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WHEN POLLY WAS MY SWEETHEART,
When Polly was iny sweetheart
The days went dancing by
As Her lightly mocking, as her laughter, j
or her sigh;
She brought the sunshine with her,
A dawn of new delight,
And left me when we parted
To dream of her all night,
\Vhen Polly Whs my sweetheart
; I knew no sordid care;
What gold could keep its lustro
- ! Beside her glinting hair?
And who was I, to envy
The proudest of the land,
That felt but lately on me
The touch of her dear hand!
Behind a Closed Book.
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r i 3 y W\ J. LAMPTONi
OLONEL HARRY
X x Ford was the presi-
'lent of a big bank
in a Western State
and the colonel and
fyjcjp J iclhig I were at of the this O.hfOri- tale
in. New York,
whithef we had
gone as chaiice traveling Companions
on a train from the West. It was on
es an day morning, and as we took it
easy in the handsome apartments ho
was brought occupying, a messenger
him a telegram. The message
was from his wife, and the boy being
colonel a bright-eyed youngster, the cheerful
chatted with him pleasantly a
moment and gave him a quarter as he
departed.
“Doesn’t that make telegraphing
come the pretty high?” I inquired, with
true Yankee spirit of thrift.
“Iused to be one myself,” he said
in explanation, “and now whenever I
see a bright-eyed kid like that I warm
up to him and give him something,
though not always a quarter. Being
Sunday, and the telegram being from
my wife, I do a bit better than usual
part with all of 2o cents.”
“Do you really mean that you were
once,a messenger boy?” I risked in
great surprise, as I looked over the
elegant man of the world, every inch
a gentleman born, who sat in the big
chair by the window gracefully pois-
ing a cigar on his thumb and finger,
“Really and truly,” he laughed,
“and if you can stand a reminiscence
this morning, I’ll. tell you the story of
my life. Journalists, ” and he bowed
over the arm of the chair, “I believe,
are ing always on the lookout for interest-
fa-cts in history and fiction, aren’t
1 hastened , to assure him that they
were, and after making me swear that
I would keep awake at whatever sacri-
fi’ ”- I’e began.
“When I was a youngster of ten,”
lie said, “I was a messenger boy earn-
ing the luxurious salary of three dol-
lars a week, all of which I gallantly
turned over to my mother, who was a
banker’s daughter, though she had
been turned out of hor father’s house
because she had not married to suit
-lim and her stepmother. Indeed, she
had gone farther and married the man
who had suited her, and after that,
while her heart was never empty, she
and her husband and only son were
often so, and life was not quite as rosy
as it might have been. We were brave
people, though, and with my three
dollars a week we managed somehow
to get along. I improved after a year
or two, aud incidentally picked up te-
legrapliy, so that when I was fifteen I
got a place at a small country station
in Missouri and took my mother there
to live with me on my salary of forty
dollars a month, my father having
died a year before.
“At sixteen my mother died, leav-
ing me alone in the world, and at my
mother’s funeral my grandfather re-
lented sufficiently to propose that he
edneate me, which proposal I accept-
ed and agreed to take a good business
education. By the time I was twen-
ty-orie I had been graduated, and my
grandfather gave me a position in a
bank ho owned iu a very pleasant in-
terior town, where I showed such ap-
titudo that the old gentleman entirely
forgave me for having been the son of
his disobedient daughter and told me
to go ahead and I should bo a partner
some day.
“The next most, natural thing in the
world to do was to fall in love, and I
did it for all there was in my throbbing
heart, and on the evening of the day
I was promoted to the cashiership of
the bank I asked Kate Vernon to he
my wife. I did it advisedly, too, for
my grandfather had told me when I
married lie would give me an eighth
interest in tho bank. Miss Vernon
wasn’t the most beautiful girl the eye
of man ever rested on, and even I was
forced to confess that there was too
much pug in her nose for classic
beauty, but she was the brightest
young woman in the county, and the
cheeriest, and I was heels over head in
love with her, which made up for all
discrepancies.
“Daring all the time of my experi-
enee in the bank I had kept up my
interest in telegraphy, and after Kate
and I had settled upon our future
relationship, I had connected hor
house with my room at the hank, and
whenever I had the chance I called
her up and talked love to her between
meals by electricity. I don’t know
how much of that kind of talk we in-
dulged in, but I do know that:
Ks»fe became almost an expert telegraph
operator, and could easily have made
her living at it had there been such a
necessity.
