefiice Department bears wit-
ness to the advancement of the South
Postmaster-General Wanamaker's an
nual report for the year ended June 30,
1891, shows that the total number of new
postclfices estab ished in the United
States during that year was 5 560, and
that of tnis number 2 628, or nearly one
half, were In the fourteen Southern
States. As new posts dices are only es
tabllshe d where the requirements of in
creasing business necessitate them, it is
a striking illustration of the Sonth’s
growth that it should have received
nearly one-half of ail the post* dices es
tablished during the year. Especially
noticeable is this in view cf t.tat fact that
the white population of the South Is only
about one-fifth or the white population
of the country. The total net increase in
the number of new < dices in operation
in the United States on Jure 30, 1890.
compared with June 30, 1889, was 3 102,
and here again the Suuth lea with 1,619,
or nearly one-half again. During the
year 17 Presidential cdices were diecon
tinned on account cf the decrease in
their postal receipts, and of tnis 17 oniy
2 were in the South. Connecticut lost 1,
Dakota 1. Kansas 8, Minnesota 1, Ne
braska 1, while the only two In the South
were 1 in Florida ana 1 in Virginia. Few
people would ever 1 ave looked to the
report cf the Postmaster General to find
proof trat the Scuth is distancing all
other sections in advancement, and
probably the Postmaster-General him
self has never noticed these figures, but
grouped together by sections as we have
done they prove as conclusively as any
thing could do that the volume of busi
ness is increasing more rapidly In the
South than anywhere else. Moreover,
thCBe figures indicate very clearly the
steady advar.ee Id education, for postal
requirements Increase with the increase
of education and business.
Telling the truth about the South is a
one sU ed operation for many ne wspa-
pzrs. Whatever stories retch them
about the oppression of the colored race
are pubii-.hed with conspicuous head
lines, often followed by sharp editorial
comments. Readers of such papers
never see the other side, and naturally
enough conclude that there is no other.
Some time ago the press gave accounts
of the bulldczing by a party or whites in
Louisiana of a number of negroes who
preferred to live upon and cultivate
their own lands instead of hiring out to
other farmers. In this affair a colored
man was killed. This incident was
made the most of by those, perhaps
which habitually misrepresent the South!
A press dispatch from Baton Rouge
dated January 4, gave the sequel ol that
sad afiair, saying:
The motion for a new trial in the case
of Beverly Maloney and Alexander Ter-
roll, convicted of manslaughter and bull
bczlng negroes, was overruled yesterday
and they were sentenced to 20 years’ im
prisonment In the State prison.
This dispatch was published in most of
the Southern papers, and presumably
was sent North aleo. Thus far, so far as
we have observed, no paper that pub
lished the original account of the bull
dozing has done the people and courts of
Louisiana justice by reporting the Eevere
legal punishment indicted on those crim
inals. ‘-Tote fair’’ is an expressive phrase
in common use in the South. If our
Northern contemporaries wouid observe
it habltuahy they would in time gain a
much needed reputation for fair dealing
with Southern news.
The success of the Ocmulgee Brick Co.,
of Americas, Ga., Is an illustration of
the profits that are made in that class of
industries in the South. This company
was organized early last year, and held
Its first annual meeting a few days since.
The net earnings from the business on a
paid up capital of £33,000 were £17,000, out
of which a cash dividend, payable on de
mand, was ordered, and the stock was In
creased to £50,000.
The Pennsylvania Steel Co. has ap
pointed Mr. A. £. Jenkins, of Anniston,
Ala., successor to Chief Engineer James
B. Ladd, who, after many years’ service,
has resigned on account of Impaired
health, and proposes to go to Europe for
Its restoration. Mr Ladd has been on
duty at Sparrow’s Point, near Baltimore,
ever since the company commenced
operation there In 18S7.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Exchange Bank of Macon,
Ga , was held last week. The chief busi
ness done was to authoiize an increase of
£100 000 in the bank's capital, which will
raise It to £500,000. The Exchange Bank
has long been considered one of the most
solid monied institutions in the South.
The Augusta |Ga. | Exposition Co. is a
permanent institution. At a late meet
ing of the board of directors it was de
termlned to hold the next exposition in
their beautifnl and commodiour building
for four weeks from November 2 to No
vember 2S, 4 i
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THE CROWD MOVED UK
A Bystander’sSugge» i «ie"said.su’ted
The Other Man’s Wife.
