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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
JE. I*. SJIMPSOM
TOCCOA, CEORCIA
isstfsttems m nanism.
And Manhinory Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
PEEBLisee Engines* •
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Oeiser Senarators & ShiHe Mills
Fanners amt others in want of either Engines or separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. I am also prepared
to give Lowest I’rices and Rest Terms on the celebrated
«1ESTEY 0RGANS.I>
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see mo be-
ore you buy . Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
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Philadelphia.
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New York.
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cago, III.
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Judge II. P. Vro man, Qu nemo, Kan.
-Mrs. Mary A. Livoimore, Melrose, Mussachu-
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J. Cobb, ex-Vico Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬
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J. Mo re, Snp’t Police, Blandford, Dorset¬
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Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wales.
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LEWIS DAVIS,
AT FOP KEY AT T, AW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber
Mham aud Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank!m and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
h# given to all bust- eka entrusted to him
The collection of debts will have spec
ial attention.
STANLEY MOBBED.
A Gang of Socialists get After
the Explorer.
A London cablegram says: While Henry
M. Stanley was delivering a lecture at
Sheffield Friday night, the hall was in-
vaded by a gang of socialists, who be-
gan to sell among the audience a pam-
phlet attacking the explorer. The pam¬
phlet was very freely bought, under the
belief that it contained a re¬
pot t of one of Stanley's lec¬
tures. When the fraud was discovered
there was a great commotion, and the
venders violently around' expelled. ‘ The anil gang
lingered the building, as
Stanley, at the conclusion of the lecture,
left the hall they attempted !o mob him.
His fiicnds gathered around him aud,
w ith the assistance of the police, kept off
his assailants. He was then hurried into
a c ib and driven to his hotel.
China at Chicago.
The department of state informed at Washing
ton has been officially of th-
acceptance by the government of China
of the invitation to e^pos.tion, participate in the
world’s Columbian
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Floiir, CJt-ttln and Meal.
Flonr—First patent $6 50 ; second patent
$6 00 ; extra fancy $5 75 ; fancy $5 50 ; family
$4 75. Corn—-No. 2 white 90c ; mixed 93e.
Oats- No. 2 mixed 70c ; white —c ; Kansas rust
proof —o. Ilay—Choice timothy, large bales,
$1.15 ; No. 1 timothy, large bales, $1.10 ; choice
timothy, small bales, $1.20; No. 1 timothy, Bin all
hales, al—Plain $1.15 ; No. 2 timothy, small bales, $1.10.
Mi 85c ; bolted 82c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks $1 20 ; small sacks $1 22. Cotton
seed meal—$1 30 per cwt. Steam feed—$1 35
per cwt. Grits—l’earl $4 50.
Grooerlen.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbucltle.s Leveling’s 25c. Green—Extra 25%c tp 100 1b
cases; choice
23y£c; choice 23c; good 21)-£; fair 20c; commoi
18(g) 19c- Hugar—Granu ated 5)4'c; off granu¬
lated 5FsC; powdered 5%; cut loaf 5%c; white
extra C 4%e; yellow extra C 4He. Syrup—New
Orleans choice 48@50; prime 35@40c; common
80@35c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38; imi¬
tation 28@80. Rice—Choice 7J£c; good
6%e; common 5%@6c; imported Japan G(a 7c.
Halt—Hawley’s dairy $1 50; Virginia 75c.
Clieose—Full cream, Cheddars 13c; flats
18/jC; tkinr —--White fish, half bbls
$1 00; pails 60c. Soaps—Talloiv, 100 bars,
75 lbs $3 OO.i3 75; turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs
$200.02 25; tallow, 60 bars, 60 lbs $2 25a2 50.
Candles—Paraflno 1 ICj'c; star 10c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 800s $3 00u3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5 gross $3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk 5o; 1 lb pkgs
5c; cases, assorted, lbs 6%a6#c. Y, lbs 5 %h6c.
Crackers XXX soda 6 We; XXX butter
6)aC; Candy—Assorted stick 8‘^c; French
mixed 12/,e. Canned goods—Condensed milk
$6 00a8 00; imitation mack rol $3 95a4 00; sal¬
mon $6 00.i7 50; F. W. oysters $2 20a2 50; L.W.
