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:CI)C News nub .farm A TWENTY-EIGHT COLUMN -7 J F AMILY AVEEKLT, J For One Dollar a Year. : IV ADVANCE. A 'SPLENDID ADVERTISING ME ' .v ' DIUM.' : " " j. ' J. H. LIND SAY, Editor And Owner , Advei Using Rate Will bo Quoted oa Application." JOB PRINTING COtTNTRV HOMES AGE A ' NATION'S SAFEGTJAED. Of All Descriptie&s Executed at tkis Ofc ntatnmt at tery rtatenaUt rain. UrTnr Orhrt SoticiUl. VOL. VII. KERNERSVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 7, 1887. NO. 26.' , Jr i .fFrom the ChlcafU Lodger IBUII; The Bended Veil. - ' -: . - ? - BY NATHAN D. URNER. Author of "Florence Falkland," "The lfad em Crusoe," "Squirrel-Cap," "Boxer and Trader," iThe Speechleet Upt," "Evadnc," Etc,, Etc, ; I i CHAPTER TU-ContliraeA "Mr. Piercer,' young Dixon said to me, when he aad I were alone, "I am going to devote myself solely to the discovery and banting down of the doer df this dreadful deed. Will j;ou assist me in your proies B onal capacity, If 1 make it worth yottr while?" r 1 ' " I shall probably be officially assigned to this. lntj from headquarters," I replied, i '"In the meantime, do nothing on your own account until after the funeral. Yon may then think otherwise." "Never!" exclaimed-tife young mVn, with flashing eyes and a resolute compression of : the lips. '"They have known me here, jest- ingly, as 'Do:, the Physician,' almost since I wa a boy;lhey shall know me hereafter as 'Doc, the Detective, untitl shall have jivenged my grandfather's death, and brought his murderer to justice!" CHAPTER VIII. . c ON THE SCENT" AND OFF. Tho murder of Grandfather Dixon had beenxbscovered on a Monday morning. Two days afterward the remains were dis- posed of with an imposing funeral, whose character and .proportions were in keeping with the immense sensation, local and otherwise, that hid been occasioned by the tragedy. And, on tha day following that, Thursday,, I received a message from Rich ard Dixo i, saying -that the will was to be ' opened and read oa that morning, and beg- K n2 me to dine with his sister and him in the eventnor. In the meantime, my name having re ceived an uuwi6hed-for publicity in the . reports of Uhe inquest whose unsatis factory rcsu't had been commented upon by the journals, as it deserved I had gone to headitiarters and ntat3d what I knew : and thought, which hud resulted in 4he superintendent- placing roe exclusively in cnaree of the case. On my way to The Aspens that evening. ;r in pursuance of the invitation received, it chanced that I was overtaken by Jjoc Dixon himself at tho most unfrequented part of the way thither, Ha was returning home from the post office, he naid, and was overjoyed at having overtaken me, as it tvo him an opportu i.i:y to speak beforch.iud of .try) events of j th-3 day. He was ra her discontentedly en , tering upon tbe siibjectof the will that had be. n o .cued and nad'thrt morning, when ! ho snddea'y broke oif, exclaimicgif Why, hardly big enough for a half-grown boy tc crawl through, and a previous c rami nation hid satisfied me of thore being no window or o ' ening ott either side "Safe at list! I chuckled to myself, as I r'ambered bae'e to the street; "A regulir pig in a poke, ns I'm a detective!" , I uhispered the result ef my examination to my companion, and we at once entered The Spider without more ado. Tho new proprietor a bronzed still young-looking man, decidedly handsome, but with a worn, sad expression about the lips, which were indicative of a good deal of weakness of character was alone in the room, and lounging with his elbows on the bar-counter, as th:ugh inwardly long ing for a customer. ..i . A partition reaching to. the ceiling sep arated the1 bar from (he adjoining room, with a door in the center, overarched by a dingy signtoird, with the words "Reading and Card Room" in sprawling, inartistic letters. Doc, who could with difficulty control his excitement, ordered something at the bar to allay suspicion, while I took occasion to t-y the door . lead ng into the adjoining room. ' , It was locked on the other side. "Di ln't a gentleman enter here a few mo ments ago?" I asked. . j "Yes, I believe-so," was the reply, In a loud voice, "First customer I've seen to night, and ho no account. Passed right into the reading-room, to read or booze." I wa'it to see him. "Why don't you go in there, then?" ' "The door's locked.". "The thinder it is!" cried the new pro- Erlctor of The Spid r, springing from be md the counter and beginning to kick and pound upon the door with '"real or pre tended fnrv, lcou'.dnt maxe out wnicn. Here, you inside thero! Open this dojr! What d ye mean by locking it?". Hello! cal ed cut a sleepy-seeming voi o from within, the sound of which Ti,.0S7iS.