A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE.
BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER.
The Handsome New Residence oi Hon. Frank P. Rice, Atlanta, Ga.
BRUCE AND MORGAN, ARCHITECTS.
THE SOUTH IN 1890.
PRINCE BISMARCK.
DEAF, DUMP AND BUND.
A. Period of Prosperity Without
Precedent.
the Old Lai)}’, sisk-.s;
A good-humcred man was se.ling
tickets at the box office of an uptown
theatre when a fat old lady with a re
fined face, elegant drees and a small boy,
planted herself in front ol him.
Gi'me two matinee tickets for tomor
row, she said, as she laid down a crisp
£5 bill.
No matinee on Wednesday, said the
nrbane ticket seller, Mr. Hopkins, smil
ing pleasantly.
No matinee tomorrow? That’s fanny,
replied the old lady. Well, why Is that?
Because we do not have them, madam,
was the still polite reply.
No? turning to the boy. What will we
do, Willie?
Willie took some time to consider, and
while considering, about fifteen people
had made up their minds what they’d
do; if they only had a chance they’d buy
tickets and get away. Willie decided
that the Garden would be a good place,
and so notified grandma.
Is there a matinee at the Garden?
asked grandma.
Mr. Hopkins reached for a copy of The
World, kindly scanned the toeatrical
column, and answered, No, madam.
That’s funDy.
Yes, ma’am, said Mr. Hopkins.
Is there a matinee at the Star?
No, madam.
How funny!
Twenty people in the rear did not think
so. I
How abont the Stacdarc?
None there either.
Really?
Really.
Madison Square?
No.
Well, I declare! Boor Jonathan?
No.
Daly’B?
Yes, madam, Eaid..£opklns, very much
relieved. r«. — -
Thanks. I guess we won’t go there;
we went there last week. How about
The Llliputians?
None there either.
And Union Square?
Saturday matinee there, madam, said
Hopkins, beginning to get JuBt a little
bit weary. You can go and see the
Texas Steer.
I have seen that. Are there no oth
ers?
Yes, ma’am; there’s a matinee at
Koster & Bial’s, said one of the impa
tient waiters. :
Grandma grew red in the face and tak
ing little Willie by the hand, she indig
nantly marched ont, leaving the weary
Hopkins to wait upon the weary crowd.—
World.
Cel art own, Gi., is the center of a rich
agricultural district in Western Georgia.
On every side are hills and mountains
stored with Iron, manganese, slate, mar
ble, granite and limestone. The high
grade of the brown hematite ores of this
vicinity baa created a demand that has
i Oedarto
»wn one of the largest
points of ore shipments in the Sooth.
w Face Your .Troubles.
—*— rr .rrz: ■*&T
“I had plowed around a rock in one of
my fields for five years,” said a farmer,
and I had broken a mowing machine
knife against it, besides losing the nseof
the ground in which it lay, all because I
thought it was such a large rock that it
would take too much time and labor to
remove It. But to day when I began to
plow for corn I thought that by and by
1 might break my cultivator against that
rock; so I took a crowbar, intending to
poke around and find ont its size once for
all. And it was one of the surprises of
my life to find out that it was a little
more than two feet loDg. It was stand
ing on its edge, and so light that I could
lift it into the wagon without help.”
‘•The first time you really faced your
trouble yon conquered it,” I replied
aloud, but continued to enlarge upon the
subject to myself, for I do believe before
we pray, or, better, while we pray, we
should look our troubles Equare in the
face.
Imagine the farmer plowing aronnd
that rock for five years, praying all the
while, ‘‘O Lord, remove that rock!” when
he didn’t know whether it was a big rock
or a little fiat stone.
We shiver and shake and shrink, and
sometimes do not dare to pray about a
trouble because it makes It seem so real,
not even knowing what we wish the
Lord to do about it, when if we would
face the trouble and call it by lte name,
one-half ol its terror would be gone.
The trouble that lies down with us at
night and oonfronts us on lint waking
in the morning, is the troable whoee pro
portions we do not know.