$160; coin $2 00a2 75; tomatoes $1 75a2 50.
Ball potash nickel $3 packages 20. Starch—reavl 4%c; lump
6*£c; Pickles, mixed, $3 50; celluloid $5 00.
plain Powder—lVfle, or pints $1 00.il 40; quarts
$1 50a 1 80. kegs $5 50; % kegs
$3 00; / 4 kegs $1 65. Shot $1 65 per sack.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7c ; ice-cured bellies
8c. Sugar-cured hums 10%al2^c, according
to brand and average ;Califoruia 7b,c; breakfast
bacon 9%c, Lard—Pure leaf 9c ; leaf 8c;
refined 6c.
Country Produce.
Eggs 14%al5e. Butter—Western creamery 30a
35c ; clinic/ Tennessee 15a‘20c; other grades
10a! 2* ' 8 o. Live poultry—Hens 30a33%c ; young
chickens, large 25aS5c ; small 12a 14c. Dressed
poultry—-Turkeys Irish 17al8c ; ducks 14c; chickens
15c. potatoes $:> 00a803 per bbl. Sweet pota¬
toes GOaTdc per bushel. Honey—Strained 8aI0c ;
in the comb 10al2c. Onions $6 00 per bbl.
Cabbage 2a2)£e per lb. Ahnoria grapes, 50 lb
packages $6 50a7 50.
Cotton.
Market steady.—Middling 8 9-16c.
ATTACKED BY CHINAMEN.
Dwellings of Europeans Burned
Down.
A cablegram of Wednesday from
Shanghai, has China, says: An anti-Euro¬
pean riot occurred at Woo Iloo. The
natives attacked and burned a Catholic
mission and a number of other European
dwelling houses. The Europeans have
taken refuge upon hulks anchored in the
river. Her majesty’s ship Inconstant has
been ordered to the scene of the riots and
to protect the lives and property of Eu¬
ropean residents. Woo lino is a treaty
port of China in the province of Ilgan
lloei, on the Yang Tse Kiang river,
about fifty miles from Nanking. The
population is estimated at about 40,000
people.
FROST AND SNOW
Experienced Throughout Eng¬
land Sunday.
A London cablegram says: Sharp frosts
aud storms of sleet and snow were ex¬
perienced throughout and much injury the kingdom Suu-
day night, was done to
the fruit crops. The snow rapidly melts
in the valleys, but remains on the hill
tops in curious contrast with the bright
vegetation,
Welcome Rains.
A telegram of Saturday from Traverse
City, Mich., says: The danger from
forest fires in the w<st end of the state
is believed to have passed, nnd the only
destruction now possible will come in
half-cleared districts, where coals will
smoulder in old stumps and dry brush on
the ground. On Friday the rain fell
heavily, ani gave what is believed to be
the final stroke in this section. For the
first time since last Thursday week the
people are breathing easily.
A BRILLIANT CALLER.
Daughter—Father, Mr. Hendricks is
a very bright young man. that
Father—He must be. I notice
you never have a light in the parlor the
nights he calls.—{Brooklyn Life.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MAY 23, 1891
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance*
men Everywhere.
THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Monday
says: “The much-talked of national
conference of the hird p**rty ad-
vocates will assemble in this city
to morrow. It is quite probable
that there will be a good crowd so far as
numbers are concerned, but most of the
delegates will come from four or
five western states. The pre¬
diction is freely made that Kansas,
Nebraska and Ohio will furn : sh
more than half the delegates in the con¬
vention. It is evident that there will be
a woful lack of harmony amarg the peo¬
ple who come here,for there is no definite
plan of action and no regularly accredited
delegates. It would be an easy matter
under the terms of the call for any other
political party to pack the convention
with their adherents and some of the
leaders in the movement are fearful that
such a thing is being done. The south
will be poorly represented in the confer¬
ence. There may be a few delegates
from Arkansas and Texas and quite
a number from Missouri, but it is very
doubtful if Tennessee, Georgia, Ala¬
bama, Florida, Mississippi, Virginia or
Maryland have a single delegate, or if
they are represented it will probably be
by leaders who come to throttle the third
party. Not only will the Southern Alli¬
ances not attend the conference, but the
officers will not attend, with the proba¬
ble exception of two, Clover and Wil¬
letts, of Kansas, who will respect the
wishes of the people of their state. The
prospects are that the convention will
number about 1,000 delegates, of whom
600 will come from Kansas, Nebraska
and Minnesota. That there will be au
interesting time,no one who has watched
the course of affairs can doubt. This
convention is, perhaps, best described as
a national union conference. Origiually
it was called, not by the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance convention at Ocala, Fla., last year,
but by the members of that convention,
and the time was set for February 23d, in
Cincinnati. That call was addressed to
all who have stood up for independent
political action on questions of
finance, transportation, labor and
land, and asked for delegates to the na¬
tional conference from the following or¬
ganizations: The independent party
by its representatives; the people’s party,
by its representatives; the late federal
and confederate soldiers, by their repre¬
sentatives; the Farmers’ Alliance, north
and south; the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit
Association; the Citizens’ Alliance; the
Knights of Labor; the Colored Farmers’
Alliance, and all other industrial organi¬
zations that support the principles of the
St. Louis agreement of December, 1889.
The call was signed by about seventy
persons from seventeen states. It met
with objections from various sources,
partly because its purpose was announced
to be to form a national union party,
based on the fundamental ideas of finance,
transportation, position had the labor effect and of land. necessitating This op¬
delay, and the date of the conference
was changed to May 19th.
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THE ORDER IN MAINE.
The Waterville Mail, a constrvative
republican paper prints the following
view of the situation of the Farmers’
Alliance in the State of Maine: “As re¬
ports of the rapid growth of the Farmers’
Alliance in the west and south become
current, the question naturally arises as
to what are the chances of the Alliance
in Maine, if any. It goes without saying
that the chief foothold that the party can
obtaine in Maine must be, as elsewhere,
among the farming population, aud there
seems no tendency,at present, among that
class, to lend it support. In tho west
the Alliance gained its first impetus from
the influence of the granges, and it is
probable that in these organizations,
wherever they exist, the mam
hopes of the party must rest.”
.The Mail does not believe that the Al¬
liance will play any important part in the
following politics of the state, as is evinced by the
concluding paragraph: The
only excuse for the propagation of the
Alliauce principles in Maine would come
from an attempt to ignore the grange in¬
fluence and its demands for recognition.
The financial distress which gave rise to
aud fostered the grow th of the Alliance
in the west is practically absent in Maine.
Agriculture, while by no means a richly
remunerative employment, furnishes at
least a reasonably assured livelihood and
its comfortab’e enjoyment. Unless some
unforseeu financial indn-trial disturbance
occurs, the Farmers’ Alliance will p’av a
very insignificant part in the politics of
Maine for a long time to come.
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EDUCATE TITE PEOPLE.
The Progressive Farmer, (Raleigh, N.
C.) says: “We think that Aliiancemen
should address themselves afresh to the
work of educating the people upon the
great questions before the country. But
there should be no spi'it of intolerance
manifested in this work of educating the
people. There are good and true men
in the Alliance, who have opinions of
their own, and are honestly desirous
of throwing all the light possible
upon public questions, with a view
to getting at the exact tmth. Let no
one read these men out of the Allince be¬
cause they dare to think for themselves.
This Alliance movement has won its pres¬
ent position mainiy by encouraging free
discussion of public questions. When¬
ever the time comes that the Alliance
shall throw the weight of its influence
against the freedom of discussion, the
end of its influence for good will not be
distant. The free people of this country
wiil not allow the voice of d seussion to
be st fled, we may be sure.”
sjc**
The Farmers’ Alliance of Hamilton
county, Indiana, met at N blesville,
lately, and after due consultation or
ganized an elevator company and ar¬
ranged to build at once. The Indiana
Farmer remarks: “This for r of thing
will be contag ous, and if elevator men
millers and others interested desire to
p event it they should make hasten to
make terms with, the Alliance people.
All they ask for is fair dealing, and it is
because they think they have been un¬
fairly dealt withh eretofore that they ar
combining to accomplish this and similar
enterprises.”
