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I down the creek almost to the • place n where the Blackwood road ran across The rumor that Queen Victoria'in I ill. it. They had passed the stream per tends to retire in favor of the Prince of More Salmon Than the Lower River haps 50 yards and were toiling over Canneries Can Handle. Wales is again current in London. It a narrow bottom -into which the hollow is added that oourt circles are greatly Astoria, Or., Aug. 3.—The receipts By MARTHA M’OULLOCH WILLIAMS. expanded when Dare stopped short, troubled regarding the condition of the of salmon at the various lower river flung up her head and cried in a star OREGON queen’s health. Such reports have fre SCIO canneries continue unusually heavy [Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa- tied voice, “Mammy, mammy, what K tion.J quently appeared recently, only to be and are far in excess of the capacity of can that be?” semi-officially contradicted later, but it several of the packing establishments. chapter hl ‘ ‘D-d-de—d-d-debble, I re-reckon, ” seems that there may be some actual Today the fish were so plentiful thit “Black Mammy, I want to go get mammy said, with- chattering teeth; for foundation for the statements made. one of Kinney’s men delivered ueirly some blackberries. ” a wild, shrill crying came out of the It is added that her majesty "has de 100, and near Sand Island it was re “Lis’en at dab now, will yo’? Miss cided to spend her time in future at ported that the water was almost alive Dare, didn’t yo’ hear ole marster tole me ground, apparently at their very feet. Comprehensive Review of the Import Balmoral or Osborne, and will give the with large Chinooks. Many were re rot ter let yo’ oaten my sight twell he CHAPTER IV. ant Happenings of the Past Week Prince and Princess of Wales the use ported to have been taken with gaff came home, an here you wantin ter go ’ Dare held up a warning hand and of Buckingham palaoe and Windsor strayin off by yo ’ sef lik ’ yo ’ wus some hooks by some of the men who found Culled From the Telegraph Columns. said after a minute of listening: “No; castle. themselves in the midst of a great po’ white trash-” it’s somebody in trouble. I hear them “Yon roi<come. too, though I ain’t calling ‘Help! Help!’ but it does sound Storms in West Virginia have cre school of fish. At one or two can Is Deaf, Dumb and Blind. ated great havoo and railway traffio curious. Where on earth can it come An interesting experiment in educa neries, where too many fish were re afraid. ” “I cain’tdat; .got ter spin my stockin from?” has been suspended. tion will be commenced at the deaf, ceived, the loss is heavy. Tons of the yarn dis mornin while hit ’ s cool. Wait fish are being thrown overboard at The members of a camping party dumb and blind institution at Berkley, “Come ’way, honey, do"! ’Tis de deb- near Oakland, Cal., were forced to Cal., on the opening of the sohool year Kinney’s on account of the lack of twell de evenin; den I’ll sen Suse ter ble, Itellyo’. Heso’ateful—desdoindat climb trees, while a madened bull de in August. Graoe C. Sperow, aged 10 means to preserve them until they could fotch yo’ mop .¿lackberries, an yo’ kin ter fool yo’, make yo’ sorry for him and stroyed their camp. wait so he kin ketch yo’. Run quick. Oh years, who was been stone blind from be canned. As many as possible have shake a stick at. ” “I don’t like waiting. ” Lordy! He done smelt us; des hear ’im E. L. Harrison, who was formerly childhood and is now almost deaf and been salted for the winter use by the “Is yo’ gwine anyway spite er me?” hollerin worse’n er 2-year-old bull. traveling auditor for the Northern dumb, is to be made a special student citizens in the west end of town, and “Not in spite, ¿ut I am going. Spin Dare, you Dare, my chile, come ’way Paoific railroad, committed suicide in and educated at the expense of the were freely given to all who would away, mamniy. I’ll never tell grandfa f’m dar, I tell yo’. ” Tacoma, by shooting himself in the state. This ohild will be given a nine carry them away. Fishermen assert that never since the ther; you needn’t either. ” Black Mammy shrieked as Dare ran mouth, the bullet from his revolver years* course and will receive instruc “Ef go yo’ will, I got ter, but you is I swiftly forward, stopped abruptly and penetrating to the brain and killing tion from a special teaoher employed canning industry began has such a run for that purpose. This will be the been seen. If it continues until the the ill convenientest gal, hungry fer looked intently into something at her him almost instantly. blackberries -wid horse apples des meller A freight train on the Vandalia rail first attempt to educate a deaf, dumb close of the season, the chances