The South had tn the year 1S90apsrlod
of prosperity without precedent in the
last three decades of its history, it was
a period of remarkable activity in every
department of industrial and commer
clal enterprise. Nearly 100 new produc
tive undertakings were organized during
the year, according to the Manufactur
era’ Record, and a large proportion of
these organized in 1889 were carried to
completion. The assessed valuation ot
property for 1890 was greater by £270 000,-
000 than Id 1889, and greater by £1 600,-
000,600 than in 1SS0 The cotton crop
was 7,313,720 bales, or 296,019 more than
in any previous year. Southern cotton
mills took 549,478 bales, as against 266,000
bales five year 1 , before. There was an
Increase of 279 spindles employed upon
cotton In the twelve mouths of 1890 The
production of pig iron was 1 960 600 tons,
or 1.000,160 tons more than in 1889. Dur
ing the year the South built 2,490
miles of rai read, sgatDst 2296 in 1,889
'V’9 gre-ta eariii-.i j ' V C' ». -A'
/!»r 1»90 were yi«0.6o» n/, a gain o;£l0.
604.047 over the previous year. What is
more important from the point of view
of the investor, net earnings showed a
proportionate increase. Beyond question
the railroad interests of the South are
more promising to day than those of any
other section of tne Union. Much of
their prosperity in the past year has been
due to the Increased movement of South
ern proaucts Intended for exportation.
The value or exports from all Southern
ports in the eleven months ended No
vember 30, 1S90, was £268,293.213, or £24.
141 010 more than in the like months of
1889. The significance of these figures
win be seen when it is considered that
the increase of exports for the rest of the
country was but £3 834.1.i. The paying
crops of the country—those most In de
mand abroad—are those evidently of the
South, and the improved transportation
facilities of the trunk lines of that sec
tion are giving increased business to
Southern ports. With an increased vol
ume of commercial transaetlons, the
South has naturally developed improved
banking facilities. The number of its
national banks is now 590. with an ag
gregate capital of £90.763.705, the Increase
In 1S90 bavins been 104 in the number of
banks, ana £10 935,000 in capital. Tueir
prosperity is Indicated by the fact that
their net profits In the twelve months
ended November 30, 1890, amounted to
11'... per cent of their capital. With
such profits it is not surprising to learn
that the national banks of the South
have much more than doubled In number
and capital In the last decade. The pop
ulation of the South, including the Dis
trict of Columbia, was over 18 500.000 at
the close of 1890, an increase of about
3 00 ,000 since 1880 The solidity of the
prosperity we have been depicting was
illustrated by its steadiness dnrlhg the
tecent monetary troubles in the North.
Tne storm that wrecked so many North
ern enterprises left those located in the
South without a scar.—Baltimore Sun.
The Story ol His Fall at Last | Remarkable Work ot Teaching a
Made Public.
The following aooonnt of the circum
stances which bought about the resig
nation of Prince Bismarck is published
by the Times and vouched for as accu
rate: France now begins for |ttie first
time to understand the cause of l’rince
Bismarck’s fall and the circuit stances,
unknown till of late, which accompanied
it. All theBe reflations are such that
the ex Chancellor’s bitterest enemies
hardly venture to discuss what a shadow
he cast in his descent from power.
HIS IRON RULE.
The iron rule of Prince Bismarck had
been an obstacle and an embarrassment
and a cause of initf y ‘
and constant difl?cnfy>^ * the despatch
of public affairs, L
none of tb^ ’ ~ whom he was
the cbi£. 'jlf, ’ione of their
objactiyny'fv ”■ ^.veand definite
or erK .-CC • his atsc>Uat6«
Child So Afflicted.
or 'era ^2 his atsi'ibiUs
l,« uue r. A-JtVflL. 1 jo Y-.iu*- lie
was almee t ^ ln^'-esdiL.s, and received
only those wto^i his caprices tnvited
round him. He /tolerated no objections,
listened with a condescending smile
which condemned beforehand the ideaB
submitted to him by his youngl master,
the Emperor. He even ceased really to
work, while complaining bitterly of the
slightest decision that was come to with
out consulting him, and yet professed
himself overwhelmed with labor when
ever documents were sent to sign. Ho
had become a terror to all who were,
obliged to come near him. Nobody ven
tured to contradict him; even the Em
peror saw him only occasionally, either
because his Majesty was afraid of dis
turbing or irritating him.
War’s Awful Carnage.
Grn. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, when
in Washington a short while ago, told
quite an interesting story a be ui the
greatest fatality of the war in proportion
to the number of troops engaged. He
was talking about Congressman Carlton
as an artillerist in the war.
