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Ghostly fell the snow! closed
r Like a curtain, a shroud, it had
■bout tho devoted form of Edna Duane
Unit wild, tempestuous night, when th«
nor child ot destiny had sunk ex¬
hausted threshold and safely. despairing at the very
of
- The siren-hearted Beatrice Mcroei
bad sped to sunshine, luxury and of gold,
With no thought of tho r< al fate th»
girl win,S’* name she hud assumed,
%rhoso loyul lover she had determined to
irin.
More merciful than she, the soft snow
bail drifted gently over the inanimate
Wanderer, striving to shut out from the
rigor of storm and tempest the frail
form that had succumbed to the chill of
Winter like a tender lily. another
Upon that same eventful night
figure its braved the storm, and, breasting
fierceness, look his way along the
game road, down which i dna Deane’s
dumb guide had ij<> nearly b-d her to
shelter.
“A night to got housed. 1 pity th<
hum lessor belated!" breathed hourly,
pulling John Blake, as lie struggled
through tho deep drifts. “Ah! nearly !
borne. There’s the den old wife wait
Ing to welcome me with a warm sup¬ ’
per, I’ll win rant.
I miner John neared the unpreten¬
tious collage that ro-embled a Lapland
sr s hut, with Its oaves hung deep with
snow festoons A doleful neigh from
the wagon shed arou eil Ids humane
heart, however, to turn from ids path.
He found there the exhausted animal
Unit had icil Edna hither, bestowed the
Wandering brute in its stall, ami . tarts 1
igalti ior the house.
“jlo, there, my dear!” sang out the
bluff, great-hearted old follow, ns he
made up a huge snowball and sent it six
feet away da-lung against the door ol !
the cottage. j
It opened. Art eager, motherly face I
showed in tho lamplight. T I .
w i>eio-. dear! 1« . it you, 4ohn' . . « ve ,
, t| 'ms i,... throw 1
um of m \r o.da.r h1 * h
four prelty, b o Midiig fac*\ you dear
girl! fh.ow n torutd broom happy to beat John. h -ome,
m« s a ;
1 nvgiii’-' the sm.wnil o%.» that
rag carpet yon think mors of than jou
4 "
, ...
’■iSn'lone- 1 ...... ", ’ sv.g Tlohn in
, ^ "r ,
b ’ 1- y n j e. me o -
b.GMt pi u« u ii d 111 f 11 ' ’ u 11 * l fu fun, with
" hUk l ”” t dowiMiiy nee.,; ana
Umi "tc. »-nrm r,; 1 ';, ' oil > <■
-iv oV'Vl.il'
-No It «a- a humnn cry , for help ,,.
l h1w« i anricH i.< "“J 1 t,oW
like an engine Whistle to-ni- M- , !owsy
I .trim r John uttered a sharp cry
Humbled, recoiled. I’no broom fell
l' ....., !"■’ '•“« V w ;r h
In:; blind,o down a- tin .ml a hi
“What now, John?” eje’ulate.l his
Wife, peering, too.
“Something In th pnth. Bag of oats
—a sheep—no! June, look!”
He had leaned over to examine the
ob.ect at his teet.
lits great, eouiful eyes gl„we I like
Iw-htuH.
"X” ' •>« 'to'’" toted a human
hand, limp ami nerveless
fh then • o t°te?rlbl«Vrv terrible irj iV rang Vftom from Ids ms l-ifo’s wire a
**r» the . she dashed. Down
int nto sn»w
bmdde Urn Inanimate form, disenshroud
e I from its snowy mound, -h ■ knelt.
Edna Deane -“it’s a woman -a voung
gill, (Hi. John! look at the beiiuy fnee,
aed the >,ulek tear* rained d -.m m wild.
no- v iy. “Oh, John d, a. 1 o; udve
w i 1
l II U’TKIl VI.
>1 . IB* IX < Ol x. I
TU fa •< Alice Ralston, tho real
(elver, went straight to Hop -
nit r leaving tho home here she
bad f«* mi a father an*l a fortune.
