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? HE OLD AND THE NEW.
He gallon^ away on his flery steed,
And his arm
u Sh the villa breakneck *X3
at tear -
0 the heath of his ladve fayro;
within he rattled his steel
a ^ Wu Q g his blade when he went to kneel;
TT„ P eaded 3
his love iu that spacious hall—
j.ue oid-fashi^aed love that was best of all.
He spins away on his chainles 3 wheel,
An arraorless knight on a steed of steel;
V«?wardhe ?J a h e ‘ e3 flies! wheel ’Tis and a moonless oilioss light, night,
s an
a t < ? !1 8htle33 youth—he reaches the door
And a T kneels
•tie gives his to her on a ragless floor.
And pleads mustache a faultless curl,
his Jove to a heartless girt.
HER HAIR.
A SOCIAL COMEDY.
“Yes,” said Claudia Wallace, with
soft, liquid eves uplifted and coral
lips apart, “I know it is a worthy
object—I always did sympathize with
widows and orphans. I’m an orphan
myself, you know, Miss Rivers, and I
■would cheerfully subscribe something,
if I only could. But Uncle Percy
keeps me so close for pocket money
and I seut my last $5 bill down this
morning to buy tickets for the opsin
matinee on Saturday. If I can pos¬
sibly get any funds I will send them
to you tomorrow morning. I’m so
sorry, dear Miss Rivers! Please let
me know if there’s anything else I
can do at any future time.”
Miss Rivers swept her siljcen
flounces out of the room, carrying
her brother iu her train—metaphoric¬
ally, not literally. And the iustaut
they were seated in the little coffee
colored brougham she burst out:
“I’ve no patience with that Claudia
Wallace! Close for pocket money, in¬
deed! Did you see the rings on her
hand, the bracelets around her wrists?
I had a mind to say I would take any
one of those gaudy ornaments in lieu
of a subscription.”
“I am glad you did not, Hester,”
said her brother, severely.
“Why?”
“You judge Miss Wallace too harsh¬
ly. She is all sweetness, gentleness
and compassion. I saw the tears
in her eyes when you spoke of the
destitution of Mrs. O’Hare—and you
may depend upon it, those jewels are
all gifts from her uncle, with which
she is not at liberty to part.”
“Fiddlesticks!” said Miss Rivers.
“Of all fools, men are the worst. If
it were not for Claudia’s straight nos8
and blue doH-like eyes, and the two
little dimples on her cheeks, you
wouldn’t be so eager to trump up ex¬
cuses for her.”
“Now you are talking nonsense,
Hester!”
“Ami? I think not. But you’ll
just please remember, Everard, that I
told you before we stopped here I
wouldn’t give much for all the cash
we should get from Claudia Wallace.”
“Believe me,’’persisted Mr. Rivers,
“you misinterpret her sadly.”
“Here we are at Kitty Griggs’ —
Kitty is cross-eyed and red-haired,
but she will give me a $5 bill—see if
she doesn’t.”
And Hester jumped out of the car¬
riage and ran up the Griggs’ door¬
steps, leaving her brother to his own
meditations.
Presently his sister returned with a
face of triumphant glee.
“Didn’t I tell you so?” she cried,
holdiug up a United States bank
note. “And now we’ll go home to
lunch.”
Mr. Rivers was indulging himself in
a quite afternoon cigar, just about
dusk, when Heater popped her head
into the library.
“Oh, Everard, are you there? Don’t
you want to do me a favor—a very
great favor?”
“If it isn’t to much trouble.”
“Do please go around to San¬
tarelli' s, and see if my yellow wig is
ready for the masquerade tonight! I
can’t see why they haven’t sent it
home! The idea of my pitying
‘Lady Audley’ without a yellow wig!”
“Bother your wig!’’ said Mr.
Rivers. •
* ‘Now do be a darling, and go,”
coaxed Hester.
Everard smiled.
“Well, I suppose I shall have to
go,” said he.
M. Sereno Santarelli was a fashion¬
able hairdresser on a fashionable
street, who charges-fashionable prices
—and he came bowing and scraping
forward as Mr. Rivers entered his
shop. He professed himself “de
solated beyond belief” when he heard
the young man’s errand. “Mad¬
emoiselle’s coiffure was but half com¬
pleted when the stock of bloudecurls
gave oat,” he said. “The lov they
had last imported did not match it,
sad to relate, but P
“Tbe long and the short of i is that
I can’t have the wig, I suppose?” im¬
patiently interrupted Everard Rivers.