***
The Alliance Herald of Rome, Ga., says
that the Alliance is moving on to glorious
ends. Founded on righteous principles
and aiming at naught but the country’s
good, who would hesitate to bid the
farmers a hearty Godspsed in their efforts
to overthrow monopoly from the agricul¬
tural interests of the land? The Alliance
has been no failure. It has accomplished
up to this time all that it had ever hoped
to accomplish, and a great deal more be¬
sides.
* *
Forsyth County Alliance in North Car-
olinarhas organized a “critter company”
for capturing horse thieves, arranged for
a ladies’ department, taken steps to start
an Alliance paper, resolved to support no
paper that will not give both sides a
hearing and endorsed the Planters’ Alli¬
ance warehouse at Winston, N. C.
*
The Farmers' Home Journal (Louis-
vilh*, Ivy.) since its enlargement and im¬
provement, has become a “red-hot” Alli¬
ance organ, and it handles the weak-
kneed brethren without gloves, applies
the whole length of the Alliance yard
stick wherever it uses it.
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The Farmers' Home Journal intimates
that the Alliance has done what all other
reform movements and even preachers
heretofore have failed to do. It has
brought the masses of the people to¬
gether upon a common level and united
them.
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The Warren County, Ky., Alliance
proposes to boycott every merchant in
Bowling Green and Warren county who
trade with the wholesale houses w hich
refuse to sell goods to the State Alliance
business agent.
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The colored Alliance of Macon county,
Ga., will hold a fair in July and offer
twenty-five dollars and expenses to the
right man to deliver an address on that
occasion.
DEMANDS HIS RECALL.
The Mayor of New Orleans After
C onsul Corte.
addressed Saturday afternoon Mayor Shakespeare
a letter to Governor Nichoh,
from which the following is extracted:
To His Excellency, Francis T. Nichols,
Governor of Louisiana: Under date of
May 6 1891, the consul of Italy at this
port, Mr. Corte, saw fit to address to W.
M. Chaffee, foreman of the grand jury
then in session, a very remarkable letter.
The cveuing of the day on which it was
written, the consul sent copies of the
letter, by the hands of his secretary, to
the daily papers for publication. This
letter was very properly returned by that
body to the writer as being imper.inent.
Besides being impertinent, the letter
contains statements absolutely false, and
beyond question known to be false
by r* Corte. If, as Italian consul,
Mr. ci orte has ever had any useful-
ness here, he has outlived it,
and has become, through his
acts not only an unacceptable person, but
an element of danger to this community,
in that, by his utterances, he incites his
inflammable people to riot or sullen op¬
position to the laws and customs of the
country they have sought as an asylum.
For these reasons I have the honor to re¬
quest that you ask of the honorable secre¬
tary of State at Washington the recall of
Consul Corte’s exequator by the President,
This application would have been made
to you sooner, but for the reason that I
desired to place in your hands, to accom¬
pany your note to the secretary of State,
the report made to the mayor and council
by the committee of fifty. I enclose a
copy, and beg leave to call your excellen¬
cy’s attention to that patt of it relating
to Mr. Corte. I have the honor to be
your obedient servant,
Joseph Shakespeare, New
Mayor of Orleans.
FAVORABLE TO BOYD.
Writ of Error Granted in the
Governorship Contest.
A Washington dispatch says: Justice
Brewer, of the United States supreme
court, Friday granted the application of
counsel for Boyd, who was elected gov¬
ernor of Nebraska, for a writ of error to
the supreme court to ttst the questions
involved in the decision of the majority
of the supreme court of Nebraska, which
decided that he was not an American
citizen, and, therefore, not eligible to
the office of governor of Nebraska.
The supreme couit meets again ou the
25th instant, and it is the intention of
Boyd’s counsel to move to advance the
case on docket and secure as speedy a
hearing as possible. The action of Jus¬
tice Brewer in allowing a writ of error to
issue, was an unpleasant surprise to the
legal representatives of Governor
Th iyer. When the case was presented
to the supreme court there w’as a gen¬
eral belief that no action whatever would
be taken this term. In fact, when the
briefs or information was first filed, Jus¬
tice Brewer intimated as much. It is
believed that the developments which
show conclusively that there was grave
irreguiarily on the part of the Nebraska
supreme court in issuing the writ of
Ouster, and which were presented to the
supreme court by Attorney General Gar¬
land, had much to do with the prompt
action of the court in the ease. M he or¬
der of Justice Brewer is generally re¬
garded as most favorable to ex-Governor
Boyd.
