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YOL XVII.
CUIBONO?
“What good hath life?"
Said one who in the strife
No nobler portion sought;
But in the forum taught
Opinions dolor-hued
Unto the multitude.
Who shouted, frenzy-rife:
“What good hath life?”
“Let me )We on!”
Said one grown pale and wan
With generous deeds and true:
“Life hath for me to do „
A labor that shall bring
Joy at its finishing.
Until another dawn
Let me live on!”
—Frank W. Hutt, in the Voice.
A PRODIGAL FATHER,
BY EVA W. M'GLASSON.
HE turned ner
vously before the
high, thin mirror,
a tali, heavys wo¬
man, with sleek
gray hair, II er
gown was of black
<\/iff .A aipaca made in a
JpfiA/lm bygone vogue when
narrow pipings
(' held sway and a
V * —'-^3, lingering fondness
for crinoline lurked
/ in full skirt
V* 1 k breadths. As she wheeled
*|l in critical half cir¬
cles, the girl at her
side pulled and
patted the alpaca folds straight, the old
woman observing this process of adjust¬
ment with a look ot helpless anxiety,
her elbows lifted.
“I won’t know a thing to say,” she
argued.
“Oh, mother! don’t get to worrying
again. You won’t have anything to say.
He’ll do the talking. You just sit up
and listen. Here’s your hemstitched
handkerchief with the initial. I’d hold
it like this.” She drew the stiff linen
into shape, hold it at the centre with an
assumption of carelessness.
A candle on the bureau with its rest
less brush of flame painted in the oval
glass a sketchy picture of the room, the
ceiling of which lifted like a tent. A
of rich blue deepened In the home
bed cover. Yawning darkly under
the low side wall was a little hide-bound
trunk, the dimensions of which were
exactly reproduced in the creases of the
alpaca skirt.
“You I'^o ...i.-i-i—■ '
4
- k ,u » u U ^i
which is shot with silvery reflections,
was coiled awkwardly, as if it had only
lately been coiled at all, and still yearned
to lie in the hanging braids of girlhood,
“I hone my collar is even,” reflected
the other woman. “It isn’t that I care for
myself, Lkzie. I ain’t cared to dress
since—your father went away. I
wouldn’t think it looked just right. But
William's maw is rale dressy. I saw her
once at church. And so I want to ’pear
jest as I know how. Only I do hope I
/.ever’ll hev to go through with any such
doin’s again! I do so.”
The girl slipped out a low gurgle of
laughter., don’t reckon will,” she said,
“I you
“seeing I’m the only daughter you got.
I don’t look to be asked for more than
once. Hush! Oh, mother, there's him
knocking right now!”
“You better go to the door. Give
me the candle. I’ll light you dowu."
The old woman, seeming to gather
resolution of despair, stepped heavily on
the first step of the narrow stair. Lizzie
held the flaring taper aloft with a shak
ing hand. Suddenly she caught her
mother s sleeve.
“Don’t say much about father. Will
knows he ain’t here.” She hung breath
less in the shadow of the staircase,
listening to the little bustle of entrance
just below. A young man’s voice stam
mered out a greeting. night,” he said. “Reckon
“Right cold
we’re "oing to have real cold weather by
next week.”
Lizzie, hanging against the deal cas
inv, heard the sitting room door shut.
From within a slow murmur of talk
came. The girl, wide-eyed and flush
ing, crept down the steep stairs, slipping
into a room across the bit of entry.
A youn" fellow whose boyish face
reduplicated in a les 3 delicate tone her
own pink and white tints glanced up
from a book
“Keen calm, Lizzie,” he said, teas
intrlv ‘‘You look excited. I reckon
mother’ll say yes. You told ber to say
ves didn’t you? L. ect she'll be easy
on’him—a nice, ung man like Wilt
A Ftaley. DbiJq king is she may forget
j , er —” h e drew up,
What tremor of his sister's lip
warned '^eart-stirring moment was not
th«^orjest, ^'occurred for the first time
■M to him
little she must be to him iD the
T^avs ^yture, this pretty sister of his whose
were appointing in the room across
" ~
.he hall.
“I’ll hate to see you marry, Liz!” he
exclaimed. “And mother—"it’ll be aw
hit hard for her. She's only got us
two. And she’s ha la fearful lot to put
with. Father—”
wouldn't like to have you
breathe a word against him, El.” She
started a 3 she spoke. Her mother was
pushing at the door. She came in grop
: a „ a Tittle.
“Go, L'zzie," she said in a labored
voice. “I've give you to He —
he’s po’rful fottl o you. He'i! make
you a rood man.’’
1 as tie girl f r toward her im
he made lile. Don’t
He’s waitin’
you— r tbe do
1 _y.
