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Newspaper Page TextMACON. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 23. 1891. (Single Copy, Fite, c’eun. f Oh, Iho' I were s’ec t&e weary, gcd the tryst aae far awa\ Whan the jonnie flooore are cJoain', l*t the mirk mlobt do them 111, j would moot you, Kanoy, dearie, By the brattlin' barnlfa fa', ja the gowdeai renmw'i gleamin', Wtee the sen's «ane ower the bill, ^hen the bird* hee hashed their lingia' jo the bosky woods end glens, iftear the water, froeh an' foamin', ptao* doon to kiss the mill, A' »y cere* ehlnt me Hingin', Wl' a Joy there's lew that kens, j would meet you in the gloamin', When the sun's gene ower the hllli IN TIIE GLOAMIN’. From the New or Mali and Express, When the herd with fitfa' canny Frae the mots drive* hame his kye, E'er the little starnies, blinkin', O'er the land their radiance spill, I would meet you, dearest N-tuDie, 'Neath the stallin' roey sky, 2n the lang, lang simmer gleamin', When the sun's gane ower the hill I Bad I a 1 the grounds sae graiey That the Mossat wimples thro’— Bad I a' the cattle ro*tala' Thro* tho boany fields at will, I would gtetbean a', my lassie. And would think them naeanea' But to meet you in the gloamin'. When the eun'e gane ower the hlllt Notorious Miss Anstrthuer I It is prejudicial to tho nioest girl in I ency’s a narrow groovo for narrow minds! Itbfe unjust world to be asked In marriage I oan do no bettor than this about eon- [tiefasqsendy. Things oome out and I slatency, Midge; I am hot end strong , 2«te the name of being a heartless t her own aex add that ebe oun not ^ s' very nioe girl A flirt she Is of a Inwtft hut why heartless, and why not a Itioe girl? Bo grave defects do not fu!- jr.. The flirt who doson’t think she Is ,_ibe flirt with a sc: of sfc-r. prJacS ^ tod idssls and a mislead ia;*. veneer -{icul—is heartless, if yen like, and jetbing worse. Now, the girl who herself proposed to regularly once j'wesk in the season is far less con- Iiactiblt; she is not contemptible at all, ■or tow eould she know that you meant a much more than she did? She only ;cvs a little too szuoh to take your oru for this* T A sweetly pretty and highly accom- Sliced young girl, Util# Mies Anstrtither, 19 to know loo muoh to dream of lay sny man's word on this point. „» wss reported to have refus'd more -Jen than a good girl ought to get; for In tho vary beginning conferred a (•ruin distinction upon her made her I vfl . u* at reyretably early stage of Air carter. The finger of feminine dis- ("roval pointed at her. presently, in an »‘_ic • u'■ l*i way; and this la eald —hr ktman—U be a very bad eign. Men may let think sa Intensely particular ladies, b me pftna of their complete respecia- -„Uy tried to imprees upon very young L (o whom they were interested that m Aoairuther was aot at all a nice girl, ii this hsd a ufseppolntlug effect upon • beya And Miss Anetruther by no Ettot confined hsrsslf te rejecting mere . _o bed no mother to obeok her no- ur.ui propensity In its Infancy, and no -tksr to bully her out of ft In the end. r father, »u Honorable, but a mas c! E ongh to see no feult ha her; but he was busy men. She had, however, a kin#- aa, Lord Nunthorp, who used to talk > her like a brother on tho subjeot of her .1.^.. 5 «l* m llttU I*m V>«*vijy than Jtcthtri use. Nuatborp knew What he Im talking about. He had oooe played at being in love with her himself, lint Lai wss in tho days whsn hie mouatacbe faked m though hs hsd forgotten to I »h it off, and before If lee Anetruther V * out. There hud been no nonsense ktwven them for years. They ware the Itn sod most Intimate of Men da | "Another," he would ear, gazing rarely upon bar ae the most fascinating aridity tn the world, when she hap* hstd to be telling him about the vary iusi "Lot's see— how many's that?" I There came a day when she told Nun- L r; •• - l.td lo-t count; and eh* realty The day was at the fag end of one m; hs hsd been lunching at the Isitroihers' and Mist Anetruther had lao i cging to him. I 'I'm afraid I cen't assist you," said he, | th amused concern. "I only remcm- tLe first eleven, so to speak. First - i: •** your re-tor's *wt> in tlie rantry, young Miller, who was sent to l.itralia on the spot. He was the first, ■isn't hs? Yes, 1 thought that won the lltr, and by Jovt! Midge, bow fond lu wsr# of that boy!" |"I vas,"said Miss Anetruther, glano- jl out of the window with a wtetfui kk Id her pretty eyes; but her kinsman 1J to himself that he remnmbered that lutful look—it went cheap. I'Tho next man in," sold Nunthorp, an Immense cricketer, "was |"I Ilk* that!" said Miss Anstrnther, king her eyes from the window with “*r a jerk and smiling brightly, •o're left out Cousin Dick." T*bs 1 ha vet 1 bc*g Dick’s pardon. * egotistical of me, lor of oourse I k asrer stood so high in tho serene por u 1 did. I came after Dick, then, * wicket down, and einoe Urea—well, - *M )oor*elf that you're lost tally, It you meet have bowled ont a pretty , u « uam by Ibis time. M* dear P-*- " "eel.l Nunthorp with a Hidden 8'•« of paternal gravity, "don’t you Pak it about time that somebody came N carried bis bat?* [Don't talk nonsense," said Miss An- ‘ 'hi ^'skly. bhe added, almoet the subject. lint you are not listen ing." "AhP cried Miss Anetruther, who bad not listened to a word, "they're driving me craay between them! 1 here's Mr. ■vyillimott, yon know, who writes. Of course ha had no business to speak to me. There were a hundred things **ai-*» him at '>i,~ time, even if I'd oared for him, though he's getting more suc cessful now. Well, I do believe he's put me into every story ho'* written since it happened! I crop up in some uik»/ius or other every month!" " ‘Into work the poet kneads them,' murmured Miss Nunthorp, who was no prof.anicua'. cii. Ui«r. "Well, you needn't bother yourself about him. You've made the fellow, iie now draws a heroine bet tor thau most men. It's a pity you don’t take So writing. Mi Ige, you draw your heroes better than women do as a tule; for don't you see that you must know more about us than we do about our selves?" "They wouldn't bo muoh of heroes!" laughed the girl. "But I heartily wish 1 did write. Wouldn't l show up some people, that'a all! It would give me some thing to do, too; it would keep me <fut <>l mischief, and really I am sick of un-u and their ridiculous non so use. And they all say the