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B , Principal. THE SPRING TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JAN. 8th, 1894. .: CHAPTER XXII. THH CtADIATORS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. The Cotton Queen was behind time at Donaldsonville, and the hours that we waited there were torturing' ones. What would have happened had pur suit overtaken us before the boat came is a matter of certainty with me! I had found an opportunity to arm my self. Le Fevre did the same. We ex changed significant looks . but no words. There was no need of words. We had already earned a term of im prisonment, and we and our fair charge were not now to be captured without bloodshed- A board the Queen, and she rapidly putting miles of the wide and crooked river between us and pursuit, our spirits rose. We did not then know how narrow was our escape at that point.' We got our breakfast with a crowd of passengers, cheered up Coralie and, bringing her again on deck, en joyed with her the glorious panorama. We passed Plaquimine without stop ping. Le . Fevre inquired of the cap tain, and learned that there was to be no stop until the boat reached Baton Rouge. "Do you stop there?" ; "Of course. All the boats do." This intelligence made us uneasy, and we were consulting together about what we should do to avoid the deten tion that we had reason to fear had been prepared by ; telegraph for us, when the most unexpected chance f a rored us. I stop at this point, to say that the occurrences narrated in this chapter came mainly under my own observa tion. The minor ones that I did not personally see and hear were after wards told to me by those who did see and hear them. The day wore on; the boat was with in a mile of Baton Rouge. A call from the pilot's speaking tube brought the captain up into the pilot house. "What's up, Doblin?" "Look up the river," said the pilot, with both hands on the wheel. The captain shaded his eyes with his hand, and looked. "Seems to be a large steamboat put ting out from Baton Rouge." "Take the glass, sir." One look through the glass and the captain threw it down, fairly jumping with excitement. "The S. S. Prentiss, by I Why, she left New Orleans twelve hours ahead of us." "She's been waiting for us," said the pilot, quietly. Tdttiow in Literary Department $2, 43 and $4 per mouth. fWNo deduction made for lost time. Board in private families at $8 per month. I have opened, atjmy'place of bust "aeaa ou Rutherford street, a complete TIN -' SHOP am prepared to furnish ROOFING opd GUTTERING ou short notice. ' All sorts of Stove Sepairs, i3T0VE PANS, &c. , always on hand. .Large Lotof Guano Horns Juet received. 'If you want an ICE CREAM FREEZER see n.e. . All sorts of REPAIRING DONE .on short notice. When you want any sort of tin -work done call on me. A. G. BRUNER. Assignee's Sale of Real Estate. By virtue of a Deed of Assignment and Trust executed tome by Paul A Leak oa ;thotithof December, 1S93, I will sell to the 'highest bidder, for cash, at the court house -door iu Wadesboro at 12 m. the 12th day of March, 1S94, the entire interest of said as signor iu the following lands and real estate iu Anson county, towit: A tractof 70 acres, or less, in and near the town of Wadesboro, known as the home place of the late James A. Leak. His interest in the old Wadesboro Bank building and lot. A traot of land in White's Store township, known as the Kendall place, containing 4U2 acres, together with a lot of alout 4 acres Adjoining the Kviidall place. The interest tto to te sold is a one-seventh undivided part thereof, snbjevt to the life estate therein of I1 rs, Ann El za Leak, except that said inter , est iu the Bank building and lot is one LkS venth of one-half ef the same, subject to "aid life estate. This Feb. 7th. iat4. - . H. V: PARSONS, Assignee. Administrator's Notice I have this day qualified as Administrator of Harvy T, Ktioits, deceased, and hereby notify all persons huving claims against the decadent to exhibit the same to mo on or by tht fitu dy of February. 