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A Song of Sixpence.
Something ‘‘Something old and something new
borrow^ and something blue
And a silver six;, ai! in tier shoe."
ER bridal attire had
7 been modified by the
0 superstitious mandates
of tho quaint old
rhyme. Her gown, of
7 course, was new; her
°o veil had deeendect from
JY 4 her grandmother;
her
J younger brother—
rendered unusually tender-hearted by
the thought of losing her—had scoured
the town in search of an English six¬
pence, and there had been several
maidens benighted enough to vie for
the privilege of supplying the bor¬
rowed hankerehief, and the blue
ribbon she had tied about her arm.
The ribbon was cut into bits and di¬
vided among eager friends when the
bride changed her gown“ and the
lucky lender of the handkerchief re¬
ceived back tho talismauic article with
reverent joy. Gertrude stood by,
smiling indulgently during the flurry
but making no attempt to share in it.
The last moment had come, and the
bridegroom was waiting at the foot of
the stairs, when the bride—standing
ready inher traveling dress, her white
attire strewn about the room—sudden¬
ly remembered something, and snatch¬
ing up a white satin slipper from the
hearth rug, rescued from the toe a
round and shining article and pressed
it, laughing, into Gertrude’s hand.
“Here’s the luckiest thing of all,
Gertie,” she said, affectionately.
“0 Leila! How good of you, dear!
I will never part with it,” cried
Gertrude warmly, and slipped the
lucky sixpence into the palm of her
glove.
And then the good-byes were said;
the bride went off in a shower of rice;
the guests began to fade away. Ger¬
trude, who had been a bridesmaid,
was urged to linger and discuss the
event with the family, and she had
almost humored her own reluctance
to leave the flower-decked house, with
its excited and festive atmosphere, for
the dreariness of the December day
outside, when she discovered that Bob
Norman had been asked to linger, too.
That altered the matter.
“Indeed,, I mustn’t - steal another
minute,” she assured Mrs. Vierling
awkwardly.
She sighed as she took a last glance
at the mirror—which reflected brown
and wistful eyes in a piquant face
aglow with coJor, and a dainty pink
gown and an old white cloak—but she
was uunecessarily stiff with Mr. Nor¬
man when he handed her into the car¬
riage. She reflected with a little
shiver, as the door was closed upon
her, how long that carriage had been
waitingand what a bill she would have
to pay lor it. But she had determined
that that day should be like the old
times, the times when carriages were
a matter of course and pretty pink
gowns ranked as necessities instead of
unwarrantable luxuries. And she had
had her wish. It had been the cul¬
mination of all the delightful weeks
during which her position as one of
Leila Vierling’s bridesmaids had
brought her many unaccustomed
pleasures. Amiable friends aud rela¬
tives had entertained the bridal party
with breakfasts and dinners, dances
and theatre boxes, one following fast
upon another until life was just a
whirl of gayety with only a single
thing to remind her of this work-a-day
world. That drawback had been
Mrs. Vierling’s manifest intention of
indulging her kindly propensily for
match-making, with Gertrude and Mr.
Robert Norman for her victims. Ger¬
trude had been quite innocent at first,
though she had wondered Bomewhat
that Mr. Norman so frequently ap
reared on the evenings that Leila had
begged her to come up and talk over
wedding arrangements. And at last
the truth forced itself upon her. For
the same thing happened at all the
festivities—that he sat next her at ta¬
ble, that he was left to hold her cloak
at the theatre, that he was given a.
thousand opportunities of devoting
himself to her, and no chance of de¬
voting himself to anybody else. The
knowledge had caused her agonies of
shame and embarrassment; and fear
that Bob Norman might think her a
willing party to these maueuvres made
her so stiff, so awkward and so whim¬
sical in her treatment of him that she
secretly wondered at the good humor
with which he continued to carry out
Mrs. Vierling’s arrangements. She, for
her part, did everything to upset
them. She spent fewer evenings at
the Vierling’s; she insisted on hurry¬
ing away if Mr. Norman appeared
there; and when it came to wedding
rehearsals—which, she suspected had
been multiplied solely to give that
eligible young man more opportuni¬
ties' of escorting home herself—she
scored a point by seizing upon Leila’s
brother and, by skillful flattery, in¬
ducing that unsuspicious youth to be
her companion to and from the
church. She strove all the harder for
these small victories because she was
miserably conscious of the fact that if
matters had been different, if Mr. Nor
man sought her out, of his own
accord, it would—well, it would have
been very pleasant. There had been
a time when such attentions from him
had filled her with other feelings.
