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IYOL. XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MOKJVING. MAY 25,1868
PRICE FIVE GENTS
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Thcodoro wu a relief ud pleasure to tU the
family, He observed > strict impartiality. If
be spilt some kindling wood lor Armtda, be
cbarned for Luces. If be took Armide’s old
borse to be shod, be helped I.ucts to wssh bis
sheep. He accepted everything, asking no
questions after tbe first evening, but kept aa
observant eye on all.
Both Lucas and Arm Ida bad loved him aloes
their earliest remembrance^ud retained their
oM fondness for him now. He was^a welcome'
guest on either side of tbe kitchen, and though
when be announced one evening that ho was
foing visiting and stepped across the line fat
the other side of the half from where he had
been sitting, the owner of tbe side he honored
felt pleased by the distinction, yet those on the
opposite tide, though no longer (according to an
understood law) Joining in the conversation,
still had the benefit of Theodore's narratives.*
He was busy, too, in his way. Ho was lode-,
fatigkble In berry .picking andborb-gatheriag,:
selling what Amina and Lucas did not wish,,
and showing not a little shrewdness. When he 1
had laid a little money together be bought a'
still and distilled essences of peppermint, win*
tergreen acd other tweet smdlling herbs and
roots, and when n store was accumulated be'
filled a basket and started on a peddling expo*
THE DIVIDED HOUSE
' Copyright, 1880, by 8. b. McClure.
(Written fay Joua D. sviiitiko, author or "The
story of Kyra," "Brother Sesottrts,” “ A .Special
•Providence,” and other stories. Harpers and
The CcafuiT. .
Whon ScIucios Buster had arrived at hit last
ilia ess, be proved himself mors than ever in
Ills life troHblotome and wearing. Having a
suspicion that his condition was worse than
his doctor far childronjallowed, ho gave them no
peace until hohad extracted an admission that
gueh was the cate. Left alone with the doctor
at his request, he reproached him.
“ Ye (night aa well told me before as let mo
lay hero thinkin’ and stewin’ about it. I’ve
lost a sight of strength tryln’ to git the truth
ftom ye, and there ura’n’t no need. Wall—I
suppose I ain’t reely dyin’ naow, while I’m a
talkin’, belt”
Assured'as to that point, ho added: “ The
lessen I wanted to know is because I’ve got to
fix my concerns so at to leave ’em as well as I
can, and all I want of yen is that when yod
think I’m—wall—if yon see there’s goln’ to be a
Change, I want you should tell me, ao’a’t I can
Btralgthen things right out and git their con-
gent to It,”
Having promised, the doctor apprised him at
the last moments draw near.
‘‘Sho! I want to know! Why I fool fall as
Well as did yee’dy and a lectio grain easier, if
anythin’.”
‘T hope this notice does not find you unpre-
pared,” observed the doctor.
“Wall,;no,'I’m prepared as much as I can be,
as you may say. I’ve been a member in good
and tegular standin’ this fifty-five year—sud I
haln’t arrived at|my age withoutjiwia’ there’s
somethin’ In Ilfs betide livin'." He panted,
then added with snaecent of pride: “I don’t
owe any man a cent, nor never cheated a man
of one. Wall, I’ve had quite a spell to think of
thtnga In, dnrin’ my tlcknere, and I don’ know
but what I’ve enjoyed it considerable.
Thought of things all along back to when I
was a boy. Event# came np that I’d dean for.
got.”
The doctor gone, he called Us children In,
“Well, Arnldy, well Lucas, the doetor don’t
Seem to think I shall tneksr It out much longer.
Wall, naow," he exclaimed, quite vexed, “I
vow for’t if I didn’t forgit to ask him how
long! Wall, too late now. He's, got out of
Bight, I a’poae.”
Armtda stepped to the window ud assured
him of the fact.
“Wsll.nogrct matter. I jlst thought .if I
Tontd alt him to fix the tlmo I'd like to soe how
won’t liaveno trouble with l__
money glttin’ lawyers here. There ain’t no
cheatin r nor double-dealln' anywhere to be
found amonstthe Hnxtera'bor tho Lucases,
nndwhen yon give me yonr promisee to abide
by my last will and testament I shall expect
yo to hold to it jlst the same as H It wu writ
"How about the farm and house. The boose,
ssycu know, stands in tho middlo lino of the
farm, that hi. tha north side hu a lectio the ad.
vxntaso in havin’ the Jabu Norcrosa paster
tacked onto It, over and above the south half,
bnt its near enough. That paster don’t count
Armucb. I’ooty thick with sheep laurel. Well,
seeln’ the laud lice JUtaa It does, and tho house
Is jlst as it is, I propose to divide It even. Lu.
cm, you can have the north half and Armldy
the south, heglnnln’ right to the front door and
xunnlu’ right through tho house and right
nloug down to the rivet, straight u you can
fetch it. I>o you agree to my plan ?”