same thing. If only they wouldn't say anything at all? Why do they? You might tell mef' Nunthorp put eu his ibinking-oap "You sesL you are quite pretty," said he. "Thank*" "Then you sing like an angel." "Please don't! That'a what they all 7*" "Ah, the singing has a lot to do with it; yon oegburt to sing so well; •rably. •*! wish to goodness Uiev ildn’t ask me. If only they wouldn't 1 should be all right. Why do "ant to go and propose? It spoils rthiiig." •r ion# and look were quite injured, "a* more indignant than Nunthorp •*er seen her—except once—for the was of a most serene disposition. He '■id el her klndlv, and as admiringly "»r, though rather with the eye of a 'Colssenr, and he foond she had still noet lovely. Imperfect, uncommon “affront little face he had ever mm “• l»I* He laid candidly: 1• really don't blame them, and I don’t ksw yon can. U you are to blauae •edy, Tm afraid it must be yourself. give them sosae encourage- V Midge, or I don't think they'd all Clothe point as thev da I never •och sportsmen as they are! They •o and walk out again one ^ter the - a»d they seem to like it—” »Uh they did"* said Miss An- •aer, devoutly. J only wish they'd then—I’m afraid you like attention." "Well, perhaps I da” "And I'm sure it muii bo very hard not to be attentive to yon," said Nun* nally, fMi • Whir brutal luiparrcu- ality; "foe I should faury you have a way—quite enconsoloua, mind—of giving vour ouvrent admirer the Idea that he's the only one who ever held the offloe?" "Thanks,” said ah#, with perfeol good humor: tliat's a very pretty way of put- iff H. * •MVhaL Midger "That I'm a hopeless fllr*—which Is the foot of the whole matter. 1 stioposal" hhe burst out laughing and he joined her. But there had born e plncii of pathos in her words, and he was wsak euoiigh to make n shuw of contradicting them, bhe would not listen to him. she laughed at his insincerity. The conver sation had broken down, and, as soon &■ he decently couM, he went. That was at tho very end of a season; and Lord Nunthorp did not see his netor* fous relative again for some months. la the following February, however, he heard her sing at some evening party ; ho had no chance of talking with ther properly; but lie was gkd to tind that he could meet her at a danoe the fiext night. “Well, Midge!" he was able to say at Inst, as they set out together at this dance. "How many proposals since the summer? ' She gravely held wp three fingers, Nunthorp laughed. "Any more scalps?" he inquired. This was an sn.ient p!e*»antry. referred to the expensive presents with which s.-me young men lied paved their w nr to di-ar point meat. It wan r mooted point between Mies Anstruther and her noble kinsman whether she had any right L. retain llieee Iblu^n. She considered ■be had every right, and declared that these presents were her only oompensa* lion for ao many unnleasantaesseo. He pretendsd to take higher ground in the matter. Bat it emassd him e good deal to ask he» about her 'scalp#..” She told him what the new one# were, "And| I perceive mine—upon yotsr wrist!" Nunthorp exclaimed, examine leg her hraeelet; and he was genuinely tickled. "Well!" seid she, turning to him with the frankest eyes, "I'd quite lorgettou whose it wee—honestly I had!" He wee vastly amaeed. 8o his brsoe* 1st—she bad absolutely forgotten that It was hh—did not make her feel at all awkward. There was a healthy cynic ism in the existing relations between these two. She had nothing very new to tell him. Two out of the last three had proposed by letter. She confeseed to being tick and tired tt answering thie klad ef letter. "I tell you what," aald her kinsman, looking inspired, "yo 1 :. ought to have one printed. You oonld compose a very pretty one, with bleaks for the name and date. It would save you a deal of time and trouble. You would have it printed in brown Ink and rummy old tvpe, don't you know, oo rough paper with coarse edge*. It would look charming. 'Deer Mr. Blank, of course I am greatly flat tered'—no, you’d «ay'very—'of coarse I’m very flattered by your letter, but I must confess it astonish?; ms. I thought we ware to be such friends, 1 Really, Midge, it would he well worth your •aid be, "when I last had the privilege of lecturing you, that you sang inlquit- ously well? And it's distinctly danger* oua. It didn't beppen to matter laat night, because the rooms were ee crowded, but If you sing tc one or two as you sinr to one or two hundred, I don't wonder at thorn, 1 really don’t, You eing as though you meant every word of the drivel—I 'believe you hum bug yourself into half meaning it when you’re staffing!" "I believe Ido," Miss Anstruther xt- plied, with characteristic cando You’ve no idea how much bettor it makes you sing, to put a little heart into it. But 1 never thought of this; perhaps I had bettor give up singingl” "I’ll tell yon, when my turn comes round again,” said he, leading her back to the ballroom." *TU think of noth ing else meanwhile." He did not dance: be was not a danc ing man; but he did think of something else meanwhile. He thought of a young fellow with a nale faoe, darkly accoutred.* with whom MUs Anstruther seemed to be dancing a great deal. Lord Nunthorp hated dancing, and he had only come hero to ait out a couple of dances with his amusing relative. He had to wait a good time between them; he spent it in watching her: and ehe spent it in dano- ing with the pals, dark boy—all but one waits, during whioh Nunthorp removed his attention from the bow to it* latest string, who, for the time being, looked miserable "Who," he asked her, ae they man aged to get possession of their former corner in theconservatotv, "isyour dark haired, palo-faced friend?" "Well," whispered Mite Anstruther, with grave concern. "I'm very muoh airaiu tn»» he ie what you would call the next man in." "Good heaven!’’ ejaculated Nunthorp, for once aghast *'Do you mean to say ho ie going to proposo to you?” "I feel it coming; I know tke symp toms only too well,” she replied in cold blood. "Then perhaps you are going to make a different answer at last? ’ "My dear man," said Lerd Nunthorp’s sisterly little connection; and her tone waa that of a person rather cruelly mis judged. The nobis kinsman held his tongue for several seconds. Man of the world sa he was, hs looked utterly scandalized. Here in thie fair, frail, beautiful form, lay a depth of cynicism which he could not equal personally—which he could not fathom In another, and that other a quite young girl "Midge,” he said at last, with sincere solemnity, "you horrify me! You’ve ofton told me the kind of thing, but this is the first time I’ve seen you with a fly aolually in the web: for I don’t think I OJw" Ouuulvu, altar all. Thai buy ii helplessly in love with you! And you were smiling upon him as though yeu liked him, tool” Nunthorp wae^touched ^tremulously hfm in a frightened voice. "Was I look ing—like that?" think yoe were," said Nunthorp, frankly. "And now you oamly sceff at the bore mention ef aooeptiox him! You make my bleed run r?1d. Midgel I think >.i can have no heart." "Do you think that?” ehe asked, strenuously, as though he had struck her. "No, no; vou know I don’t; only after seeing you look at him like that " "Honestly, I didn’t know I was look ing in any parlloular way." Miss An struther addsd In a lowered, softened voice: "If 1 was—well, it wasn't meant to her had hern: want to h«»ar you’r I am—there’a u«iu had answered, ▼< ri waa doing so; mu That wee the lmt«i hie o^es, just < "Buioy yourself. I having a good time, iff like work." bho truthfully, that oho now he knew how! >st thought; that tho • not his, and she, in •he had boon in the least one case. Hs was vexed with him self for haviug been stupid about it at the moment. l>ui it delighted him to tbink that aoet likoly this would Lethe last cast—of the kind. For Lord Nunthorp took always tho most good-naturod in terest in lets conspicuous cousin (er what ever sbo was), with whom ho had oece played at le/o himself. How plain It wss to the world that iss Anstruther was mothtrlw! No mothsr would have allowed her to be have ao she did. With a mother, she would have married one of the many, whether she loved him or act. Her father, whose time wss much taken up, was so blind as to see no harm in her. The only people she bad to rsraonstrate with her werv married sisters. One of these bed been Miee Anstruti.er’e chap eron at thii dance, where she eat out twice with her kinsman, Lord Nunthorp, and broke a silly youth’s pride. The siater ventured to remonstrate—but very gently—when they got home, in the small boars of a February morning. Miss Anstruther hsd been silent and subdued during the drive home. She was considerably ashamed of herself. She was more ashamed of having ill- treated the white-faced boy over that dance—now that it was done—thin the would have been to reject him after en couragement; use hsd blunted her feel ings to this eort of aln : hut the wrong nf breaking cold-bioodeoiy au engagement to danre was altogether out of harmony with her charecter and her practice*. She was notorious for leading men on to certain humiliation; she was celebrated for the punctilio with which the kept her word In the smallest matter, injured tho good reputation in the backbone of the bad one, &i not feel at all please l with Lord Nun- t'norp, who had eaia or implied one thing and then stare 1 its opposite. She Lad chered up, however, on her arrival at the house; sne had fouud a letter for herself, with three bright blue stamps A half-leaf happened to escape. She in the corner, stuck upon the mantel- picked it out of he lender when the rest piece. Her hand had cloeed eagerlv j burst black, and her heart was begin* ever this leltsr before the lamp was i ning to ache for " h»t eho had done, bhv turned up She was twisting it be- ' took it to the window, and read on the tween her fingers under her shawl, crisp, scorched paper the ordinary end of while her sister reproved her, not too an ordinary letter — the end of all was, as seriously, for L-r treatment of that boy. "I know it," she answered rather dolefully. "I know well enough what a flirt I am. I have never denied it in my life, not even to them. Hut 1 really HALL’S LETTER TO POLK. of the throng! Hhe eat down and read all of bis letters. The pure breath of heavan rose from every leaf. They did not teuoh bar yet; her heart was numb. But the tones .’bet had ouce come to her ears from every waa silenced. Hhe returned the letters to tke drawer, bhe wou>d keep them till her death. And yet—would he like that? She eat very still, trying to answer this question. Ti e candles went out but A leaden light had crept into the room through, the blinds, bhe thought that he saw Per, that ue had seen her for weeks, that she had been grieving him the whole time that she might pleaue hint now. There had been nothing morbid in Miller. He was the ene men she had known who would wish her sot to keep his Setter* bhe rose resolutely from her obair, .nd with didlculty rekindled her fire; It rumed her elaberate dress, but ehe was this one again. It that ah* wsf khen to do anything cruel or unnatural, bhe • going to do violence to her own feel s only, it would please tb< strong soul rf Miller that she was not going to keep his letter*, to read them in her better moods, and less and She had I lees os tho years went on. For her own snapping part, she felt she would like to have <1 she did j them a little longer. It was a subtle sense of sacrifice for Miller's »u!<n her iiret—which nerved her to burn letters. Overstrung as she wav, she burnt them every one, and without THE LATTER REMINDED OF HIS OLD OPINION OF M4CUNE. aeniie*e Treason to the Alliance rrlnclplea—The Hensons Whr Hall Refasea to Keelxn at Polk’s Iteqiieet. for him, Lord Nunthorp dropped his eye-glass. "And it wasn't meant for you, either!" she super added smartly enough. L«rd Nunthorp breathed again, and ventured to recommend an immediate ■nub in the pale bov'e case. When he bad led her back to bor ohaperone he felt easier on her account than he had for a long time. It waa ob vious to him that the biter waa bit at last. The right man was evidently in view, though he was not there at the dance, which was hard on the white- faced youth. Bar haps she was not the right girl tor the right man—perhaps he refused to be attracted by her. That would be odd, but not impossible; and a girl who had refused to fall in love with every msa who hod ever fallen in love with her was the luckliest girl in the world to care for some man who oared nothing for hvr—p-.lmarily to make him once. That is a woman, through and through, reflected Lord Nun- thorp, out of the recesses of l recherche experience. But Midge would most certainly make him oare; the was fascinating slough to capture any mao — except himself—If she seriously tried; ~~d he sincerely hoped that she was miserable with tholi I* letters. That's »Ui P - Liiher they >«r.to and •'* 1 [•’•T/thlng—rudelr, politely, earc..