THREE MEN KILLED
In a Smash-up on the Louisville
and Nashville.
A Birmingham, Ala, dispatch says;
Section No. 2 of a freight train on
the Lousvile and Nashville rail-
road, ran into section No. 1, near
Cullman Monday morning, and J. M.
Costello, brakeman; Lester Brown, fire¬
man, aud D. Edmonds, engineer, were
killed. The first section was standing at
a tank when the other crashed into it.
The wreck caught fire and eighteen load¬
ed cars were burned. The officers of the
road say the fault lay with the dead en¬
gineer, who was running ahead of time
a id too fast so stop.
THE MIRROR OF A LIFE.
‘‘The sun is up,” he gayly cried;
“I think it meet that I
Should get my spade and rake, and haste
My garden luck to try.”
And so h8 toiled until he saw*
Where he was digging squirm
A corpuiently beautiful,
Enticing fishing worm.
“I will a-fishing go,” said he,
And toward the stream he went;
But presently a toothsome duck
Its course near by him bent.
‘My gu d,” he thought, “I should have
brought;
I’ll go and get it straight;’’
And so he homeward took his way,
Although the hour was late.
“The traveling I have done,” he vowed,
“Has used me most severe;
Til take the opportunity
To rest while I am here.”
And so he laid him down and slept,
Aud ere his sleep was done
The. lake beside the western hill
Gleamed with the setting sun.
Alas! to see so poor a day
With good intent so rife!
Alas! how oft it may be found
The mirror of a life.
—Washington Fost.
SALLY'S SPHERE.
BY ANNIE F. JOHNSON.
. The band was playing out on the hotel
piazza. The little steamer Idlewild came
puffing in across the blue lake, aud
gay colors flashed along the carriage-
drive or darted to and fro in the tennis
court.
Sally stood at the front window of
her room, peering through the curtain at
the scene below, aud anxiously awaiting
Mrs. Sutherland’s summons to go down.
Two days before she had stood in the
hot kitchen of an old farmhouse care-
fully ironing the dress she now wore.
Through the open window shn had
caught glimpses of the men at work in
the hay field, and once when she paused
in the door a moment, Jonas had waved
his broad-brimmed hat to her.
Slid remembered how admiringly she
had watched him pitching up the heavy
fork-fulls of hay, and how grave his eyes
were that night when he called to say
good-bye. Then looking down again on
the well-dressed groups below, she re¬
membered with suddeu disapproval that
he had seated himself to talk to her in
his shirt sleeves, with his old straw hat
pushed back on his head.
Sally Merrill’s short life had been a
double one. Outwardly it had always
been bound by the narrow horizon ot a
country neighborhood, where she had
grown up, a homely, practical girl,
whose good nature and high spirits made
her everybody’s favorite. But through
the books old Miss Jewsberry loaned her
every week, she had found her way into
a different society. She went to the rus¬
tic gatherings with Jonas and enjoyed
them, but between times dreamed of the
romances she had read, and fell in love
with the white handed heroes.
Half the time when she went about
the house, sweeping and dusting and
putting it in order, in her imagination
she was trailing majestically down long
ballrooms, or making witty replies to the
groups of admirers always around her.
She vaguely felt that she wa3 destined to
realize some of these experiences some
day.
The little looking glass above her
washstand showed nothing beautiful to
the face smiling so hopefully into it.
Sally w r as so accustomed to seeing the
small, honest eyes reflected there, the
pale hair, the commonplace little features,
that it never occurred to her that she
was not even what people call pretty.
Now she heard Mrs. Sutherland’s
kxiock at the door, and shaking out the
daintily ironed folds of her white muslin,
hurried to open it.