That was in her first season “out,”
when she was nineteen, and, as people
said, so pretty, and he was a promis¬
ing college lad, with a delightfully and in¬
fectious laugh, and high ideals a
perfect grasp of the waltz step—an
ensemble which Gertrude then consid¬
ered satisfactory. They had danced a
good deal together at that time, but
since, until that present fall, had seen
little of each other. For the loss of
her mother had caused her retirement
from society next year, and after that
came the crash of her lather’s busi
ness and his death, which left his
daughters with no resource but their
own powers; and Gertrude had
dropped out of the gay, delightful
worid she had scarcely learned to
know, and had been for five years only
a struggling, patient, nervous little
music-teacher, meekly thankful now,
at- twenty-six, that she could earn
enough for two, and keep Kitty in
school until the child was sufficiently
learned to impart the mysteries of
grammar and geography to meantime, younger
students. Robert Norman,
had finished college, and spent two
year3 abroad, and had lately come
home, eager and confident, to fulfill
his duties as a prosperous citizen. It
was only through Mrs. Vierling’s
planning that ho and Gertrude had
met again. Their days of meeting
were over now, Gertrude thought,
stifling another sigh. Her brief play¬
time—and she permitted herself to
sigh at this—was over too. The wed¬
ding was a thing of the past; she had
had her little hour of happiness ; she
had looked so young and pretty in her
bridesmaid’s dress, that Bob Norman
might almost have been glad to come
and talk to her even if Mrs. Vierling
hadn’t managed it—but henceforth she
must think of her pupils and of her
practicing and of showing a cheeriul
face to Kitty, who was nodding eagerly
from the window of their flat as the
carriage drew up at the door, Ger
trude hurried upstairs and Kitty
helped her off with her things in the
modest parlor, where,the fading fur¬
niture formed a glaring contrast to the
aggressively new wall paper, Ger
trude reproached herself for noticing
this dismal fact; it would never do to
let Kitty guess her state of mind.
Therefore, she shook herself mentally
and plunged into a lively account of
the morning’s festivities. Kttty list¬
ened, revolving about her sister, and
deriving much amusement from an
account of Leila’s charms. Gertrude
put the lucky sixpence into a safe
corner of her shabby little purse, and
set about getting supper—for the
afternoon had flown. She and Kitty
had wedding cake for de-sert, and she
assented to Kitty’s suggestion that
they should sleep with some under
their pillows. It was unreasouable of
Gertie, after tempting fate in that
manner, to be vexed at dreaming of
the wedding aud of Robert Norman’s
face, so downcast as he said goodbye.
She threw away her cake next morn¬
ing, resolved to have no more of that
nonsense. The episode was indeed
finished, but she was not as glad as
she might have been, to remember,
that after the distant way she had
parted from him, there was no danger
of Mr. Norman’s venturing to seek
her company thereafter, Unfortun
ately, though she didn’t see him,
there were circumstances which kept
tho thought of him before her; for
he had gained prominence in certain
attempts at improving the city politics,
and a speech of his at a reform club
ban quet was being vigorously discussed
in the newspapers. It was, perhaps,
not so much a sign that the speech was
good, as that times—from the jour¬
nalistic point of view—were dull, but
Gertrude did not realize that fact and
assured herself that few men were so
clever. wed¬
It was three weeks after the
ding, and Gertrude was hurrying
across the centre of the city on the
way home from her last lesson. Snow
was falling and melting as it fell, and
the exertion of carrying two big rolls
of music and of holding.up her skirts
from contact with the muddy pave¬
ments had added to the fatigues
engendered by the musical vagaries of
an unusuaiiv stupid pupil. She was
exasperated at herself for stopping at
a news stand because she caught a
glimpse of Bob Norman’s name on a
front column headline, but she hadn't
strength of mind enough just then to
resist the impulse. Her weakness was
punished, for as she tried to find a
penny, her chilled fingers fumbled the
purse,which tipped sideways, allowing
a bright bit of silver to escape and
roll across the pavement. Gertrude
started after it, with a little cry of
distress, but someone eke started too,
and in a second Mr. Norman came
forward, lifting his hat, and holding
Leila’s gift in his other hand.