are fa as dey can be layin right yer under yo’ feet. In a minute she called: ‘ ‘Mammy, vorable for a much larger pack than come here, quick! Some one has fallen and blind person and in consequence road ran through a bridge near Craw had been anticipated. An unusual nose. I don’ t«in de goin so much, but into the big sinkhole. We must get him fordsville, Ind., killing Conductor great interest centers about the case. feature of the situaton is the quality of I does hate ter see yo’, er Overton, act out before it rains, or he will drown. ” McKenzie ’and Fireman John Herber Schrader in Texas« the fish, which is fully equal to those in like er po white. All dem lives in de “Take keer. Don’t you fall in, too,” and seriously injuring Roadmaster J. August Shrader, the so-called divine taken in June, the flesh being excep brier patch^dis time er year, des same mammy shouted, waddling up at her S. Brothers and Engineer Bowman. healer, put in an appearanoe in Dallas, tionally red and firm and the quality as de -'^hjiKjitts. ’ ’ L best speed. Dare indeed knelt perilously The wreck was caused by washouts. then ran rnear the verge of the earthen pit, up . Tex., whrne he treated -2,0.00 persons in of . oil abundant. =i- iirnw -Rev. Geo. P. -Knapp; -who was ar rour days. Some reported they had down the jtizra^Reps, calling as she whose smooth, straight, crumbling sides rested in Bitlis, Eastern Turkey, on the been cured. He left suddenly, leaving THROWN INTO A CISTERN. went: “Musty Damsel! Here, here!” its occupant had been vainly trying to charge of conspiring against the Turk the following note: “I am called | At- sound of their names a couple of despite the drawback of a badly ish government, and who was once lib from here, and obey my Father’s will. ’ ’ Texas Stan Slays His Family and Dis- j foxhounds, Ink, lithe, many spotted, | I climb, sprained arm. At sight of Dare he erated, but refused to leave the country poses of Their Dodies. got up fromlhe-grass, where they lay said fervently: “Thank the Lord! I Successful Filibusters« before his innooence was established, Austin, T^x., Aug. 3.—T. E. Burt, panting and tapping at the flies, and shall not have to die in this hole, after Passengers from Havana, arrived in has again been arrested and will be ran away to fleir young mistress, who Key West by the steam'er Masoott re a member of one of the most respect-, stood beside th yard gate, waiting Black all.”' tried on a charge of inciting riot, able families, murdered his wife and , “How came yo-’ dar?” asked mammy t E. L. Moody, a logger, made a cow port a rumor of the successful, landing two children, aged 2 and 4 years, last | Mammy’s slowapproach. suspiciously. of a filibustering expedition in the vi ardly attempt to murder Mrs. H. J. Spite of his ill condition the prisons! Friday night, and placed the dead j She fitted w^l into the joyful sum Bunn in a hotel kept by the woman’s cinity of Cienfuegos. The expedition bodies in a cistern. He left the city I mer morning. Her clean pink calico answered, laughing: “Because of a pig, is believed to be. under the command husband at Elma, V- ash. Moody Saturday night following the terrible frock fell awaj from a round white auntie. 1 was riding along the road stabbed his victim in the wrist and in of Captain Cabrera. deed, after advising several neighbors throat, whose, promise was repeated in there just after daylight, not dreaming the right breast with a knife, and then Oregon’s School Census. not to drink the water in his cistern, | the wrists revealed by loose sleeves, ful of such, a pitfall close at hand. All at fled, leaving Mrs. Bunn seriously if not The state school census, which has as it was polluted. His relatives be-1 filled in the rose and ivory of her face. once master piggy got up from "his pud fatally wounded. Moody is still at just been completed by Superintendent came alarmed at the disappearance of I One bare hand lifted the pink skirts high dle at the roadside. My horse shied vio large. Irwin, at. Salem, shows that there are his family,-and began an investigation, | enough to show ,two small proud step lently this way, stumbled, broke the A Havana dispatch says the polioe in Oregon at present 129,623 cihldren resulting in the finding of the bodies | ping feet in quaint buckled-shoes. The girth and pitched me and my saddle to today. Burt bound his wife in a other held a. small , basket -woven of fine this depth, from which I had begun to have captured a collection of maps of of school age. blanket, after tying her feet ancftaeck white oak splints. A mop of yellowy fear I should never escape. ” the island, highly colored, showing the Republican State Convention. “Dat dar place des broke in las’ week. together, and then dropped the body | hair showed