The quietly attired old lady, who
stood there with serene face and soft,
w hite hair, had been a life-long friend of
Sally’s mother. She had been ordered
to the lakes by her physician for a change
of climate. Not wishing to be alone,
and remembering Sally’s bright face and
pleasant ways, she had invited her to be
her guest for a month. They had ar-
rived but a few hours before.
This was the first time Sally had ever
been out of sight of the hills that sur-
rounded her old home.
Now the sunset was reddening the lake,
and the music of the band floated en-
trancingly along the hall. With Mrs.
Sutherland’s hand on her arm, she passed
down the broad staircase to dinner, feel-
ing that the life she coveted was within
her grasp. The opening chapter of her
romance lay spread out before her.
Mrs. Sutherland wondered at the way
the little country girl adapted herself to
surroundings. None of the bashful ig-
.uorance she had expected, showed itself
ia look or tone. She did not know that
for years Sally had dreamt she “dwelt in
marble kalis.” She did not know how
much of the world, of sentiment, and
ambition, she had learned from those
rows of fictitious social lights, ou Miss
Jewsberry’s bookcase shelves.
Mrs. Sutherland found a cumber of
old friends among the guests at the
hotel. They thought it odd she should
choo3e to chaperone such a plain, insig¬
nificant little body as Sally at a fashion¬
able summer resort; but then, whatever
Mrs. Sutherland chose to do, always
passed unquestioned, in the set where
she held acknowledged supremacy.
A week went by. Seven days so full
of new delightful experiences, that Sally
lay awake at night,to dream them again.
She would have enjoyed it all, has she
been merely a spectator of the gayety
around her, but she was always included
in the party, when Mrs. Sutherland’s
friends picnieed across the lake, or made
excursions on the little steamer.
One morning she came in from a walk
with some children along the pier, and
went at once to the shady corner of the
piazza, where she had left Mrs. Suther-
land busy with her crochet-work. She
.-aw a gentleman talking to her, whom
*be had never seen before, and was
to pass on, when the lady smiled and
beckoned to her.
“This is the little friead I was telling
you about,” she said in a hurried under¬
tone as the girl approached, “I want
you to be particularly nice to her.”
“Ah, Sally,” she continued, as she
came up. “I have had a delightful sur¬
prise this morning. My nephew Sydney
has just come. Allow me to introduce
Mr. Lambert, Miss Merrill.”
He arose to return her bow, and place
a chair for her, but she would not sit
down. “I promised to fake Miss Moore
the book we were reading this morn-
ing,” she said, “Oh, hero it is!” She
picked it up,and with an embarrassed lit¬
tle bow went on.
“"Why aunt,” he said, as she passed
into the hall, “she is as plain as a little
nun. From your enthusiastic praises, I
had expected to see a perfect wild
rose.”
“She is a dear little thing,” was Mrs.
Sutherland’s reply. “You must know
her well to appreciate her thoroughly.”
Upstairs in her room, with her chin in
her hands and elbows on the window
sill, Sally was gazing abstractedly out on
the lake. “What glorious eyes he had,”
she said to herself, “and what a voice.
He is the handsomest man I ever saw.”
Naturally kind-hearted, and one of the
most courteous of men, it was a very
easy thing for Sydney Lambert to be
“particularly nice” to his aunt’s guest.
He was a confirmed old bachelor, Mrs.
Sutherland told her, over thirty-five; and
1o Sally’s eighteen years, that did indeed
seem a great age. He thought of her
only as a child, and exerted himself to
help his aunt give her a good time. He
delighted her with his constant little at¬
tentions and efforts to entertain her.
It was a part of the new life she could
not grow accustomed to. She told her¬
self over and over that it meant nothing.
It was mere formality that made him
spring up to open a door for her, to offer
her a seat, to fold a shawl around her
when the evenings grew cool. Jonas, in
all his years of devotion, had never been
so observant. He never watched for a
chance to render the little services
which so gratified her pride, aud won
her regard.
Sometimes a little thorn crept in
among her roses. She felt it when she
sat quietly beside Mrs. Sutherland in the
evenings, listening to the dreamy waltzes,
and watching Mr. Lambert dancing with
one after another of the graceful girls in
their pretty gowns.