“O! thank you so much,” said Ger¬
trude breathlessly, trying lucky to arrange
her burdens. “It’s my six¬
pence. I wouldn't have lost it lor
anything.”
•‘Awfully glad to see yon. Nover
thought of meeting you here,’ said
he, his face beaming. through les¬
“I’ve just gotten my
sons,” said Gertrude—very primly,
because she felt certain he knew why
she’d bought that paper, She shoots
hands because ho so plainly expected
it, but when ho essayed to talk a little
further, and would have commenced
by asking news of tbo bride, her em¬
barrassment increased with the
thought of that wedding day, and she
abruptly cut him short, remarking
coldly that she must hurry, an 1, hav¬
ing bowed stiffly, hastened on, straight
through a mud-puddle which CO III*
pleted the ruiu of her poor little
shoes. She had not gone half a block
betore she asked herself why she had
done it; he was talking to her then of
his own accord and she need not have
been so disagreeable. Well, all was
certainly over now. He would never
try to speak to her again, and she wait
very tired, and her feet were wet, and
it was absurd to preteud to herself
that this was snow melting on her eye
lashes. Gertrude!”
“Miss Wilbnr! Miss
sounded suddenly behind her and she
turned, winking away the snow flakes,
to behold Mr. Norman, flushed from
fast walking, holding out that lucky
sixpence in a well-gloved hand. “I
forgot to give you this alter all; it’s
very stupid in me,” he began, tried
formally, and then, as she to
shift her music rolls, he took them
gently from her. for you—I’m
“Let me carry them
going this way,” he said in quite teS fVJH
other tone; for he had seen those
tale lashes and it occurred to him thnf
she had been abrupt only because she
was troubled or tired.
He took possession of her news
paper, too, in the most matter-of
course way in the world, and pro.;
ceeded to ask her questions about the
coin he held. And Gertie, in the vigor
of her penitence, explained in the
friendliest manner, and they laughed
together over the superstition. And
then they talked and laughed about
other things. He reminded her of
the first dance they had had and she
let him persuade her to remember it,
and they walked away past the place
where she should have taken the cur,
before either of them noticed.
He even dared, after a bit, to touck
on Leila’s prenuptial festivities, and
to hint that he lelfc grateful to Mrs.
Vierling for the frequent aid she had
lent his wishes, and having received
this assurance, Gertrude allowed him
to start what subjects he pleased.
They walked on and on, as the iairy
tales say, and feeling quite as the
fairly tale prince and princess used,
until it was needless to take a car
at all, on discovering which fact
they wondered greatly over their
absence of mind. Soon after!
absorbed in a discussion of mill
sic and of Gertrude’s pupils, her home the^
strolled some two blocks past
and retraced their steps in much
confusion. Mr. Norman could not
possibly accept her invitation to
but he so far forgpt goo d f nrm Jt
’star some time talking on the
steps. Gertrude should have bW
very tired and hungry, but she v?asn’^,
when at last he said goodbye. Even
alter that he lingered. said,
“L have your luck yet,” he
looking down with a strange shyness
at the sixpence in his hand, and then,
with a sudden desperate plunge:
to “Gertrude, for always? won’t yon Won’t trust you—” your^luck
me
No one has ever learned what else
he said, though Kitty tried Lard to
make Gertrude lell.
However, another bride wore that
sixpence in her shoe a few months
later, when Mrs. Vierling insisted on
giving the quiet wedding breakfast.
And Gertrude, sad to bo recorded was
much less magnanimous than Leila
—a "“wdS
whfte ixpTuco bin sfc.'tX oft the little
slipper. The Peter™.
Brushing the Teeth.