“One of the other customs of that
charming time of love in the fore-
ground was a drive that Kate and I
When Polly was my sweetheart
And Vowed she loved me true,
I had not guessed the lurking
Of guile iu eyes so blue;
Or that A Cheek eAii offer
. The same delicious rose
To greet a Wooer’s coming,
And speed him when he goes.
When Polly was my sweetheart—
Oh, idle time and blind!
Its With memories blow backward
Until, if every I April wind
could suffer
The joy and pain of yore.
I should not mind lior making
A fool of me onoe more.
11. E. W., in Lite,
took two or three times a week in a
trap she owned, leaving tho bank just
after closing time, 1 o’clock, and driv-
ing for a couple of hours, to end at her
house, where I took supper with her.
On the days when she would telegraph
down that she was coming, I would
lock up the money arid valuable papers
in the inside safe arid.leave the outer
driofs of tlib big vault open, so the
last man out bf, the hank coriid put the
books away and lock them up against
fire. The man who did this nearly al¬
ways was an old fellow, partly deaf,
and a janitor rather than a clerk. One
when I had shut up the inside
' safe and gone out to join Kate in her
trap at the door, she sent me back to
wait until she went up town to see a
friend about a church supper they
were interested in, Old Jock, as we
called, him, was not at his desk when I
came back, though I had said good-bye
to him as 1 went mit, nor was there
anyone in the bank, and as I sat a mo-
ment at my own desk I noticed a pa¬
per that that had been left there by
mistake, I got up at onoe to put it
where it belonged in the safe, and as I
went into the vault I did not observe
that though all the I could books hear had old been Jock, put away,'*
in the
little room back, telling his boy about
sweeping ' out,
“The paper belonged in a pigeon-
hole far back in the vault and high up,
so that I was compelled to go up a
stepladder we kept there, and about
the time 1 had got myself hid away in
the shadow the big outer door swung
to and I could hear old Jock turn the
combination out of joint, f yelled
out, but it was too late, even if the old
man’s ears had been sharp, and I
found myself in the disagreeable pre-
dicament of being shut up in my own
safe and no visible means of escape.
At fl F st ^ s L' u °k me as ludicrous,
then it became serious, and in a few
moments 1 had gone to thinking as
those people think who are confronted
with tremendous moments in their
lives. I soon decided that my only
hope of getting out was through Miss
Vernon, who, when she returned,
would naturally inquire for me and in
this way old Jock would in time dis-
cover that he had shut me up in the
vault. How long it would be until
Miss Vernon returned, or what chance
the old man still being there when
she came now began to demand dis-
eussion iu my brain, and for a minute
or two I stood still in tho thick dark-
n e«s and listened to my heart beating,
Then I remembered that u »■ always
kept a hammer in a pigeonhole near
the door, and groping around I
found it and at once began to pound
on the door. Immediately a response
came, but, of course, I did not know
who was giving it, though evidently
the boy, as the old man could scarce-
ly have heard. This gave me hope,
at once, and I set up a regular tattoo
on the door with my hammer, to all of
which came the responses from the
outside. But it was not getting out
of my prison, and confinement was be-
coming irksome.
“For the first time now I heard
faintly the sound of human voices call¬
ing to me, but it were as if they were
miles away, and I could not distin-
guish whose they were, though I
thought I knew Kate’s. I answered
back, but the place was so thick and
heavy that my voice frightened me,
and I used the hammer instead of call
ing. Up to this time I had not thor-
oughly realized what my entombment
meant, but now it came upon me that
the only man in town except myself
who knew the combination had gone
away for a vacation to the seashore,
and that with the door air-tight, or
practically so, I could not live a very
great while in the vault. Certainly
not long enough to hear from either
the clerk on vacation or from tho peo-
pie from whom we had bought the safe
in St. Louis. Indeed, if I stood it for
two hours, I felt I would he doing
well, for my pounding had filled the
little air I had with dust, and it was
nearly suffocating mo. Tho pounding
from the outside increased the dust, i
too, and while I could prevent myself]
frgrn doing it, and did stop, the very
fact of my stopping made those on the
outside pound harder as if to encour !
age me, when, as they thought, I was j
losing hope. |
“This thought came to mo with a
shock so great that I almost collapsed. !