Kh«» fools no lisks in her movement a.
lai'-.on tint not know of her destination,
had not known that *vh© "a* at the
H meoaU* Institution through the years
Ih* i* «»y, the man who ha 1 died at the
ti.d$a\ h t* In* nd. his atvis^r. had the
* ite charge of placing the real Kdna at
th •summary, 'or, as Beatrice know,
o . a ia lo r and daughter had parted
ffura 1 eiore tho former was a fugitive
!pom justice. Ralston
She l a ' told the anxious that
» \vou »l return apetstily. She had
i u «• 1 a large sum of tin ney. She
r ,t* sure Umt no one followtHl her to
min, T«* hreak any pt*>sible trail
*lichanged cam at a iargec.ty mi way
ti* Hojmla e an i mad© several mvteriou*
i urchio-es a: a costumer s an 1 a*, a ha.i
4r f ser*s ahop
When the next morning Beatrice
Reiver aUgh.e 1 from a sleeper on tha
Hopedale, and took a carriage to hei
some, her best friend would not have
tec gnlr.ed her. disguised.
1 or she was completely
5ho had come to act a pari, and she bad
Pr-parod. In dress and face
Ibe had effected a marvelous change
tml when she reached the Hopedal*
hotel and ordered a suit of rooms, no
»ne formerly familiar with the trim,
•eat figure and rather attractive face ol
the half-; ay school teacher of Hopetlal*
Saminary, about the village, would foi
I moment have suspected the true iden
ttty of this new Beatrice Mercer.
She had come hither with an object,
» definite object. Hhe had come to seek
i trace of the man she had love/ Kay
nond MarshaU. Sh- had resolved to
win his love. Ruthlessly she had striven
» destroy hts faith In i-.dna Deane, as
•uthlessly she had covered the trail of
die young girl, wlien she disappeared, of
the ’ had robbed hor trusting friend
„ father and fortune ami now she
voulii steal her local broken-hearted
over from her. This was her plot, and
jer spirit never quailed at tha upbraid
X" .......«■* —
“ He shall bo mine' Wealth is noth
r .,, without him - she had told herself
•ml forthwith She set herself at work to
•on-ummu(e her do-ign-. She had
ESf»S£!rtfS-ra
intll noon, Bhe dispatched a messenger
'This man was a physican whore
tided near Un- village. He was a hard,
marse-feattired man of about 40, and
t«r only living relative in the world.
generVly^lis7i'ktd but’he r P om"
de him. c
with hie profession a mortgage
oanlntr ofllo*- and oared v* ry little for
anything cx ept money A half cousin
>f Beatrice's father, these two had
•arely met inn another, but Beatrice
mew the man fully, and comprehended
lo-opomtlon wher!/ there was moneyed
reward assured him for hie nervtoee.
At about 2 o’clock in the afternoon
> 0 ‘ tor Raphael Simms was ushered
nto the parlor of the suite of rooms at
■v.d. patient, nily suppo-od bowing he had awkwardly be-n sent for to
>y a for
ier, ho looked somewhat puzzled, as
Haiti:
You * are tho lady who sent for me?"
.. \ cs. Doctor, 4 „ responded Beatrice.
Her visitor started violently as Bea*
removed the false front of hair
her glasses for the first time, re
,.g 8 her true identity.
- | ,„ il 0 Mnn cr! - ho ejaculated in
t . .
j 0nuine gurpri80 .
"lour cousin. Yes. I need aid. I
....... *<nmv a person in the village I
ra« trust but you. First, I desire com
’>«'* ^, *»*}• ‘‘•rtaln Informs
this I will pay you $ 00."
-y ou W i||. pay—-me! “gasped the pet
-ifled do.dor, wondering if the friendless
prllic hud known a-j a dependent at the
vordg plaln «„„ ug h?”
**Whi*ro vould you got that sum of
Donoy? .
His Incredulity nettled Beatrice.