under a big palm hat. supposed insurgent headquarters in The Republican state committee of into the cistern. Both children had Brows a trifle darker arched over deep ’Twould er bin fenced an kivered ef Cubitas, the rebel flag and picturing various chiefs of the insurrection. The Washington decided'to hold the state their brains knocked out. His brothers blue eyes that were full of merry mis master had knowed hit wus dar; but, po’ maps bear the imprint of a Barcelona convention at Tacoma on August' 26. have offered a reward of 1300 for his chief as the fat dark figure waddled man, he got so much on his min. But slowly toward the gate. say, mister gentleman, yo’ mus’ come firm. The Havana stationer, Don Fer The convention will- be attended by apprehension. “Own up now, mammy; you wanted out er dar er be washed out. Rain er Burt was at one time a Bl prominent nandez, in whose possession they were 436 delegates. to go as had as I did or Music or Dam comin. When hit do come, dis yere sink furniture dealer in this city, but gam found, was arrested. Judge Carpenter Dead. bling got the best of him, and last year sel, ” Dare said, with a dimpling smile. hole runs er ribber. ” Word comes from Holland by cable The two daring navigators who left “I never, ” retorted Black Mammy, “Only tell me how I can. ” he failed and was indicted for embtz- New York June 28,- in a sailboat but that Judge George M. Carpenter, of the zlement, but his brothers succeeded in drawing down the corners of her mouth “Lemme see. Is you hurt bad?” United States district court for the dis eighteen feet long, to cross the Atlan “Only my arm. Otherwise I think I getting him out of the trouble. The in a vain effort to keep up a semblance tic, are all right. They were sighted trict of Rhode Island, died of ^paralysis governor has offered a reward for his of her grievance. ‘‘I dunno whut things could have managed to scramble out. ” is er comin ter. My po ’ fut ’ s got ter suf on July 19 in latitude 53, longitude of the heart. The problem of rescue was no easy arrest. Nothing is known as to Burt’s Epidemic of Suicides. wid de rumatics, I reckon. Pear lik’ one. There was not a house within a 31.55, by the American liner Indiana whereabouts, although telegrams have fer and asked to. be reported. They ap Driven to despair by different causes, been sent all over the state and to out I ain’t never gwine git de time ter spin mile of the spot—no place indeed where peared to be in the best of spirits and six people attempted to end their own side cities. No motive for the crime is dat yam. Twix’ yo’ projeckin an ole help could certainly be got. And the marster’s po’ ole Diney ha’ ter be storm was coming on so fast that long required no assistance whatever from lives by suicide, in Chicago in one day. known. spryer’n a hopper grass,1 den cain’t do ere aid could be summoned the earthy the Indiana, although provisions and Devastated by the Storm. everything. ”, water were offered them. DESTROYED BY FIRE. cavern would be flooded, for sharp hills 'The most destructive storm in the Dare laughed outright, crying out: drained into it, from which the heavy It is rumored that the Turkish gov history of Sunday Creek valley oc Suffered a Severe 11088 “Mammy, mammy, what fibs you do rainfall would run at racing speed. The ernment contemplates an issue of paper curred at Gloucester, a mining town ! Grass Valley tell! You’ve got 10 pairs of good yarn pit was about four feet across at the -top, From the Flames. money. twelve miles north of Athens, O., re stockings now. I counted them last time widening to five at the bottom, where Grass Valley, Cal., Aug. 3. — At 8:20 In Viotor, Colo.,fifty pounds of giant sulting in the almost total destruction you opened your chest, and then you beg powder exploded, causing $5,000 worth of one of the principal thoroughfares of | o’clock tonight, an alarm of fire was me to knit more for you. I won’t un the mellow top soil still lay in testi- I mony to the freshness of the cavein. If sounded for a blaze in the opera house. | of damage. Many people were cut by the town. The fury of tbe wind is { less you giveaway at least half you’ve I it stood for a year, clay would settle on almost indescribable.