*.- 6 411 treys—or they say that their ' w me that they liked it; I should while! ^ a better time then. Thev wouldn't Miss Anstruther did not dislikei the joke fror.i him; hot when he added: "The pity is ycu didn't start in the beginning, w’tb ycuof Ted Miller"—she checked him Instantly, __ I "Now, don’t you speak about him," W art broken, tki they 'haven't lbs I ehe said, in a firm, quiet lntle way; out l( *t intention of getting over it—in ; he appreciated the look that swept Into ^•y wouldn't get over it If they her soft eyes no better then he hsd ap- l That’s enough to make any per- I predated it six months before, r* low. even if you know from ex-1 "Why aotT asked Nunthorp, merely w hat to expect. At one time • smuied. ■at loek in the paper for feer of "Became he msaat it T C their suicide* ties I've ooto aeen ! Nunthorp wondered, but not seriously, ** - .l-i.i—- , who had goes >ne, after all, to — you reel r, I carry oui bis oaa. And this way of put- *aow. Of oourse I'm inconmuot? J ting it la his own hoed, which was half 7 coarse you are* said Nunthorp full of cricket, carried him beck to their la&y. **x approve of *ou for lL I’d last chat end reminded him ef a thing be M too an old maid. Midge, than had wauled to eey to her fortheloM with Mi if*, e* be celled her, for’having *tfwigt Ilfs 4 greet* CenUtt* twenty-four hours, done he' duty, ao matter how late, in el F weddings. Tu#y all seem to ge< | whether the young felli I * pretty easily, and that doesn’t i ia first, was to be the Ra ywn think much better of yourself, ! carry out bis bat. And You’ve got it down?’ said Miss Ans- truther, very clearly, examining her card with oi»entatlous care. "Excuse me, but tiers is really some mistake; 1 haven't got your name down for any thing else!" For an Instant Nuntbcrp held himself In readiness for n scene; he half expected to see the boy, whose white feoe wee now on fire, snatch tho card from hsr, expose hsr infamy, tosr up the card and throw the piece# in has face. Hie face looked like ft for a eincle instant, and Nunthorp was prepared to proleat him if he did It, But the boy went away without a werd. Nuatborp met the girl's eyes with his, He knew she was looking for hie ap proval; he knaw she had earned it, by preventing one poor fellow from going tho whole humbling length, and he was glad to think that she had taken his ad* vice; but the glance he gav« her %ery grim. He coul.l not help m went away feeling quite unlike himself. Just outside in the street some one brushed past him, sobbing ax oath, and Lord Nuntiirop became himself again for the person was Miss Anstruthor’i victim. "That's all right," he *sottered; "not a broken heart—only broken pride. That'a all thaVs breakable, after all, end It will meadf* He walkod home rstber plesaed never mean them to go so far. And- and I don't thiak I am so heartless as I Strand Ma^a mako myself oat to bo.” Her sister gazed at her fondly. llsr own family, at all events, loved and be lieved in Miss Anstruther, and held that hor faults wore on the surface. The sister now saw ia the sweet, flushed faco the look that Lord Nunthorp had seen and underestimated more than once. "Is there some one you enro for, after ail, Midge, dearr*' sue askeu softly. "There may have been some one ell the time,” the young girl whimpered, her eve lids fallen, her hand squeezing the letter under her shawl. Midge looked up into her sister's eyes. Her Iid was quivering, bhe was a girl who seldom cried—her detractors would ive told you why. Hhe controlled her- lf before speaking now: "It was the most hopeless affair of them all,” she eal<i simply, "tint—hut be was the owly one wbo reslij meant it" UIs letter was against her bosom. The married stater's eyes had filled. 'You write to each other si.11, den’t you, Midger 'Yes—as frienda Goodnight Helen!” "Good night, darling Midge; forgive » for epeakingl” Helen whispered, kiss* lag her eyes. 'Forgive you ? You've said nothing to what I deserve!” The girl was running up to hsr room two steps it a time, lea Miller’s letter was pressed tight to her heart. Ted Miller had been four rears in Australia, lie had written to her regu larly, the whole time, as hsr friend; and she had written fairly regularly to him, as bleu His was the ono refusal in whioh ehe had not been a fret* agent; she hsd tsen but seventeen at the lime. There was love between them when they parted; there wss never a word of U in their let* tern He wrote and told her all that he doing; he wee roughing It in the wilderness; he was not making his for tune; he never spoke of coming home. She wrote end told him—nsarly all. A pleasant fire wee burning la hsr room. She Ut the candles and sat down uet as she was, la hsr very expensive lali dress, to reed his present letter. She felt, as always, la opening a letter from Ted, that sue was going to ouen a window and let in a cool current of fra grant, freeh air upon an unhealthy, heavy atmosphere; and she noticed what she hsd not nolloed before, through hid ing the letter before the iassp woe turned up, that its superscription was . I E. M. Without a moment's warning, her tears rattle l upon thn hot paper; ehe pressed It passionately to her lips; she flung iier- If upon the bed In a paroxyisni of helpless agony. — K, W, Horn burg, in tb that when wt were instructing the can didates in the order, and before we asked them to take upon tusmselves the obli- gallon of the organization, that ws were required bj our law to make the follow ing statement to them: "You are as sured that nothing contained in thie oh- ligation .b»U In ,n r wi„ con- fl ”. -with ,«r religiou, or politic,1 riewi" i auoU , ho Section 1 from th, prumbl. of our con. itltutlon for tho purpoio of .honing our going to trr, Ie succeed, end to live hap- not in Ted's hand; the bright blue sumps pilr ever after. For Nunthorp had now of New South Welee were really all st.e quite a paterae! affection tor the girl, end he wished her well frem the depths of his maa-qf-tne-world'e prematurely gray heart But he did aot like a httU •cent, with hsr in it, which he witnessed just befere he quitted that party, "My dance," said a boy's osalc died voice just behind him; and the velce of Miss Austru ther replied, in the coldest of tonee, that he "must have made a mistake, for it waa not hie dance at all." "Bat I've got it down," the boy plead* ed, ae yet only naeaedi hie feoe was lias marble as Nunthorp watohed him; Miss Anetruther was also slightly pale, ' tube's doing her duty, for oooe,' thought Nunthorp, to whom the pathos of the inoident lay ia its utter conven tionality. "But ehe plays a cruel game.' •'You’r —*' * ....