. n.j q
since he settled here a year back. She's
as sweet as a pink, but, mother, we've
got nothing. And then folks remem¬
ber—well, you know, father often
times—”
The woman at the hearth listens with
a quivering chin.
“I’m not saying a word against him,
mother.”
“Don’t you, Eddie!”
“I ain't, mother.”
“Because I—Eddie, he had his faults,
but he was rale good hearted when he
was himself.” The son set his lips.
“And since he went off I’ve often
studied that maybe I wasu’t as patient
as I ought to been. I wake up nights
get to studying over us being comf
terble—you with a good place in the
store and Lizzie going to marry we!!—
when maybe he’s ’outa roof to his head!
It has been three years since he left—I
reckon he’s aged a heap.”
There was a high wind rioting out
side, muttering contempt upon the low
roofs of the village and communing in
sharper notes with the stripped tree tops.
It had an almost human accent, varying
from a wild cry to the confused mur
muring of a feverish tongue. The sounds
of it have a strange significance to the
woman’s words. Ed’s face took a som¬
bre cast.
His father’s figure recurred to him,
clothed for the once in some thin shroud
of sentiment. Practically reviewed, it
the figure of a mau who, in desert¬
ing his family, had conferred on it a
deep and lasting good. A tall man, as
his son remembered him, with a rollick¬
ing air in his long gray mustaches, a
disreputable uncertainty in the texture of
his slouched hat, and a varying thick¬
ness in his voice.
His son recalled the night of the old
man’s departure. There had been a
stormy scoue. Unable to wring tribute
from bis wife’s empty purse, the master
of the house had strongly expressed a
lack of satisfaction in his family tics.
He had swung himself over tho thres¬
hold, declaring an intention ot leaving
forever a family so unworthy a father’s
devotion. The family itself believed
the calm which followed his going would
be as lleeting a3 the odor of ryo which
hung upon his menace. But as days
lengthened and no stumbling foot
sounded after night upon the door step,
it began to seem as if tho old man’s
threat had not been merely a tactical de
vice.
The human growths he has tramped on
began to lift themselves, daring to
freshen in the sunshine. But they never
put into overshape the satisfaction which
enlivened them. 1 _
i,” breathed M Hicks, g., staring
fire. «. ..
“No one could have Ween any kinder
than you was, mother.”
“I was rale short to lmn tho night he
went, Ed. You said some things, too,
that—oh, dear! I ain’t resignated to
think maybe he’s cold and hungry 1
Ed pocketed his hands with a sudden
sense of gloom.
It was not a pleasant fancy. Debated
to think even a stranger’s dog might be
abroad on a night when black skies
housed a howling wind and barren trees
wrung their empty hands to the stress
of it.
In spite of himself he seemed to see a
leaning old shapo buffeted by that raw
sweep, its gray beard Blocked by bleak
gusts. The cheer of the rag-carpeted
kitchen was like a bright stretch upon
which a series of dark pictures came and
went, pictures always of the same aged
figure, bent with a burden of shameful
years. It stretched out feeble hands,
begging bread of a hard-faced farer tn a
city way. It crouched for shelter in
some noisome door. It looked .from
prison bars, it slept in hedges, always
with the peculiar patho3 upon it of aias
t° :l o P as k anc I bitterly atoned.
Lizzie’s soft laugh rang out in the
hall. There was a whispering. She
was bidding her lover good night, his hands,
Ed sat with his head in
His mother stared into the fire with a
grav face.
“Will’s going to eat Sunday's dinner
_ _ bursting . into
with us!” cried Lizzie, what's
the room. “Why—why, the
matter with you two?”
“We just happened to get talking
about father. I wish I knew where he
is,” explained E l, striking away the
sombre panorama from his disliking
But somehow the voiceless actor in
the/o dramas of woe had a peculiar
insistence. He was not to be banished,
-Measuring muslins in the store next
day El Hicks was coa'-tautly sensible
of a miserable presence, which went
through the piteous enactment of the
night before,
“Perhaps lie’s dead!” surmised the
youug man. “Dead—huddled under
the clods cf a pauper’s grave." compunction, The
idea, carrying a weight of
ringed a new glory round old Hicks
“I wish to the Lord I hadn’t
spoke to him like I did the night he
left,” mused his son.
On Saturday night Lizzie iial gone to
some neighborhood festival with her
lover. Ed, coming in late from the
store, was hanging his overcost behind
the door. His mother stood shaking a
dipperful ot corn over the blaze,
“You set down and cat this
while it is hot, Eddie. I never see corn
pop like it does—white as cotton."
' hands the stove,
Ed stretched his over
watchiug the leap of the corn flakes,
Mrs. Hicks beat a glance of inquiry
toward the house front.
“Inal wasn't a step, was it! she de¬
bated.
A rap thundered upon the door panel,
“Some of the toys,” said El. "I half
promised to look in ou. the candy pud
ing at Howe’s to-night. Reckon they ve
me to— he flung the door wide.