She had never leared to dance. She
felt it again sometimes in the mornings,
when she sat in a cool corner of the long
parlors, with a book, and he turned the
music for some one’s white fingers t\>
play. She looked regretfully at her own
small hands. They were hard and red,
though shapely, and they had no accom¬
plishments. She felt it again when she
met him going through the corridors,
racquet in hand, aud looking handsomer
than ever in his tennis cap and blazer.
She might have excelled at that game,
but she had no costume like the other
girls. So she missed that pleasure too.
But she forgot about it when he
strolled with her along tha beach, or
talked to her on the piazza. Once he
brought her a cluster of pond-lilies, and
once when they had walked down
to the pier in the twilight, he had taken
her for a short row on the lake.
IIow handsome he had looked with
his dark head thrown back a little, as he
talked to her, aud how his voice rang out
across the water, when he sang a line
from some opera, just to show how it
went.
One morning, as she was about to start
down to the steamer with a little fishing
party, to spend the day across the lake,
a bell-boy brought her a letter. It was
from Jonas. “Poor old Jonas!” she
thought regretfully. She had forgotten
her promise to write to him. She had
almost forgotten him. She half wished
she had not promised to write. Then
Mr. Lambert came up and took her wraps
and she slipped the letter into her pocket,
unread.
One thing stamped that day indelibly
on Sally’s memory. Somehow, coming
home, when the steamer stopped at the
pier, she lost her balance in the rush of
the crowd, and slipped. In a moment
she was in the lake, going down, down
in the cold water. It seemed to her ages,
but it was only an instant until Sydney
Lambert’s strong arm held her fast,
and he was swimming with her toward
the shore,
She did not go down to dinner that
evening. She leaned back in a great
armchair, lazily sipping the tea Mrs.
Sutherland sent up, aud dreaming the
day over again. Dreamed till the stars
came out, and the lights w r ere lit, and
the dancing commenced below. Laughter
and scraps of conversation came up
through the open window. She scarcely
heeded them. She was listening to the
music that seemed to give utterance to
her happy thoughts.
“Sydney—Sydney,” she whispered un-
der her breath, just to hear the music of
his name. Then she recalled how her
head had rested on his shoulder, when
he carried her up from the water.
Again she felt his heart beating close to
hers.
The music stopped. A fragrant puff
of cigar smoke circled in at the window,
and some one stepped out on the little
balcony which opened off the room ad¬
joining hers.
“Well, Lambert,” she heard a strange
voice say, “I understand you made a
lion of yourself to-day. How did it
happen? W"ho wa3 the fair damsel?”
“Pshaw! nothing worth making such
a sensation over. A little girl—some
Maud Muller that aunt picked up among
the hills—walked off into the water, and
I fished her out. That’s all. Luckily it
was near shore.”
That voice was the one she had learned
to listen for among alt other#,
“Ob, just a child, was it?" rejoined
the other. ‘I thought possibly that it
might develop into an affair that would
be interesting to Mademoselle Amy, when
she hears of it.”
“Well, hardly!” replied the
j laughingly, “If you’ve found that pa-
per, Jennings, lets go down. ’
The voices died away, but the
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odor of a cigar lingered on the air ."'tig
after, and the lightly spoken words I ft
their sting for many a day.
Sally sat motionless. So it was all a
mistake, then. There was some one would else,
and he did not care for her. He
never come. And yet he had saved her
life. Oh, why had he done it, when it
could never be the same again! Then
the music commenced again. She threw
herself across the bed, and pulled the
pillows over her ears to shut out the
souud; now and then a sob shook her
from head to foot; then she lay still.
Hours after, when the lights were all
out, the gay voices gone, aad the wide
halls deserted, she got up and groped
her way across the room. Then she lit
the gas, and took the letter still un¬
opened from her pocket, While she
read a beetle boomed into the room and
circled around the gas.
“You poor, silly thing,” said Sally,'
looking up. “Y'ou shan't be burned;
go back where you belong.” As abe
spoke she fanned it through the window
with her handkerchief and closed the
blind. Coming back she caught sight
of her reflection in the mirror. “Some¬
body had better say that to me,” she
thought. Her little dream was over,
aud she was thoroughly awake. It was
well for Jonas she had waited until now
to read his letter. :
“La, you haven’t changed a mite,”
said Miss Jewsberry to her some two
weeks later, as Sally walked in, sunbon-
net in hand. “Somehow I mistrusted
goin’ away so might spoil you; I reckon
it’s pretty hard to come down to plain
livin’ after such a taste of high life, ain’t
it? Didn’t nothin’ happen? I ’lowed
sure there would.”