- had looked at before, bhe now tore open the envelope with etreuge misgivings, and the letter turned out to be from the squatter's wife on Ted Miller’s station; telling bow a buck-jumper had broken Ted Riller'e back; and how, before hie death, whioh ensued in a matter of hsnre, he had directed hor to write to hje family, and alao—but separately—to Tils greatest friend," The dre dulled down, the candle* shortened, and ia their light Miee An struther ant ia her dazzling boll dress, hsr feoe as gray as Its satin sheen. Her rounded arms were mere florid than her face, she moaned a little to herself—ehe oeuld not cry. At lost she stirred herself. Her limbs wsre suff* As she crossed the room, she saw h«i•*.!.»iom head to foot in hsr pier- glass, wi»u .ii her grace end form and motion dfad and stiff within her drvee. Hhe saw hsrsslf thus, but at tbs time with senseless eyes; the sight lint came back to her when she neat used that mirror. She was going to a certain drawer; ehe unlocked it and drew it out bodily; she carried it to tho table where the candles were slowly burning down. The drawer was tiled with Miller's let ters. "His greatest friend!'' They had been merely friends from the day they parted. He had nothing. Out there he had found fortune but a little lose inaoo'eaibU than at homo; he had written her no words of love, for how could there be any hope for them? Bhe had plenty of money, but that was all the more reason wity he should have some. His lettert w< vulgarized by a single passionate, timental, or high-flown paaeego. They were the letters of s goed soldier—on the losing sloe, but fightleg, not talking about fighting—talking, indeed, of quite other matters. Because these letteis had been ««hat they were, fed Mider b had been tea frivolous girl, through frivo lous ysars, what no one el«e hod —not even him»* !f aashe bad kr beat Their friendship had k an i strong and itrengtbeuing. their luv«»' night, and idealised ay Improbability, and further I lodging bouse, by not being dierue-ed, end vet furlbet j h»v» ofies m by betag written "friendship/' His lane * passengers, HAMITS THAT CLITIH. rtells l>ev«luprd hr Which rtie Ant* mel* *u< mount Fences. From th- Hebert Mercury. Th«* effect upon animals of a change ira the conditions of th»ir life is n favorite topic among zoologists and biologists, who find that neoriy every specie of anl- msi exieiea in some oinvr then i eot form, at acme previous epoch o! th* world. Tho whale, for instance, was once a land animal. Forced to taws the water for a^iving, he became, In time, a land nniotal. According to a Tasmanian paper, a modification of tho form of a familiar European animal is goinff on in the Australasian world under the eyes of the people them The Auslvalfan rabbit, imported from .glait ,i c -"kqairing ntlle or Hs fe«t <1 leer ring to climb. As is well known, th- rabbit* of Australia have in creased to auoh enormous numbers that they have become a great post, swarming over the land and devouring th* farm er*’ cropa In order to protect their fields the farmers put up wire netting in place of fences. The rabbits could not get tbrouih ihefto,! ut they presently l-gan to burrow beneath them. Then the farmers sank the nettings six or eiffht inches into the soil. This stoj |*ed the rabbits from getting in by digging, but they presently began to attempt to climb over the netting. As a remit of this climbing, it is said, the rabbits are developing a uail in their toes. The nail development has bran noticed in Queensland, and slill later In Tasmania. According to the theory of natural selection It is likely presently to happen that in certain dis'Mcts only those rab bits will survive which can di ub at least a little; and in this way a race of climbing r-bbite may be developed. THAT FI. If A * AST KX PHEVIION, The Cunnl ng Ruse of • Chicago Fhe- tograpbor. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. A State street photographer has solved th* problem of the age. A grim-vieeged specimen came Into the •hop yesterday, ana hie voice gre ed as he "allowed as hsow he wanted hie plc- ter tuk." "All right, sir. By the way won't yon have a drink?” asked th* photographer, as th* customer sat stern an 1 sour. Th* button wss pushed. "Certainly P 1 smiled the customer. "What is it?” "Ob,” replied the photographer, “that met * ««*!• ruie of uiid* to get e d It afl oat expression.” Mr. U. S. Hall of Misaouri, a member * tb* national UgiiUtive committis cf Farmers' Alliance, was usk^d by President Polk, in a letter dated dune 21, gn hie piece* on that committee, th* requeet being baaed on the fact that he was an opsn and active oppmeat of th* sutMreaaury scheme. Mr. Halt re plied ae follow*: Hudbard, Ma, June 27, 1891.—Mr. L. L. Polk, President of th* National Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union, Washington, D. L‘.—Dear Sir sad Brother: Replying to your communica tion of the 21st, in whioh you ask roe tc withdraw my opposition to the sub- treasury bill, or tender my resignation ■ member of the national legislative committee, I have tho fol.owr.ff to mv : 1 was uncompromisingly opposed to this measure before, at the time of, and tinea ay clrctica zs z mem'-cr ?’ »b*> national legislative committee, and no ir order know better than your self ol ray pronounced opposition to it. You will remember the conversation be tween you and myeelf, in the presence of another gentleman, In yonr office In Washington, the day before th* Febru ary masting of the national legislative council. In that conversation I told yoa what you then knew, that I had been an epen and avowed enemy of the sub treasury ever elnce its presentation to our order in December, 1889, at St. Louie, and told you that I recognized in this bill, and in the course taken by its author. C W. Macune through the Na tional Economist, an attempt to sell out the organization to the protective tariff men of tho East; tt at Macune was using the official organ, V:. i National Ecomo- mis\ and editorially declaring In it that there was "nothing in the tariff ques tion," that it was "a hoary breeder of sectional strife,” and that "the agitation of tb* tariff question was an effort on the part of the ‘Democratic pertv to gal vanize on old ghost of sectional hatred.” I further told you that Mscune’a object in pushing tho sub-treasury bill wss to turn the minds of th* farmers away from the tariff issue and com mit them to class legislation, the very thing the protective barons of the East most wanttd, and you will also remem ber that you expressed your opposition to it and used thlv expression: "If 1 were drawing th* linanrial plunk of a poiitieai party that i wanted to stand oo. it would be hut one sentenoe and wonld read: 'We demand tho free and un limited coinage of ailver.'" This was during the same conversation in which 1 uktu ju'u if you wuui«i niuvpt n •••>&'*- nation at the hands of n third party hr president or rice president of I he Lotted States in 1893 and you said yon would not answer uit qn-eiion. I he r * a member of the legislative council hut knew that I was mriltorably xpjonsJ to tbe sub-treasury bill and knew this ha.ore order is not and can never become, under our constitution, a partisan political body, and that wbsue»«r any one, irom personal ambition or any other motive, tries to make a political party out of our order, he subverts our constitution and gives tho falsshood to his solemn decla ration mode to our organizers to the millions of members who took tb* solemn fraternal obligation of onr order. I quote the okuse of eligibility of mem bership for the purpose of ekowing that ■o one is debarred from becoonng a cumber or officer of our order for opin ion's lake. All that was necessary to join ths Alliance wu that th* ippUcant be over 10 voars of age, a white person, believing in a Supreme Being and was a fanner, farm laborer, etc. Do we find in that constitution any clause that says if a man does not belisv* in the sub-treasury scheme he shall not bo tli. glble either ae a member or an officer of our order? Not one word of It, and why? Because this order, in its infancy and purity, before it wav used as it now Is— by designing politicians and corrupt men to subserTe their ambitions and mercenary ends—was for the purpose os set forth in tho constitution above quoted to bring about a more perfect union of said farm ing classes, and no man was debarred from membership or from holding ortico In our ordor on account of any opinion that he might hold upon any political question, which means questions pertaining to national or state legislation. This la ths dividing line, sod the only one of moment between partisan and non-partisan bodies. If a mao is a Republican he will net be permitted to take the etump and denounce the lyalem of tho high protective tariff without be ing rend out of his parly; if a Democrat, he will not he allowed te denounce a re daction of th* protective tarriff without being subject to like treatment Then, can any sane man oiaia that freedom of speech and thought can be dispensed with in a strictly non-partisan order, or ganized for the purpose of uniting th* your constant knowledge.” Th* answer is plain, and on the surface you feared Mscuue while he was bolding, ae he ■till doos, the position of editor of the national official organ and ubaliDi&r. of tho national executive coamit'eo and Maoune had his own reasons for suecr« iag at the tariff demand af our erder, which reasons aro best known him and his protective bnron friends. Tho reason why Macune makes the -juo- treasury demand the most important one I we mitt* ML .leikins >• Live fer. Arkansew Traveller. "Your honor," said a prosecuting at torney in an Alabama backwoods court, "the prisoner at the bar is charged with killing oa* of the most exemplary cit- ieens of this country. Andrew LX Boy- son, your honor, was In every respect a model man. He waa a beloved member of th# chnrch and was never known to be guilty of an unchristian set. Why, your honor, he was never known to bet on bones, play poker, drink whisky -coo. He—" on a minute." tb* judge broke In; "y°a say he didn't bet on hone#?” **rnat’s what I ear, your honoc." "And he didn't play poker?" "Never wet known to play a game." “And h* never drank liquor?’ "Never drank a drop, ywur honor.*' "And he didn't chew tobacco?" '•Never took a chew la his Ufa" "Wall, then,” all ih» judge, leaning back with a sigh, "I don't see what h* wanted to live fer. There wasn't any thing in life for him. and 1 don't see why he ain't about aa well off deed as alive Release the prls* aer, Mr. Sheriff, end cell the next suveinw Udfwa frem tb* New York Herald. "1 aui pickiog lodgers early tonight,* remark the conductor of a Third avenue open surface car aa we bowled up th* Bowery at 9 o'clock the other evening, and he pointed to a iuen seated opposite and fast aeleep, with his hat drawn over hi* “lie'll ride all the way to Ilailem," ootinued the conductor; "there he'll i>« Leeu I shaken up and take another car an-1 <'oiu« him back, end you ran bet ho’11 -I. ep all the pure j way. Two or thrv* §•:- It tripe me Op the 1 hsvtng ntfn .i occaeions, both in public <oov re ti.-n d in private, and by writing, t >rou. h the newspaper*, mv opposition nwn that question. t aiu in licnr?r accord with all the otb«r demand* of uur order, except that part of the finunrltl plank which makes th* government a money loaner to iho farmer. Despite th- ee facto, I was elected a member of this national Ie'ts'arlv* committee, ami I see no reason for my tendering my resignation at such a tnomber. 