It 3 ISC ed a parallelogram of ssow,
ppling ong its upper
WJ tar facetted gray kr. A bare
the gate, the glow ot a fire ia a
toe rifli and
d vo ihj folks
-lift ie au
( HAWFORDVILLE, <«’ "23 *1DAY, JANUARY 27, 1893.
indefinite setting to the figure on the
step.
It was not a bowed, wretched C are
with hollow eyes and blowing strands of
ashen air. It was mean enough, in its
ragged clothes, a limp hat jammed over
its brow, but despite these signs of fallen
fortunes it stood upright and rotund, the
mottled red of its puffy cheeks reached
out and rimming its heavy note in
scarlet.
In tho hanging, bibulous mustaches
hung tho old Bohemian air. The eyes
rollicked. The unsteady knees had
something jaunty in their advance.
The prodigal had come home. He en¬
tered the house with a step of amiable
assurance, anticipating tho fatted calf
with a tolerant nostril. lie had doffed
the willows of exile for holiday green
aili his mar ner was that of one who
realizes a certain delight in forgiveness.
‘•Yes, I’m back,” he conceded making
himself at ease in the rocking chair.
“This time ot year a fellow feels like he
owed something to his family, even if
they ain't treated him just straight. I
nevor was a mau to cherish ill-feelings.
Forgive and forget is my motto. Well,
Ed! you’re a big boy. Looking lino.
Whar’s Lizzie? Cute little trick, that I
Ileh? ‘gouo out.’ Well, I’ll be here
when she comes in. A man’s place is
with his folks. I’m going to bury by¬
His wife, brewing tea, holding up
bread to toast, was moved with anguish
that hor heart had given no other token
of joy and gratitude than might bo en¬
compassed in a cold sinking.
The prodigal, unaffected by the si¬
lence, the spasmodic remarks, the flush¬
ings and palings of the two who plied
him with remorseful attentions, rambled
cheerfully on. At 12 of the clock hr
announced himself “dead on his feet”
and ready for bed.
Just ou tho stroke Lizzie came, call¬
ing out some word to young Raley as ho
shut the gate.
She came in, all the pretty color going
swiftly from her cheeks, all the frosty
brightness quenched her eyes at sight of
the massy figure greeting her in a jovial
tone as daughter.
were
room when the new comer had yawned
himself off to bed, stood dumbly looking
at and away from each other. Lizzie’s
face, white as a white rose just unhooded,
struggled with tears.
“Will ’ll be here all day to-morrow,”
sho breathed. “He—he’s never seen
father." Ed wheeled round, holding
his lips in. Their mother, unfolding
them in a look of prophetic > w
what shame, what no-Able dw Who
“TO? lips trembled and the water stood
in her eyes.
“It’slate,” shesaid. “Let us remom
ber all we got to be grateful for. Your
father ain’t sick, or iu want or dead.
He’s come home.”
“But there was no prayer in her heart
as sho lay at Lizzie’s side, listening to
the girl’s uneven, sighing breath. Wheu
she woke in the morning it was with a
sense of surprise that she had slept even
a little, had been able for an hour or two
to bind slumber day.’ upon her paining eyes.
It was full Lizzie was already
up and gone down stairs.
Across the panes a saoiv heaped beech
branch contorted itself like a stem of
rough coral. Behind it she saw a blank
sky whicii seemed to hor to wear the
very look she felt her face a-suming, a
look that must hide ail hint of doubt and
fear.
She got up with faltering knees aud
went downstairs. They appeared strange¬
ly steep, a venturous descent for ono
whose eye took a suggestion of unreality
from their very slope.
Lizzie was setting the table, Her
lashes glinted up a morning glance as
her mother unlatched the door. Then
she averted them quickly, with a look at
her brother.
“Your father aiu’t up?” said Mrs.
Hicks, feebly, nearing the stove. “Make
the coffee strong, Lizzie. He likes it
strong.” “Mother,” said did, suddenly. “I—
I hate tell you!—but—he's gone, father
has’’—
“Gone?”
“Yes’m.”
“Oh just out som’ers! Ile'Ii bo in
against coffee boils.
She broke off, shaking, searching his
face for contradition.
“No, mammy. He won’t ba back.
He’s—well, he's taken my overcoat—
and several little things of mine—of
course he’s welcome to ’em—but he’s
gone for good.” His voice rang with a
stifled joy.
Lizzie’s eyes beamed under their cov¬
ert of iashes. In her mother's counte¬
nance struggled a feeling that broke at
the lips in a short sob.
There was a moment's silence, a mo¬
ment in which Mrs. Hicks felt her eyes
shine with the wild brightness which
like some minister of grace, the prodigal
had left in bis train.
His wife looked at her children. Some¬
thing in her glance seemed to beg them
to disbelieve the rapture she could not
banish from her face.