Out ol my pocket-book! Five one
^Wt^biim you* l‘pay
^ «1 vnin-e
Mho n i l extended (he amount in ques
ion. Its unexpected possession, (he
nuniil en e of the reward, fairly
•tunned the Doctor
• I can t understand how you come to
live so miieh money "he begun
-Don’t try > to." Interrupted Beatrice,
„ “Briefly, I have come int*
VV.oae of gftviTal tbt'u^and Tmmev dollars. Uka!
i to speml the as I
offer vou fcoo to help me. l)o you
*
, v , ndped i
-First - • „,v ^ iiientilv nnd plans ' are to
a A 8a ? .** cret ut w ve“ u -,no . .. ,,,
f th , -
“Next, you are to obey me implicitly.'
With such pay for my services, I am
'our slave
f'. 7°°’' *'' * r ,' ran ’ 1
'] WV^.'''ur'aboiH'the'wtierenbouts . j ,
i iiiy'ii Mill Marshall. 1 Doctor,
“Eh:" ejaculated the with a
tart. “I don't think he is in the vil
age.
“ then ascertain where he is."
“PH Next.'find I T. ’
out atxiut the whispered
inancial complications iu the affairs of
d> father. C I. Marshall.”
"That is more easy."
“And report progress to me as soon as
ou can, “
"There shall b.> no delay."
Dr Simms !e; in ted. Beatrice looked
•t ’lted. suspensefui.
“The ball set iu motion—oh! with a
rusted ally and unlimited wealth. I
annot fail in the scheme I have
.dopted. ”
She counted the hours until iate in
he afternoon. Her face underwent
ivid changes of color an ! expression
is there was a knock at the door finally.
“Come in!"
It was her ally, Dr. Simms. He
ooked tirei and excited
■" e!l?* she demanded imperiously.
*l ve had an afternoon of it,"
"You have found Raymond Mar-
iriBur
“He 'From returned where? ||>me this morning. ’’
for “From that a girl fruit Met Jt**. heartbroken at quest the
seminary—tbeBope was spoony on
who disappeared so
nyBteriously.w Iiea.nI
“Edna fou mean?"
“Yes; that’l forJtu he name. He’s been
earching Jfrfywlng r everywhere, neglect
ag business so thin au l pale
hat they say is fast breaking down.”
“And his fa
“Added tro e there! Dark rumors
ay that hia isiness Integrity is at
lade lanciai crash threatens.
olrr-it »ct but close inquiries.
1 * •* ■Ice of the lawyer now.
5° a f ft affairs. You see-"
*7. it tell me more," mter
^ f p | Impatiently. “I know
UwyFrf yjah, probablv, about continued, that.
r to.;J office? " she
lr ming “''iff , on ber wra P K Ke . "
? orl r 0 m e ae * 1 Tr' bout eight o’clock this
» T enmg. . I
k! La tblwti™!, ”, ■
B She left th nojlci alone, Tn in ton ten min mim
offices “If 8 8he of f e theiaWyer ”^l£* h her °“ informant fnfnrZnt had had
rererred to J
open door of*.h«4 compartment Ln^tn^nt marked margid
“Private," adjoining. Med Then she bent
hor ear and eagerly.
Voices soutde quite clearly. Her
eyes glowed with ,-atisfaction as she.
realized that accident had enabled her
to enter the office and linger unper.
eeived. Her heart beat quicker as she
recognized the jroken, pleading father, tones
of Colonel Marshall Raymond s
“-VS! t tell ZSLf,“23!."ir that If Hess I have 'i.,...™,, time, un
you dbcufSents suppressed
less those are oi
destroyed, I am a ruined man:"
“Just In time! I shall win. Every
~»u**Xk~*.
ChXptkk x„.
‘sivbo.
i Beatrice Mercer drew nearer to the
lalf-open dwor,*s those ominous words
funded forth' !
are gup .
jressed or dcstfoyed, I am a ruined
nan!" I
A strong man Bpoke thorn, . hut . the „ j
1 rolce, whit Ju.urnfui, bore ,a token ot
(leading, denaturing agony. speaker j
The listeniT knew that the
business 1 '
lomplioatlons tod hrought her to Hope
lale. It was through the father that i
j ihe relied upon reaching the son. j
There was t t»a rustling of papers, and
hen the i*wfkr a voice reached hot
i ’
“I am very sorry, Colonel Marshall, !
j jut I have my orders to act.”
“You can defer action.”