Armlda and Lucas exchangad glancoa. "You
apeak,” aald Lucu in a low tone.” “Ho, yon,”
said Armlda.
“ What you whisperin’ about! F'repe you
think leant hew because I'm dyin’, bnt I’d
have yon to know my hewln’ ain't affected a
sraln. fipeak np now! What la It, Lucas?”
“Wi wtrotbinkln’of Theodore,” arid Lucas.
“ You're leavin’ him out, seems so."
“Taint ’cause I forgot him; but I give him
Oil lea listed to whan he quit home five yrer
to bo conveyed to her the facta, colored for the
occasion, relating to the partition of the house
and land, and the young woman, having a
shrewd eye to tho main chance, bluntly told
Lucaa when next she saw him that she didn't
wish the half of a house nor the half of a
farm,
Lucaa bad thought all might go onamoothly
with a wife, and hid coanted on her accepting
the situation. Inquiring la to who had med
dled in hia affairs ho traoed tha matter back to
Armlda, and coming home mortified and angry,
reproached her In unsparing terms ending his
recital of srrongs with: ”1 don't know what
you did it for, union you sru afraid your half
wu going to bo invaded; and if you feel that
way you’d hotter keep to your own side and
take care of yonr osvn property, I ain’t going
to interfere.”
Armlda wu powerless to protect herself ex.
cept with teare, which did not avail with Lucu.
Sho made overtures of peace, such u offering
to cook her brother’s meals sud look aftor his
shore of the milk, but wu warned to attend to
her own business
Lncas had s new pipe-hole made In tho
kitchen chimney and bought a new atove, and
hunted np s kitchen table, telling Armlda the
wu welcome to the stove and tabls they had
previously used in common, but he’d thank her
to stay on.her own side of the room. The sit
uation would hare been ludicrous if it had not
been grim earnest to.the brother and sitter.
Lucu had a bard tide to his ehsreeter, and ho
could not forgive hit sister’s interference. He
would not even give Armlda advic*,lmt allow
ed her cows to break Into her cornfield tnd her
sheep to stray sway without warning her,
though all tho while hit heart pricked him in
tight of her distreu. Still oil he would do
wu to suggest that oho got a hired man.-
cconlingly Armlda, in datpalr, hired an
easy-going, good-natured creature, that offend
hie services He did very .well and Armlda got
on better—and took courage.
But there wu a dreadful blow In store for
her, Lucu brought a gang of carpenters to
the firm, who instituted repairs on hie half of
the bonie. He even went so far as to commit
ye?” to which Theodore responded with ”,
i, Lucas?”
with brackets and then the wholeof his half
of the homo painted white, so that his neigh,
bora rallied bun on being prond, "Only,” u one
TDK nnOTHXR AND Stem KEEP HOOTE IN
THE SAKE KITCHEN WITH TWO STOVES
ago—money; and so (han’t leave him any
thin’. Wouldn’t do him no good, if I did,” ha
said to himself.
“Well,” wo si T _
Armlda. “I don’t want ha
Neither weald mother if she wu livin’, (he’d
feel had.”
“Ill settle it with year me when I see her,
Como, now: what do yon say?"
Than wu a long silence which Armlda
trots by nylng, “S’posfn’ him or me wuto
want to tears the place, I mean for good—gat
tired of clay In’ hereto home?”
’•Will, said her father with a chuckle, “If
either of yon feels like firm’ yonr share to tho
other yon may, I ain’t gout’ to leave my old
place for either of you to tell to each other
nor nobody else. I expect yea to live on’t.”
• "Well," now- objected Lucas ‘fpoHn’ one
of us should git married, than bow weald It
WT
“Why, live abnyt. Put In and work a laetle
larder, maybe. This turn carried a pooty
fkirnu inker when I wu younger. Ifyou should
git too numerous you could build on either
slds^ I guess then ain't no grot danger,” he
Ah neither offered farther objection] Ur.
Baxter uld; /Thore'o been talk enongb, I
s’pose. Do yen agree to’tr’ Ha waited while
each gtve tn audible “yes’ “How,” uld he,
“ I hain’t an earthly thing to hamper me.”
The father dud, for the brother and slater
Mo new lift begs*. Armlda atilt skimmed all
Abe milk sad mads the batter, looked after La
os u she had before, and Lucaa attended Im
partially to the whole of tho farm, and Ar-
Hilda sometimes wondered what difference it
toads To be ran the profits were divided
with tbe meet rigid exactness bnt cveiything
.Went tranquilly on nntil men than a year after
their father’s death, when Armlda tad a ana.
