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Livoimore, Melrose, Mussachu- Hi Hs. Mr. E. C. Knight. Philadelphia. Mr. linn. Frank Hubliili, mere/ant, Phila. . \V. Selmvlor, Easton, Pa. E. L. Wilson, 83J Broadway, N. Y.,Ed.rhila. Phtt'o. Fidelia M. Lyon, YVaimca. llawa i. Sandwich Itl mils. Alexander Ritchie, Inverness, Scotland. Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega, Frcsnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬ ras, O. A. J. Cobb, ex-Vico Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬ rocco Al. V. Ashbrook, Red Bluff, Cal. J. Mo re, Snp’t Police, Blandford, Dorset¬ shire. Eng. Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wales. And thousands of others in every par: of the United States. “Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and Results, is the title of a new brochure of 20C which pages, published to all inquirers by Drs. full S'at inhumation key A Falen, gives ar to this remarkable curative agent and a record of n-veral hundred surprising ernes in a wide rang/ of chronio cases—many of them afier be¬ ing abandoned to die by other physicians. Will be mailed free to any address on application. Re.ui tho brochure ! DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, Ko. 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Flense m p t on vWis paper when you order Com¬ pound Oxygen- 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. * * * 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. * ^ * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 NUMBER 20. 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 / 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.