I caught at the sides of the vault in I
the inky darkness and for a minut- ;
I became deathly sick. Following this !
came almost a frenzy to yell aud howl
and claw at the door and scratch at my ;
face of people and tear doing at my that hair. I and had heard going | i
when way j
mad lost in caves and such places,
and I felt it coming on me in that
dreadful hole. To add to the horror::
of my situation, the air was growing
rapidly worse and I could not stand {
up in the vault without a feeling of
the most profound nausea. It was the j
nausea of despair, if anybody has ever i
POPULATION AND DRAINAaE.
MORGAN. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1897.
analyzed just wiiat that is. At inter-
vals, notwithstanding the harm of it, T.
would grope around for the hammer
iirid pektrid Oil Hits dOdf; Only ip choke
more and to liedr the muffled .thuds of
the responses from the outside.
‘Two feet front light and air and
love and life and utterly shut off from
them all. It was horrible to think of;
and I am sure a thousand times worse
than if I had been entombed in a mine
ten thousand feet deep or had been
buried iu the gauds of a desert a bun-
dred miles from water and green trees.
Slowly I I fiouki felt mY strength riiucti as.ffesporicl; going, and
at last riot so
even tlie at outside, long intervals, to the knocking
on and l sank to the floor
With my bead against the cold steei
wall between the light of the world
arid the darkness ttl death,, AS, tjirid 1 lit*
there printing 1 heard the drill of
the heating ori the bli t side, and it soon
came as d heating bf time, of fatRof
etermty; it measure and of music to sdbthe
me tci sleep, I sank into .semi-con-
sbipuririess rind seemed to be dreaming:
“You know, they say that when d
man is dying under unnatural or vio¬
lent circumstances all his jiast life
comes back to him, even in minute de-
tail. It, did not quite appear to me
that all my life was passing in review
before me in my dungeon, but it did
seem as if the youth of my life had
come back to me, and I thought I was
oitee again in that little telegraph a to-
tiori ori the Missip’uri lUvor biitchiilg
the clickity-cHck-click tabie, of the-instrri-
ment oil my arid which always
seemed to me admiral: as important as a ship’s
deok is to an I seemed to
be hearing the ‘calls’ of operators ail
along the line, hut I gave no response,
and then the scene changed, as it does
so suddenly and unaccountably in
dreams, and I was at my instrument in
the bank listening with all a lover’s
eagerness for the first call of Kate
Vernon’S over the wire I had put up
for belt
“It wits very faint and far off, heat and I
think I must have smiled as I my
ear closer to the instrument to catch
the sound, having in mind my sweet-
heart at the other end of the wire es-
saving her first attempt iu handling
the lightning. Eor a moment it was
vague enough, with its modest little
clickety-click-click, seemed but all at once it
to say something to me. 1
could not distinguish at first, but
presently it took form and I could
catch the‘call’I had taught'her. It
was iilie letter K, repeated over and
over again, ‘just as all operators do
when they want some other operator
who is not at his desk to respond
promptly. Then it was the clickety-
click-click of the letters that formed
my name, and I smiled to think that
as a child learning to talk says ‘mam-
ma’ first, so Kate was saying first in
this new language of the wires that
she was learning the name of her
teacher,
“But there was something moj’e
than n dream ip the sensations I was
experiencing. 1 could feel that it was
something more than ft dream. I
knew that some sound must be shaping
my dream for me, and without know¬
ing what I was doing and with an odd
feeling of the very peculiar key we
had put on our instruments I took up
the hammer and sounded my ‘call’to
Kate, in response to what I was hearing.
Instautly the ‘call’ .was repeated and
my name followed. Now I seemed to
throw off the nightmare, and I roused
myself. Striking with the hammer on
the door I called to Kate by name, and
then distinct enough, though muffled,
I heard the clickety-click-click on the
outer door, and Kate was telling me in
the mysterious manual of Morse, a
message of courage and hope.