“Armlda’e freo to do u she’s a mind to,"
mid Lucas “If she wants to fix np her elds
she can. I don't hinder her—”
“Nor you don’t help her neither ulsee,”
Bald tho other,
“I believe In tendin’ to yonr own affairs and
not Interferin’ with other folks” Lucu re-
joined*
Armlda wu made very unhappy bytheso
changes and the comments of the neighbor],
and would gladly havobcautlllod hoc half also,
but bad uo money-to-spoud. The Ca m had
rallcu behind anil she was pinched for moans.
She did what she could, taking more cars than
usual of vinca and flowora; and oven had an
extra boddug under her front windows whore
she had many bright hued (lowers but u tho
rue from digging around her plants end sur
veyed tbe home—Lucas's aide with the new
green blinds and the clapboards shining with
paint, hers with its stained, weather-heat
appearance and ito staring windows—:
ashamed and discouraged.
She feared her hired man wu alack and neg
lected bis work, yet when he threatened to go
and afterward compromised the matter by of
fering to etty If (he’d marry him, at s loss
what to do, and partly became ahe wu lonely,
•he married him. He wu a respectable man,
whose only fault wu Jailnus and she hoped
that now he would take on Interest. When
Aimida and her husband cams back from the
minister’s and announced to Lucu that they
were married, hia only comment Wes “ Well, a
slack help will make a Ihlf’lem husband."
Yean went by end Armlda's side of the
house fell more and mote Into ruin, while Lu
cu, with what Armlda considered cruel care
fulness, kept bit In excellent repair and occa
sionally renewed the paint. The contrail wu
so great that passers-by stopped their horses
that they might look and wonder at thsir leis
ure. Every glance wu like a blow to Armlda,
lethal she avoided her sitting-room and kept
herself in the uncomfortable kitchen that wu
divided by an Imaginary line directly throagh
the middle, a Una never crossed by her brother,
her husband or henelf.
It wonld have looked aboard enough to' a
stranger to see this divided room, with the
brother clumsily carrying on bis household
affairs on the one side and the (later doing her
work on tbe other, with often not s word ex
changed between them fbrdayetogether. Ab
surd It might be, but it wu certainly wretched.
Armlda grew old rapidly. Her husband wu a
poor stick, and when u yean passed a touch
of rheumatism gave him a real excuse for Iasi-
ness, ha did little more than sit by tho fire end
smoke,
As Armlda sat on the bench under the old
rnant apple-tree by tho heck door, one day,
regretting her evil Ate, aha heard fuot-itepa
approaching, and. puking back her old sun-
bonnet, looked up to see a shabby, shambling,
oldish man coming around tho side of tha home
and auiug in at the windows. “What ye do
in' then?” said Armtda sharply.
The man turned, surveyed her with a smile,
then said will s draw! she remembered.- “I
haln’t been gona so long but that I know ye,
A nnlda. Don’t yon remembor me?"
“Theodore Hnxter.’ la that you? Well,”—
and she harried np to him and shook hands
violently.
“1 heard only last week that fotber wu
dead,” be exclafmad. “I sec a nun fram this
way and ho uld ha wu gone. How long
since?”
“More than ten years ago.”
‘Well, I thought I'd come and tee yo.”
“I’m glad you did,” tbs uld. “ But como
right inandabeled tho way into the kitchen.
Ho leaned up sgtinst tht door and surveyed
the room. “ I should ’a’ s’poeed I'd havsra.
numbered this room, but what ye dona to It?
What hsv you got two stoves and two tablu
tnd til that for, Armidv?”
Armlda told film all, winding up her story
with* few tears.
“That account* for the looks of tho outside,
I s’pose,” wu hia only comment. “I thought
ft seaubout the queerest I ever ue. It’s ridlc-
ulous! Why haven’t yon and Lncaa straight*
ened out afikln bofbre this?"
"I can't and ha can't, I a'poaa,” she uld hops*
lowly; “and everything makes it worse. I
wouldn’t care so much If ha hadn't find np
the outside tho way ho did.”
“Oh, well now, don’t you fret. If I had
money—but then I haven’t.”
“How havo you lived sence you left homar’
thin’—and I looked up ud soo ’em cornin’ Hko
hudy, down ono of them pitches. Thinks
uld I, well, there’e s httch-np that’s goln’ to
Hindus,—and then tho forward whool struck
a big atons and I soe tho woman and man nod
all ily Inter air and come down agin and the
hrss went.”