18'J., or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. February 5th. !SJ 4. O. 8. REDFEARN. Adm'r. Notice. M I persons are hereby notified that Cattie firby, col., is under contract with me for rvii!. "-"I I hereby forbid anyone "She has not waited for nothing, then. I've heard of their brags from St. Louis down about what they'd do with the Queen when they had a chance. By the ' Lord Harry, we'll show 'ern! Here's almost a straight course to Port Hudson bluffs, and no chutes or side- cuts. I'll beat 'em or go to the bot- . torn!" He rang the engineer's bell? for more steam. Presently the black smoke be gan to pour from the lofty stacks in clouds. The speaking-tube brought up the night-pilot, who was sleeping la his berth. The two men at the wheel kept their eyes fixed on the glass front ?f the pilot-house, ready to take any advantage offered by the cur rent or the curves of the shore. The speed of the Queen was visibly Increased. The vibration of her pow erful engines could be felt in every part of her. The puff of the pipes and the fierce churning of the paddles min gled in a steady sound. Baton Rouge was passed, many peo ple standing on the shore and waving their hats and cheering. Some of the passengers clamored up to the captain that they must get off here, and that they had freight-aboard that was to be delivered here. "You and your freight be d d!" roared the captain, leaning out of the pilot-house. "Do you think the Queen Is going to stop a race that weVe tried for months to get to oblige you?" Hundreds of other passengers laughed, cheered and applauded. Tne texcitement of the contest had by this :time spread all through the boat. The bows were so crowded that some of 'the boat's officers came and ordered half of the people back, that the boat might not settle too much by the head. '.Thousands of dollars were wagered on the length of time before the Queen would pass her rival. A few disloyal :f oiks, who were willing to bet that she would not pass at all, had the chance promptly offered them to take ten to one. Before the contest was deter mined the Baton Eouge men were as crazy with excitement as anyone. "We're gaining a little," said the captain. ' "Precious little," said Pilot Dobbin. Again the speaking-tube, i "How much steam Is on?" "Hundred and fifty," came back tn a sepulchral tone. "Pile her on! Stick hep up to seven ty -live." "She'll stand that," said Doblin, sotto Toce, as -the four hands made half a dozen rapid turns of the wheel, and the bows took an acute angle for the farther shore. "She'll have to carry more than that before she catches that flyer anead, said the other. To the feverish passengers who were watching the leading boat, the inter val between them seemed the same for hours. It was in fact very slowly clos ing. Tho half-mile was reduced to a juarter. At a . speed against the cur rent that caused the immense boat to tremble in every fiber, foot by foot, yard by yard, she gained on her rival. The mass of faces at her stern could be separated and almost counted with the naked eye. Then the Prentiss took a sudden spurt, and a cheer from her crowded decks showed that she was increasing her lead. The captain of the Queen raged round the pilot-house, and shook his fifit at the other boat. "What steam?" he shouted - down through the pipe. ""nundrfcd and eighty and every- the captain. 'Tveep the water buckets ready to drown the furnace when we've passed her by a mile or so, and crack on the steam. Pile it up, I tell you!"' Under the terrific impulse of a head of steam which no man would have or dered but a lunatic or the captain of a Mississippi river steamer in a race, the Queen literally dashed at her rival. The loss in distance was made up, was doubled. The captain, leaning far out in the effort to better observe the gain of his boat, heard again the hoarse murmur of the tube from the engine room. , "What is it?" "The pine is used up and the cypress don't burn well." "There's a hundred hams and shoulders f or'ard that belong to those Baton Rouge passengers. Tell the niggers to get 'em and chuck 'em in. If the boat won't pay, I wilL" Steadily the Queen pulled up on the Prentiss, her officers almost coming to blows with some of the passengers in the effort to keep more of them amid ships. The leading boat was quivering and vibrating and her pipes belched forth a pall of smoke so black that it needed not the smell that came from it to show that it came from burning turpentine. The Queen drew on, and from her bow the officers of the Prentiss were seen driving some of the people from her stern. Both captains frantically shouted for more steam. The. bow of the pursuing boat was past the stern of the other. Foot by foot she gained. Her bow reached the paddle box. A prolonged, exultant cheer arose from her decks. Yells of defiance came from the Prentiss. Fists were shaken over the rails. A Babel of human voices arose. But these and all other sounds were swallowed by a roar that seemed to shake the heaven6, mingled with a ter rific and prolonged rush of escaping steam. The smoke pipes of the Queen tottered and fell with a crash on the deck forward; the