"When General Sedgwick’s corps,” he
said, ‘‘surprised our troops by dossing
the Rappahanncck at Fredericksburg,
they captured a regiment and a half of
General Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade
and a portion of the Washington artil
lery stationed between Fredericksburg
and Hamilton’s crossing, on the Rich
mond and Frederickturg railroad.
Among these troops so cut off was a bat
tery of artillery in position just opposite
Deep Bottom Run, on the Rappahan
nock river, and far in advance of the Dal-
ance of that portion of oar line.
‘■A brigade of Sedgwick's corps, which
had crossed the river at Deep Bottom
Run, discovering the position of this
battery and seeing that it was unsup
ported by and cut off from the main line
of oor troops, marched upon it prepar
atory to charging and capturing It.
“The Captain commanding this battery,
who is now Congressman Carlton, of
Georgia, discovering the movement of
the enemy,at once realized the situation,
and knowing full well the attempt to re
treat in the face of the enemy wonld re -
salt in the capture and loss or his battery,
although entirely unsupported, moved
his guns forward, meeting the advanc
ing brigade, and when in easy cannister
range, poured a volley into the enemy’s
ranas, which staggered and drove them
back.
“Reforming, they advanced again,
when Carlton repeated the dose with the
same success.
“Attempting a third time to charge the
battery and teeing the resolute determin
ation of Carlton and his men not to yield
the field, they rushed pell me 11 Into an
adjoining ravine, when the artillerist
turned his guns upon them in their hid
ing place, and scarcely a man was left to
tell ihe.tale.
“The official report made a few days af
terward by the F-deral officer in com
mand of the brigade, as to the loss in
this engagement, was abont 1.000 killed
and wounded. The loss sustained by
Carlton's hattery was remarkably alight.”
Jan. 8,1815, was the day on which the
Oceans, in the second war
with Great Britain, waa fought. Won-
^•rful vi/rtory of Gan. Andrew Jackson
with his entrsnohments of cotton bales.
THE PUPIL TURNED MASTER.
At last the moment came when his
pupil—now his master—confronted the
fact that he was not master but only chief
servant. The long restrained Imperial dis
content broke into opan quarrel on the
minor question, and poured forth in such
a torrent that the Chancellor, taken by
surprise and disconcerted, suddenly
saio: “Then I can only offer your Majes
ty my resignation.” The Emperor was
silent ana Prince Bismarck withdrew.
Two hoars afterward, the resignation
not having arrived, the Emperjr sent an
aide de-camp. The Chancellor greeted
him very affably, being convinced that
the Emperor wished him to return and
reconsider his idea of resignation, but to
Prince Bismarck’s horror and surprise
the aide-de camp had been sent to de
mand his written resignation. The
Prince, very uneasy, made the laino ex
cuse of not having yet drawn it up and
deferred the matter till the morrow.
Next morning the aide de camp reap
peared. This time Pi i nee Bismarck was
calmer, but again made the same excuse,
saying that before preparing a written
resignation he wsb bound to pay a visit.
AN APPEAL TO EMPRESS FREDERICK.
Accordingly he did pay a visit, which,
incredible as it may appear, we can
vouch for, was to the Empress Frederick.
Yes, in a panic at his fall, this man, who
but the day before had bean the great
Chancellor, now stooped before her
whom he had so long bumbled, and t x
plained the danger of the Empire in
volved in his fall and the fatal conse
quences which the young Emperor risked
in thus overturning the founder of the
Empire. He begged her Msjasty to in
tervene and prevent the disaster to Ger
many and the remorse that her sovereign
would feel at this unmerited humiliation
of his most faithful servant.
A BITTER REPLY.
The Empress heard him out. She
saw humiliating himself before her the
man who had hated implacably her hus-
b and and herself, and who had sown
aistrust between father and son. No
doubt she cr joyed the spectacle of see
lng at her feet this bitter enemy, now
dismissed by the very son whom he had
reckoned on making his tool against her,
and in a single sentence becoming an
Empress, a mother, and a woman, she
returned to this cringing diplomatist all
the insults he had cast upon her. She
said:
“1 much regret being quite powerless.
I should have been extremely glal to in
tervene with my son in yoor favor, but
yoa so employed all yonr power in es
tranging his heart from ns, making his
mind foreign to mine, that 1 can only
witness your fall without being able to
ward it off. When yoa are no longer
there, my son will perhaps draw nearer
to me, but then it will be too late for me
to help yon.”