- ‘ Where’s tha horn now?” uld Local.
“I don’t know and I don’t care. Tall yo—
bcit-put a feather bod in the botton of this
sea,gin, because her arm’s brake for certain,
and 1 don't know what else. I’ll fetoh It—If
ycn’vsgotaoms spirits.”
"Yes," said Lucas, “I'll fetch somo,” and
both hurried Into tha hotuo and aoon came
out again and hastened off,
“How did you know who ’twuf’ Laou in*
qulred, with solemn curiosity fitting tha oc-
“Why, I didn’t, but I knew whan they
didn’t offer to git np, whoovor 'twu wanted
help, and I put across tht lot to ’em, and sure
enough ’twu Armldy and Jerry. I looked her
over end see by the way she lay that one of bar
arms wu broken anyway, and stepped over to
where Jerry was, and sir! he wu u deed u
** ‘ Head struck right on s ‘ ’
his neck—his head hm
that/' letting hia hand All "
“Don aha know?” uld Lures.
THEY It.IKE A CHAIR WITH THEIR HANES AND CAS V HER OCT TO BUB THE OUriJUK.
'Ho, and I hope sho won't tor a spoil. Khti
dltlou, returning with rnonoy In 1:1s purm
n bankotchlcf or ribbon for Armlda. Ou<
bought her a stuff gown which sho esmo nosr
ruining by trooping over it, if wp8 stub m
delight,
Lucas remonstrated, “I think you're fool
ish, Theodore. Why don’t you spend your
money on yourself? You’d a sight batter got
you a new coat.”
“I’d rather seo Armlda crying over thet
stuff,” said Theodore, “than have a dozen coats.
Nobody knows Armlda’s good looking,booautc
tha’o no good clothe*. But ah* is. and whan
ahe gets that dress mad* np and puta It on with
that pink ribbon I bought her lut tlmo, sho’ll
look u pretty se s pink.”
Not po great a success were tha Vonstlsn
blinds that he bought second-handed and gave
to Armtda to hang In tha sitting-room. They
proved to be In sorry condition, and Theodor*
wu moch mortified. Being • handy creature
he managed to patch them up so thatthongh
they could not be rolled up, they looked very
well from the outside, and u ho philosophically
remarked:
What more do you want, Armldy? A room
. j never ut in, yon don't want any light In.”
There wu ono thing that Theodore would
not do. He wonld not, u ho said, fellowship
with Jerry, Armldo's husband. “Tall yon,
Armldy,” ho would uy," I can’t pat up with a
line him.”
o» -> i “No.
ifo. - hadn't come too wityn I loft hoi.
Armlda retorted wl
"Will, I am," ho allowed; “but tho difference
Is, I’n: buy hat work, my fashion, but he’f luy
and don’t work at nil.”
Though he dladalned Jerry bo would rather
do hia tasks than see Anaida's interests suffer,
Lucu would at any time give him a
helping hand rather than seo Theodore hurt
hlmeelr, and so Armlda’s faucet ware meaded
and sundry repairs on her barns and out-booses
made. Lncu ires rtltl Matfffuovar, and tho
help given wu always to oblige Theodore, who
laughed to himself bnt uld nothing.
He once attempted to whoodlo Lncu Into
painting at lreat all of tho front of tha house,
bat Lucu ins not to b* moved. Disappointed
In that Theodore brought homo a pot of yc
paint when returning from bis next exited
and painted hi* tutor's half of tho kitchen
floor, In aplto of her remonstrating that Lucs
wouldn’t Ilk* it, though aha acknowledged ll
looked pretty, and of Lucu’s Taxation at And-
lng tbs room ridiculous.
“No more rfdlcolous than it wu before,”
Theodore sanred him; "It couldn't be. Bo-
sides,” he added, u tn oftor-thought, “I’ll
bring It plumb np to the middle and nsltksr of
yon will bo trespuain’ on the other’s aids. I
noticed one of yonr chairs wu a lectio grain
onto Anaida’s side tho other night, and that
: in’t right”
In the middle of an afternoon, u Lucu wu
plowing out bU corn, he heard s “hallo!” to
which, when It had been two or three timet re
peated, he replied, though without looking
around, Preeently ha heard some one coming,
in ssortof scuffling run and breathing heavily,
and looked over bis shoulder to se* Theodore,
who dropped into a sralk u Its soled him, and
gasped: “Lucu! fiayl Stop! Look here!”
“Well?” uld Lucas, and pulled up his hone.
“I’m too old to inn like this, that’s a Act”
front ol the homo meant, Thcodoro had a story-
ready a! out tho steps to tho front porch lining
so ivoni cutthst Lucas had to liavo some now
ours or oho break his legs goin'over them.