“And what a wonderful strength is
hope. Now that I had established
communication with the outside world,
I took great courage immediately,
though I did not understand just what
or howl was going to do to be saved,
for I confess that I was not very clear
headed at this time. I thought only
of telegraphing to St. Louis for the
combination, and had actually sig-
naled to Kate to do so at once, and I
would try to keep up until ivord was
received, when to my indignation, she
laughed at me over the wires, that is
the door plate, audtold me to telegraph
right then and there to her what the
combination was and she would do tho
rest.
“How plain and simple that was,
and I had never thought of it. Neither
had I thought of telographing to her
from my prison, and it was only be¬
cause she was a woman that she ever
thought of sending word through that
dull door to me with a hammer. She
has since told me that some men never
will learn anything unless it is ham¬
mered into them, and I never say a
word. Anyway, when three minutes
after I had told her what the combin¬
ation was, the door opened and I fell
forward into the fresh air of the world
of sunshine, Kate caught me in her
arms, and it was her voice I heard
faintly and far off as I had heard the
clickety-click-click of her tapping that.
led mo back to life and light and love
onoe more. ”
“And you lived happily ever after?”
k inquired, after so long a silence that
surprised at myself,
“My boy,” said the hanker, earnest-
!y> “sho has saved my life a hundred
times since that, and I wouldn’t trade
her for all the other women in the
world. And when she sees this story
m print,” he ad-led laughing, “I’ll
need to have my life saved again, hut
- je won’t doit, I’ll hat a horse* and
harness. ”
“She must draw the line some-
where,” said I.—Washington Star,
*pi<i<;r-Si>un mik.
It is declared that a Frenchman has
discovered a method of making fine
silk from spiders’ web. His name is
M. Cachot, and it is probable that he.
will claim tho reward of 810,000 of-
t’esed by manufacturers of Great
Britain to any one who would accom-
pliak this feat,
THE ORGANIZATION SENDS STRONG
LETTER TO BANK OF ENGLAND.
SILVER RESERVE THE CAUSE.
A Probability That tiro English Govern¬
ment Stay Be Coerced In
the Matter,
Advices from London state that the
protest which the bankers of that city
drfiw nj> lit their meeting in the clefir-
ing house Wednesday Against the pol-
; icf of the g Hvernor o{ the bank of Eri-
gland iu announcing its willingness tb
maintain one-fifth of its bullion reserve
in silver was presented to the bank
Thursday., The resolution was ac¬
companied by a formal, letter, and bf the
resolution itself is in the nanib tho
Clearing House association, as, although
^h® members were not represented at
tlie meeting, a majority of the mem-
kerslap was represented and unani-
mously adopted the resolution, which
as follows:
“That this meeting entirely disap-
proves bf the Bank of England agree¬
>»8 to bxerase the option, permitted
by the afct of 188-1; of holding onfe-
fifth *>r any other portibn whatever the of
silver as a reserve againjit clrculri-
tion of the Bank of England notes,
“That a copy of this resolution ho
sen* to the Bank of England, the
prime minister, the first lord of the
treasury and the chancellor of the cx-
chequer.”
An organized movement had begun
to induce other commercial bodies to
protest against of the Bank announcement England, of
the governor ths of
A the high official who Mas a participant tTnited
in negotiations between the
States bimetallic commissioners and
the British cabinet said to the repre-
sentative of the Associated Press:
“I fear the bankers will frighten the
government into receding from their
stand for bimetallism. They have for-
gotten that parliament unanimously
resolved measures to secure a stable
ratio of exchange between gold and
silver, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
the chancellor of the exchequer,
pledged himself to do all iu his power
to carry the resolution into effect,
“The English public have forgotten
also that ten of the fourteen members
of the agricultural commission signed
a report recommending bimetallism as
a palliative for the agricultural do-
pression iu India. The public and
newspapers seem to think the govern-
ment is influenced merely by a desire
to secure the good will of the United
States, when it is attempting to carry
out the declared policy of its parlia¬
ment,”
HAZELTON INQUEST ON.
.Coroner’s Jury Investigates tlie Killing of
Miners at Latfcimer.