- Buildings were- The fire started under a store occupied I got.” glass, but none killed. t | and around it till it took on a funnel over,trees torn from their roots, by Ismert and Webbe, and spread with ' In Sedalia, Mo., Mart Crawford, a ■ toppled ’lo^Sp yo’re comin, ’ ’ mammy ; shape, from which escape would be and the town ia a ' KDMmiMitY.,, Soaa.tiifl Yihalfl hnilM •—aedti on~'fbremga"TOr t ht i- M t tau tr rfpsF' ing was enveloped in flames, and the I passed through it: was as awkward, a trap as eveu good in cific, was hanged by a furious mob for Nearly every building in tbe town is I adjoining buildings commenced to burn i Then, os ? damaged. To add to the horror, Sun “Whar is yo! Sad sot fer? De ole fiel tention ever led a young fellow into. the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl.' and, despite the work of the firemen, it I day creek, is a sweeping, raging torrent. er dem big fellers—des er bustin wid Dare looked into it to say: “We will The 6ooialist congress, which met in Several houses have been washed away, looked as though the whole center por sweet juice—whut grows de yother side get you out somehow. Don’t be un London, proved to be a noisy gather and word was received that the list of tion of the town would be destroyed. de creek bottom fiel?” easy. ” ing. Scenes of violence were enacted dead will reach fifteen. The fire department of Nevada City “The creek, of course. It’s shady What wonder if to its prisoner she and a free fight was narrowly averted. came over to assist the local depart there. The sun has not got over the hill Mine Burned by Strikers. ment, but a scarcity of water hindered top yet,” Dare [said, running down a seemed a very angel of deliverance, The coming year it is said wines will The mine of the old Pittsburg Coal them so they were of little service un narrow woodland footpath. The two though there was nothing the least an come high, owing to the failure of Cal gelic in what she set about doing. ifornia’s grape crop. Little wine will Company, at Hymeau, Sullivan county, til an extra head of water, was turned dogs plunged ahead, running out now Wherever mammy went her pocket held in to the supply, ditch. The two de Ind., has been burned. A committee and then in leaping circles through the be exported from the golden state this from the miners’ organization visited partments did great work and confined shaded depths on either hand. The slope always a barlow knife. By help of it season. the mine and sought to induce the the fire to the block bounded by Neal, was long' and gentle. It was a full mile her checked' cotton apron and striped A- New York dispatch says Senator miners to quit work. The watchman Church, Auburn and Bank streets. linsey petticoat were cut into strips, then Hill is now in favor of a third ticket. was captured, carried some distance The loss will exceed $100,000, it is I before they came to the creek, now a twisted into a rope long enough to thread of bright water slipping with The information, it is said, comes di- and the works burned. The loss is thought. Insurance in most cases is [ reach quite to the bottom of the cavern. summer whispers over the smooth, clean, reot from a personal friend of the sen $25,000. small, and the blow is a hard one to ! pebbly bed. The eddy round the root of By knotting three or four stout sticks ator, who is a prominent Democrat. crosswise in it and making the upper the jjty. a big sycamore made a small shining end fast to a fencerail laid at the top Italian Warship Destroyed. A stockman named John Lawrence pool, beside which Dare stopped a min An Indiana Tragedy. The Italian armored wraship Rola, it gave the stranger the foothold he had was found dead upon the range near Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 8.— Thomas I ute to look at -herself. Black Mammy so vainly sought and brought him safely Union, Or., with a bullet in his head of about 5,800 tons displacement, was laid a heavy hand on her arm. out of the miry pit. and a pistol lying a few feet away, It struck by lightning near Rome. The Prather, a farmer, and Miss Maud I “Come away, chile. Bad luck come As Black-Mammy brushed the earth is supposed that he committed suicide. flames spread rapidly threatening to Delay, daughter of a wealthy farmer, soon enough, widout stoppin ter conjure reach the magazine. It was found ne eloped from Sanborn, this county, and I from his sleeve «she said, nodding to The trial of the South African raid cessary to sink the ship by discharg drove to this city and were married. hit up, lookin at yo’sef in runnin wa ward Dare: “Hit beats me how she ers has ended in London, and Dr. ing torpedoes. They then drove back-to Sanborn, when ter. I: Pec 'we gwine git wet anyway thunk erbout dat dar easy way. I wus Jameson has been given a sentence of an altercation took place between .’fore we see&home agin. ’Tain’t no studying'’bout makin yo’ ketch holt er Both AreDead. fifteen months imprisonment without Prather and Clyde Delay, a brother of dew hardly on de bushes dis mornin, an pole, an den me ba’rin down t’other Robert Stark and Abe Tinkey, the the bride. Prather fatally shot the | pears ter me lik’ I been hearin hit thun end an fetch yo’ up daterway; but, labor. The others received light sen tences. former a merchant, the latter