The smell of point urns accounted for by Lucu
havin’ ono of his spells of glttin' his shlo
pslnlcd over again, on which Armlda gavo way
to tears until her brother comforted her by
saying it didn't rosko much difference, a now
coat couldn’t mako it any whiter than It w.u.
When both sides of tho front porch wero
alike, and the wliolo liouw shone with white
paint and there were ns many Winds on ono
side of tho liousoas tho other, Lucas turned
his attention to that debatable ground, tho
kitchen.
It was a great day when Armlda was pro-
nonmrd well enough to cat breakfast In tho
kitchen. Hobbling outjwith the aid of Theo
dore's arm she stopped on tho threshold and
looked over to whero Lucas stood by Ids win
dow. Ito greeted her with, "lion- ars yo,
Atmidy ?” but did not leavo his place.
Aimida looked about her, “It seems good to
git out of my bedroom," sho begun,—then sho
stopped, gazed about her, aud tank Into a con
venient chair exclaiming, "W'hat docs it
mean ?”
For both hors and Lucas's old stoves wero
gone and a now mio stood directly before tho
middle of tho chlmucy, with its ptpo running
into tho old pipe hole that they used before
tho homo was divided. Tho coffeepot steamed
and bubbled over tho fire, and a platter of
, ham and eggs stood on tbo hearth, white tho
, taldocct for breakAut was placed erectly In
' tho center of tho bedroom, whoso dividing lino
had been wipedout by tho paint brush that
had niado Lucas’ssJdo shlno with yclluiv print
like her own.
“What does it mean?” shoctlod, trembling
and clutching at Theodore's arm. Thcodoro
sold nothing, but slipped out of tho room, anil
I.ucai, after an awkward nsuvo, sihl:
“Armldy, I wanted, Ifyou was willin’, that wo
should quit doin'as wn havo dono and bars
thing, together as wo used to. Booms as if it
"'0 pleasanter, and If you can forgive
rc done, I'll try to mako it np to yo.”
r, Lucas! Why, Lucas!” was all sho
“I know I haln’tdono by yo Hko a brother,"
said Lucas, anxious to get Ills solf-lmpoiod
humiliation over, “and I’m sorry, aud I’d like
to begin over again.”
‘T’mjuit as much (transgressor as you he,”
said Armlda, anxious to spare him. “If I
hadn't said what I did I g£gra W
Iantho and like ns no!
yc."
“I don’t know;«siXcaro now” sal.l Lucas;
S vo felt hard to yo, Armlda, but I »eo
o last March”—ho laughed— 1 "anil I
* mourn much that hor namo Wft'n’
| Iluxtcr. But that’a neither horo nor thoro. If
vou fee I as if you could git along with two old
brother* to look aftor inatoad of one, aud can
overlook what’s paaaod—”
“I'd )»oglad to, Lucaa, if you won’t lay up
anything agaiunt mo.”
‘‘Wall, thou,' and coming to her aide Lucaa
Lout Mr*r her and U hor groat aarpriaa kiiwod
her. Turning away hoforo sho could roturu
the kigs, ho opened tho hack door aud callod to
Theodore.
followed hi. example rad look- 7. fyou
im they could <» both husband IIHiS!-*?.--??“./*!A*? Idy i J*“l
g motlonlm* In tho road. . I
lltpoM you’d married
not had a Amlly round
THE ANARCHISTS]
Ortat Quantities of Dynamite Dlaoovtrtd Vadart&s
Bldawslks and Home*. With ruin Atuohad-
An Important ArrmtofAnarohUtaia St.
Louis-Other Iaurtotioi Ktrwi.
Chicago, May 17.—Tho grand Jury .
duly It will bo to consider ibc anarchist
was colled together today. The court
Whoso
cases
together today. The courtroom
wu crowded with people. Comment was free
ly made on tho appfaranco of tbs jurors, who
responded to tho call of their names. The
Impression was that they wore an tntelligeat
body of men. Judge ltodgcrs rnado bis chargo
substantially os Allows:
IVe hetr a good deal lately of wh»t constitutes
constitutional
o Jn.-wlld bar-
I.ucu struck the hone with tho end of tho
reins to urge him on.
“There, now yon can aco ’em,” said Theo
don, rising In his test and pointing down tbo
.read, Laras fob
lng before them
ana wife lying
into the wagon and laid her on tSo bod u ten
derly u might be, eliciting a groan l>y tbo
operation.
“Bast give her tome?” sold Lncu, br
s bottle of brandy from ont his pockek
to think of It. beat not. She won’t sense
much if she don’t realise.’’
A brief examination of Jarrywu sufficient.
