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The MONITOR VOL. II. NO. 38 $1 PER YEAR. 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. \ / 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.