“Yes, Miss Jewsberry,” Sally an¬
swered, solemnly, “something did hap¬
pen. Something I hardly expected—
yet—I believe I am thS better for it.
Besides, you must know, I have met my
fate at last.”
The romance-loving old maid looked
up eagerly. “What is he like?” she de¬
manded.
Sally blushed, and then broke into a
merry laugh at her look of blank amaze¬
ment.
“Why, he’s just like Jonas .”—Tankct
Blade. i
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Panama a Graveyard. l
More men have died and are buried on
the Isthtaus of Panama, alone the line of
the proposed canal, than on any equal
amount of territory in the world.
It was in 1877, the year before the
final collapse of the canal scheme came,
that chance took me to “the isthmus,”
as it is more usually described. How
many people are buried out in Monkey
Hill? Certainly 8000 or 9000; probably
12,000 or 15,000, but it’s alia matter of
guesswork as to the exact number. But
the ground about Aspinwall only holds a
small percentage of the men who have
died on the isthmus. The city of Pana-
ama, of course, lays claim to the largest
number of burials, but I can say without
exaggeration that the entire line of the
railroad and canal from the Atlantic to
the Pacific is a dontinuous graveyard. At
Matochin alone over 3500 Chinaman met
their death in one day. That was twen¬
ty-five or thirty years ago .while the Pan¬
ama Railroad was being built, and long
before work on the canal was begun.
Ten thousand Chinaman had been
brought from China to work on the
canal. Over one-half of them were
camped at what is now Matochin. Small¬
pox broke out among them,and the mor¬
tality became so great that the China¬
men, always easily excited,became panic
stricken, and, preferring to die by
drowning, ran down the steep sides of
the hills near their camp and threw
themselves into the Chagres River. As
I have said, 3500 of them drowned. It
was because of this that the name of the
camp was changed to Muertechino,
muerte meaning “dead” in Spanish and
Chino signifying Chinaman. The name
has since become perverted to Matochin.
It is a common saying, believed by many
on the isthmus,that every tie on the Pan¬
ama Railroad represents a dead man.—
Chicago Post. ,
Very Tamo Bears.
E. C. Waters, for some years manager
of the Government hotels in the Yellow¬
stone National Park, is in New York.
Mr. Waters believes that the park is
destined to become the feeder of zoologi¬
cal gardens of the country and that one
of its immediate needs is an immense
paddock or series of paddocks where
the species now in the park may be
cared for and bred on scientific princi¬
ples.
“How many animals are in the park?”
he was asked.
“Many hundreds or perhaps thousands
of elk,” he said, “about a hundred
buffalo and some mountain sheep and
bears. The buffalo are in no danger of
becoming have been an placed extinct under species. protection Since they of
Government troops they have been in¬
creasing. Elk also thrive there. The
bears aro perfectly harmless. Having
never been hunted they have no fear of
man. My little daughter six years old,
has sometimes gone within fifteen feet of
a bear and tossed bits of meat to him.
“The streams afford the best fishing
ground in the country. No prohibition
is laid on this sport and many parties
come and take large strings. Senator
Jones of Arkansas landed more than a
hundred pounds of trout cue day last
summer .”—Chicago News.
The Grip Sought Shining Mark?.
One remarkable peculiarity of the grip
in Japan was its prevalence among the
upper classes, whereas the cholera sought
its victims among the poorer people.
Some idea of the extent of the epidemic
may be gathered from the fact that, at
Y'okohama, the sufferers officially re¬
ported numbered over 50,000, and it is
estimated that the unreported cases
throughout the perfecture were nearly
twice as great. Of the 130,000 inhab-
itants of Kobe, 25,000 were attacked bv
the disease. In Tokio the epidemic raced
with greater violence, and similUr~re-
ports come from some of the Chinese
cities.— Boston Transcript.