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i [c & r o » * ■ail's 7 fyi rfc Of f/ a <■ r/ 7 IMPC ‘ is 5 ^ ISMS 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. Oliosnn on November 3 bast to T-ibo Offl m on Various Dates, From December 10, 1890, to March •», 1897. fcf £3» $8 r ep-j * if’ it f'mff a: & fra w m m i <1 ip 2 6 KP $ 1 W « 8 ft ' h, < M #H VI i si \ r-V ffc * m Sff Aio' 9 pW 10 m wjLjjj ' 3 V -2T & m 1m Wriw - wV/> wmtAe ,K i > m / '%7. mmmmyrn k n m 19 <i r % /? §L 1 Aiptr ipsy , y . # /■<4 /; u r ja. 2%. W m* t# 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 _ 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. y 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. ______ 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.