Tho brothan exchanged glanou and shake* of
tho hud. “And to think,” raid Theodore, a*
they regarded tho body, "that 1 twu only this
morning I said to Armldy, there waions tramp
too many in tho honso, meaning mo, end now
to havo my words brought before mo like this!
’Twun’t anything bate Joke, 1‘ * *
won’t remember it against me.
“Well, first thing we've got to do Is to got
her to tho hoots,” said Lucas..
Armlda having bean mtdest comforttblt u
tho prttent would allow and Ji
Armlda Inquired.
“Why, I’ve had a still and madeaaonee and
peddled It out, but I told the still to git mousy
to come hero, and it took all I hod.”
“Well now, Theodore, I with you'd stay hare
now you've got round again,” uld Armlda
“I've won
with groat oarnestneok ‘Tv* worried shoot
yon a right. I’d be rind to have you, ud Le
es. wonld, I know.”
To spar* a peatibla rebuff for Theodore, tho
moat u sha saw Loom coming to tho bona*
to get bio sapper, and apprised hire of his
bretbert arrival, glad to find h* shared her
pleasure in Ik As Loom entered tho rwoas ho
shook hands with Theodora, vying, “How ore
most fetch ’em up Juatu aoon u wo can.”
Lucu mod* no comment but mechanically
nnfutesed tho hone and turned toward tho
honu, his brother stembUng behind, quite ex
hausted by the burry ud fatigue of the hour.
As they went Lucu uld: “Howdidyon
come to now of it?”
“Well. lt wucurlow," uld Theodore. “You
know I hod old Bam tha morning, bringing In
a little jag of wood for Armida,ud lengthened
out tbo traces to fit tho old ware in. Wall,all
I know about It is what I guess. 1 too from Uo
looks they must ’a’ concluded to go to tho vil
lage with soma eggs ud so on, 'causa ran can
seo In tho nod whore they smashed whon tho
boskot flew ont; and Jury didn’t know no
more thu to btteb np Into the boggy without
shortenin’ tho traces, and yoa know how tha
wonld work. Well, tho enrins thing la, that I
wu ont In the poster mowin' eocno brake*—
(ban, lot me hitch np this side, whllayn do Uo
other)—sad I baud somebody or somethin'
cornin’ slam hang, and I looked np—I west
near enough so se to SCO who Twu nor aoy-
befitted his state, T.ucu hastened alter the r ft',
ctor and Auntl’oll y statu V’.dorter |
case, "Thou: > I don't
brotho
without walling foran answer, ho brought hoc
shawl ud wrapped It round her, than put on
her bonnek
''ijo't you ud I," ho uld to Theodore,
“mako t chair sud take her out? You lialu't
forgot unce you left aehool, hov you r
Locking their hands togothcr they Armsd
whet school children call a chair, ud lifting
Armlda between them carried her through tho
lull, out at tho front door, down tho walk to
the gate, ud turaad round; while Theodora
bade bis sister look np at tho hotuo. ArmfcU
oboyed. she law tbo house glistening with
mink hor tldo of It u white uLuou’a. and
blinds adorning hor front windows, while tho
front porch, w.th new-laid door and stopa and
briilllng with brackets, was, tn her eyre, tha
most imposing of entrances.
Could it bo tree? eh# asked herself, and
ahnt her eyes; thu glanced a.aln, thu looked
at hor brothers, who were both ((tank Thao-
with joy,- white Lures *
cried, throwing bar arms
around bis nick, "you due this for mo!”
'! told you I wst sorry, Armldy,” ho uld.
.laterally
rugged, and it’s manly a rimp’.ii fracture of
the forearm. Tha sprained *ukl* will bs th* (
most tedious thing, but I must chugs you to
keep her In ignorance of htr husband’s
death.”
Theodora spelled Aunt I'olly In caring Ar
Arm Ids, end never wu woman more tenderly
THEY LUTED TOO* AXMIDA INTO THE WAOOW,
cared Ar, Many were the llu he wu forced
to tell u Armlda wu Ant surprised, then in
dignant, nt Jarre’s apparent ncglock
“Even lncu hu com* to the door and look,
td at mo,” ah* complained, “and Jtrry ain’t
W much u boon near me.”
Theodore wu (kin to concoct a story about a
strained hack that wonld not allow Jerry to
raise from the bod. When It wu deemed pru
dent to tsU hor, tbs task fell toTheodora, who
wu very tender of hte sitter, rsmemberiag that
" ‘ considered Jerry nsblfrisupoor
creature, Armlda probably had
affection for him. She took her lorn very
quietly,
“Ho wu alwaya good to ma,” ah* uld, “and
b* rend for mb’whan no on* eta* did.'-’
“Yoa’re wrong tharm” Theodore reoun- I
st rated*
“I used to toll myself I wot,” sho replied
ON THE OIBBBT.