“We’ll have to comfort each other,”
she said.—Fashions.
Why the Mulberry Isn't Popular.
We have never seen anv variety of the
doubt very much ,f they would sml f
sent here. Many years ago the Do wnm
mulberry was highly extolled as a dessert
fruit, aud while it is probably the best
variety in cultivation, it does not seem
to find its way to our mar sets, prooab.y
because there are far better berries and
these le»s troublesome to gather and
prepare for the table. In picking mul
(jerries the stem always adheres firmly to
the fruit and this must be cut off with
keif© or shears before the berries are
cooked or served on the table. Mul
[- err ; € , are excellent fruit for birds and
children, but are not likely Vo be placed
in the list of “market fruit*. ”—New
York Sun.
One-seveotb of the land surface of tin
^iobe is CbDtroiiffd by Russia.
AN AWFD DISASTER.
Nineteen PeoiJie Their Lives toy
the Explosion tot Oil Tank.
The Horrible t raphe Brought
About by the V ’ g of a Train.
-i
A southwestern. id express west¬
bound ou the Clqf, | ■ | Columbus, t'in
cirs .-oi ami St. ’siiroad, Sine, duo at
Altoif, III., switchifffh Satu ran into
an open /engine Jfour miles east
of Alton. The p. smashed
a and number set tho of freig, wrecl / \ fire. and oil Engineer tanks
Ross, in of the passe t | Wine,was caught
the wreck and b n\to death. No¬
body else was ser> >irt. Both trains
were burned up.
the burning a great i il
tvreeij s Ice, lank car ex¬
ploded with tei. enveloping
the spectators in t» 7 /of burning oil.
Eight of them wifi Jthf /antly killed burued, and
scores of them wet - . uliy die.
a dozen of whom J least will
Twenty-live people -i so badly burned
that majority ’ rulmbly die, and
dred. the t tal list witlylj pf|I l Ace ion over of the one killed hun¬
A large s(|f >f educational
are young men, .sin
institutions. peoiilij II,. , j t of tho- wreck,
hundreds of ’ 'in Alton and vi¬
cinity were Hllraii iff | y curiosity to the
scene. And tin \ rred one of the
most awful disatfH record.
A SIlOWEIt ' RNING OIL,
A few minutes 12 o’clock there
scattered was a slight debris|iS cxpkfJj Jof 1 all ouu tank sides, which set
ting fire to the®* /[mission Tkytird enclosures, the
This produced tho that
danger throngs of bystander explosiol jwns jrushed passed iu'to and
of save
tlie stockyard from | |truction. A few
minutes later there j a deafening re
port that shook 1 the < ilh for half a min
ute and spread on. lions. f.eet of seething,
burning oil in all cif For those
within the circle ot'j > hundred yards
there was no escape. 'heir clothing was
burned and literally ! from their bod¬
ies.
In a moment those ' were not dis¬
abltd waving help. began Panics their running hands 1 ci scream.;ig short, and time thither, un¬ for
til the uninjun fed there pres
cnee of mind the afflicted,
Every house is a 'ytgc and its
vicinity whs iff lie dying and
wounded. M
A f peels
tttfU alb
at Alton Timet... .ght (Satur
fourteen injured, , .
day), and physic! pmnot . ie
hospital injure, HU ^ rec >ver. less
of the futnliy rc more or
seriously burned ntjml ii.|? be limbs and
body, but the worst fit a are the fear¬
fully burned heads a| Effaces. All are
injured internally fia in inhaling the
burning flames.
CATTLEMEN RELEASED.
End or a Celebrated ase Out lit Wy¬
oming
A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch who says:
The case of the cattle n :n, some
months ago invaded J ihnson comity for
the purpose of exter minnting tho so
called rustlers, or catt' e thieves, and in
the attempt killed two non named Chatn
pion and Hue, nnd burned several build
j D g 8 and wero in tun. corralled by the
United States troops, vas, ou Saturday,
thrown out of court, The twenty-three entered by
defendants’ dismissal was
Bennett, the people’s allowed*. Attorney for John
son couuty and The cniliDg, so
long anticipated, we, <|f 8 brought sheriff about
by the action the
of the county. He) produced and near¬ said
ly a thousand taletmen
he could find no more in town. He said
that he had no guarantee tie Johnson of the expense; county
could not get it from furnish
people, and he did n 11 ’ Ci're to
funds to summon veniremen from that
county. In open court ir.s grievance was
laid before Prosecntii g Attorney Ben
nett. He agreed to the diem’.sal as
he said timt he had nr. idea that a con¬
viction could he obtained. ’I
has involved an expTfcditure on both
sides of about $300,0'M forfiline^months. Rt has kept the
state in a ferment
From Johnson county comes the re
port that the really 1 ad men have etni
grated, and at the last term of court in
that county, sev, ral cattle thieves were
convicted. The men asebarged prominent Satur¬ cit¬
day have b'en among the
izens of the state but i number of them
must leave, so strong s the resentment
agniust them. Scarcely one of them
who has property in t e north, has not
looked at it since last April, ’two of
the Texans who were hired to do the kil¬
ling in Johnson counts, died on the trip,
and two of them have since becu killed
in the southern country.