post new brother-in-law in the abdomen. der ever sence we started. ” s’posin de pole had er bruk, we’d er been Thus adjured, -,Dare rah lightly over in a bad box sho’. ” In Quinoy, Ill., five fatalities by master at Sequim, Wash., attempted The elopement was planned some time drowning or otherwise occurred in to acquire a cheap jag on wood alcohol. ago, but Prather’s marriage license the stepping stones and on to the corn “We certainly would, ” the stranger forty-eight hours. James McLean was The effect was such that within a lew was forcibly taken from him by mem field opposite,, where all the fence was said, laughing, though his lips got white hours after drinking the fiery decoc killed by an accidental fall from the* at an inadvertent touch. “I can never bers of the young woman’s family. roof of the Ricker National bank; Her tion both men died. be grateful enough to both of you. ” Neutrality Proclamation. bert Harrison, a school teaoher,. Fred “We did nothing,” Dare said—‘ Its Glory Has Depatted. Washington, Aug. 3. — The president erick Gross and Fred Baumgarten, sons “nothing that is worth a mention. has issued a-proclamation bearing date I The great auditorium in which the of prominent citizens, were drowned Republicans and Populists held their Now, sir, as you seem a stranger and in Bear creek; George Betero, another national conventions in St. Louis, will of July 27, again commanding citizens are not very well, may I not ask you to to observe the neutrality laws in re youth, was drowned in a pool south be turned into a Madison square garden go home with us? My grandfather' is spect to the Cuban insurrection, and of the city limits, and his two brothers for horse shows, bioycle meets and away, but we can give you rest and shel giving notice that all violations will were saved only with great difficulty. ter. ” other great indoor sporting enterprises be vigorously prosecuted. The presi “Ah, you are”----- Pennsylvania was visited by a disas the coming fall and winter. dent cites the decision of the supreme “Dare Overton. And you?” trous hurricape, resulting in loss of life court in the Wiborg case in order that “I—oh—my name is—Haywood— Heavy Damage in South Dakota. and property. Steeples were blown citizens may not be misled as to the Allen Haywood—at your service. Miss from churches, adjoining buildings Dispatches from Melitte and other meaning of the military laws. Overton, my whole life will not be long were crushed, houses wore unroofed, points in South Dakota state that a hail Oil Tank Exploded. enough to thank you for coming this and trees broken off or torn up by the a storm devastated a stretch of. country New York, Aug. 3. —Two men*were i way today. ” roots. Great havoo was caused by the sixty miles long and five or six miles "The rain sent me, ’’ Dare said, with heavy rainfall. Two lives were lost, wide. The damage amounts to hun fatally injured and three others se a little smile. verely burned by the explosion of a thirty-six injured, some fatally, and dreds of thousands of dollars. tank at the Standard Oil Company’s “It was rain front heaven for me,” property damaged to the amount of A Terrific Explosion. works, at Cravens Point, Jersey City, young Haywood answered, so low that $100,000. A boarding-house near Cecil, A special from Vienna says an ex today. The fatally injured are: Rich Black Mammy .did not catch the words. Washington county, was washed away Notwithstanding she watched him and its occupants, fifteen coal miners, plosion in a powder magazine at Fuen- ard Cunningham, and John Goldsmith. narrowly as she paced homeward were drowned. Seven of the bodies fkirchen resulted in the death of five The Works were set on fire by the ex through pelting rain at the young cou have been recovered. Eight are still persons, injuring eighty others and plosion, but the flames were extin wrecking the town hall. ple’s heels. Soon as they were indoors guished before much damage was done. missing. she sent Dare to her own room and set Two cable cars broke loose at the Driven Out by Cretans. Not Paid to Do Campaign Duty. about finding dry clothes for the man so top of the Ninth-street iholine in Kan Athens, July 80. — A large body of Postmaster-General Wilson has is oddly thrown on their hospitality. Evi sas City, and dashed down the declivity sued an order to the railway mail Mussulmans supported by Turkish dently something had disturbed her. into the Union depot sheds. The grip clerks directing them not to take an troops while engaged in pillaging the fence was one mat of laden car and those on board esoaped injury, active interest in the political cam Adomati district of Crete were attacked Where all the f ST vines. but the trailer was thrown from the paign such as would be involved in