The Prince withdrew with downcast
head, and returning home found the aide
de camp, who for the fourth time had
come for his resignation, which the
fallen statesman handed to him.—Toron
to Mail.
Although whales grow to enormous
size, sometimes eighty and even ninety
feet long, the throat is so small that the
animal couldn’t swallow a bite as large
as a tea biscuit. This applies to the
common whale. She spermaceti has a
month large enough to swallow a man,
Signore Jessada, the great lace fabri-
cant ot Genoa, Italy, carries back the
manufacture of Italian lace aa early as
the year 1400, and has in his possession
specimens which he declares to be of that
A little girl, walled in from the world
since infancy, with only her hand out
through a chink, has learned how to
communicate with others. Willie Robin,
deaf, dumb and blind, has been taught
by patient hands the first steps in ex
pressing knowledge by Unger signs She
is the child of a ranchman who lives far
in the interior of Texas. One day he
chanced to read In an old newspaper
that a child affected as his was, had been
taugiit to read, write and use the deaf
ana dumb alphabet at an institulisn in
Boston. He brought his little one here,
and she was placed in the kindergarten
for the blind at Jamaica Plains. After
she had become acquainted with her
to everybody surroundings and witn those about her,
1 she was given in charge of Miss
„ . , , Thayer, an lustiuctor of unusual
he had seen i aD( j j en days ago the task
■“ >■ whom was 0 f teaching her that thirgi have
i names was begun. The first tLing se-
; ected to teach her was the word bat,
it-in this w<\y, Hi./-
I ’was gi\cn oae day yj auAse herfeei” with
n round Japanese ousket that was orna
urented witn a bow. As soon as she felt
this bit of decoration she put the basket
on her head, thinking that it was a hat.
H6r teacher then spelled in her hand the
letters HAT, then gave her a hat to ex
amine. Then she made her make the
letters on her own fingers. At first, of
course, she did cot comprehend the idea
at all, but Miss Tuayer worked with her
very patiently. Diff erent kinds of hats
were given her, and she was made to
spell the word. By and by she began to
comprehend that these signs with her
hand meant the object. To test her more
thoroughly, one day Miss Thayer got
ready to take her out for a walk Sue
put all her clothing, except her bat, on,
and then left her. Instantly the little
girl began making signs for her hat,
putting her hand to her head and pulling
Miss Thayer's dress to attract her
attention. But Mies Thayer sat
quietly and wonld not be mov
ed. Suddenly a light of intelli
gence flashed across her face, and
as swift as thought she spelled the word
with her fingers. Instantly Miss Thayer
put the bat on her head, and the child
gave a sigh of relief. She knew that the
word and object were one, and the first
lesson was learned. For the first time it
dawned upon her that objects had abso
lute terms belonging to them, or at least
that one object had The next word that
was taught her was fan. She mastered
that a little sooner than she did hat, be
cause she had a little glimmer of an idea
of what was required of her, and what
she was trying to da. Then came an
other word and then another. The
method of teaching was always the
same. First the object was given her
to examine, then Miss Thayer spelled it
on her hand; then she taught her to
make the letters with her Ungers. It was
slow work at first, and yet when one con
siders that there was no opportunity for
explanation, that everything had to be
done through the medium of touch, it
does seem almost a miracle that in less
than ten days the child should have com
prehended the idea of absolute signs and
have learned these words. The progress
of the child will be watched with great
interest.—Globe Democrat.
DESTITUTION IN COLORADO.
Fastern Counties Suffering' from
a Five Years’ Drougth.
Great destitution and no small amount
of suffering exist In the eastern part of
this State along the Kansas and Nebras
ka line caused by continuous loss of
crops through drought for five years,
principally in eastern Arapahoe, Yula
and Phillips counties. That section is
what has been termed the rain belt and
is on an average more than one han
dled miles from the Irrigated portions of
the State. It was peopled largely from
Nebraska and Kansas under the delusion
that cultivation of the soil wonld bring
enough rain to grow crops. The experi
ment has been a failure, and now the
settlers find themselves In a helpless
condition, heavily mortgaged, with no
fuel, little or nothing to wear and prac
tically nothing to eat except meat. For
tunately the weather thus far has been
mild, but a blizzard or a heavy storm
would cause widespread distress.