steam flooded every thing to the bows; a bright glare shot up amidships, and the poor rent, ruined, burning Queen drifted down with the current, her decks ringing with the ag onizing shrieks of dozens of victims, while the river was black with others who leaped overboard. The Prentiss was put about, and every effort was made to save the pas sengers and crew of her luckless rival. Her boats picked up many of the wretches who . struggled in the water; many more were drowned. Bodies were found floating miles below, the next day; some with arms or legs bit ten off by alligators. The Queen grounded on a point two miles down from the place of the explosion. Many of those who were fortunate enough to be aft of the engine escaped to the shore; others were burned alive as they lay mangled and scalded. Two hundred and thirty-nine human beings killed or dreadfully hurt was the price paid for the effort to determine which of these boats was the faster. can De carea lor, as quickly as possioxe. I need the doctor myself, and I got off pretty well, too. You was on the Queen, wasn't you?" I 'rushed along the decks, half-dis tracted, demanding to see the captain. He was overwhelmed with care and responsibility; but when I found him he did listen to me for an instant. "Captain, put us ashore Coralie and myself," I cried. "We can't go back to Baton Iiouge." He stared at me. "One hundred dollars to put us ashore!" I shouted. 'Take care of him," said the captain. turning away. "He's been crazed by the accident." I wandered through the crowd, pleading with every man whose at tention I could get that we might be landed quickly. Some looked com passionately; others avoided me. One of the officers told me to keep quiet, or he would lock me up in his cabin. It was too cruel to believe. On the way to freedom and safety, just es caped from the jaws of death, at the last moment we were turned back to certain bondage. For me, the bonds of prison; for her, the bonds of a living death! I leaned over the' rail, restrained only by the thought of her from fling ing myself into the dark, turbulent waters. Was there no escape? No hiding on the boat? ' No. The quest would be as thorough as eager. We were doomedl CHAPTER XXIEL TCTtNED BACK PROM IDES. While the steamboats were flying up the river, aud all aboard seemed to share in the madness of the time, the cool head of Le Fevre kept its balance. He took Coralie and me by the arms and hurried us as far astern as possible. " vv e are rushing on to destruction. he said. "1 know something of this boat; her boilers can never carry the steam that they are crowding them with. Remain here; this is the safest place on board. I will go forward and warn them." Brave, great-souled being! We never saw him more. Even at this dis tance of time tears fill my eyes as I write, at the thought of his courage and devotion. One of the survivors afterward told me that he saw him shouting ond gesticulating toward the pilot-house, but that, in the roar of voices, his was not heeded. Then came the catastrophe, and the curtain falls forever on that unselfish life. The tears that were denied us in the A telegraph station near the river had sped the news of the disaster and the return of the Prentiss with the vic tims and survivors. A thousand peo ple were gathered at the Baton Rouge landing as we approached. Several of ficers took possession of the gangway of the boat and permitted nobody to land. The captain was called for; a long telegram was handed him, and a brief celloquy took place. 'I know nothing of the Cotton Queen s passenercrs, " he sala, "nor whether these people were saved. You'll have to search for yourself." A faint hope sprung up m my breast that we might escape in the crowd and the confusion. It quickly died. While the officers were keeping the clamoring passengers on board, and preventing anv access to the shore, a small steam er came up the river and landed. saw Conrad Bostock and his gang jump .ashore and hail the officers on the Queen. They were allowed to come aboard, and Coralie and I were at once arrested. In her presence I was handcuffed. She clung to me, and begged them not to separate us. "You are to go before the magis trate," said one of the oincers. "Come: all these poor wretches in the saloon can't be removed till yon are gone." "Hold on!" said Bostock. "I must find that cunning devil, Wash Le Fevre. He's at the bottom of all this mischief." From the depth of my misery I raised my hand and cried: "He is beyond your persecution. H bravely perished in the wreck." "It's just as well for him. It would have been better for you, my fine fet" low, if you'd done the same. e were taken up to the magistrate's office. Coralie, unveiled and clinging- to me, was stared at by the crowd. The news of the arrest for attempted abduction of a slave-girl was hinted about, and public attention and curi osity were divided between us and the victims of the accident, who were now being brought ashore on stretchers from the hospital. Hundreds of men and boys followed us up the street, and .the magistrate's office, the passage and. 