-ta ! u:ow- THE PRESIDENTS PUKSE. 'I' Vi t- i 1 nttict iinrn ctrt ft nnfri at aninf I J MW! IUwl iiJJ4lVV fi-f U VI - V. A , UUU V ' i',i Spjdor" w.:s a veiy insignificant, i n - stoty dr.nkiag jesort, which hadtherf, it'.;re borne nn ci! reputation, as affording hmn ,ing ioo.n to low, riotous and- 6US j voious charae'ers. It was a merewvooden I v:i tf a..housc, situated on the north side , the sludv. rivo.-skirting roadway, and b it-King out over th mar.-h, the rear part I o. u. nuns orted bv tail spiles, the foot of whica was washed by backwater from the rmer ot hih tid1. The entire house, which was depressed bulow the road to a3 :ti leamro a descpnt bv means of several h iky s'eps to rench the door, coafisted of i 'but two npj.tni?nts n miserable little bar loum ;ii fioat, aud a smok?, ill-smelling don in the roar which was dignified by tha mini of "Card nnl Reiding Room."' It wn a a ry loat ly ynrl of tli t'trect, thickly g u.n with mules cni;her sid,-th-re beitig only a few "po- r houses, occupied inaijty l y rf.ilioail laborers, in sight It was a nro in, unsp cions neighborhood, that rt:fipec able people were apt to giv3 a wide . berth. to alt?r niLtfall. The Spider had been abandoned for some time, the pro prietor having been impr.soned for some offense against the laws, but on th's even ing the lights in .both .front and rear be tokened the presence of a new occupant. "Yes." I replied, in answer to my com panion's rem i:k, for I had kept the plice linger my eye ever fcincj my residence in Harlem, as in duty bound. ,"A stranger t.:k possession ' yesterday, and I hope he will mn"kp a niore decent place of it." Wc w.r then in the shelter of .the trees 'directly a-i oss tho. way from the shanty, almost iu fr.nt of which a street-lamp was Lurninc. My companion was about to spcak.nain wh?n he sudd)! ly interrupted binib'elf. Clutching mv arm, he diewme back behind one of the maples, and point d eacerty to a man who was rather cau- . tionslt walking toward the shanty on the oppohite side of the way, and from tho op ,ioKite direction. .. "Good heavens! Was there ever such Dlettvlul luck?" he gasped in my ear iust caught a climpso of his face it must be he!" "Who?" "My sister's insulter my: crandfalher's murderer! Hush! He has not perceived ns. Wait! Of course, I needed no more to make me stand like a 6Utne and, up.t like a lynx. TUti-'.::-ucr 'a fall, we-1-built man, wearing a gray soft hat, pulled down over his brows, an.l a long light-colored cloe buttdned overcoat of fashionable cut, whose' h:gh col'ar was pulled up about his ears and face, to their still further conceal : ment, for the 'night hid fallen bleak and - cold. Rut, ns he paviRcd under the street-lamp, ! 'nd looked anxiously and iurtirely on every sid. ,as though" fearful of being ob i served, his features were for an instant : fully cxrosed to the light. - . Then it was my turn "tdclutch my com ; panion by the arm, and to breathe short i and quick. T It was Mirchmont! I I had never seen him but once before, : but could have, sworn to the identity of the man befoid us with the one we were seek-ing-upm' who-o discovery and. arrest lirje lewards had already been offered. ; He ev.dently became convinced that he was not watched, for in a moment he turned upon hi heel. - descended tho wooden steps, and entered The Spider. made both Doc and j me 6tart. "I never locked if. Must have been some one else. Wait a minute." j . "Not a minute, not a second, blast your eyes!" roared the barkeeper, lashing him self into an ungovernable rage, I thought. "Open the doer, I tell you!" . "Yes, yes, if you'll have a moment's pa tience," ieplied the voice, accompanied by stumbling steps; . , '-. Tho