1 am a farmer, with every cent that 1 htvt* invented in farming, and with no other ■ouroa ef revenues and feel that I have a personal as well ns a frstsrnal intcre«i in the success of the farming data. You certainly cannot have forguttan that as soon as I wss elected on thet committee, and during the session of the national legislative council ihal elected me. you got on tho floor and said that the wisest, noblest and bravest thing that the l*gi«- Istive conncil had ever done was electing me on that committee; tbit I had the courage to stand up and de nounce a corrupt and guilty man, mean ing Macune, when I knew that lie wai corrui t, hr spit* of the hisses aad jeers of other men, nnd that 1 was the only one o! the committee that refused to white- ash him. Yoa epok* at great length la that complimentary strain, you know- lag full well that I would not support th* aub-trceeury bill or any other bill that 1 thought W Oil ill rum the farmers of ihi* country end draw their minds from our greatest curse—th* proteotiv* tariff. You seem to think, however, that lam bound to advocate that measure beaause of tain expressions used by J. 1L McDowell, who wne a co-oid.u»ie member of lh* legislative oounoil with myself and the other state president*. Might not I with as much reason eey thet the ofher members of the com- mlttee war* instructed and obligated to oppose the sub treasury measure, from ray remarks mad* at the tame time, that it would ruin the farmers of the country if passed? Of course, therefore, there can be nothing binding ia* any remarks made by McDowell or any one else in discussing measures of that kind or character in a committee room. The other point upon which you relv in say ing that 1 am bound to support that measure in th* capacity of committee men ie, tha. I was instructed by what you are phased to call certain statutory laws and resolutions pas<ed at Ocala. If will now examine this post- farmers, who have heretofore been divided In opinion, without losing its non- partisan and liberal character? Our order recognized that the gmt cause of the de pressed condition of the farming class ie that heretoforo (while oat interests have over been the same) w* have been dl videil in the exercise of onr voting right. Y( ii now claim t'mu tm>»e r '.nun coasiiiuiiuuai puTuivas »U»»o q are still In force that the National Alli ance can, by statutory enactment, as you aro pleased to term it, peioed at Ocala last December, declare that)* member or tu office; has oo right to differ Isom ‘ conclusions reached by a majority of tho delegates in the National Alliance meet ing. Do you think that If this clause had been in our constitution when wo or ganized our orders that we ceuld have secured oneHenth of tb« m*mWi’aip we now have? You i«m to lay stress upon tb* fact of my publicly opposing the sub* of our order la because .. „ „ u H'OU wl.ioh A U c*u hoc* form a third party out of the farming class. Knowing that th* ex'iting politi cal partied, or at leant one of them, will coice to the reasonable demands of the farmers, or that we can force them to come tbero by misled action oa our part and that no political party of any promi nence would make the sub-treasury bill a principle of its platform. This Is a most Important point, that should be considered by the farmers cf the United This order was created to Lrirg about unity of action among the farmer*, who were divided so hopelessly by the late wsr, but you men by pushing" tbit sub-treasury scheme are dividing us more widely and hopelessly than the war ever did. The ambition of many of us was to build up this order as a crest non-partisan balance whoel, to the end that ths great consettiUita egrtarf- tural classes of our couutry could hold in check the corruption of partisan politic but you men aro tearing it down, decim ating our ranks and bringing the ordor into disreioect and disrepute m the estimate of good patriotic citizen*, and only bringing to our aid thoso men Who desire to take office at any sacrifice of patriotic principle*. I feol that it is my duty to write you thus plainly. hoDimr that you may yet boo where* you* are drifting the order, and hoping that you may yet retain enough regard for the poor and oppressed of our land, to aid ua in calling our brother farmers out of the swampe of class legw’.ation. pater nalism and socialism, whither Mnctraa and his henchmen have t>ceu ■ending them in aearch of that Jack O'Lantern of class legislation, paternalism and so cialism, known aa ti:e sub-treasury bill. I desire to say that I have for you. per sonally, a most kindly feeling and that our relations have ever been of a pltne- ant character up to this affair, and that I believe you to be an honeit man, who would never have boon led into thee* extravagancies except through a pres sure that it was hard for any man to re sist I take pleasure in beariug witness to the furthsr fact that you have ever entertains 1 and expressod to me the same opinion of C W. I lacuna and his di« dis honesty and corruption that 1 have harl, ■tying ns you have often done that you had no confidence in tha man, nnd would bold no communication wii’a him thie sub-lreas scheme is rfgbt, th# more falls publicly and oftenor it is discussed the sooner it will bo enactsd into law. If it is wrong a full and free public dis cussion will bring out its fallacies only tlie sooner, ana thereby enable un cesse advocating a wrong measure, will never concur in your opinion that any publio or general law shonld be en acted, or tli* people brought to advocate It, by dark lantern caucuie* and discus sions in secret societies composed of but one class of people. This I conceive to bo a direct violation ef the spirit of our government. Your desire to see men ostracized for opinion's asks, and to gag frso discussion will not meet the ap proval of tho people who love freedom cf speoch and tho freest public discus don of publio questions. 1 now dssiro to let the order know how "fairly, folly, hon estly and thoroughly” the sub-trsasury bill was discussed at Ocala. The members of that National AUi* ance were limited to on* speech of five minutes each in discussing the sub- treasury LIU. One speeeb of five minutes to discuss a measure which, if enacted into law, would change the whole finan cial system of our government since Ui foundation, and 1 claim bankrupt and destroy it. ! make this statement to the end that I hop# rar Allisace brother farmers of the United States may knew that M»# sub-trsasury bill was fastened upon this organization at Ocala by a gag law being applieJ t«. prevent us heresies being exposed. You sey la yoar letter that I am fully prepared to heir this re quest for my resignation from you. In this you sro entirely In error for tho fol lowing roaaona. Firt»,you know my public open and avowed hostility to this bill from the time of its first lncsptioa to th* time 1 wss elected oa that committee; secondly, on aocount ef the cordial mea ner in which you commanded the body for electing as* to that i coition; third, another reaeon why 1 am surprised %t your making such a request is that the follow ing was