The upper teeth should be brushed
downward and the lower teeth upward
from the gums. Do not brush the
teeth crossways, ns they are apt ta
become loosened and the gums will
also suffer. The inside of the teeth
should be brushed in the samo way.
Tepid water is the best to use, both
for cleaning the teeth and rinsing tb.e
mouth out afterward.
The tooth brush should be small
and curved, so that the bristles can
get in all the interstices of the teeftu
It should not be too hard, and,
a new tooth brush is purchased it
should be soaked in water for several
hours before usiDg. If the brush is
dried on a towel after being used, and
stood up on end in the air it will last
much longer. Tooth brushes should
never be kept in a closed receptacle.
Tooth powders should be chosen
with great discretion. For general
use the following will be found a very
good powder! Mix together half an
ounce of powdered bark, a quarter of
an ounce of myrrh, one dram of
camphor and one ounce of prepared
chalk. Anothor simple receipt is as
follows: Add two ounces of camphor¬
ated chalk, two draohms of very tine
powdered borax, half an ounce of
powdered orrisroot and half a drachm
of powdered myrrh; mix the ingredi¬
ents thoroughly together and keep
the powder in a stoppered bottle.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Np Honors for Self-Murderers.
The German Minister of War has
issued a general order to the effect
that military honors are no longer to
be rendered at the funerals of officers
who have committed suicide, whose
names are likewise henceforth to be
made public, instead of has being been kept led
secret. Emperor William
to take this step by the extraordinary
increase of iate in the number of sui
cities among the officers of the army.
NINETEEN NEW GOVERNORS.
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1890, to March •», 1897.
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1. Andrew E. Lee (Fusion), of South Dekota. 2. (Republican), John W. Leedy
list and Democrat), of Kansas. 8. James A. Mount of Indiana.
4. Robert L. Taylor (Democrat), of Tennessee. 5. G. W. Atkinson (Repair
lican), of West Virginia. of 6. South Lon Carolina. V. Stephen 8. (Fusion), Ebe Walter of Missouri. Tunnell 7.
“H. Ellerbe (Democrat), A. Ramsdell (Republican), of New Hampshire,
crat), of Delaware. 9. George York. 11. Roger Wolcott,
10. Frank S. Black (Republican), of New
publican), of Massachusetts. 12. Alvan Adams (Democrat and Free
Republiean), of Colorado. 13. John R. Tanner (Republican), of
14. Major Edward Scofield (Republican), of Wisconsin. 15. Hazen S.
gree (Republican), of Michigan. ,16. Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican), of
necticut. 17. Frank Steunenberg (Democrat), of Idaho. 18. John R.
era (Fusion), of Washington. 19. Robert B. Smith (Fusion), of Montana.
CONVICT FARMS PAY.
00 th Carolina’s Plantation Has Made
1 Money for toe state,
annual report to the gover-
1 the board-of Jiie. tors of
penitentiary announce that
the contracts for working convicts
shares have expired ami none of
will be renewed.
As no convicts are leased to con¬
tractors, the state will hereafter work
CO nvict on three farms which have
recently been purchased. Two of
these aggregate 5,000 acres of as fine
planting land as there is in the state,
and they are being put in excellent
c0ndit j 011 . The value of the farming
property is put down this year at
$11o,■()()()
While the farms were not fully
worbed this year, the penitentiary
sold few dayg ago 700 bales of
tto ^ on 8ealed bida to a Wilming- m
f They * have
^ yet Qn iand> be ideB about
324,000 worth of ,11 kind* of pro™
S 68 -“ 00 - » ,il1 «ftor ».«ki„g ita.1 P«5"
The institution starts the new year
with 818 convicts, 172 less than last
year. The falling off’ is due to a change
in the law which permits county super¬
visors to work short term convicts on
the roads of the counties ill which they
are convicted.
Last year the penitentiary worked
about eighty mules, which number
will, since the whole force of the in¬
stitution will now be devoted to farm¬
ing, be greatly increased.
The convicts are said to be happy
and contented in their farm work.
WOMAN LIBRARIAN.
Caucus of Tennessee Democratic Doffisla
torft Nominated.