next moment there was heard a hand upon the lock. Doc and I stepped back a pac, with our ban 's upon our pistols and our yes riveted upon the .door. The door o;ened, and a mm stepped out of the comparative obscurity of the inner room. x . . . '"We burst into nn exclamation of disap pointment and surprise. It was not Montague de Marchmont who Btood revealed Jo us. It was Mr. Jocclyn,the Bteward. CHAPTER IX. THE STEWARD EXPLAINS. It was, irdecd. the steward. With the black felt hat he used to wear crushed upon and his old dark-blue familiar, to nearly the signs of being hur ooked as though he iust been aroused from an uneasy nap. mid his surprise at being confronted by us appeared fully as go:.niu3 and unaf fected as cur own. I 4 "Hallo! , wbafs tojdo, gentlemen?" he exclaimed. 11 Looking after me?' the back tf his head, overcoat that was whole village giving ried'y assumed, he had l ner was notning more to be til or done, and, after paying our respecti to the keeper of The.Bpider, ws resumed oar walk toward The Aspens, the steward being of the party. . -i He was intelligently affable, probably with the desire to learn how far he might -be taken into our confidence; bat he was not at once satisfied upoa this point, inas much as both Doe ana I! remained rather reticent, and it had been "arranged that I should dine only with the bro:her and sis ter and Miss Digby, who, at Mies Lulu's urgence, was to continue their guest in definitely, in a cozy little breakfast-room adjoining the larger apartment in which the family dinner, assisted by both stew ard and housekeeper, was mos .ly served. The dinner was a rather sa 1 affair, as was only natural. Miss Lulu had n cov ered from the physical effect) of her re cent trials with the elasticity of youth and health, and fcras looking only the more beautiful front the gentle , etiolation of her sufferings; but, in spite of her Lravj r i forts to dissipate it, the snadow of the great misfortune that had fallen upon The Aspens still lingered painfully in her air, and communicated its gloom to that of her friend, Miss Digby, who, though evidently fashioned of 6terner and more reso!u stuff, was as sweet and sympathetic a .com panion as the young girl could havo had in her distress. We therefore conversed Tery little for some time aftr the Unus of the grand father's will had been communicated to me. which they wera in few words. With the ' exception cf a few small legacies to servants and distant relatives, the two grandchildren of the testator had been left the sole heirs of the estate, which aggregated nearly a million. 'lh";y were, however, not to come into possession until they wero of legal age, nearly two yeara thence, dnring which time they wero to reside at The Aspens, in teceipt of four thousand dollars per annum each, and un der the direction and guardianship of the former steward. Mites Jocelyn, who for the Interim was constituted the sole trustee and execu'or of the estate. "That is'nt th worst feature of the will, either," said Doc, discontentedly. "I hate to think of my poor grandftaher as be ng unjust, but, sseing as our father and his only son passed out of the world by ship wreck when we were but lnianw awan dering exile from his native land I should think the will might well have been silent in regard to him, instead of raking up fol lies and indiscretions that aent him a fugi tive abroad, and wh ch migh1. -well be fo -gotten by this time, if " I am surprised at you,Uocf interrupted his 6ister, in gentle reproof. "Is your own language any more considerate in this painful regard than that of the will? "But won't the will be published in all the newspapers, and excite comment, I want to know?" retorted he; when I made haste to change the painful subject for a discussion of what had occurred at The Spider, which had not us yet been intro duced to the young lad ies. fTO BE CONTINUED. PEHSOlTAii AND 2XC3E2XOlVD fiX TESSE3 OF THE ClVELAXTDS General News Notes "Hardly," prowled Doc. "You did not intimate 'jthat nny oie else was in that room," he added, turning sharply upon the bartender."" "I forgot all about this gentleman, or supposed he'd gone jhome long ago," re sponded he -of Tho Spider, scratching his head cnfus-nlly-. file ordered a hot Where to exclaimed my companion s -i, . r t i. a "We've got him! He's as grod as book ed and hangxl!" exclaimed Doe ' snrin?