^ Hazel ton, la., Ihursday after-
noon, Coroner MeKee began the in-
quest into the deaths of the score of
strikiu g miners, who were shot by a
P 088 ® of the sheriff s deputies at Latti-
timer,
Nearly all the testimony adduced at
fh ' st day’s session was a repetition
of that brought out at the hearing of
the deputies at Wiikesbarre. Most of
the witnesses were foreign strikers,
who were hi the march halted by tho
deputies’ deadly fusilade.
They gave the details of the affray
08 already published and all declared
that, none of the strikers were armed;
that Sheriff Martin pulled a revolver
on them,but no one attempted to take
it from him; that no violence had been
offered that official, and that the miners
had no intention of making an unlaw-
ful demonstration,
IVILL FINISH NEW ROAD.
Springfield,Ohio River and South Atlantic
Railway to Bo Completed.
A company of capitalists was or¬
ganized Thursday at Paoli, huh, by
the election of a board of thirteen
directors to push to completion the
building of the Springfield, Ohio River
and South Atlantic railway.
To this road a subsidy of $1,000,000
was voted by Knoxville, Term. It is a
branch of the Great Black Diamond
system. William Kirby, of Toledo, was
elected president of the board.
Articles of incorporation will be filed
at Indianapolis.
EGAN TO SUCCEED COMER
An President of the Central of Georgia
Railway.
For six months it has been reported
that Vice-President John M. Egan, of
the Central, would succeed to tho
presidency at the next annual election.
Home time ago President H. M. Comer
resigned, but he was requested to hold
on, and he consented to do so.
The New York Journal of Tuesday
announced that Mr. Egan would sue
ceed Mr. Comer at the election next
month. Mr. Egan was in New York
last week, and it is said that while
there he had had an interview with the
members of the voting trust who con¬
trol the Central’s 110,000 shares of
common stock.
ALABAMA IRON ON A BOOM.
FnrnacflS Have Ortiorn For All They Can
Produce For Home Month*.
It is given out that Alabama furnaces
bare sold pig iron up to January 1st
“ext year.
Asa resuit a number of orders are
being accepted for delivery after that
date. Much conditions have not pre-
vailed in that section for many months
and the activity of tlie pig iron market
is the subject of much comment,
REYNOLDS AND UlIOOKS RESPITED.
While On the Threshold Of n Short
Iteprievo Is Secured.
tfiio Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks,
were to have been hung at Jeffer¬
son; last Gri.j last Friday, were respited at
trie fflomriut for four weeks.
Thh gallows wds waiting and every¬
thing wris iu readiness {of the execu ¬
tion when the sheriff was told to Stay
his hand.
Brook’s attorney secured 3 superse¬
deas in his case early Friday morning
and Reynolds was respited by Governor
Atkinson so that be could live until the
case of his partner in crime had been
decided by the supreme court.
The postponement of the execution
was a great surprise to the 2,000 peo¬
ple assembled in Jefferson find
there was some indignation ex¬
pressed dred over the delay. Several hun¬
of the crowd had come from
many miles away on an excursion and
their disappointment Wds hitter.
The affair has only a parallel in the
case of the Pearl Bryan murderers,
Jackson and Walling, where the life
of qne of the condemned was played
ns a strike for the other and in vain.
POLICE GUARD UUlLDlNiL
New Orleans Citizens Try to Freyont
establishment, of Fever Hospital.
A special from New Orleans says:
Mayor Flower has ordered a force of
policemen to guard the Beauregard
school, which a mob made an attempt
to burn of Thufssday tile building night. Only a
portion possible was burned,
and it is still to use the struc¬
ture as rt hospital for the treatment of
yellow fever patients.
It was shortly after midnight Thurs¬
day night when a mob applied the
torch to the school, and thereby carried
into execution a threat that had been
repeatedly made.
When tlie fireman arrived on the
scene their hose was cut, but the de¬
partment worked pluckily, and with
tho assistance of a squad of police, ul¬
timately succeeded in extinguishing
the flames. The burning of tbe school
created intense indignation, and the
outrage was bitterly denounced.
Every newspaper in the city, in
ringing editorials, pledged itself to
support the mayor in whatever action
ho might take to punish tho culprits
and carry into effect the original de¬
termination to establish the yellow
fever hospital in the Beauregard
schoolhouse.
MINERS DIE BY EXPLOSION.
Many Are Imprisoned In ft Burning Fit.
Ill Illinois.