“I would vlohte my duty to my cli
mta if X deferred it a day longer.
**Th«n—_ *«en-— H
nore The distressing feature of the
stter amount*™ that ae alleged maker
>f the note denies its validity. In other
words, it is a forgery.”
A groan ran g from the lips of the un
lappv man. riWkt.” he murmured in
You aw a
rollow, broken tone of deep despair.
My personal in leb:edness does not wor
-y me I shout i never have been called
ary. destitution mysolf and family might
Honorably endure, but dishonor, never!
[f that two-th msaud-dollar claim is
nresentediaco irt -
; Colonel. "You doi, jelieve me?”
j I certainly but will a jury? Those
iocuments go in as evidence, on their
showing >4»u are responsible lor
1 l. 1 ?' !
»couudrel . , of a pinner , , of , t(1 mine drew , Tl out t
>f the firm a few' months since on the
I pretense or ill-health. He took nearly
»11 the ■ u ly ,msh. and not until after
ae had got safe ill a foreign land did I
-arn t .at the alleged valuable assets
»o had left as my share of the business
were only wave paper. Worse than
die burden of debt, he left those forg, d
lotos. 1 hypothecated them bow I
! im accused of utierms them! ,
“Can you not take them up?" insin
uated the lawyer
"Impoasible 1 hav « vainly tried to
borrow. My son, interest a dependence usually,
: !ias lost 1111 in business and
n-andersatiouthaif-crazedoverthedis
appearance of a hbarUess jilt No, ruin
jtares me in the face—worse, the pris
»n ; dock distemondeath! ’
’ xhatWali' .Xm™,! '"iawver could «ay
ro W
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TU* Baby H»d to <Jo, Too.
A man. a woman, and a baby— the
nan and woman on a tricycle and !
i ibe baby sleeping in a basket swung j
rum two arms in front of the ua- .
•liinc were going up the west drive in
,’cntral Park yesterday morning, says
he New Y ork World. Several pack
iges were strapped to the machine
»nd the man and woman were dressed
is if for an outtug. It was quite
•arly, not yet 6 o’dock. as they came
ap Eighth avenue and entered the
vark at .">yth street. The few people
who were on the street turned to
raze at the queer outfit, and smiled
is they caught sight of the infant in
t« swinging basket, Above the
lasicet was a canopy like that of a
»by carriage. At the entrance to
he park the man stopped to tighten
.he straps on a [vickage. He was a
.un-burnt, athletic-looking young fel
ow with pleasant gray eyes and a
kill dark beard. His wife, who sat
yehind him, looked pais and thin and ’
was dressed in blue flannel. “Yes,"
le said, in answer to an inquiry, “I
lad this machine made to order.
Uy wife’s health has not been good
ately and we decided to take our va- :
•Mi.-n :n this way and, turning to
ds wife with a smile, -of course we
:;; uldn’t leave the youngster behind.
t \ ife said he would have to go too, so
l had the basket rigged up for him.
No, we shall not camp out. We ex
s^r.rsarisrss
when it is hot, and at night we shall ;
put iotel. up at We some expect farm to house be or country about J j
gone
two weeks, and have no particular des¬
tination, but shall travel about in a
leasurely sort of a way and try to get
tack my wife’s health. Name? Oh,
jo, never mind that; but don’t you
bink it is a good idea?”