MAKING FREIGHT RATES.
--it
The South Carolina Com mission Acts
Glider the New Law.
A Columbia, 8. C., tpeciai says: The
railroad commission Siturday for the
first time exercised ond of its powers un¬
der the new railroad law. It is in the
shape of an order fixing the joint and rates from on
fertilize!s from Columbia
Charleston to stations jon the Port Royal
an 'b^ tst l rn n- a T° IiDa -° a< i'n
from , 2 40 t0 , 2 i 4 per ton. The
Central havinp obtained control
o{ it ’ Ace g nt Craig at Augusta last week,
raj#e d t p ratc , r 2 .40 to *3.70 on
strength of a petit on from the mer
c bants in Charleston aid Columbia, The
commission has made ihe joint rate from
.80 to *2.75.
Run on a Hank. 1
T c Pres* Printing Company, >f j
tie R-ck, Ark , the iasr loncern
atste, .i-sigue l IVetnesi.iy rnoruu
Liabilities, *40,000. toe First Natio
btnk being Tbe a preferrrd c*i It dltOT of flit for f; $30,- j
OOo nnaoutictui<nt ure
■»! •\ pa*i among the depositors of
k 6td a run * nf** irated mt
h :
IRON AND STEEL.
A Bulletin Report on the Mineral Be*
sources of the Southern States.
A Bulletin report on the iron and
steel industries of the southern states,
was issued by the census office at Wash¬
ington, Thursday. There are twelve
states now engaged in developing their
mineral resources by the establishment
of rolling mills and steel works—Ala¬
bama, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
Maryland, North Carolina. Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The
capital luvested in blast furnaces in these
states increased from about $17,000,000 in
1880, to over $33,000,000 in 1890;
in rolling mills and sice! works,
from over $11,000,000 in 1880, to
$17,000,000 iu 1890, and the pro
ducts of these works increased from
290,000 tons to 010,000, tho increase be
ing exclusively iu steel. There has been
a marked decrease iu the forge and bloom
branch of the iron industry, resulting
from improved process s in rolling mills
and the extension of transportation facil¬
ities. Deuce, the manufacture of bar
iron from ore by direct process lias be¬
come practically an extinct industry in
the south. The total number of estab¬
lishments has diminished as a result of
concentration, but there has been an in¬
crease in the output. The total number
of hands employe I has diminished from
20,500 in 1880, to 18,088 m 1890,but tho
aggregate wages have increased from
$6,201,000 to $7,028,000.
CHARLESTON ISOLATED.
Cut Off from Telegraphic Communica¬
tion with the Balance of (he World.
Charleston is completely cut off from
all telegraphic communication north aud
west. The only connections possible Thu are
south to Savannah and Jacksonville.
Western Union wires arc down from
Florence to Charleston, 108 miles, and
for miles along the South Carolina road.
From Charleston to Augusta Friday
morning tho regular passenger train on
the South Carolina railway was delayed
greatly by telegraph poles and wires
which were b'own across the trnck, and
it was necessary to send a wrecking train
ahead of tho passenger train before the
latter could move. The Postal Telegraph ted.
Company’s wires were also prosv.
Linemen were sent out to repair tho dam¬
ages, but the telegraph’s manager says it
will take n week or ten days to get. t.lm
wires on the South Carolina line in good
working order again.
GOVERNOR ELIAS,CARR /
„ 1-n.n-r
tailed tL‘ i Uief fSceeunvo of South
Carr nun .. ,, ____ by
Dicers were sworn in Wednesday
,ynotice Shepherd. Nothwith
g t a „jj n w the inclemency of the
W( . a u,er a great Crowd attend
^ ceremonies. Many distin¬
guished men and many ladies were pres¬
ent. The inaugural address was con¬
servative iu tone. Tho governor advo¬
cates the repeal of adverts the tee to per the cent agricult¬ tax on
state bank notes,
ural character of legislation the population friendly of the the
state and urges to
farming interest, nnd economy in the ad
ministrali n of state affairs. The address
givisgreat satisfaction.
BISHOP PHILIP BROOKS DEAD.
Death Attributed to Heart Failure
Brought on by a l it ol t oughing
Bishop Phillip Brooks died at Boston,
Mass early Monday. His death was
ent irely unexpected I and was brought oa
» by heart i r failure. *i He ii,. x«.oo was »,.w»rx taken ill ill 'I J ini s e
day with a foic throat but nothing hcim
ous fehowed itself until Sunday even
in,,.