ono of the demands of t/-o National Alliance, t lopud at our BL Louis meeting in December, l*b9: ' lieving in the doctrio* of equal rights to all and special favors to notje, we demand that no legislation, ni:iuer state or national, shall be used to build op on# Industry »t the expense of another, and if this means anything it was intended as a direct thrust at the tlv# tariff system, and Mr. t* W. 31a- cune, who was then chairman of ths vary communication to be in writing. As I was placed on this committee by the na tional legislative council, and aa 1 feel that it is my duty to guard, as far as eete of tho farmeri of thie country, and that I have no right to consult my own personal feeling*, und recognizing that you have no right to demand uy resig nation as a member of that committee, 1 refuse to tender it. Were I to consult ray own per*onal feeltngn I would nevsr have accepted a position oa that committee, end would now uost gladly sev*r concoc'.Ln with it. I ho salary of IJ.OOO would be no inducement or have ao weig’at with me in tho premises; and while 1 supplies from what ihave learued through others that tho national exer.n- liv* commutes, of which G W. Macune is chairman, will remove me from the position I now held, yet I feel that it ia mr duty to allow them to act instead of aiding them and tb-elr scheme by acting myself In tendering my resignation. Yours fraternally. Pbesidint Fakmbrs a»p Tiswuna c? Miasocu. i’on and I and bun- , committee you ano I are now the xa- Allieoceroen in fte • tional legislative committee,ea me out in lion of yours. dredi of other Allisoceroen in ft* • tional legislative ——. . United SUtM traversed out entire conn J Ai* official capacity and denounced ins try wlib the & nvtitution and ritual of tariff issue a« being “» hoary breeder of our order and induced eevursl r Ills* a sectional strife," and that th# agitato* of farmers to join this orgsmsition. T * sll the tariff question was * tariff dod ngfti applicants for rrsbip we read fVtv in which the farmer.* felt ao iateras , lion 1 of Ike prramble or declaration of. sod in almost every lsau# of the national principles ot * our national, stale, county i official orrgan the farimrs wets TatuM end subordinate Alhanco constitutions ' to pay no heed cr aUsaiioo t> the t*riu (this declaration being alike in at, question whatever; and when I again which reads: "The o'ject of this ord drew the tariff plank of our natieual is to labor for th* education of tb# agrL ; manna st Oosls, w# used th# lutioep** cultural classes in th# science of econora- language: "Ws demand a removal of leal government in a* rictly Bon-pertiian the pre-ent heavv tariff tsxiiow «»• ■«; telsm^iaw to Eas'ead for s • spirit, end to bring about a urnre perfect cessaries of life that tho^oot o< «hmt Ia-d j Ol • I * union of said elaaer*” 41a* that in *• meet have." and demand further that tie “V,!2? tion 1. Az loiefl. uf uui us tuui.t- j uatWn-I KwTsr&mss: should lull- n, all of the qualifications that are 1 build up cno industry by Impqveriablnff necessary to become a member, an ), coo-1 tb* others." and J** trace luo seqcsnUy, n» offi ev of «>ut order, are adoption of tint plank w our fully set out, which reads a* follow*: national deman 1% which n / "Section L No persou shall ie ad- prominent with iho sub-twtauy milled sea member of thie order except demands, this name man Macoas, no a- * white person ov*r Id »**ar« of agr. , log the two moit powerful * n '-JF * wbo is a kel ever in the esie.eo-w of a | Uni offices io the gi t • f ev Quay’s Peculiarities and Hi* Hal. Washington Letter in Philadelphia Press. Senator Quay has certain peculiarities of carriage which convey a great ileal to thoso who know him intimately. While the Republican executive commit*.**’* wee i*elon at th* Arlington bold Wed nesday vftemoon speculation down ia the lobby as to what Mr. Quay would do wne rife. Opinion sj to whether or not he would resign from the committee was about equally divided. Finally a gentle- u.*n present who knew Mr. Qusy udl re marked: "I shaM be able to tell when be comes down stairs whether be lias re signed or Intends to resign.” By what means:" was the general In quiry. “Walt and I’ll show you," was the reply. At fluK) o'clock, when tho ootumKtee took a recess until 8 o’clock, Mr. Quay came down stairs alone, walking slowly, but with a certain short, uer»ouv step, out of th# bone* and headed for Cham berlin's. His straw bat wax cockod over his rght eye, and as he walked he jerke-1 hie head occasionally aa M talking to an 1 reasoning with himself. The crowd which had been discussing him looked after him oa he went scrota ih* wide street, an{l then the senator's friend woe asked: "Well, what do you say:'’ "H# has resigned or will resign lo night,” was tho confident reply. "How can you tell:” ;»ef»ist#d the <|iwe- tiooer. "1 can tell by that nervous tread au 1 the way he has hie eyes shaded with his hat. Tboee are infallible signs that his Indian is up. Mark whatl toil you, gen tlemen, Mr. Qaay is in a dghtios mood. The cock of that hat at this time ia a declaration of war.” Tke prediction proved to be true. Tli* mi’s New Yaehv. From the Fall Mall Dadget. The new Russia imperial yacht PoUr Star was occupied by the emperor Med euipreM for the first t>me in their voyage from bU Petersburg u> Copenhagen last week. Tke steamer ie not handsome ia shat*, having been constructed lo be readily available for pracitcol pnspean os a ship cf war. By order of the em n f!:or sea* hut Huuua woods wee* need f-.r i an*!* in the saLca aud other rooms. Of the sp«cim*M of tapestry sent to the empress for choice of eurisine and hanging*, oo# was selected whioh the tradesman who supplied them foond »•' his conilernatlcn was net m hts »«ork ; “ ns; lone out of 6se, and that even th* loom had' beer: destroy* 1. New loom* wen ordered regard *#* of expease, ec.d the ord-r executed in lime. The vr.rax# «. the imperial party frees Kuuu to Pra ••thing . »ijtb*. hut the On ! . 3», aed sditoi 1 piper.” Yeu . knots per bo ii r*«t, who ie commander if kbeee cleisur* excaruons, would sat ei!o« h<gW tre-xer- to •># pat ljB . Koeetau *hq « of war and dispatch boat* were eU'.ioned thirty mile* apart *!-,ag the whole route. Tb# emprem, on ;t*Tlng the palace at Feterhof to revisit i ss. h i 1 s?

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, September 23, 1891, Image 1