“Monsieur is too rash ! Monsieur
waited not to hear me out,” said the
Frenchman. “I have yet hopes if
monsieur will but wait a fraction of
time. Francois!” to a wbite-a; roned
assistant, “bring hither Miss Claudia
Wolince’s huir; it is of the pule
blonde-like Max —it may of a pos¬
sibility work in. It is not even wavy,
but we may curl it with tong?, Avt,
manipulated by an artist, can conquer
everythiug!” The
last words were meaningless
and unheard by Everard Rivers.
“Miss Claudia Wallace’s hair!” That
was ... bis took ... He
a * stnse in. could
penetrate now the mystery of her
words of the morning, and his heart
gave a great thrill as he recognized
the royal generosity of the girl who
could thus sacrifice her greatest
natural ornament to a cause of
charity.
“Miss Wallace’s hair!’* he re
peated, with i Ling color. “Is it pos
sible that-”
“She sent it here to be sold mon
sieur,” observed the hairdresser,
“To be sold?” Yes. He was right;
Hester wrong. His instinct had been
truer than her reason!
“I will take it,” said he, abruptly.
“But, monsieur
“I will take it—at any price.”
‘ 4nd 8 ? h e paid down a & 20 biU tov
th . ® f bean , “8 awa Y
Cota’s S” 10 10 ^« wen altb of golden Y forgetful hatr. of
’
xe w be p
tt andXm?fiT f . the ,
ad Dudley, °. .'
Ha ' e y° a 8°* f '*-*«? »«” was y Hester’s
, f eutera(1
<1U6S X ° n " eR 0 tbe
r oo m
“I have got it. I paid $20 for it!”
he breathlessly answered.
“Twenty dollars!” echoed his
sister. “Everard, you are mistaken;
it was only to be ten!”
“Oh, you mean the wig!” said our
hero, somewhat crestfallen, as he re¬
membered the unfulfilled errand
which had so completely slid out of
his memory.
“Of course I do. What do you
mean?”
“I am talking of Claudia Wallace’s
hair.”
“Mercy upon ns!” cried Hester.
“Is the man raving mad? What on
earth has Claudia Wallace’s hair to
do with-”
“Much. I told you she was an
angel, Hester, and perhaps you will
believe it when,I tell you that to gain
money to help the poor she has sold
her magnificent hair.”
“I don’t believe it,” said blunt
Hester.
“But I know it.”
“Then the world is coming to an
end, that’s all,” said Hester, with an
incredulous shrug of her shoulders.
“But my wig?”
“I forgot it,’’confessed the sheepish
lover. “I’ll go back for it at once. I
was thinking of Claudia’s hair.”
Hester looked after him iu comical
despair.
“Thank Providence I’m not a
man,” said she to herself. “And if
I were I don’t believe I could possibly
be as spooney as some of ’em are.”
Back again through the rainy twi¬
light dashed Mr. Everard Rivers,
never staying until he once more
entered the salon of M. Santarelli and
breathlessly asked for the flaxen wig.
“Exactly. It awaits monsieur,”
said Santarelli.
“You sent up the money?”
“What monev, monsieur?”
“The $20 to" Miss Wallace. Tell
her the hair has found a purchaser—
that her dream of mercy and charity
may now be fulfilled—that-”
“But monsieur, pardon. Monsieur
does n t fully comprehend,” bowed
the hairdresser, courteously. “Miss
Wallace left the hair here to be sold;
it was a switch we made up for her a
year ago; and she never quite liked
the color—it was not a good match,
she thought—and whatever it sold for
was to be applied toward a new one
we are weaving—a $60 switch, mon¬
sieur. ”
Everard Rivers stared blankly al
the l^night of wigs and curls, H<
began to perceive that he had been
making a fool of himself and iu rather
an expensive manner, too.
“Ob,” said ha, rather awkwardly.
“I—I’ll take the wig if it’s quit6
ready.”
He went back, considering how he
could best make the embarrassing ex¬
planation of the truth to his sister.