Subscriptions were taken up in this
city a month ago by a committee from
the destitute district and £4 000 was ap
propriated by the County Commissioners
for relief purposes. Additional reports
having reached this city of the want ex
isting an entertainment was given at the
opera house which netted £1,000, the coal
companies contribited 100 tons of coal,
contributions of clothing and provisions
and cash are being made and agents
have tuen sent into the destitute dis
tricts to distribute the same. Additional
appropriations will be made by the
County Commissioners and perhaps by
the Legislature.
The drought-stricken districts is out
ride of the vast agricultural area of the
State, wbere irrigation has been success
ful for thirty years and produced a crop
this year of an estimated value of $10-
000,000 —Denver Newspaper.
Different classes of substances have
been found to affect the organs of taste
in the following order: Bitters, Mdds,
saline substances, sweets and alkalies.
The taste nerves are nearly 2000 times as
sensitive to quinine as to sugar,
CHAPTER XII.
Love can neither be bought nor sold: it.s only
price is love.”
When Jack Trevor went away from the
Major’s quarters that pleasant Ssptem
ber evening under a pretence of writing
letters before dinner time, he had not
the very smallest intention of doing any
thing of the kind.
But he wanted to be quiet—to think it
all over with a help of a pipe—so he went
into his room and turned the key in the
lock feeling fairly sure, at that hour of
the day, of being left alone.
And then he began to think—well, to
think that at last he had spoken out all
that was in his mind, and now Ethel
knew that he loved her and woald love
her for all time. Ha had not meant to
teil her—he had fully made up his mind
never to let her know all that was raging
in his heart, but the sight of her dear
little slender wrist blackened and bruised
by the cruel grip of Dennis’s drunken
fingers, bad been too much for him and
now that the truth was out, be was not
sorry for it. Sorry—why he was glad—
gladl He felt a sort of pcssessive right
in her now, as if It was a dreadful mis
take that legally she belonged to another
man, as if-If he only waited long enough
and patiantly enough, it would all come
right by and by—by and by.
As yet, he hardly knew whether he was
disappointed at the turn of events or
not. Of course he loved her, loved her
with all his heart anu soul, and still he
felt a wild triumphant joy that she had
been good enougn and strong enough to
resist him and had refused to listen to
nls plan for amending the mistakes and
miBiortunes cf her liie.
I think :t was somewhat remarkable
that at this time, Jack Trevor only
thought ol the present and not of the
future at all. He never thought of the
footing on which it was llaely their
friendship would be, he only was filled
with one thought—“she loves me—she
loves me.”
He got up suddenly and went pipe in
band across the little room to tne fire
place over which there hung the por
ira.-is Oi his ‘ iveavewt i vl.'lioCiS^ Lauy
Gascoigne looked out from a neat oaa
frame, and his father’s handsome eyes
seemed to see into his Inmost soul. Jack
Trevor stood and looked at them for
long time.
“1 wonder what you would say to all
this?” he said aloud at last, “you knew
my dear little girl, Dad—‘Darling Bish
op,’ she used to call you—1 wonder what
you d say lr you Wtre here now and I
could go and lell you all aoout It. How
I wls . I could, Dad, how 1 wish I could.
1 know what you d say though—pa
tience, my iad, patience’—wouldn’t tnat
be about it? Somehow, I feel as if I
wanted to tell someboay or other about
it and I’ve got nobody—nobody. Monty
Carlton will only jibe and jeer at me for
a fool and an Idiot—Granny will get a
wrong impression of my dear little love —
so what can 1 do? I must just come and
tell you, Dad, when I can't keep qnlet
any longer.”
He was still standing there when his
man came to dress him for dinner—he
looked at his watcb as he took It off.
“It’s ever so late,” he said. ‘ I shall
have to hurry up.”
And hurry he did, and even then was
but barely in time for mess—Dut as he
slipped into the room at the tail of the
fi e of men just passing from ante-room
to mess-room, he noticed a good way on
ahead of him, Major Dennis.
There were several guests that evening
and Trevor happened to find himself
nearly opposite to the major, who, re
ireshtd by his long sleep during the af
ternoon. was in his best form tnat night.