'the stairway were thronged. I saw (threatening looks directed toward me. tnd heard the words muttered: "Yan-j Ikee," and "slave-stealer." TO BE COST1SUD.1 ALL. JIE.V AKE SELF-3IAOK. New York Herald. He that Boweth pparingly Piin.ll February "Cesmcpoliiau." The eocret of the greut success of The Cosmopolitan is noi bo hard to find, if one looks carpfully over the number for Febrimrv. A etory by VaMw, llie famous Spanish novelist iho first from his pwi io appear in nny American Magazine, is begun in thia number. Arthur Sherburne Uapdy's story, "A Rejected Msnu- wcript.' is charmingly illustrated by L. Marold, who we beliave makes his firt acpsaranco iu the maga- i-zmes n tnis side or me water, a. profusely illustrated article ou the i designing and building of a war ship appeals to the jnterest takon by all in the new navy, and a thrilling desrrintion of a imval combat under frightful scenes that followed hava ti,e significant title: 'The Meloban since fallen capiously to his memory, j Hnd the PeuMnbroy' cU-scribf . after He saved us, but he could not save I th0 nuinn t .f the B;ittl of Dorkine himself. His foresight as to the di- U possible sa-ff tht. the outcome of recuon ana ettect oi the explosion had I which is waiche-t by the entire na placed us In comparative safety at the 1 val world- Gliding Flight is an in- stern, and we were among those who I teresuug coniribuiion to the problem were able to escape to the shore where I of atrial navigation by one who has the drifting wreck grounded on the studied the flight of soaring birds in point, stern foremost. One of the boats ih KnJt for twenty years. Elaine of the Prentiss took us aboard of that Goodale, who married a member of steamer with about two hundred who I the Sioux nation, has f-om interest' were saved from more serious injury I tug information of Indian Wars and than a wetting in the Mississippi. I Warriors, T. (J. Crawford, the bince the days of her who was last I Washington cor repuouuent, Rives at the cross and earliest at the grave," th first half of a startling story. woman has been known as a minister- I under the tit le of 'xhe Disappear ing angel of mercy and comfort; and I anc Syndicate ' The poetry in thia now Coralie, unused by habit or ex-I number by Sir Ed win Arnold Gra- perience to scenes of suffering, in sisted on going below and doing what she could for the unfortunates from the Queen. I took her to the large sa loon; and while she and other women like her moved about that scene of hor rors, striving to alleviate pain, strong men grew sick with the sights and sounds, and fled again to the deck, The mattresses and sheets had been ua,ui II Tomsoh and w"i!liam Young, i unusually good. Tho Departments 'In the world of Art and Letters' and the 'Progress of Science' continue to have as contributors men famous, iu both continents. Gporgn B. French, Esq , of Nashua, N. H.. in an argument before the New stripped from the berths and laid in lI!3p","re gisUlure July 16th. lonsr rows unon t.h floor. nr,d ,8S9- uea lho following words: of the victims were there, having oil and cotton applied to their injuries. I saw and heard a little, and then went on deck, faint with the living misery oi tne scene. The Prentiss was overcrowded and it ! was difficult to move about. But quickly my attention was arrested by the fact that we were moving with the when ha ia tied into a double bow- current. . I knot with a cramp in hia stomach "no w is this?" I asked of a man I ho connot sion to co to a nhvsician VVhM the common people cannot find Pond's Extract, which they run for in distress, on sala at eomq con venient place, jiiNt; aR I hey have done, Ihp.re will be a liowl go up that the regular s-hool cannot cure with their instruments or . thorough courses, Whtu a inrtn has a raging pain in hia tooth, joints, or face; whose hair and eyebrows were singed. v e re not gomg down stream?" "That's what we are doing." My heart sank within me. "What's this for?" "It's all right. We're much nearer to Baton Rouge than to Vicksburg, there's only one doctor aboard, and no j opiates, and the captain of this boat five mites off aud take a thorough coure. Ha ia going to have some thing in hid medicine closet that he Can get at without any prescription, with a guld seal on it. irapalao sparingly. 