The names of eleven lady candidates
for state librarian were presented the to
the joint democratic caucus of
Tennessee legislature Thursday after
noan, but they dropped out steadily
and only six ballots were necessary.
Mrs. Irene Ingram, incumbent, led
on the first five bullets, but on the
sixth ballot Miss Pauline Jones, of
Hannon county, received forty-five
votes to Mrs. Ingram’s forty-one, and
Miss Jones was declared the nominee.
Depositors Ask for Receiver.
Most of the depositors of the defunct
Columbia National bank, of Minneapo¬
lis, have joined in a telegram to Comp¬
troller Eckels, asking for the appoint¬
ment of F. B. Dodge, of Minneapolis,
as ronaivov
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An Investigation Wanted.
The North Carolina legislature has
adopted a resolution raising a commit
tee to investigate the charges openly
made by a democratic paper that
money is being freely used to infiu
ence populists to vote for Pritchard :
for senator,
Fire at 10 o’clock Sunday morning
totally destroyed the packing Minneapolis, house of
the Anchor Flour mill, at
owned by the Pill slurry-Washburn
company. Loss $200,000; fully in¬
sured
COOPER AN OUTLAW.
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A SOUTH CAROLINA NEG RO’S
RECORi) OF CRIME. MT*
Six Have Been Slain and as Many More
Shot Down in Cold
Blood.
A Columbia special says: Fi ve men
and one woman killed, one or two wo¬
men assaulted and five men wounded
is the record of Simon Cooper, colored,
since January 1st, in Sumter county,
S. C.
After this, with hundreds of men
hunting him, with a special train and
a sheriff’s posse going from town to
town, this desperado, armed with pis¬
tol, winchester rifle, bowie knife, razor
and plenty of ammunition, is still at
lai’go. Cooper
He will not be taken alive.
is the grandsom of a white man, John
Ashmore, who was a famous bad char¬
acter in this state before the war.
On Emancipation Day the negroes
had a celebration at Magnolia, Sumter
county. Henry Davis and other ne
groes got into a row, and Davis shot
at Cooper, whereupon Cooper killed
him.
A warrant for his arrest was put in
the hands of a posse of negroes. They
went for the murderer and were met
half way.
Cooper of whom on lias since
shooting six, one Wednes
died. He disappeared until
< lay night, when he turned up at
Lynchburg, Sumter county,and Thurs¬
day morning the bodies of four per¬
sons, shot with rifle and pistol and
hacked with an ax, showed his terrible
work.
Isaac Boyd, a negro boy, was a wit
ness to the latest murders, Cooper
forcing him to go with him. Boyd
swears that before killing Mrs. Wilson,
Cooper assaulted her' and then forced
her to show him where the harness
was.
After committing these crimes, and
firing into a piazza full of children,
Boyd says Cooper grew jolly over the
success of his plans.
Wants Labor Legislation.
Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
in his biennial message to the legisla¬
ture recommends that the working- day
be limited to eleven hours and that no
child under twelve years bo allowed to
work in any buildi ng.
_
Assignments in Knoxville,
C. I. Gooding, druggist, of Knox¬
ville, Tenn., with liabilities at $7,000;
assets, $11,006; and the Workingman’s
Building and Loan association, liabili¬
ties $50,000; assets supposed to be
r uffieient to cover the same, have made
assignments.
Maukted men should sever their
connection with all clubs but the home
club.
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The best of what we (lo and are is
enough.
GEORGIA NEWS IN GRIEF.
The retail merchants of Augusta have
signed n memorial to the tariff commit¬
tee at Washington protesting against
tint one-eighth additional duty now be
in;' asked for by Vue sugar trust.
* * *
Senator Carter lias scored another
lively sensation, He called upon
the conunittiv appointed to arrange
preliminaries for .Juitge the investigation of
charges against J. L. Sweat and
and Judge Seaborn Reese, and filed
supplementary ing accusations of surpris¬
nature.,
* * *
The dry good.’ establishment of Max
Joseph at Athena has been put in the
hands of a receiver. A few days since
Joseph tiled mortgages on his posses-
sions amounting to §82,000, of which
some $46,000 was second mortgages to
northern creditors. It was at the in¬
stance of the second mortgagers that
the receiver was appointed,
* * *
Governor Atkinson and his party
have readied California. They ar¬
rived in Los Angeles a day or two ago,
where they will remain for some time
before going to San Francisco. The
governor was met, by a large delegation
and will be royally entertained during
his stay in Los Angeles. Several
weeks longer will be spent in the west
before his return.