at by 1,500 insurgents. The latter drove one mat of laden vines. Very shortly the track just inside the elevated sheds and tending political conventions as dele the Mussulmans and Turkish troops baskets overran, though the pickers took literally smashed to pieces. Several of gates or making political speeches. out of the district inflicting serious only the choicest fair fruit. Dare held the occupants of this car were badly iThe postmaster-general’s circular ex losses. up a rich Cluster and said, with the cen hurt. Among them are George D. pressly states that he does not desire to tral berry‘between her lips: A machine has been invented by Fearon, of Kansas City, and his two sis control their opinions on poliitoal mat “Ain’t you glad you came, mammy? some genius which will do typewriting ters, Mrs Gay and Miss Fearon, both ters, but they must refrain from tak of New York. Mrs. Gay suffered an ing an active part in political matters. and the addition of figures at the same This is ever so much nicer than even time. spinning on the piazza. ” injury of the spine. “I ain’t gwine say twell we git home To Test the Law. Ran Through a Bridge. Ex-Congressman Bynum, who is a agin. Time enough ter crow when you Chicago railroad officials will test St. Joseph, Mo., July 31.—A freight know ye ain’t gwine ter cry, ” mammy member of the sub-committee of the sound-money Democrats, which is ar the right of Postmaster-General Wilson train on the Vandalia railroad ran said sententiously. Then as an unmis ranging for a national convention to to prohibit them from carrying their through a bridge near Crawfordsville, takable thunder peal came down the val nominate a sound-money ticket, says own railroad letters or those of other Ind., this morning, killing-Conductor ley: “Lis’en at dat Rain’ll ketch us that 15 states have already indicated toads. The Lake Shore will make the Fowler, Brakeman McKenzie and Fire sho’ fo’ ever we gits ter de house. ” that they will be represented at the test. Its superintendent has issued an, man John Herber and seriously injur “Not if we walk fast and take the meeting in Indianapolis August 7. order to all other roads’ employes to ing Roadmaster J. S. Brothers and near way up the hollow,” Dare, said, There are a few Western states that carry mail pertaining to the business Engineer Bowman. The wreck was looking doubtingly at the sky, whence will not be represented at the meeting, of the roads, and letters from other caused by washouts. an inky wall was rising out of the south “I— oh—my name is—Haywood—Allen he says, beoause the time is too short. roads relating to joint business affairs. Haywood—at your service.” west Black Mammy gave a groan. Postoffice Inspector Stewart says he I Prisoners in the Bangor, Me., jail Bynum says Minnesota has already ap “I knowed better’n to be here. Why _ “He talk fa’ar an squar, but J don’t had-not heard of any agreement tojest i are to be supplied with potted plants pointed delegates. - Delegates have didn’t I do better?” she said, puffing after lik’ de favor of him,” she. muttered organized in several states, and. Kansas the law, but the government would be to care for in their cells. It is be- her young mistress, whose skimming under her breath as she went to and fro. has sent word that the state will be or very apt «to accommodate them by pros ; lieved the care of the plants will have motion had already put her well ahead. A little later in Dare’s own chamber she ecuting the violators. I an elevating and reforming influence. ganized immediately. To reach the near cut they had to go opened viaU of wrath, saying as she I Scio Weekly Press. 5 .. Victoria to Retire. UNPRECEDENTED RUN. stood an ebon statue of outraged family pride: , “What you spec’ I’m gwine tell mars ter ’bout dis yere caper? Reckon it gwine please him ter hear er his gran’- chile traspsein round arter blackberries lik’ dee warn’t no nigger could go gether um fer ’er, an den fin um sink holes full er strange mans an fotchin um here lik’ we didn’t hab trouble enough all ready ter our hands. Like as not master’ll say yo’ done clean fergot you wus born er Overton—hit do ’pear like dat ter me—an if de Lord hisself knows whut yo’ gwine do nex’ I wish’t he’d send word. Yo’ done clean beyond me. ” * ‘I’ll save him and you the trouble, ” Dare said, with her dimpling smile, “for in strict confidence I mean to make a sling for Mr. Haywood’s arm, now that yon have wrapped it in vinegar and brown paper. ”■ “H-m-m! No need er dat. Ef he got de sense he orter been born wid, he’ll stay dar in dat bed twell marster come home. Den let him sen ’im back ter town whar he come from. He’ll think yo’ metty forrard ef yo’ set up ter re tain ’im lik’ he wus yo’ beau. ” “I don’t think he will, ” said Dare in