Hangings In Arkansas, Haw York und Bias-
whore,
Dover, Aik., May Sl.-Leo Barnes wu
banged today tor tbo murder of Charles ltol
mao. John Collins and Baseel Watson sided
Barnes In tbo murder, Collins hu boon
tenredlo si years’ Imprtaonmeak Wttson
will bo triad st tbs fill term of tbs oourk The
men wart sit of the same kind, gamblers and
cut throats, Holman, however, ltd accuma-
mated romo money and property which bis as-
•oc'ttes coveted and Barnes planned tbe mur
der end robbery, which Collins sndWttaon
rrtdlly sided In carrying ont. Dimes eon'
frsoed after conviction.
Bt'WALO, N7Y., May Sl.-Pctor Louis Otto,
the wlA murderer, sru hanged st 10:10 o'clock
this morning. Otto sru s drunken ready
maker, who nover storked, tnd who robbad
bit wife of hor earnings st tbs wuhtnli. He
cams benw drunk one day and Aund her at
works! bar tnb and shot her In the back Ire
timer, without prevlonily uttering s word.
No griBstlng circumstances could bs urged lu
Balekhi, N. C., Msy 21.—This afternoon
Louis Kilgore, colored, sru publicly hanged
st HondrrtouvUlo Ar the murder of Msttlo
Ucudcrron, t dteroputabte woman, hut fall.
Omaha. Nob., Msy 21.—Jim Reynolds, aged
2fi,wu banged today u Bydney for th* murdtr
of John and James Pinkston, lut fall. Ho
mad# a fill confusion last nlghk After th*
*xrcutioi. about one thouwnd persons ware
wl milted to view the corpm u It hung on tho
gallows. _____ _ _
“A Practical Hen.”
Mr. K. ft. Candler, oar correspondent st Villa
lilts, tSLilsun small box containing eleven
hin's ogr*. Th# oggl vary In six* from thou
ofapat’iidgadowu to a sparrow's, sad their
•nlor aladu from a dtngr white to a dark
i: “They were
Mm. (teo. W,
biown. Onr correspondent says: “1
laid by:- practical hen owned by Mr
Fields. The largest wars laid whon
isdly. “I know I
Lucu never wonld
honu If he’d rend Ar mo.”
I high, u tho prire declined eh* reduced
rfdtauuht dSFby tho I * to ’" Thoyarororaorhahtocirioellleo.
Lncu beard tho reproaeh whon ho stood
it of right In tbo littte entry that ted to
Armlda’s room, listening to the brother and
sitteru they talked together within. .He
often lingered than, wishing to eater, bat not
during to; longing to (ton* Arthonnhsppinsu
bo hod reused hte sister, bnt not knosving bow
to sot shout Ik Hlswu ono of three dumb
natures srhlch hovo no longnago, und It swis
Impofribillty that ho should frankly own hit
Anlt sad ask forgiveness, but he coaid act,
sad Anaida’s eoasplalnk overhead by him,
showed him what to do.
Taking Theodore Into hte confidence, ht set
to work to obdurate all outward rigoa that
mads It “tho divided ' •
boosts”
brother tbo teak of keepiog it from
' "' * ulred
that wu going on In
Aa also qusrnlouriy inquired whatall th* him
muring and pounding
Heath In n Mianty,
From a Western Special.
Two drammen driving from (Iraysoa to
Pawnee, Kan., lost their way and finally cams to a
• beniy. In It were two bads; on ons lay a woman
wbo looked Ilk* a living'skeleton: on the other
weratnedeadbodlecof aman and five children.
The sromen coo Id talk tnd told thli etory: “My
husband, Howard Ballinger, bed been sick 0
long time. Fire weeks ago w# were very
nearly ont ofprotlriOMondlsont my ton, twenty-
two years of age. to Onysoa to get some pro-
vision*. Wc wilted and waited tor hte return, bnt
be did not come. Alter a while the children get
Before quoting tho law on tho sub
ject, Judge liege rs adverted to the recent labor
troubles. Ho said:
country
ruble to
files, but
nnt
•o ,pcsM. wen hare a”right
j tho right to quit work If
hut when they go ono step further
Olliers havo no right to work they
ic law and can ho punished. It Is not
only the principals tlwt msy bo hold rcsponatbU*.
bnt occcworlcs fts well. Ho or they who statM only
by after having aiivlsctl vJoIonco committed may
be held eanally to blame with the principals."