11, Corinthians, ix.. 6. Every man ia the creater of a world, and theioin he ;s supreme until death comes and orders him to abdicate. There are as many worlds as there are men and women. Jtaca one or them has been create! out of the chaos of rircumBiancn, and each one does credit or discredit to the mini ature monarch who is its ruler. When God endowed man with free agency it at once became posi hie for the recipient of his dangerous ift to rnttke his liule world a heaven or a hell." Not even the Almighty could 6ay him nay for he was aa absolute as the Czar of Russia. God gave nun two injunctions: Do the right" and "Do no wrong," then rrlired, leaving the little monarch tooby or not, as he chose, and to reap the con- eequences of his choosing. S- far aa the Omnipotent is con cerned. He has distributed the real ly noud things of life with an even b ii d. Let us be careful about this matter; wo eay Uie really good things. Not money, nor yet fame, does He include in this category, ann it is safe to presume that lie had good reason therefor. The opportunity to increase the sizo of the eoul is universal, like tho sunshine, and there is no niggardli ness in any corner of the globe. Never yt lived a man, whether lie slept under a thatched roof or iu a palace, who lacked a chance to ham mer hia soul into Home divine shape. Neither poverty nor riches aro necessary to character. One need not go to Congress, or paint a picture for the Salon, or write a poem which shall sing to posterity, or cross the threshold of the White House by in vitation of the people in order to be fitted for heaven. God can make great men when He needs them as easily as we throw a handful of sand in the air, buc uot even He can make a soul that is worth looking at twice. That high prerogative rests with tho man alone who is the owner of the soul. In the eyes of the Almighty the hod carrier who ia honest id nobler than tliH Htrtiesrr.au whose eloquence makes history but who selU'hi.i in flucnce for cash preferment. It is not environment but purpose thai makes a mau large, or email. Many of us will Hud when we ovr step the boundary of th beyond that wo are not received with the envious acclamations which have greoted us here, and others will be surprised that they are cordially welcomed there, though here no oue dolled hia hat when they passed Our theory of life is not God's theory and the things we work hardest for must be left behind when the time comen to put oa our shroud Hut if the really good things are evenly distributed, bo al;o are the sorrows of life. They are the fire and anvil in tho smithy by which crude molal ia charged to a Toledo blade. Disease nover asks concerning a roan's bank accouut when he rings the door bell. He ia equally indif ferent to all, and ia never swayed by favoritism. He ia past all bribery. and has no compunctiou. but goes where he ia sent. The millionare may give his child a gilded crutch, but it is just as truly a crutch as that of the poor man's boy. A crutch is always a crutch, and neither poverty uor wealth can make less. The rich may place a costly monu ment on a grave and the poor no monument at all, but the simpers slep the same slepp. and the monu ment counts for nothing. Bismarck for three years hn's cm dured the pang of royal neglect. No more unhappy man than he .in all Europe. Like a caged lion be has chafed. The man whose frown meant war, whoso smile meant peace, was like the poorest peasant of Germany in this ha suffered. The peasant boy is torn from bis home to become a i-oldier; the states man has been banished. The cup of the one and the bowl of the other are brimming full. They are both alike in their ill fortune. The first is a clumsy youth whom no one will ever hear of; the other ia a Prince who will never be forgotten. The difference between the two in the matter of happiuosa or misery ia uot perceptible. Your surroundings count for very little; your character counts for a good deal. A man ia not noble be cause he has a title and ia pei ruitttd to talk with kings. There aro great souls dressed in taiteia and small souls robod in purple. Ey and by we shall see what our eyes are now to dull to perceive that whatever our station in life we tnuke our own misery and happiness, and neither wealth nor poverty has any thing to do with Ihem. The creative power is in the heart, the purpose, the aim. Pity it is that we remain so long bliuded to this fact. THE