definitely. ' “Will whut?” “Stay in bed, or anything. ” She was right Allen Haywood did nothing of the sort. « The “Boy Orator of the Platte” Is Thrice Chosen ON A FREE SILVER PLATFORM Sewall, However, Was Not Acceptable, and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, Is Given Second Place on the Ticket, William Jennings Bryan, of Ne braska, who was nominated by the Demooratio national convention at Chi cago, a fortnight ago, was, Saturday, at St. Louis, made the standard-bearer of the People’s party by a vote of 1,042 to 321. The Democratic-candidate was nomi nated in the face of his own protest, in the shape of a telegram, directing the withdrawal of his name, sent to Sena tor Jones, after Sewall, his running mate, had been ditched for the vice- presidential nomination Friday night, and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia,, had been named for the- second- place on the ticket. It was also made in the face of an opposition so bitter that, , -after the convention adjourned, I, of the radicals held a “rs CHAPTER y.. The house at Ridgeley was square, ' I ®i°n. '^_^_l^_ The last session of the convenTTSH? solid, sparely furnished and scrupulous ly clean. A tall narrow portico shadow which lasted from -9:30 o’clock in the ed the front door. At the back the roof morning until 5 o’olock in the evening, hung over to form a generous shed pi was marked by scenes of turbulence azza, upon which, at the west end, the overhanging gable of the log kitchen abutted. All the fair weather through this south looking piazza served as a dining room as well as lounging place. The day whereon fate thrust Allen Hay wood upon Ridgeley hospitality gusty sheets of rain drove all across the floor, so Black Mammy was fain to fling wide the shutters of the big square room lying to the right of the front door. Somehow she felt a curious reluctance to do so. “Hit fa’arly gimme de creeps, hit do now,” she muttered, rubbing away at the big mahogany table she had rolled to the room’s middle. “Maybe hit’s all right. Dat dar man jest ornery stranger, but de heabenly marster knows I don’t lik’ de favor of ’im. Do’ ’ant ter see ’im er settin yere in dis yere room opposite Dare, an nobody else but des dem two. Hit’s too lik dat yother time. WishJt ter J Bryariï Lord ole marster wus here, but de way hit’s er rainin now we ’on’t see him 'fore termorrer. Dat dar creek is past and noisy excitement, which several fordin now, an sho’ as I’M Diney he times bordered on actual riot, and went ’crost hit dis mornin, ’case I hear which almost precipitated personal col him ax Jubilee ’bout de nigh cut tn de lisions. The Texas delegates headed Bilin Spring neighborhood, whar ole the opposition and olnng to th6 middle Aunt Jincey live. Uster be house gal of the road to the last. The Populist Bryan managers decid here, she did. Wonder if she knows any thing ole marster wanter fin out? She ed early Saturday to disregard Mr. so ole, mos’ er hunderd, dee tells me. Bryan’s telegram of Friday and to I s’pec she won’t remember him, but 1 nominate him and straighten out the don’t know, she big conjure ’oman, tangle afterwards. They started out she is, an no tellin whut dee do, dee so to rush his nomination through before any other candidate could be put in queer.” “Who are you talking to, mammy?” the field. Dare asked, stopping short in the door, I General Weaver, of Iowa, the Popu a picture of rosy, excited eagerness, j list candidate in 1892, in a masterly Without waiting for an answer she dart- | address, placed Bryan in nomination, ed at the old woman, snatched the cloth . and General Field, of Virginia, who was formerly Weaver’s running mate, from her hand and said coaxingly: “I’ll do that, mammy, and set the , after a brief speech, moved to make see—help Susy, I mean. You know no body else can cook like you, and I want a real nice dinner, the best youoan pos sibly get. ” “Umph! Whut reason yo’ so bad off 'bojit hit?” “Oh, because we have company, strange company, too, somebody who has seen a heap of the world, though that does not make a difference. You know how careful grandfather always is about strangers, and really Mr. Haywood”— “Is datids sho’ ’nough name?” “What a question, mammy! It’s the one he gave us. You heard him. ” “I did dat. I seen him, too, an hit pears lik’ ter me he didn’t say it right easy, -straight up an down. Dee wus sor ter hitch ’fore hit come out. ’Sides he don’t favor his name. I knowed plenty ■Haywoods back in Car’liny. ” ‘‘Who does he favor?” I to be continued .1 ? His Mistake. The New York Recorder gives a «tory of a young lawyer who evidently did not consider the well-known learn ing of the judge a sufficient reason for omitting evidence of his own attain ments. z The judge was compelled to listen to a case that had been appealed from one of the police courts. The young practitioner who appeared for thè appel» lant was long and tedious; he brought in all of the elementary text-books, and quoted thè fundamental propositions of the law. At last the judge thought it was time to make an effort to close the argu ment. “Can we not assume,” he said pomp ously, “that the court knows a little about law itself?” “That’s the very mistake I made in the other court,” answered -the young orator, “and I don’t want to let it de- feat me twice?