An explosion terrible in its effects
occurred iu the Williamson County
Coal Company’s mine, four miles north
of Marion, Ill., Friday.
Fifteen wounded miners, two of
whom subsequently died, were res¬
cued, while one was found dead when
Lhe rescuing party went down the
shaft.
Several of the wounded were bo se¬
verely crushed and otherwise hurt
that they will die. There are said to
he five or sit miners still imprisoned
in the burning mine, but they cannot
he reached on account of smoke
and fire. These men are no doubt
dead, as there were no means of es¬
cape for them, the mine not having
been provided with tho usual escape¬
ment; shaft.
Most of the men killed and wounded
are Russians and Italians, and it is
impossible to get their names ns yet.
AT LAMP FONTAIN KLEAU.
Many llefugees Arrive ill Ciovernment’s
Fever Reservation.
A batch of about 100 refugees ar¬
rived in Camp Fonlainbleau, Miss.,
Friday.
Surgeon Geddings, of the United
States marine hospital, arrivefl from
headquarters at Washington, and will
be placed in charge of the observation
department.
The official daily report from tho
hospital states that patients up to noon
Friday were doing fairly well.
Things are being more comfortably
arranged for the refugees with each
succeeding day. A sundry supply
store was opened Friday, also a bar¬
ber shop.
Savannah Oiinranlines Atlnnln.
Mayor Meldrim, of Savannah, Ga.,
has declared a quarantine against
Atlanta upon receipt of a telegram from
Dr. Stone saying that Atlanta’s board
of health hail declared one ease of
yellow fever. All inspectors wired
not to admit any person or baggage
from Atlanta.
NASHVILLE RAISES QUARANTINE.
Passengers from Many Points May Enter
Without Certificates.
Friday tho Tennessee state hoard of
health raised the quarantine as to east
and middle Tennessee and modified
the quarantine as to west Tennessee.
Persons from infected points can visit
middle and east Tennessee, but must
remain ten days under control of the
board before going into west Tennes¬
see. West Tennessee is still subject
to a modified quarantine.
Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville
and.Memphis asked for modifications
of the iron-clad quarantine and the
hoard issued tho new orders.
A TORPEDO BOAT GOES DOWN.
Eight of tho Grow a ml t.lio Buko Com*
rmimler Fiml Watory Graven.
Advices from Hamburg, Germany, capsized
state that Torpedo No. 2fi
arid sank near the first light ship off
Cux Haven, eight of her crew and the
commander, Duke Frederick William
of Mec,klenbiug-Hchwerin,were drown¬
ed. The duke was horn in 1871, held
the rank of lieutenant in the German
navy arid was a brother of the grand
duke of Mecklenburg-Hchwerin,
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SOME
M ATR1 MON IAL VENTURES.
DECEMBER GROOMS; MM BRIDES.
William Interjects h Few U not Cf to US
From Fatly Friends German© to the
Subject of Matrimony.
Whenever there is trouble and I
can’t give any relief or remedy, it dis¬
tresses me, especially when the Now trouble here
is of n domestic character.
is a letter from a man who says: “1
know a man, a neighbor, who is of a
warm, affectionate, passionate nature,
and loves his wife to distraction,hut she
is calm and cool and conservative by
nature and, therefore, indifferent to
his caresses, rind whenever lie ventures
to kiss her and put his arms about her
she repels him with such expressions
as, ‘Oh, Tom, get away; don’t bother
trie,’ She is a pure, good woman and
lofOS her husband in her way, but she
never meets him at the door when he
comes home tired or disappointed fellow’ with
his day’s work. The poof
is really fttf pining away and lan¬
guishing lack of love—for recip¬
rocity, as it were—and can’t get it.
Now, what is the remedy? Can’t you
bring your universal philosophy to
bear upon this case and solve the prob¬
lem?”
No, I cftuilot. I am helpless. Noth¬
ing but time will equalize and har¬
monize that couple. J am afraid their
union was a misfit, but he took her for
better or worse and must be recon¬
ciled, In fflct,. he ought to be thank¬
ful in these degenerate days that he
has found a pure good woman, even if
she is not as tumultuous in her iove as
he would like her to he. tint time is
a good doctor, Time will assuage
him down some and will tone her up
some, for a man and his
wife get more and more alike
as the years roll on. There were
some good friends at roy bouse last
night and I seriously read to them this
letter and asked for advice about an¬
swering it. They all agreed that the
man was not writing about his neigh¬
bor, but was relating his own pitiful
condition.