HOUSE OF A THIEF. Youth'a Companien. A child and a grown relative were walkiug'one bright day down Fifth Avenua, New York, and the child, after the manner of childron, was asking questions about the things and people th'-y ssw. Noticing a very handsone house on a corner, larger and more eh g int than most others in the neighborhood, its windows 6ummrlike with pnlmsand hothou plants, among which gleamed the marble draperies of graceful slat uetes, the child asked: "Who 5iva there!" "A thief," waa the reply. The owner of ihe house waa a member of the notorious Tweed ring. In a few simple and forcible words the child was informed of the nature of the man'a theft, and how it was possible for guilty men to flourish unmolested and dwell in brownstone houses instead of behind prison bare. At that tmo the ling was at the height of i;s evil prosperity, rind ap peared to be nut oven threaleued with interference. The chill nevor forgot h r first bewilderment at that unexp-cid reply, nor tbe horror thatshecouceiv ed of those guilty fplendora wbtu she understood them. Tho guilty man's name, heard again when the breaking up of the gang brought it prominently before her in the papers, she remembered with such detestation that she admits laughingly today, that it would re- quirea distinct tltort tor tier to be lieve in the respectability of any individual who cliwuced to bear it I really think," 6ho declares, "that the incident was the first thing which roused me to independent perception of a Kioral truth. I found for myself that magnificence in ii self meant nothing and vouched for nothing. Of course I had heard something to that cfTect before, but it had seemed a matter far away un real. It was different to see with my own eyes a palace which waa the house of n thief. "It has proved indeed to be one of those vivid moments of childish experience which will recur to me through life. Oftou, when I look now at some superb great house in the city, or some fine, many-g&blod villa rising among the simple old faahioned houses of my country home, I lind myself conjuring up be side it the picture of that abhorred browustone front in New York, and wondering, la it an honest splendor? "My friends laugh at me for being inquisitive, because I alwaya want to know whoowus a hou-.ie that I admire though 1 may never expect to feet it again. lul 1 can recall it wun so much more pleasure if I know the owner deserves its beauty, and thai it ia the fit setting to a iovely and honorable household not merely tho house of un unscrupulous 'smart man' who baa inada a great deal of money. "I do not wish to mako room my memory for any other houses of thieves. One ia enough." Her honor of guilty gorgeouaness is not loo sirong, aud miht well prevail more widely. Even people who would not care to associate with tho owner of somo splendid estate. dubiously oarnod, are sometimes heard to say with a kiud of tol&raut gojd nature: S"Oh well, at least he has done well for Ihe town! Look what improve' moats be baa made about his yiece!' There is no charm that the utmos beauty and elegance can confer which can outweigh the disgrace iu dieted by ihe prefceoco among honest homes of the house of a thief. Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report V AESSLTElf F5JI5B . z.et rs (JIVK THAN For all tint Go.l iu nmroy serni. For iK-uUh ami c!ii!i!r"n, home and n lends. For comfort in tiie time of nee.l. For every L i i . t y word ami iec"t. For bappy thoughts end holy tn', For 5;uiiiiic iu our liiiiiy walk For every tLiug give tfianks'. For beauty in this work! of our; For verdant gra-M nnd iovely il ers, For son; of bir.lM, for hum of b?s. For the refreshing s'liir.ner hreez-. For hill and plain, for streams mid wix J For the great Ocean's muhty flood Iu everything give thauks! Fo the sweet sleep which comes with night. For the returning morning's light. For the bright sun t!iat stii ies ou high, For the stars iitt-riu in the skj-; For these an l vor3-t:iiii2 sve. O Lord: oar heart's we lift to thro Kind Words. VAXlE bi'KAKtt ro:i KELF. II I. M- Luve" Stratareui. Ycu never saw a gal sui piied Like Jimmy Keuyon's sister The night that Kill ilcKeo devise.! The scheme by which he kL-sed her. The to were standiu' nt the gate, To w histle she was larniu', Her lips were tomitiu' an' 'twas late Tokis'em Bill was yearuiu'. "To whistle you must do like this, Said Bill, an' leaniu' over, He showed his, puckered to the miss, Whose own, as re i as clover, Soon puckered i:i the selfsame wr.y ; Then, would you ltlive it. Blister, Ere she could turn her hetut awav TLe cheeky chap had kissed