His physician then dwcovc.ed diph
theric symptoms, and considered consul
tation'advisable. Nothing serious was
anticipated. About half past IS o’clock
Monday m morning lit). t
- •
with a coughing spasm whlC i lasted a
few moments and his heart ceased to
b , at
FIVE MORE VICTIMS
Of (lie Oil Explosion, „ , . Making „ a total , ,
of Twenty-One.
A special . , , from Alton, . 1 . ,11 Ill., says: I ive
more deaths from the oil explosion ut
Wanu. occurred Monday, nH follows;
Halter', r N AfeCrav of I on I Alton
Charles of Alton Junction;
Thomas Houlihan, of East bt. Louis ;
Henry Weigant, of Waun, aud William
I. Fdwards twarus, of o Alton. Aitm The MS total i-now >
twenty-one. S xteen 0 * ' ' ’
die of their burns, of whom four are
young Boys, Thu total number of in
jured will never be known, so many
w , re ut, once taken away try friends wiio
m-tde no r port of their identity.
LOCAL OPTION IN GEORGIA.
t he Attorney General Makes an Ini
port a nf Ruling in Regard Thereto.
At t’ c* bid don (>f the Georgia
!S.n •tire ihe local opti n law wo« cdiang d
so that counties* c> uld hold elections «*nly
every four years instead of tvciy two
year*. 'I he question arose whether or
not lid* wt-uld apply to counties wbich
h»vc rccent’y h« Id election*, or whether
the four years roust he c tinted from
after the next election. The attorney
georr i\ has decided that it applies to law, ail
conn' ie* from the dale it became a
and if a counts held a local option <•!<<.
linn Hi- vein "i: could not hold anotU-r
DEMPSEY GUILTY.
He Was Indicted for Poisoning >on
Union Men at Homestead,
\ Pittsburg, Pa., special says: Hugh
p jj mpsev, district master workman
,,} bi-.tiict "Assembly No. 3, Knights Fri- of
Libor, was found guilty as indicted,
day. Dempsey «»', iu a measure, pre
pared for tbe verdict, and betrayed no
signs of emotion. He left the courtroom
and a crowd outside gathered about him
and offered their sympathy. II s attor
ncy said the verdict w as a false one and
would mov^ for a ne* trial at once.
•*! j.kttz
JUSTICE mmrfflb
The Final Dissolution Came Suddenly
aim Without Warning.
End of an Eventful Career Short
Sketch of Ilfs Life.
Justice L. Q C. Lamar, of the Limed
Stabs supreme court, died very suddenly
at Macon, Ga., Monday night, lie was
stopping at the homo of IV. II. Virgin,
his relative, aiul late Monday afternoon
took his overcoat and started out for a
walk. He bad scarcely left the house
when he was met by a friend, and re¬
turned to Mr. Virgin’s home where he
sat and talked cheerfully for quite a tint*
with his friend. •
Justice Lamar dined at 6:55 with (lie
family and seemed to have a good mood. appe¬
tite and scemt d to bo in a cheerful
His friend, l)r. Lewellyn, who he had
met, left the house at 7 :45 o’clock, and
in a few minutes the justice was seized
with violent pains and died shoitly after.
Justice Lamar arrived in Macon about a
month ago, hoping to recover from an ill
ness which had uttnoked him in Washing
ton. .\t that time lie was suffering, and
his death was looked for almost moment¬
arily. 8ince his arrival, however,he seem his
cd to be gaining iu strougtli, and
health seemed greatly improved. His
death was unexpected. Friends who had
seen him and knew his condition thought
ho was on the sme roud to recovery and
would within a few weeks be ablo to ro
suiue his duties on the supreme bench.
Bright's disease with nngi na Lamar’s pectoris
was the direct cause of Justice
given by the physicians ...
asSreittg death and is in his
the chief complication
case.
AN RVKNTFUb 1.1VF.
Lucius Quintus Ciucinnatus Lamar was
born in Putnam county, Georgia, Sep
(ember 1, 1825. and after hi. father died
was taken to Oxford, Miss., where he
received part of bis education. He grad
uttt(d ut Emory college, Georgia,in 1845,
studied law in Macou, and was admitted
to the bar iu 1847. In'49 he returned tu
Oxford, Miss., aud for years held a pro
fessorship in tho IJuiversity of Missis-.
the” practice oTTw ’ in* U \:oXgU>n,
Ga. Ho was elected to the legislature
in ’53, and in ’54 again returned to Mis
sissippi aud settled on his afterwards plantation elec- in
LaFaycf te, being shortly He served
od to congress as a democrat.
from 1857 and I860, when he resign ed to
take a seat in tl»esr<'e«aio£. ^.wea " n<«*
v
IAt»
gagemcBls. fTt? 6 ' •
iu the University oJ> Mississippi, uu„
aguin took a scat in iWe house of repre¬
sentatives. lie was elected to the senate
March 5, 1877. Match 5, 1885 Presi¬
dent Cleveland appointed Lamar seereta
iy of the interior, and afterwards eleva
ted him to a seat ou the bupreme bench.