“Hesiar,” said he, “don’t laugh at
me. I’ve been a donkey.”
“ v en often are,” said Hester,
sagely. “That’s nothing new.”
“Oh, but this is a little worse than
the common.” And he valiantly told
her the true story of Claudia Wallace’s
hair. To his surprise, iustead of
laughing she went to him and threw
both arms around his neck.
“Everard, I am so glad,” said she.
“Twenty dollars is a cheap price to
pay for being undeceived. I told you
before that she was shallow, selfish
aud coldbearted; Now you will be-
1,eve 3 when you see that she can
pay $60 for a mass of trumpery false
hair, even while she complains of
having no money to spare for the
poor.”
Aud Claudia Wallace never could
comprehend how she lost the devoted
loyalty of Everard Rivers.
Seeking Information.
“ The indications are,” remarked the
man who was looking at the sky with
an expression of great wisdom, “that
it will be cold aud raw.”
The man who has tronble with tbe
servant-girl problem meekly inquired:
“Which are you talking about, the
weather or dinner?” — Washington
Star.
BAYONETS SHOVED
IB THEIR FACES
Legislature of Kentucky Again Barred
From Capitol Building.
TAYLOR WIRES M’KINLEY
Appeals to President to Restore
Peace at Frankfort.
President McKinley received a long
message Thursday from Governor W.
S. Taylor, of Kentucky, asserting that
the condition of affairs at the present
time is most critical, that a riot may
occur at any time which will cause
bloodshed, and appealing to the pres¬
ident to eud the matter and secure
peace in the Btate by recognizing him
as governor of Kentucky.
Governor Taylor declares that he
considers himself the legally elected
executive of the state and says that a
riot may occur at any time which will
cause much bloodshed.
The communication is in its nature
a memorial. It goes at great length
into the situation in Kentucky, mak¬
ing an explanation of the conditions
there. While definite and absolute
information on this point is not ob¬
tainable, there is reason to believe
that a specific request for the immed¬
iate presence of Federal troops is not
made.
STOPPED BY BAYONETS.
A dozen members of the house of
representatives went to the capitol
grounds gates again at 10 o’clock
Thursday morning, headed by Repre¬
sentative Charlton, of Louisville. Two
bayonets were crossed in front of Mr.
Charlton’s nose as he entered the
gates, and he was asked for a pass.
“I have no pass,” was the reply, “I
am a member of the legislature, as are
these gentlemen with me, and we wish
to enter the hall to hold a session.”
“Nobody can enter without a pass,”
was the reply, and Mr. Charlton re¬
turned to the Capitol hotel with his
companions. They announced when
they left the capitol grounds that
they would get all the members of the
house and senate together, return in a
and demand admission.
A large crowd gathered at the depot
during the morning to greet the train
from Louisville. It had been cur¬
rently reported that General Castle
man would come in and many of the
enthusiastic Democrats expected to
see him walk up to the state house
and take command of the troops, rout
Adjutant General Collier the first
thing and then scatter the Republican
officials to all points of the compass.
General Castleman failed to appear,
however, and there was a sorely dis¬
appointed crowd of partisans around
the depot when the fact was realized.
The apparent failure of Governor
Goebel to place an adjutant general in
office leaves the troops entirely at the
disposition of the Republicans, and for
the time being at least has lessened all
chance of trouble from that source.
The soldiers will continue to obey the
orders of General Collier, and there
will be no conflicting orders to confuse
them.
Governor Taylor remains in his
office in the executive building, and
practically denies himself to all callers.
He will not, however, discuss for pub¬
lication any action which he has
taken or may take hereafter.
The records of the house of repre¬
sentatives which were taken from clerk
of the house, Edward Leigh, Wednes¬
day, by the militia while the legisla¬
ture was racing around the streets in
the vain endeavor to find a hall in
which they could hold a joint session
and seat Mr. Goebel, have been re¬
turned to him by Governor Taylor.
Boxes of ammunition are being de¬
livered to Adjutant General Collier.
The hall of his office is packed ceiling
high with cartridges. The greatest
activity prevails on the capitol grounds.
Blankets for the soldiers are arriving
and every evidence of a protracted
stay is apparent.
New Capitol For flississlppl.