Ler. The color flamed into her cheek. Her neck was dyed with blushes. She trembled so she could not speak, An' down among the rushes The brook leapod up to tell the flowers That bent their heads to listen H:v Bill McKe ttu;ht Susie I'owers The old, sweet game of kiin'. I sorter guess she liked the guile. For many hours they tarried Beneath the sumach's flags o' fl inie, An' in six months thoy married. I seed Bill yesterday go by A baby carriage wheelin'; He never knowed or thought that I Knew all about his stealin'. Chicago Mail. IIASGED StlT STILI, ALIVE l'K - ( " -..., ,. , ,.. '. OVSi'JT-MA, ;SO.i KUTSIKS. ': - -' r ! -.. ;,".is;r ?,- Fred My dear Miss Clementina, you havo rto idea how exquisitely beautiful you ar ! rid It Gives Kim Streugtli to Inutile Against Sin. Asheville Citizen. A Rooi story ia told on U-v. R. P. Rumley, pastor of aliaptisi (colored) church on Eale street. Rev. Rum ley haa become locally famous aa a preacher of great Tociferousness and decidedly original style, and his con gregations are always lar;e. Recently several ladies interested in the temperance causo decided to request the lion-voiced parson to de liver a special sermon on tiie wbia key evil. He was found and the re quest made. Afier studying (or a moment the parson reudmed his opinion thus: "Urn -.veil I don't think I could. Whixkey sometimes ia a go-od thing. Sometimes a little of it cives me more ulrenKtb to battle with s:n!" And hit sermon Maiut intemper auco has yet to be heard. The "ooe Crokr, and I.el to Postponement or the Death 2'eiiullr. Columbia, Miss., Fb. 8. V.'m Put vis. the young man, who was sentenced to hang here yesterday for the alle'd anamination last July of Willian Buckler, of Marion county by a jans of white cappers, was duly liansreu but ia yat alive, ihe noose partod and Purvia' neck, intend being broken, waa only slightly abraded by the rope. He on hia back and remained perfectly still for a few moments. A man rushed for ward ami Denuia over the nero aked: "Are you hurt." From un der hia black cap. Purvia replied "For God's sake jrot me out of this Others came up mid tho soriff mle ready to conduct Purvis buck to tho eciffold for a secoud attempt. four oi tne oo;irJ or supervisor wero prpHCnt and they called l.o siieritT ioio lho court house for u con jerencf. R-v. iir. b:h!tv, of the Columbia Methodist church, made an impassioned plea to the pp'da tors, arid it waa decided byuinimou vote that tho execution be postponed Purvia was loony tuLen to Meri dian, s.ii.l tho fuels teltyraped t (Jov. Stoue. Many women find great difficulty in arranging their hair becomingly because of its luirsh and n"'aro tex ture. By the use of . Ayer's Hair Vigor, the hair bfvome soft, pliitnt, aud glossy. The Vigor io the most cleanly of all hair preparations. Ayer'a Hair Vitror keps the pcalp free from dandruff, prevents itie hair from bec'iining dry and l.nri. and makes it fl-xible and losy. All the einruenta that nature requires, to make the hair abundant ami b" uui ful, are supplied by this adtiiinhic preparation. Haifa Hair Rnewer rejiders th hair lust rous and silken, gives it an even color, ond enablea wor.iPii to put it up in a greut variety of oiyk-s. foii nysrsirKM On rtrvn'a Irsa Uittrra. i'hvs-; ins reoo!'vre:nt it. An Cloqacut Tribute to Wom an. Extract from a recent speech delivered bj ilr. Ben Hill, of Georgia. "I have at morr.iar; walked into the gnr. den among the varied tinted 11 iwers, and. admiring their leautiful display of color, thought that surely l.othing could excel them; i have gaze 1 into tho sky when the earth was glistening in the freshness of a shower, and. looking upon tbe glorious col oring of the resplendent bow f promise, 8iid: 'Surely this caught its hues from the hand of the LHviite Master of heaven when, in the hapjii;es of His spirit, He u ishe 1 to convey the message of peace to men; 1 have turned my eyes toward the western sky when the ?ttiug sun was ptiinting upon the hanks of clouds the snj'eHi coloring that made me feel that iu itsu-ath the sun sought to leave t-ehind this gorgeous siiiii!.;aiice of his splendor and I excluimeil. 