Justice Lunar, wmh perhaps has occupied ns prominent seat
a figure as any that a
on tl»c bench of tlist august body, but
for months hack he lias been almost ton
ill to take more than a perfunctory intei
est in the proceedings.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The liidnsh - nl Development ill the Past
Week.
The review ot the industrial violation in the
South for the past week shows tiiat (lie contin¬
tied ,add weather. «M
fciXTR’O with i»vci* nftvigitiou unprecedented wiu vvHli degree nulwa\ wav of
uufttc, catweri a?i
j fll< i ncKB M URnation. li»du#tr at made development,
though Htmiewbat io**(*ne<I, I»hh progregn,
as i« shown by the organization of the Coving
'j. 1 x*So', (kk/” p' * Of' ’'t 1 !L K I^ui *
* n ra il le
Hurlmrban Land Company, at Louisville, Ksn
im.liy, $ 40,000 capital,- iu„l by tho formation
of a $ 50 ,(K )0 mat eornpany at Sonthpra-t, North
Carolina. Cotton nulls at Jse.liBonville, At
t n i| ft and Hynunorr, Alabama; Rome and l’a
Georgia, and Render on, North Oaroli
„ a . nl „| j, m iii M at. Jacksonville, Florida, bom
and Enterprise, Missmdppij electric light
panics at rttlnm, AWmna. Waynesville, bven North
Carolina, and On r.., Texss, have with * orga.r 50,000
ized audit tobaceo real manufactory, Louisville, Kentucky.
.-an tat, . hat t, at
n,e Mtmtgom. ry < ,».»! «rage Company, capital »*«>
.v,,oo„, «r Montg-m iy, Alabama; and
Wile, lei l iHoitiiro < mnpitiy, with $100,
()()<) , a ,»iti,J. or Houston, Texas, are
,|„ wood working plants reported for
die week. industries established
Thirtv-thr . n w Were
reScmt-nts of other Wtoj..
i„,,!dii,,,s. Among important
,,, w industries ;ts reported for t'." ; w'k aie
brick works at Bit luoonil sud Lexington, and Ky„
( .. ...... . R , .senna, Ala., floor grist
mills l*i*i.. fla.. A tvsnceaml King’s ilonn
ju N , s ,„.i AlU-y T*nu., » foundry is re
!,„d .,,rtcdat < hattan-. ,g«, Tuun., and loconioUve
<ftr works estate-bed bartered at Helms, at Belton, Als._ lex., A
power eonipany Wits I and oil mill at
and a ti.-dding company an
Waco. Teiw. bu U lieuuer- tl ,
A i'obAcco fa;!orv h to be ut
,,, n r and among the woodworking plants
report < i .......... flanmit *nd
'j 1 ,‘"'j 1 ,T ' ta.? Kv.”
pr.us 1 vVatteMUle,
and 1’MenfOi* iiid livi iigb, s (j.
Writei work a*»- to bu fn'aMiiihed ut Cre»
cent City, I un i JiariKSVi *r Ga, The eu
j bl , ( wut . II >nr in'.f = I ut Abilene,
Tf x« m an fa*?t«»ry a! YiekslmYg, Miss., a
! *.<>!» lit li fCufauIa, A a sn<i a carpet mill
i It on, Ky. Amim^lhe n«.w Houston bnildings and
//, } in *1 honors at
j ! x a hall at Conyers, Ga.. o«., real- ....
.le-ncfff t‘a. Gi , anA llichinonG, v * ■
at WaltiniiirviUp, Ga.—Tra>*
‘ Iia > nf i •a. Toon).
CHOLERA IN GERMANY.
it llreaks Out . in an _ Insane Asylum . ,...
With Much Violence.
A sp. cial cjb cgram from Berlin, Her
many, says : The outbreak of cholera in
Neitleben lunatic asylum shows no sign
if*- f decreasing in violer.ee. Saturday
reported, lT h r.oUl o? cage's
since the G,re.k i, sixty three. Nine
teen hav lied Protestor Koch, who
W a r< t , by Emperor William to
make a stigation into the causes of
' the disease, reports
the appearance ,f
that j,. vc*r Bafcle, below the asylum, is
infect th cholera baccilli.
Spttc* is Limited.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday s&ys;
D.rector General Davi v ha"5 prepared feet a
staternent sbr.wing that of 3.642.812
t e the s fair build
i i
NO. t.