Now Major Dennis’ best form was simply
enougn at any time to make Jack Trevor
very ill, and tnat evening, alter an after
noon so tragic, he was less inclined than
usual to take or seem to take any interest
in the stale jokes and lumbering witti
clams, with which Major Dennis loved to
regale the officers of tne Fifteenth whou
he dined at mess. Therefore as soon as
they left the table for the ante room, he
slipped out into the quiet night air aud
walked across to the major’s quarters.
And as he passed through the gate of
the mess hut, he saw or thought he saw,
a familiar figure turn and tilt quickly
away.
“By Jove, “I vessen that woman some
where—the walk, height, carriage, every
thing—who la she? Wnat’s sue doing
here, 1 wonder?”
Already he was giving chase but the
stranger was quick and light of foot, She
sped along drawing her long dark cloak
closely around her as she went. Her
way was past Dennis’s quarters, and as
Jcck reached the paling where the ivy
and the sweet-peas were growing he saw
Ethel In her loose pale gown with a
fiescy white shawl about her shoulders,
leaning over the rail.
“Why, Jack,” she said In surprise.
He stopped short. “Did yon see that
woman?” he asked.
“Why, yes.”
“Did yon see her faca? Would you
know her again? I was juBt following
her up.’
‘But, Jack, surely you recognized her.
That was the dark woman who followed
us in the High Street one day and then
into the old china-shop. Don’t yon re
member?”
“OI—conrsel” he gasped—'“of— coarse!
And, E^hel, who is she?”
“How should I know?” wonderingly-
“She is Mademoiselle Valerie.”
“Jack! ’
She stood looking at him for a mo
ment, her face pale In the brilliant moon-
light, her eyes scared and fall of trouble.
“What Is she doing here?” she asked
scarce above a whisper.
“I don’t know—bat I Imagine she is
following the Major ap for some reason
or other.”
“Tiacing him about, do you mean?”
“Yes.”
“OhI Jack—Jack,” she cried, “I do see
such troable ahead. I’ve been thinking
—thinking tonight and I see nothing but
trouble to come, lock which way I will.
Was ever such a husband and wife? I feel
half mad already.”
“But,” he said tenderly—“you are hap
pier than yon were this morning, darling.
I know it and surely that is something.
Why should you worry yourseir about
this woman—her business, whatever it
is, is not with you! Yon can do nothing
to help yonr husband, and if you could he
does not deserve that yon should and
probably would not wish it either. You
must leave him to manage such a piece
of business by himself.”
“Yes, I suppose so,” she replied.
She rested her hand wearily on the top
of the paling and Trevor laid one of his
large firm hands over her little cold one.
“Dear,” he said in a very low voioe,
“I’m so glad wo wont that walk today”
‘ Yep,” sho answered under her breath,
“but I can see nothing but trouble bo
come—nothing but troable ”
‘ You are shivering, Ethel; you had
better go in, my dear littielove; you
must take care of yourself now, Tor my
sake.”
He held her hand in a close pressure
for an instant and watched her till Bhe
was safely within doors. Then ho walked
back across the bit of open ground to the
mess hut—not that he stayed there long;
in fact, he did little more than look in to
see that Mejor Dennis was excited and
apparently enjoyinn himself very much,
and then ne went u., to his own quarters
aud got into bud, thankful that “the fel
lows” wfere ail too much occupied with
their own business to troable themselves
for one evening about his.
About an hour later Major Dennis went
home; the light was still burning in the
little drawing-room and he found Ethel
sitting there making a pretence of read
ing.
“Hallo! aren’t you gone to bed yet?” he
remarked.
"Not yet,” laying down her paper and
looking at him with her grave gray eye?;
“I stayed up because I wanted to ask you
sometning, Cosmo.”
“All right.” He took out his cigarette
case and selected a cigarette. “Go on,”
he said, as he struck a match.
“Cosmo,” she said, and she sat forward
in her chair looking at him earnestly—
Who is Mademoiselle Valerie and what
ts or was she to you? ’
He flung the match and cigarette into
the fireplace and sprang to his feet.
What tbe d—1 do you mean?” he cried
roughly.
“1 mean nothing; I asked you a ques
tion, that was all,” she answered.
It was the first time in her life that
she had seen him In a towering rage
without being afraid of him. At that
moment, however, although his eyes
were blazing and his face all a-dame, she
knew absolutely no fear whatever.
“Who is she, Cosmo?” she asked again,
in her anxisty rising and going towards
him.