VToorl-tl UovustM Feed Man ami Beast,
The British consul at Mogador, while
>n an excursion inland, about a day's
journey from Mogador, met flights of
t He says it was an astonishing
»nd interesting * though f painful ^ sight,
^ ^ being n Bon e p rts so thick
with them that they formed a dense liv
Ing h brown fog, through which he could
rdl ,. J f „ “vcrld , hiK w tlfo »v w uro.fnd hii« thev so com
^^‘Lutton rm.fJssary that In ton id
“° was walking
* s “ e ld t tell wh ether h< was
-reading ... , . , IT i
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’°5, Many or ? birds ■ . feasted , , on ,, the , inserts, . in- -
iluding largo flights of gulls from the
sea, and beasts evidently enjoy their
mare, for m the middle of the densest
23A3£ BASSO
(ng and snapping up dozens of locusts
M the air, until, seeing the stranger, he 1
suddenly dropped on all fours and quick
y vanished in the live fog. Not only did
»f5 forg,® locults %rz& b^en
with which h*l
down off the land by easterly winds
Vs usual, they were extensively eaten
,y the na^e population, both Moham
“« dau * nd
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THE SUBURBS OF HELENA '
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mmcrgeU and the People Forced , to . Hove „
out. Railroads Damaged,
N ,, w Orleans, La.—A sja-chil to tire I
'’ dly States, dated Helena, Ark.,
;, >; The two crovass-s t'Hauig below place the j
.; ly , the first at the \\
LU( j tlu* other at tlie Hu?*l>ard place. I
^ (- n forming ^ at 7 o’clock Monday ^ t
^
he afternoon, has put a vast area of j
farming country under water, de- j
stroying thousands of bushels of corn
( .. LlTvillir ' disaster to many * hearts
Owing h to the enormous height , . of . the .
; *<uisequent cutting off of fields will 1 >c
\ r-orrespondingly greater. Hundreds of
; I refugees are arriving in this city ; from
| ,. VI ,. V , lipecUon alu , bv ,, V) , rv ^ ort U (>{ ° f
j outer , . R , iraft. The relief committee now
;' os its bauds full ear-ing for thorn.
, I he 1 atitlon brought up a full boat
„ad last night and went back for otli
; ,. g this forenoon. The towboat Itasco
1 II. I uivis, txx>K down in ate n
,
ilw and bauds for work on Long Lake
levee with the hope of saving it from
! demolition. Ten thousand sacks, twen
..............— ......
! bM, «*a«V kegs of nails and a large
number of hands were taken down to
point. The Long Lake levee has
i ls0 0 f 300 feet and is 4n feet high.
j Its loss would lw a heavy blow to the
< "tion belt lev............ and every ef
fort will lie made to keep it from be
; ng swept away.
The back water Is now coming up in
southern ' ' suburbs ‘ of the eitv " it
the rate of about an inch pel hour, but
will not ho permitted to get into the
Gty proper, as the culvert in the Mid
,., Ul , volllill; ,s brnm stop,md up and
■- 'era . powerful ... pumps put to work , to
pump the drainage and seepage water
out of the city. The Iron Mountain
Knilroa,! tracks are now several feet
under water and trains are coming in
over the Midland tracks, which are lo
'-ated oil higher ground. How long this
will last is not known, as water is over
tl to-Midland tracks m some phiees and
still rising.
In a few hours the doors of the Iron
Mountain depot will to- under water,
and all freight which happens to get
jn the city is housed in l«ix •-1 r- three
ul j| 08 from the city on high ground.
s vit.i 1 hundred negroes and a few
bites, resid nt.s of this city, are now
■ amping in tents' on the hillsides over¬
looking their former homes, which are
>;! under water. Under the influence
f the new cr vasse, the river lias de
:ed six-tenths in the last twenty
. hours.
Cincinnati Goes r>emocratic.
Oto«**xmati. O.—Col. Gustave Tafel,
I democrat, defeated I^evi Goodale, Re
publican, for Mayor in the municipal
election to-day by a majority of about
7.0(H), the rest of the Democratic ticket
carrying about the same average ma¬
jority. Col. Tafel will be the first Demo¬
cratic Mayor for Ginomnati in many
years. The suci-essfui ticket was o-ui
posed partly of Democrats and partly
of Republicans, its aim being to over
throw the i-reswot municipal adminis¬
tration.
THROl'! H GEORGIA.
XLl , cotton receipts l for Rome for the
- Vtrar haVe „ ee Q ..onsulerah’v lar¬
-
expected gibe and Rome’s
J for be to best inland
rk . to lt8 size in tLe sout h ha- been
1 h< , . Jt is estimated tLat she v ill
re CR1V( . about 25)000 , mles more> mak
’ 1 8 es '
Three more interventions in the Ea¬
gle and Phenix case have just been
tiled iu the office of the federal court.