The Kiger bill appropriating $1,000,•
000 for the erection of a new state
house for Mississippi, at Jackson,
passed the senate Thursday afternoon
by a vote of 27 to 15. Several minor
amendments governing the state-buuse
commissioners were adopted,
WRECK ON PLANT SYSTEM.
Fast- Train Flies Switch and Results
In Death of Three Men.
The fast train on the Plant system
was wrecked 20 miles north of Tampa,
Fla., Wednesday night. Engineer
Kennedy was instantly killed. Two
passengers were killed and a number
injured.
The mail, express cars and two day
coaches were thrown from the track
and turned over. The Pullman cars
were not derailed. The accident was
caused by the train running into an
open swith and colliding with a freight
car. It is believed that the switch
was opened by some person with the
intention of wrecking the trsin.
LARGEST ARMY
ON RECORD
To Be Sent to South Africa
Against the Boers.
OYER FOUR HUNDRED GUNS
Burghers to Be Confronted By a Force
of 213,060 Red Coats—Largest
In the Nation's History.
A London special says: Mr. Wynd
ham’s remarkable declaration iu the
house of commons that Great Britain
will have within a fortnight 180,000
regulars in South Africa, 7,000 Cana¬
dians aud Australians and 26,000
South African volunteers is received
with wonderment. Of this total of
213,000 troops, with 452 guns, all are
now there, with the exception of about
18,000 that are afloat. Beyond com¬
parison this is the largest force Great
Britain has ever put into the field.
At the eud of the Crimean war she had
scraped together 80,000 men. Welling¬
ton at Waterloo had 25,000.
Mr. Wyndam’s speech was the
strongest defense the government has
yet put forward as to what has been
done and is being done. The general
tone of the morning papers is that his
figures will astonish the country.
Roughly speaking only 80,000 men
are at the front. Ten thousand others
have been lost and 10,000 are shut up
at Ladysmith.
Excluding these there are 70,000
troops who have not yet been in ac¬
tion, in addition to those at sea. Why
so many effectives have not yet been
engaged is explained by the lack of
land transports and the organization
of supplies, to which Lord Lord Rob¬
erts is devoting his experience and
Lord Kitchener his genius for details.
It seems as though the weight of
these masses must destroy the equi¬
librium which now holds the British
forces stationary wherever they are in
contact with the Borer army.
Lack of transports or organization
will not explain adequately why, when
generals at the front request re-en¬
forcements, they get them in small
numbers. Knowledge is slowly pene¬
trating to London that large garrisons
must be kept in Cape Colony to hold
down the Cape Dutch who, as every
one knows, outnumbers the British
residents three to one.
Cable scraps received during tbe
last twelve hours do not further il¬
luminate the military operations. Va¬
rious independent correspondents con¬
firm that General Buller told his troops
on January 28th that he hoped to re¬
lieve Ladysmith within a week. It is
believed in some rather trustworthy
quarters that he is again assailing the
Boer lines.
A further list of casualties published
by the war office brings the total from
the crossing of the Tugela to the aban¬
donment of Spion kop to 1,985 officers
and men.
Exceptional activity at the navy
yards continues, but a correspondent
of the Associated Press learns that
this is chiefly refitting work. Three
ships will be commenced at Devonport
this month.
Some unpleasant criticism of the
war office has been caused by the dis¬
covery that the sights of the Lee
En field carbines are defective. Old
carbines have been supplied to the
outgoing fourth brigade of cavalry.
The only announcement regarding
fresh military preparations is the
formation of three additional bat¬
teries.
BULLER RESUMES FIOHT.
Reports Say He Has Again Crossed
the Tugela.
The St. James Gazette (London)
says it is reported on good authority
that General Buller has again crossed
the Tugela river at three places aud
that fighting has been renewed.
The war office has no news of Gen¬
eral Buller’s alleged movements as re¬
ported by The St. James Gazette, but
the paper says it has no reason to
doubt the correctness of its informa¬
tion, although it has not yet learned
the exact positions Buller seized.
FILES BIQ MORTOAGE.
Standard Telephone Company of At¬
lanta Pledges Its Property.
The Atlanta Standard Telephone
Company has filed a mortgage for
$600,000 on all its property, franch¬
ises, privileges of every description.