He turned upon her in a fury. “How
dare you aek mo that?” he cried, catch
ing hold of her by tbe arm.
Cosmo, you are hurting me,” she
cried.
•Hurting you—I feel like killing you,”
he thundered—“What have you got In
ynur head? What are you trying to find
out? Answer me instantly or I shall do
something desperate.”
In state of the merciless gr'y cn !'ei
aim, Kihei still v;as not in 'err—for one
thiDg she knew that he hau bean drink
lng and was not in his right mind, for
another she kntw that what she had to
tell him would probably bring him down
to the practical side of the question with -
out the delay of a man ent.
“I want to find out nothing,” she said
looking at him steadily—“did I try to
find out who gave you that embroidery?
Not I? I don’t care—you are a free agent,
so far as 1 am concerned—I don’t even
take any interest in your doings. But i
am your wife and I live with you, and
when 1 see a great danger of a great an
noyance coming upon you, am I not to
tell you of it? Last year 1 was afraid of
you, Cosmo, but I am not afraid of yon
now—I shall never be afraid of you again,
not even when you are drunk.”
He stood staring at her in amazement,
recognizing that some new element had
come into her life; and in his surprise he
tightened his grip upon her arm, until
she could hare shrieked in the agony o!
her pain. “What do you mean?” he
asked, but he spoke In a quieter tone
than before ana his eyeB were filled with
a new fear.
“Tnat woman has been prowling round
here this evening,” Ethel said.
“What woman?”
“The woman whose card you had the
other day—Mademoiselle Valerie.”
H3 started violently and let her arm ga
free—“She has bsen here?” he cried in-
credulously.
“Not in this house—no. But she has
been watching your movements outsid i
the mess-hut, tor Jack Trevor caught
her.”
“And how did he know who she was?’ 1
suspiciously.
“Feople are not all blind, Cosmo—most
of us see more of other folk's business
than is always palatable to them, and
we have seen a good deal lately.'
“And you have been talking me over
with—with that boy? he demanded. He
was getting sober rapidly now.
‘ Not at ail! Sit down, Cosmo, and I
will tell you everytning that I know.
You know,” ste went on, “when you
went to town last yoa told my old friend
Jack to look after me, and he did so.”
“Oh, of course. Well ?”
“Well, we went down to the Recrea
tion Grounds one afternoon to hear tbe
band and then 1 saw that woman first.
We noticed her because she was alone—
quite alone. She is a handso me woman
and not in the least common looking,
and we wondered tnat she should not
know a soul—not have a single man
saiute her. When we went home she
left the grounds and she passed and
repassed us several times. At last we
went into a shop, really that we might
lose sight of her; she followed us in there
also and asked to see some miniatures
tnat were in the window and we at last
got rid of her. Well, I have seen her
abont pretty often since then, and today
it has come back to me that she passed
up the High street that day we went to
Htghfi'ght and the gray horie bolted. I
did not understand at the time why you
cat at him with the whip; I thiuk i do
now. This afternoon I could not imag
lne why you should make such a fuss
about a dressmaker’s card; but tonight I
realized and so dla Jack, that Mademoi
selle Valerie and the woman who has
been prowling round here tonight are
the same.”
“But about tonight?” he asked anx
iously.
“Tonight I was feeling tired and lone
ly; my head ached a little and 1 wrapped
a shawl round me and went out for a few
minutes among the flowers as I often do.
Whilst I was there I saw that woman
come quickly from the direction of the
mess and pass along toward the gates,
followed by Jack Trevor wuo had just
come out of the mess. He asked me If I
saw her; said he had surprised her
watching through the windows and
added at once that he had seen her some
where, and when I told him, it reminded
him of the Recreation Ground and the
High street. He said at once, “She! 3
Ms demoiselle Valerie.”
“And be is right enough; she is Made
moiselle Valerie,” said toe Major gloo
ily. m ■
“And what Is she to you? What has
shebeen to you?” Ethel asked, a certain
stern dignity in her tones.
“Nothing—absolutely nothing,” he an
swered—“I awear to you, Ethe', that
Valerie never was anything but my dead
ly enemy and never will be.”
“But how?—why?”
“I can't tell you all that now. I will
some day—not tonight. I am too knocked
over and all to pleoee.”
“And what does aha hop* to gain by
tracking yon down In this way?” __ _