- ing into the roadway. . -- " Trne. but let us" be cautious.", said I, restraining biuv "I thck he's ns secure ns a cat in a bnjr, but let me once more ex amine the reir of tb piemises, whi e you t,i:ard the f.ont.v . ' Doc nodded, with a grim smile, and, a1 he took up his posi'ion there undor tho street-lamp, V saw him put his hand upon bi3 pisto'.-rosket at the hin. I cautioned him a,?ain by a wnrning shake of th head, nnd ;he passing alon to the side of the bnnty. droj ped down the abrupt bank to a tip cf uneven ground that bordered npoa the river marsh. Th? tide wis in, so that the dirty back - wat$ was already w.tsh;ng in noisily among tbepiles sr.pyortirg the rear of the shanty; but i I was enabled to pick my wav far e :oiK'h o:it upon 5 me hummocks an5 the d-bris of l j d ng m tter ai tJ commtod a view of the tea V Thre wfs but one little flipdow looking oat npoa fh water there. Scotch in there Fcveial hours ago. can the othe - chap have gone?'' I was, in thu meantime, endeavoring solve this question in a more practical way, having at onca slipp ij into the back room and turned up the gas, upon recovering ftom my siirprife. A single g'anco proved that no one was concealed there. It was a plain, cheap, dirty nitment, fitted up as i uch accessoii -s of the ordinary gin-mill njsnally are, with three or four sma i tables scattered e ver with illustrated tewspapers i nd packs of playinqj-canls. several chnirs, as many pp ttoon8. a bagatei'.e-board in one corner, cheap chromo3 of questionable character on the walls, and a narrow lava tory in another corner, which proved to be empty. "Gone, eh?" exc! disannointed voice nt mv elbow, as I stood gazing ra'her stupidly at tne lime square hole that answered for a window, and the S-ish of which I hhd found swung wide j open on its hinges, j ' I nodded, and pointed to tne window.' "Does it look as if he could have crept through lhat?" I aBk$d. "Well, hardly," said Doc, his bewildered glance wandering from the window to an inspection, first of the i dirty floor, then of the low, smoke-grimed ceiling, and then of the narrow little fireplace, in which a fire was burning. "And yet by what other means could he have escaped?" I took in the breadth of the window with my eye, in its relation to my own shoul ders, "and shook my head, though it did look a little larger then than it had from the outside. j ' prop'iifctcr. still bewildered'v. "He must have jumped out of that winder into . the water. - ' . "Chasing whom?" demanded Jocelyn, for we were all in the back room together now. "The feller that must have locked the door while you was asleep, I reckon," said the" other. "I really don't understand," said Jocelyn, looking greatly puzzled. wTo tell lhe truth, I came here to watch for some one myself some one in wnose discovery we are perhaps equally interested," he added, with a significant g'anec at Doc and me. to the exclusion of the;iiciOr-6eler, who be gan to look as -if he, felt himself de trop. "Can it b that we! encounter each other on the same errand?" As the barkeeper appeared to be stupidly unconscious of . what we were concerning ourselves about. I ordered some drinks to be prepared at the bar, in order to be tern Dorarihr rid of his company. I then briefly made known the secret Of our errand to Jocelyn. The effect upon him wae almost rit;.ab'e. I never saw any one apparently so startled and frightened at being informed of nn unanown, t3?aoiT peril just escaped, a he appeared to be at the bare knowledge m haTine been, wnue he'plesBly asleep, in close proximity to such a villain as Maicbmont. lie turned white, and his knees fairly smote each other. "Great heaven!" jha gasped; "he might have mirdered mej too, and without re sistance And it's n wonder he didn't, for he must ' have guessed that 1 was here on the watch for him. Jefferson's Education. For a boy born in a wilderness, Jeffer son enjoyed ' remarkable advantages in early youth, growing out of the fact that the frontier was as yet so near the parent colony. Good English tuition at 5, Latin" Greek