^™ About fifty seconding speeches were then made, and some of them were both eloquent and brilliant. The middle-of-the-road contingent insisted upon knowing at every oppor tunity whether, in view of his tele gram, Bryan wou'd stand on the plat form and acoept the nomination. But all these pointed questions were neatly parried. Judge Green, of Nebraska, and others, vouched for Bryan's sym pathy with Populistic principles, but that was all the satisfaction the radi- cals could get. A roll-call by states was taken, and when it was completed, it was found that Bryan had 1,042 out of the 1,34! votes in the convention. Frank 8. Norton, of Chioago, was the only othei candidate. Ignatius Donnelly, of Min nesota, and General Coxey, of Ohio, were nominated, but their names were withdrawn. Norton received 321 votes, Debs 10, and Donnelly 1. Norton gol the majority of the solid vote of Texas, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, and a respectable portion of the votes of Alabama, California, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. The demonstration when Bryan was declared to be the ohoice of the conven tion lasted fifteen minutes, and was fully as enthusiastic as that tendered the Nebraska man at the Chicago con vention. Saturday morning a motion was! in troduced and oarried that the national committee be given plenary power in all things connnected with the party. The Vice-Presidential Nominee. Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, who was a member of the* Fifty-first con gress, and who, in the Fifty-seoond and Fifty-third congresses, unsuccess fully contested Colonel Blaok’s seat, was nominated for vice-president by the convention on the first ballot,-short ly after midnight Friday night. The Don’t Misjudge His Strength. nomination was made unanimous be Do not underestimate the strength of fore the result of the roll-call was an your competitor. He may be a better nounced. buyer than you. His lieutenants may The nominating speeches- occupied be better skilled in mercantile tactics. His capital may be more abundant, and exactly six hours. The convention adjourned after therefore can be well turned,over at less profit. If you want to be victorious Bryan had been declared the nominee. there must be no sleeping at your post. > After the adjournment of the con Throw out your skirmish lines of good vention the national. committee held a values and honest modern methods. meeting, and after a spirited confe<°t, Let it be a matter of positive knowl elected Senator Butler, of North Cdko- edge with every member of your com lina, on the second ballot as national munity that your store is on the ad chairman. The first three days of thè convention vance every season. If your store is renowned for everything new and were consumed in organizing, appoint good, if your prices àke always right ing of committees, eto. The platform and your methods aggressive and at was adopted Friday afternoon. Senator Butler was temporary chair the same time honorable, victory will man, and Senator Allen, of Nebraska, be yours. permanent chairman. General Weaver Bilzim—“I’ve found one good way to was chairman of platform committee. A committee of one from eaoh state get around the high flat nuisa.nee when I go to the theater.” Jabzin—“You [ was appointed on the seoond day of the have? Let’s hear it.” Bilzim—“Why, conveniton to confer with the commit- buy a seat in the front row, of course.” ! tee of seven from the silver convention, but after a stormy session of two hour® —Roxbuxy Gazette. nothing was accomplished and they ad The bicycle will never reach the per journed. fection of invention until it is made Whenever thè invention admits of a with a lawn mower attachment i model the inventor is required to furnish it, of a convenient size to show properly Rise and Fall of a Town. Red Mountain, Cplo., which four and to the best advantage the working years ago was a prosperous camp of j of the device. * The board of -aidermen of Boston several thousand people, and did the largest money order business of any ■ passed an order the other day appropri camp in the San Juan country Is now ating $301,000 for the ventilation and i sanitation of schoolhouses. without a postofflce.