A married man said, •‘Writoliiui t .0
get away and quit bothering her when
she says so.”
A bachelor friend said, “Write him
to flirt a little with another man’s wife
and she will come to her senses rnigK+y
quick and return his caresses.” it,”
“That is all you know about,
said another dame. “The flirtations of
a husband destroys love and happi¬
ness, too. They are more apt, to bring
contempt and even scorn. A true wo¬
man will suffer and endure any fault
or failing except that.”
A young married woman said timid¬
ly, “She must he a very strange kind
of a woman not to like caressing, tint
I. do think she ought to meet him
at the dopr and give him a smile or
two when he comes home.”
“He must lie a right good man lassie and
I am sorry for him,” said a in
hor teens. “Or maybe he is so horrid
course and ugly that no self-respecting
woman would want him bothering her
for kisses and caresses every time he
came about,” said a lassie out of her
teens.
“Maybe he smoked and his breath
was disagreeable,”said a benedict who
never used tobacco.
So T got, lint little comfort from this
goodly company and my wife contin¬
ued the discourse by remarking in her
quiet way, “Well, I think your friend
had better have kept his misery to
himself. Let him stick to liis prom¬
ises that he made at the altar.”
“Or apply for a writ of mandamus
and make her kiss him according to
law,” said a learned judge who was
present. “I.would make her recipro¬
cate if the ease was in my court, The
writ of mandamus is a far-reaching
and effectual process.”
Well, of course, the conversation
drifted to the topic of May and De¬
cember marriages, with grooms of
more than three score and ton and
brides of tender years. We all agreed
that if such such a groom had anything to
leave a bride besides his name
and would depart this life in a reason¬
able time, she was justified in marry¬
ing him. But in the first place, the
property should he in sight the “quid
pro quo” and it should he fixed, set¬
tled, dowered, dovetailed, clinched
upon her, and these should bo an
implied contract that ho should die
in strict accordance with the death
rate, the expectation laid down in the
life insurance tables. Indeed, if the
late frequency of old men marrying
young woman is to ho multiplied to
an alarming extent, there should he
established a death insurance office
so that the young girl could go to it
and get a policy insuring the old man’s
death in a limited time, and if ho
didn’t die within the time, the com¬
pany should pay her so much as she
insured for—say $. r >,000 or $10,000 or
$20,000, as the case may be. With
the money of course she could live de-
cently and even secure a divorce on
the ground of fraud—fraud I" 11 n,, t
dying according to hope and expecta¬
tion and an implied promise. old Why,
I know a lady who married an man
twenty-eight years ago. He was sixty
and she but twenty and as sweet and
pretty as a pink. He was rich arid
sickly and agreed to settle on her
$30,000 to be paid at liis death. He
looked like be would (lie in a year, bnt,
1)1 ess your son 1 b, my sweet, young
sisters, ho is living yot, and she looks
nearly as old as he does. Her bloom
of youth is gone. When she married
she was an orphan and soon became [
.
worse than an orphan, and she is
childless. What a mistake she made.
What a fraud was perpetrated upon ■
her. What a wreck of earthly happi¬
ness Young girls, beware! These
unions are not according to nature and
they shock the judgment and the sen¬
timent. of mankind There are widows
enough to take these venerable widow-
ers, lint. let the maidens remain single
if they cannot get n.',young man of
their choice.
And now as a supplement to aty late
Indian letters, let me say that my in¬
quiry about Lieutenant Paschal, who
married Hrirab. the half-breed daugh¬
ter of John TtvL-e. has been answered
by Mr. C. A. Lilly, a nephew of Judge
George W. Paschal. Mr. Lilly’s mother
WftR Paschal’s youngest sister, and
died last, year, aged eighty-one. Mr.
Lilly now lives in St. Louis, His
grandfather . Paschal was a soldier
under Sumter in the revolutionary
war and lived then iu Savannah, Ga.