The mortgage was made to the City
Trust, Safe Deposit Company of Phila¬
delphia. The mortgage was issued to
secure bonds and to take up another
mortgage of $500,000 in favor of the
Atlanta Trust aud Banking Company.
The company will issue- bonds
$100 denomination to redeem those
now outstanding of $1,000 denomina¬
tion. The new bonds will bear 5 per
cent interest and are payable in gold.
TAYLOR IGNORES
HABEAS CORPUS
Clash Between Civil and Military Au¬
thorities Narrowly Averted.
WALKER WAS RELEASED
Governor Acted of His Own Vo¬
lition In the Matter.
A Frankfort special Bays: Governor
Taylor Saturday afternoon refused to
acknowledge the existenee or permit
the service of a writ of habeas cor¬
pus issued by Judge Moore, of the
county court. Taylor thus tacitly sus¬
pended the writ of habeas corpus in
the courts of Franklin county for the
release of Alonzo Walker, a steno¬
grapher, who was arrested and put
into confinement after pinning a notice
of writ of injunction on Governor Tay¬
lor’s chambers in the executive build¬
ing, Something which, under the con¬
stitution of the state of Kentucky,
cannot be done legally except in cases
of rebellion or invasion. When Sheriff
Suter returned his writ unserved to
Judge Moure, the latter announced
that he would see that the sheriff was
given power sufficient to enforce the
mandate of his court. Iu so declaring
he used the following words:
“No attempt will be made to enforce
the writ untif*Monday. At that time
another demand will be mad* for the
body of Alonzo Walker, and if it is re¬
fused, a sufficient number of men will
be given to Sheriff Suter from Frank¬
lin county and adjourning counties, as
well, to enable him to take possession
of the capitol grounds and carry out
the purpose of the writ.”
Thus civil and military authority in
Kentucky came face to face at last and
unless the ministers of one or the
other should recede from the positions
they occupied there could be but one
outcome, and that waB civil war.
WALKER RELEASED.
Such a crisis, however, was averted
when Governor Taylor, Sunday morn¬
ing, ordered the release of Walker.
While not recognizing in his action
the existence of the writ of habeas
corpus which had been sworn out in
behalf of Walker, Governor Taylor,
by releasing the man, removed the
most threatening sign of trouble. The
commanding officers of the troops
which guard the capitol grounds are
careful to say that the situation is en¬
tirely a military affair, and that they
extend the writ of habeas corpus very
little consideration, but whether they
regard it or not, Walker is free, and
Sheriff Suter will not be called upon
to summon force in the attempt to
secure his release.
The appalling consequences which
would follow such an effort on the part
of the sheriff were too much for the
more conservative members of the
Democratic party, and it was decided
Sunday that no matter what Judge
Moore should say as an individual,
there would be no attempt to take pos¬
session of the oapitol grounds by force
of arms.
When Walker was released notice
was served upon him that the charge
against him was Btill pending, and
could be pushed at any time if the
military authorities should so decide.
Various rumors were circulated in
regard to the reasons for the sudden
release of Mr. Walker, among them
being a report that his release, by or¬
der of Governor Taylor, was in defer¬
ence to a telegram from Washington
advising his discharge.
Governor Taylor was too busy to be
seen in regard to the matter, but Ad¬
jutant General Collier emphatically
dnied that any such reason existed for
Walker’s release.
WATTERSON ROASTS RAILWAY.
Says the L. & N. Caused the Present
Troubles In Kentucky.
Henry Watterson. editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, has given
out a statement which in part says:
“The head and front of our present
troubles in Kentucky, at once the
source and the resource of the revo¬
lutionary proceeding by which Re¬
publican government has been for the
time being struck down and a military
dictatorship set up in its place, is the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company.
“In the recent state campaign it
supplied material resources in such
abundance as to draw out all the dan¬
gerous elements of society and to put
into activity all the forces of political
adventure. The two leading parties to
the contest were as nothing by com¬
parison with its gigantio machinery
for corrupting the election.”
The Porto Rican Tariff.
The senate committee on Porto Rico
has concluded its consideration of the
bill providing a form of government
for the island. The rate of duty pro¬
vided on artioles brought from Porto
Rico to the United States and for
articles taken from the United States
to Porto Rico is 25 per cent of the
Dingley law rate.