Judge Lumpkin, at Atlanta, granted
nn injunction against the county com¬
missioners, restraining them from pay¬
ing salaries to the members of the
county police force. As a result the
force has been disbanded. As soon as
the decision was handed down the
commissioners gave notice that the
case would lie carried to the supreme
court.
About $10,000 out of the $27,000 as¬
sessed by the commissioners of De
Kalb county for the erection of a new
courthouse lias been paid into the
treasury. Although an injunction has
been tiled to prohibit the collection of
this tax, the people continue to pay
and the indications are that by the
time set for the hearing of the injunc¬
tion by Judge Candler, all of it will
have been paid in.
The electric street railway property
at Savannah has been sold at auction
by the Untied States marshal for
$211,000. The purchasers are Her
man Myers, of Savannah, and J. H.
Fall, of Nashville, representing a syn
dieate of the majority of the bond
holders. The bonded indebtedness of
the company is $600,000. The prop
erty will be reorganized at once and a
large amount of money spent for new
equipment.
♦ * *
Will Strickland and Harrison Wil¬
son, who were found guilty of con
| spiracy at Atlanta have for s: rooting Revenue
utffeev McAfee, been sentenced
to the Ohio penitentiary. Owing to
the fact thcO tie hue been i-wiftiaiGir ’i,
jail for th< past six months, Will
Strickland was sentenced to three and
a half years at hard labor and fined
$500. Harrison Wilson received the
full sentence of four years at the same
prison. The attorneys who defended
Wilson have given notice that they
will move for a new trial.
Flanagan, the murderer of Mrs.
Allen and Alisa Slack, lias given out a
detailed statement of the cause that led
up to his crime. Two days were
required to transcribe the awful pictures
which the frenzied imagination of the
man conjured up. It is an awful
story of infatuation and perverted
affection which the murderer had for
little Lei a Allen, and Flanagan dwells
upon all the horrors of his strange
love. He gives a queer reason for
loving the girl in that he wished to see
that she was brought up to be good.
* * *
A new ray of hope lias brightened
Taylor Delk’s prison cell at Atlanta,
and hope comes again to the condemn¬
ed man. Several affidavits disclosing
sensational discoveries have been added
to the large batch of papers that will be
tendered by Delk’s attorneys when the
argument is heard by Judge Reck fora
new trial and a change of venue. I t has
been discovered that one of the twelve
jurors who convicted Taylor Delk is a
relative of the murdered sheriff of Pike
county, and the relationship, though
quite distant, is sufficient, under the
common law, to give excellent grounds
for a new trial.
At a special meeting of the stock¬
holders of the Central railroad at Sa¬
vannah the purchase of the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic railroad was con¬
firmed, as was also the appointment of
C. W. Haskins as comptroller. The
amendment to the charter allowing fif¬
teen instead of thirteen directors was
adopted and President Samuel Spencer
of the Southern and A. K. Lawton, Jr.,
were elected. Mr. Lawton goes on the
board temporarily, as it is the inten¬
tion to elect an Alabamian to this
place.
♦ * *
Judge NV. T. Newman hasissued an
order directing Captain Robert J.
Lowry, as special commissioner of the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
to pay the equipment notes of the
road. The amount of the notes and
the parties to whom they are ordered
paid are as follows: Samuel W.
Groome, $31,105, with interest from
January 19, 2881, at 7 per cent; to
Jackson & Woodin Ma-nfacturing com
pany, 22,977, with interest at 7 per¬
cent. from January 19, 1891; to Jaekr
son & Sharp Company, $65,102.26,
with interest from December 21, 1894;
to the Rhode Island Locomotive works,
$25,80-4, with interest from May 11,
1891; to Baldwin Locomotive works,
$10,353.62, with interest from June 4,
1891; to George R. Eager, $1,530.75,
with interest from December 4, 1831.