and Fiench at. 9, regular classical studies at 14, and a college course at 17, fall to the lot of few Ameri can backwoods boys. Trapping quails and shooting wild turkeys, deer st Ik ing, fox hunting, and horse racing-Jo not figure to any extent as his biograph ical exploits. Jefferson the boy is a book worm 'Jefferson the youth is the petted member of an exclusive coterie, social, aristocratic, and literary. The accom plishments and courtly habits of iho town effaces all the characteristics of the country lad, or rather soften them down and leave them but two iu number the keen zest of horsemanship and a true love of nature the pure and passionate ad miration of plant and blossom, of rock and stream, of fresh air and blue sky. These are the legacy of the forest; all else he learns from books and the social tra ditions which drift from the old world to the new. Yet such is the strength of nature's influences that bv these two slender threads she held this nuisling of society and made him the apostle and bulwark of that primitive equality he abandoned, against the pretensions and claims of caste and privilege to the favors of which he largely owed the develop ment, if not the awakening, of his genius. Century. The White Jloaio Servant Econ omy fa the Kitchen Mrs. Cleve land's Wardrobe. There has been a great deal said about the amount of money that it costs . the President to live, and estimates have been made as to how much he will be able to save out of his salary of $50,000 a year during his four years' team of of fice, says a Washington letter te the New York Morniny Journal. The Journal correspondent has gathered some Executive statistics which maj prove of interest. ;,The personal house hold staff of the President consists of a steward, who is paid $150 per month; a cook, at $100: a second cook, who is a woman, at $75; a driver, at $100; a groom, at $45; a Jive- (or tbe steward, at $60: two waiters, one at $43 aad. tho other at $50. Besides there there are two extra men at the stable at $50 each, and then there is at Mr. Cleveland's country residence. Oak View, one cook who receives $50 and a waiter at $40. Of this force, the steward, second cook, stablemen, driver for steward. two stable men and two waitere, with a total monthly salary of $475, are paid by the United States, leaving Mr. Cleveland's personal share of tbe whole expense" to be $335, or $4,020 per annum. To his must be added the salary .of Sinclair, the valet, whom Mr. Cleveland brought with him from New York, at $125 per month, or $1,50D per annum, a maid and sewing woman for Mrs. 'Cleveland at $50 pi-r month each, making $1,200 for the year, and the chambermaid at Oak View at $30 per month, or $3G0 tier year, making altogether $7,100, which the President pays out in wages during a. year. There is strict cconomv observed in the purchase of meats and groceries, and everything possible is purchased through the depot commissary, by which the ar ticles are obtained at the same prices that they are invoiced to the Government and sold to officers of the "army. Mr. Cleve land is not fastidious in the matter of his rating, and has no fondness for dainty or expensive dishes.- He prefers plain, sub stantial fowl, and likes roast beef better than canvas-back duck and a plain sheeps hcad than terrapin. Of course tbe bills for his 4,daily bread" cannot be obtained, but a fair estimate of running the tabic both at the White House and Oak View is said by those who could, if they would, give the exact figures, to be $20 per day, or $7,300 a year. Duriug the winter the President gives about ten dinners, to which are invited the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, the members of the Senate and House, the Lieutenant-General of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy. Most of the ex pense of these State dinners comes out of the contingent fund appropriated by Congress, but the wines arc paid for from the President's private purse. These wines may be estimated at $3,000, which is a very liberal estimate, mere are some other little expenses, such as extra waiters at these dinners, but they are only paid $1 apiece, and of course that is a yery smaii item say, not over I iuu a year. The