.IiHlgo Rogers then dismlasod thojury, who
retired to their room and went Into aossion.
Tho dar was so far gone that nothing was dono
by tho body further than to psrftv'tIts organ 1*
nation and arrange tho duration of its hours.
ClJif Ar.o, May ‘£‘>. -Kvorsinro tho night of
the riots and the d&r following, when tho
search of houses was commencod, tho polico of
West North accnuo station and the roaidonta
of tho district have keen finding bits of dyna
mite, gas plpo cartridges and ritl» cartridges in
the houses on tho prairies aud under the side
walks ill their immediate vicinity. A iittto
over n work ago a number of dynamtto
cartridges wrapped In a pioeo of redo! Inloth
wsrafonnd nadir tbs sidewall.. Sox t day *
hoy on Qnsld arenuo found somo rlrto
cartridge*, and twa days aftor this anothor
boy took to Ills mother for (nspoctlon somo
fifty rounds be hid picked up on tho
prairie. Today some !k>/s wore playing
ball on Robey street, near the old Chicago and
I'fcsJfio or fifoomtngdaTe track, when the ball
went Into a gutter trader tho sidewalk. Tho
boy had to crawl trader hnd, while looking for
fab hall, found a placo of gaa plpo and reported
more whore that canto from. Ho told hte
hthorond tho polio* traro notlfioil. Thoy
Marched and fonnd umler tho sldcwslk on
tbo cart rid* of Itoboy street anil leas tlmn two
fact south of tbo railroad track that
s small bote had boon *cr»pod out.
In ibis bolo wars 31 ptscre of gas plpo 11
Inches in diameter, and on* to 10 luefaes long,
snapped in a piece of red oil cloth. Of thore
thirty wero loaded with dynamite, helog stop
ped at tho end with round blocks of wood. A
fuse about eight lucbas In length srea attached
to oacb, and all tren ready Ar Immediate us*.
Tbo last piece of plpo was not loaded, but
•earned to have bean very recently cuk as
tbs oil sns still upon its cud. In tha
bote was also found tiro boxre of dynamite
and a four quart tin dinner pall, con-
ug a largo quantity of Ass, tome water-
proofaad aom* cotton. Th* explode* ontlt
sns taken to th* Chicago aveouo station. The
gu pipe cartridges ware exactly simitar to
there captured by Qsptalo Bcbtck in Louis
Bltigllng's housa. Disbelieved the staff snu
? laced under the ridesralk
r somo of loo snarchlsts
who live In tbo neighborhood, and who Aand
their houset might b* searched. It is tvl-
dent the ono placing It thoro desired to us*
it again, from tho core with which it wu
wrapped up.
AKARCHim AEUrsTgn.
hr. Louis, May »—V. II. Bergttnaa*, Mar
tin Frank, Otto Frick* and (lottolb Jaboraa*
sky, for whom warrants srero temad yetterdav,
were arrested today and jilted
to await trial on tha chare* of
bovinglntroduccdsnd urged tho adoption of,
•t on unlawful utcmblago, resolutions In
dorsing the actions of th* anarchists during
the Haymarket riot in Chicago. It had boon
Stated orovlotis to their arrest bv tha datoe.
tlvos __SC
men knew more concerning
of tho noted Chicago agitator Paraoas,
than thoy rend to reveal. This da.
lectlv* states that ha knows positively
that Parsons passed through a smell
town In northarn Kansu soon aftor the riot;
with Iht Intention of escaping to Canada, but
wu obliged to chango hb conrao on account of
tho serious daisy to travel by tbe sreshouUon
th* railroads, and started for th*
south, posting through this city on
fall stray and conferring with hte
brethren white ban. If this should.prove to
bo tbo truth of tbo matter tho streets mad*
ban to-day are important, and tends to ante
riantlate tha statement telegraphed from
Florid* that Barrens had hems teen there, pre
sumably on hte way to Cuba,
Tha Phantom Train.
From Ut* Boston Herald.
An old story which may be of Interest tolM
students or psychical research, comet from Old
Orchard. Before the Botton and Maine railroad
wu extended to Portland, visitors reached 014
Orchard by a branch of the Xaatera rmri. Rico*
the building of the (cesser rood', taistuion th*
branch has been abandoned, end no trains hsr*
run over It lor years. Tha rail* are op, aadla
many placates roadliad dariraysd. L*u summer
•a a party of Canadian itiitlcmen. this* In num
ber, wet* welkins along tela deserted road, they
beard distinctly tha rumble of an approachunt
train. It came nearer and nrertr, sod yet no*Mu*
srea seen. As It came close to them, they ell In-
-
Mby te.oreissnte.ireud nm.Ua
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