Judge Paschal’s eldest son, George
W. Paschal, resides in Washington
city. His second sou, Ridge Paschal,
is living with the Cherokees at Tiihle-
quah, I. T. His youngest daughter
married T. P. O’Connor, a member of
parliament in L< ndon, England.
Judge Paschal’s most notable and en¬
during work was the annotated edition
of the constitution and laws of the
United States. He also wrote the
memoirs of his mother, who lived to
tins great age .of ninety-four years,
which hook Mr. Lilly has promised to
seud me, as it contains a great deal of
tlie history of north Georgia and tho
Cherokee Indians. Many younger
citizens than I am have written me
letters of thanks for these Indian
sketches and asked for more. May be
I will write some more when I learn
more.—Bllm A nr in Atlanta Constitu¬
tion.
AN ULTIMATUM.
Brown.—I see that the sealquostion
has dbme up again. notified
Jones.—Oh, yes i My wife
mo last night that she must have a
complete sealskin outfit this year.
JVHITEf APPERN ON TRIAL.
South Carolinians CIisirred With H^rrasa*
fnjj Mormon Fillers.
The trial of the whitccappers of the
Mormon elders and converts began in
Winnsboro, S. 0., Weil esdfty. In¬
dictments against twenty-four men,
some of them of the bent, class of
farmerHH were given to tho grand jury.
True bills aguiust six of the suppos¬
ed ring lenders were returned. Forty
witnesflness wore present, including
many women. Ten of these are girls
that held at hay a mob of 300 while
M.irmnn ni.lprs (..scaped ii' oni tliqir wit¬
house. The testimony of several
nesses is directly against the indicted
men.
RAILROAD SUPERINTENDENTS.
OlHcerit Elected By the American Society
At Meeting in Nashville.
Tlie American Society of Railroad
Superintendents elected the following
officers at their meeting in Nashville,
Thursday: C. Price of Pittsburg,
Preside it, B.
Pa. j first vice president, Seely Dunn,
Russellville, Ky.; second vice presi¬
dent, G. B. Brown, Conning, N. ;
secretary, C. A. Hammond, Anbury
Park, N. J.; treasurer, E. M. Sully,
Petersburg, Vn.; executive committee,
0. II. Ketehum, Syracuse, N.< Y., and
A. H. Smith, Youngstow’n, O. Various,
topics were discussed and tho associa¬
tion adjourned until the next annual
meeting.
VLkdU E RAGES IX BOMBAY.
Dlsnstrims Consequences Are Fxpecterl as
iiRf'HiiR of the Hlvoase.
The latest health statistics received
from Bombay, India, show that tho
bubonic plague is again active, having
crept unobserved from hamlet to ham¬
let until a wide area is affected.
The newspapers assert that th.
withdrawal of the medical officers for
Service with the troops on the frontier
will entail consequences infinitely more
disastrous than anything happening on
tho frontier.
THE ROPE SUPPED
And.. Gauged Bungling In FxucuUon of
SllvanuH Johnfton.
Silvanns Johnson was hanged at Key
West Thursday for assault.
The hangman bungled the execu¬
tion, the knot slipping under tho chin.
Johnson struggled violently for tea
minutes and was still alive at the end
of twenty-live minutes.
He confesssed his crime, professed
conversion and died forgiving and
blessing his enemies. An orderly
crowd witnessed the execution.
MOTHER DANCED; HA RE i BURNED.
Thu Usiml Story of FhihJ.rrn hocked Th
ffoiHo and Cremated.
A negro living near Corsada, Ala...
known uh Eliza Duncan wont to a
dance Thursday night and locked hor
throe small children in her house dwelling.
About midnight the caught
fire and was consumed, tho children ■
being burned to death. They crawled
under tho bed seeking protection,
.where their charred bodies were
found.
The woman is guilty of a felony un¬
der tho laws of Alabama.
HUNDREDS OF MEN IDLE
A. a Kn.nlt of Quarantine Against th©
Southern l aclflo.
specinl from Houston, Texas,
Inconsequence of the tie-up of
Southern Pacific road from this
P olnt to I ' ,ew Orleans by quarantine
about seven l hundred men are out of
employment.
rhe y include firemen, engineers,
trainmen, switchmen and shop em-
pri’y® eB > W L° Lave been laid off be-
cause there are no trains.