And knew very JJttle-Sf hf*'or myself
I chanced on this motto in PȤSi
“Be true to yourself. '
I scribbled it over the leaves of my books
And on old papers laid up on tfia shelf,
I out it in trees in woodland woods,
“Be true to yourself.”
Abroad or at, home, at work or at play.
Whether waiting on pleasure or sighing
(or pelf,
It sang in my ears by night and by day,
“Be true to yourself.”
In the pages of story, of song and romance,
Whether reading of Saxon or Homan or
(tnelpli,
This saying before me forever would dance,
“Be true to yourself.”
When temptation comes boldly nod knocks
at your door,
Whether robed iu tho guise of an fir-. ,»l
elf.
By the aid ot this, motto you’ll vviu every
score, yourself.”
“Be true to
ft is better than amulet blesiai hy the
priest,
It is grainier than treasures of ocean or
dclf,
It is rarer than charm from the charm-laden
East, “Be yourself.”
true to
—Harriet Sinead
PITH AND POINT.
On bended knees—Baggy trousers.
A clothes calculation—The tailor’s
bill.
A note to meet—A written invita¬
tion.
The inside track—The alimentary
canal.
Ancient coats of anus—Holsters aud
8ca t,b ftrc Jg.
experience 1 that is sold
out Delow cost.
Tho Board of Ifoalth- Inc feed you
g 0 t in the country.—Truth,
Talk about your triuisfovulationsl Wo
have seen a square msa turn round.—
g tat0gman
Iu the railroad world a crooked line
is often the shortest distance between
two points.
a new'shoe in tho market is made of
imRatkm buckskin; it is not dear.—
Lowell Courier,
when a foreigner is made a citizen of
^ g ntt *j tjtajoa they have to change
'
■*.—Puck.
.. —-- /escape the iallusace of
family. EveJrtnridw-duectory a man’s
name decidos his position.—Puck.
Though the ship’s cook may boast his
ability to prepare a good meal he gener¬
ally makes a “iness” of it.—Gazette.
“Who is the belle to-night?” asked she
As they stood on the ball room floor;
He looked around the room to see,
Aud she speaks to him no more.
The “reed bird” still figures on tho
bill of faro in some restaurants, but his
part is taken by his understudy, tho
sparrow.—Philadelphia Record.
Beware young man, upon the brink
Of the matrimonial feel—that’s question! what yen think
It's love you —
But It may be indigestion. —Chicago News RecorJ.
“What made you name your farm
‘Meter’ ’’ queried the reporter, “Because
it lies so beautifully,” answered tho re¬
tired gas magnate, with a low, sibilant
chuckle.
Watts_“What L that you are
making now!” Mrs. Potts-“A smoking
j & ’ket for my husband. If that doom t
. of smo kinir around the house I
don i ,, t know know w wnac t.«t will." win.
? .. tt Hicks_“I V. with 1,‘ you would go
out with baby T u for f ,r a a IB little while’’Micks- ■
“Weil, well; the neighbors have got a
, 10l j 0n n0 w that I’m a sandwich mau for.
a , imoj, , carriu „ ,„. factory." j f x
father—“Does that young mau mean*
t „ Daughter—“f guess hr does,
lamer, , . He no is netting so ’ familiar now
that ho wears the same necktie twice in
succ< j SS jou.”_The Clothier and Furu
iiuei.
____
The Visible Stars.
„„ to be little doubt that tlu
number i 1, )f rbp the visible stars is realty 3 lim
i te d. Most astronomers now admit that
tue ^ toU total ( uum uum |jer w. of stars visible in our
largest 1“ oX cec.i
100,000,000, the Gentlemen , a Mag
aajs
liZ ine. but
This is, of course, a large number,
compared with an infinite number it if
really very small. It may be proved
mathematically—aud tlw demonstration
is a very simple one—that were the num
ber of stars really infinite and equally
distributed through infinite space the
whole heavens would shine with the
brightness of the suu.
Fat from this being the ease, the
amount of light afforded by ihe stars,
even on the finest nights, is very small,
and the comparative blackness of tha
background on which they are scattered
is sufficiently obvious, The number
visible to the naked eye, even with very
good eyesight, is not only comparatively .
but absolutely small.
Some unreasoning people think that tb<
number visible in this way is almost
„ tleS9 » but an attempt to count
distinctly visible in an? portion of
v _for instance, the “square of
think, convince any
intelligent person that the idea is merely
an optical illusion and a popular fancy
which has no foundation in tact.
The number visible to average eye
sight ou an ordinary night does not
, Q „ch exceed 4000 for both hetopheres.
For exceptionally keen eyesight and a
ver j clear sky we may perhaps allow a
total of 10,000 for the whole star sphere
ibove, or 5000 visible for auv one place;
a t one time. Bui surely this is a vervf
small numtier, scattered over the whole
tipHUs>e of the heavens. Five thousand
uld V be placed m* a small
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