Dr. J. T. Wavnock, of Atlanta, a di¬
rector of the mills, sues the company
for $ 28 , 194 , which he claims he loaned
the mille. A. J. Bethune, another di¬
rector, sues for $5,437.40. Mrs.Sarah
M. Andrews intervenes for $1,030.
The Medical Association of Georgia
has issued over 2,000 invitations to iti
forty-ninth annual session, which will
be held at Macon on the 21st, 22d and
23d of this month, A number ol
famous doctors w ill read papers at, the
sessions, among whom are Dr. Sarnue
Loyd, of New York; Dr. Joseph Price,
of Philadelphia; Dr. Hunter McGuire,
of Richmond, and Dr. YV. E. B. Davis,
of Birmingham.
The Providence Knitting Mills hat
flle(1 a petition in the United States
asking (or the appointment of •
and Cotton Mills Company. The peti
tion looks very innocent on its surface,
but it is said that a small-sized seusa
j ioI , is lurking behind it. The Provi
company, and the defendant corpora
#-»a— «iwm.«*■
Mrs. Nobles, the convicted murder
esB , ({ b er husband, has been resen
Friday, the 221 day
of April. The old woman took th«
sentence coolly and showed no emo
tion whatever. G-ns Families, who w
under sentence ot death for abetting
Mrg Xobles in the commission of her
crime,has been i espited until the 30th
day of April, one week after Mrs. No¬
1,1,-s will have paid the penalty, if the
sentence of the court is not again de¬
ferred.
Although the supreme court of the
state of Georgia has decided against
them, the attorneys for Henry White
“*J ve n ° l a11 ^ nen up l f. e f °
When the announcement , ot „ the decis* ,
ion oi thfJ state supreme court was
made, it was intimated that the case
would , be appealed , , to , the ^ United
is ever done, the attorneys will make
another effort to get a new trial for
their client, at the hands of the courts
of Georgia.
The Georgia Oratorial association
was organized a day or two ago in At
lant& . Tho varioUH colleges of the
were renresented Xer bv delegates
io l w r were elected
Georgia; first vice president, John R.
Stratton. Mercer University; second
j vice president, H. S. Phillips, Emory
college; treasurer, F. \V. Stone, North
j rj, ««»s^ J A - Betjamau, Technological in
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j stitute.
Mr. Julius L. Brown, son of the
late ex-Governor Brown, in lookiug
j j through some of hie father’s papers
recently found a printed copy of the
j reports made by General Gustavus W.
: Smitb and General Henry C. Wayne,
I ! which were sent to the Georgia legia“
, lature in Februarv, j“ 18C5. The original
L ap V ° gve e been lo8t *’ bu t
M r '. Brown fountl . , OIie . copies .
*' , hl ? h w “ Panted by authority. Be
Ucvmg ^ that these reports should he
int in the relie liion records, Mr.
Brow n wrote to Colonel Livingston to
3ee wha t could be done in the matter.
Colonel Livingston at once went to
the secretary of war and succeeded in
getting an order to have them printed.
0lie of the amusing happenings ot
t h e Baptist convention at Gainesville
eame to light when the committee on
time and place of next meeting was
dissolved by request. The committee
was made up of Lansing Burrows,who
wanted the convention for Augusta,
John F. Eden, who wanted it for We9t
Point, R. E. Miner, who wanted it for
Valdosta and J. J. Whitfield, who
wsnted it for Hawkinsville. Neither
member would give away, so they
asked to be relieved from further du¬
ty. A new committee consisting of
E. B. Carroll, John M. Green, B.
Hamilton, J. G. Mc.Cail and J. C.
Daggan was appointed. They learned
that Augusta had not had the conven¬
tion in thirty years, so they agreed on
th : olfi.ee
A Mule Causes Wreck.
Jackson, Mlse.—Tim l!aihx>ad Com¬
mission has boea aiiviaed of a serious
wreck oo the Yazoo is Mississippi Val¬
ley Railroad Satardax morning, twenty
miles sooth of Vicksburg. Extra train
No. i)6 ran over a imu-. tearing up the
track, dltchmg the’enr ne and klliing
Fireman Russeii. cf New Orleans. No
other persons war*' injured..