'Surely the sun with its failing paints with tha .Master's hrush imperishable evioenee of its power. But I put aside tho flowers, brns-h the rain bow from the heavens, ami let tha sun Iv-e its light behind the western horiz.m aud turn to that be:ii:tifi:l coloring iu ail Us Eden freshness, which is far more loveiy than the hue of tho ruse, the i-eautiful tints of the rainbuw, or the goreo;ines of the setting sun the blush of modesty ou the cLvk o" soman." lie Is OppoHrU lo Kiinmons, and Why-M Allege ttiat tho Htnle I'hnirisiau Went to XYah iiigton uiiJ Eiilrrfcrcvl in Hi Apiiiilm;-nta, IlelVntiuu (itttJ- gc r and Utile. AHKVji.Lr:. F -b. 8. The Citizen to- !ny print a letter from Senator Z. B. Vanec c:nc?riiii'r hi attitude lo- war is Mr. S unnons, the c. Hector of iiteriia! revenue for the eastern dis tnct. The letter n in reply to one written by the Citizen on Februaty ., asking the Senator whether h '.ad preierred charges nc'.nt Mr. v.mmons, and aa to his present alti tude towards his c jnfli inatluu. The ettcr foliuvvK: Tampa Bay Hotel. Tampa. Fla.. Feb. 5, 1331. Fditor The Citizi-.n: In answer to your letter of lho 1st I have this to eay: VTou know that in all transac tions connected with the executive sessions of the bonate. liicluJiiisr what ia said and done in committee. my mouth is closod. 1 am at liberty therefore, only to peak to you about my own attitude toward ilr. Sim mons, what haa not been douo etc.. but not aa lo what lina been done or probably will bo done. I want 4.o say, first, that for myself and on my own authority I hav filed no charges against Simmons. Afcide from those which may have been filed by others, my att.iu.io to ward him ia one of opjosition; for the reason that, aa chairman of lh Democratic committee of North Car olina, he cams to Washington and interfered in opposition to my rec ommendation for appointment un der ihe government. Knowing that Mr. Rins un and I had agreed that primarily I should recni:YenJ all appointments in the wust, whilst Gen. R-.nsorii did the same ia the eist; and knowing that I had recom mended Mr. Gudger for collator in my own district, and that Gen. Rin som opposed Mr. Gudgar on jx?rt'o?i al grounds and favored Mr. Elias, ho perverted an i minuted the power in trusted to him by the Democracy of North Carolina by urging and secur ing the appoint moiii of Mr. E.'iai over Gudger. lie also opposed my recommendation of Mr. Hale for a foreign appointment, which waa vir tually secured and was higher in grade than at.y given the State. Now, if he thought proper lo vol unteer hia interferenca where be had no right or authority to do so, h should not ihj..ct to the -iercise of an undoubted right, by a Senator in the sult'Cliou of appointments, bev stowed upon by hi:a by the consti tution. To save truublti to lho anonymous seribbiors who aro constantly fclan dorin; w in thi regard and who re port h:t;i as sp',.king of himself aa" "Simuiona an l ilu Democratic par ly.' I announce, once for all. lhat I resent not only Suiunona interfer ence with my rights aa a Senator, but tha insuiiing and defiant lone aiURied both by him and them. 1 i siifi! I oppose Mr. Simmons' confirma tion on personal a w;li aa public grounds grounds .connected with his unfit ne- to hold the p vsition for which he haa been appointed. My health is improving rapidly in this tint) climate, a.n-1 I hope soon tu bo in my scat in tiie S'nate. Very truly you-. Z. B. Van-c?. Mr. E Thornton. 125 Holiday St., Jersey Ciiy. N J.. in spKkin; of Solvation-Oil. Ihe great hou-ehold si ec tic for sprauis. burn, cms, etc.. Minis up hi a Jiutraiiitk for tl;i- vnhi nble reiit?dy i' a few word hy do cl ring it to b M e standard rema dy." ULilN all pain. YTien BcIjt was sloi, we garo her Castor la. When she was a Child, she cried for CtutorLx TVhaa she became Xiss, she chrag to Castoria. WliiHi sha had C&Cdrso, sho gave Uiem Caloric. TIe Cliilt! uhh Comforted. Philadelphia Ii.-cord. Tiie present Mrs. Tioa. Nelson Page, tia is already known, wa t widow. Her little daughter uf nine or len years was ihton person above t'thera lo whom ihe dreaded lo break the news if tier engagement with Mr. Itg-v It nl b'tigih bec.wr.n necefary to d. tins, l.owevvr, ai;d he sot about her tak with ail pos H'ble diplomacy. Aa she hud feared. Ihe little girl, on learning lht faoi thai her iiioti.or w;is tu ht man n 1 a.vilfi, wt'jii profusely. Final. y the mother, llH'iking U HMifge llm child's grief Kiiiil : "'I'm g ug ti many; lit Mr. lige." Tne sots i f the hltle g;il uideitly ceased ""You oiiht lo have lull mo liittt at firni." s!-.e wid in a modili'Mt tone. "Why I've bven in love with htm myotic for uvtr a year. lrulir tu iiselt" S eminently sui-oesjsf a! n-i HooxJ'a Safupa.-iiia ben Hint ni.-itiyj l--tdn.g irittz.Mis from ad tiyi'ri tiie Untie i Slates iuiuisti tc-l Kn-.iii.iU oi cuiei whieii seem hiiiiiiMt miraculous, Hod s S -irsMtpinlla is not an ucci dent, bill the upe fruit of ntJuniry and study. It p.-se-es merit "p CU'uir to u--lf," llrs Fills cures N uii, Si-.'k Ilea luohe, 1 1 ot i ;..( ion, B-illoUsnefS. Sold by all il i ui -h -.