feed for his horses costs about $500 a year. In the matter of clothes the President has all of his wearing apparel made in New York by a tailor there who has his measure, ana he orders four suit a vear, at an average cost of $60 each, or $240 for the year. His boots, hats and under Fn are will not ro to war vMth Ger many again s j len 5 a Vcn Moltko ard Disn t-Ji live. The President's trip through tho west and south will cott bim about $1,500, instead of $10,000 as the New York Sun figured it. - . - - - v " Cardinal Gibbons his goes to Putt land. Oregon, to confer the Pallium on Archbishop Grow, the fonnet Bishop of ueorgia. Governor Hill, of New York, never drinks wines or liquors of any sort. At a recent public banqu-t wnere he was t o be chief giHst he requested that no wine be used. " THE SOOTH'S ONWARD MCB' SOME tY Boms day when feast you drum of such a A BETlEu OF INDUSTRIAL PRO GRESS FOIl THREE MONTHS. Tae NHlf Xdrmmcm- at tW ttfcr fcaireaJI JLWciW Lie-A Cila Waerfl Dfvltt la all Dmrkf Six jears sgo Calvin Bncc was lunning a little bank in Umi, Ohio. lie was ore of the nun who built tbe Nickel Plate load and sold it to VanderLilt at a price which made the buildeis millionaires. Mr. Briec now lives in a Fifth' avenue palace and has contracted fi r a $5t0. 000 hem? at Newpoit." - The United States supreme court hav ing .decided that privilege . taxes oa drummers aie not constitutions!, a suit has been instituted in Mississippi, to compel the disgorging of all such taxes, whxh were collided before thisdeculou Tbe suit will hirdly amount to anjthirsr. Mississippi promptly acpiieteed in the supreme court decision. A CITY OF TENTS. I months, or nearly five and o l'.1' A Vmmp cent. The total number ol Hi. TLaala Preaarra HaBcifat far ike t'allra' Hi a lea Amy. A disj atch from St. Louis, IU., says: All day long tbe railroais have been Eouiinginto tbecily throngs of gray eadid Grand "Army men with grip tacks and rolls of blankets, a large ccntagc of them acccmnarieu by wives and children. The feature of this encampment is tbe sheltering of a large number of old veterans In tents Tried at each encampment before insmnll num- s ter-thclr wear, etc., may be liberally estimated at $260 more, making $500 as his annual expenditure upon himself in the matter of clothing. Mr. Cleveland is not a great smoker," but still he likes a good' cigar and always keeps a box on hand for his 1 o -a a . a own use ana nis irienas, out f?uu a year will fully cover that expenditure. If the President's expenditure for cloth ing is very lrugai, that of .Mrs. Cleve land for her personal adornment is quite an item. oi mat pne is at an extrava gant, but then ladies' wearing apparel costs more than men s, and besides she occupies a position that demands thedis bcr. the pleasure plan gave such tatisfaction aod that it Wis dcciCel to thus house vast numbers, and the executive committee arranged to care for a grtatcr concourse of people in the field than has ever before been attempted in any land, except in times cf war. Perhaps no canvi city of such proportions has C7er been built in so short a time. Within two weeks 3,500 1 nts with ample room for 25,000, soldiers more than tlere arc in tbe entire United Statti armv. hate bem p:t tocetler, are now pi tele I in. ten beautiful paiks of the city, all within a radius of to niilts Heauiiuarters are connected by telegraph, and arc con venient toclininrr nails. A Iwdeof itraw makes matlreascs for each tent, tbe bed clothes the soldier brines, strapped on his ki apsack er grip. Five huudred of tl.es2 ten's are pitched in Lyon Park, SOOin ConccrJia Paik; ii Iljde Park i00, Washington Paik 550, tarr Place 700, St. Louis 3C0, Jackson Park 150, Forett Tark 250, aronnd the Courthouse and other public places, in the heart of tin city 100. The doubt whether the boys would .The Tradesman, of CbatUncoz, Tin n. in its quarterly review of tl e Southern industrial situation, says: The past three montls, although m orating iae midsummer perion, shows no cessation In tie wonderful industrial develepment in all section of tbe Svutb While sreculitions have been rvstii- ted. material growth has corTrspondirgly iocreistd, vni reports to tht Tralcsrnan from commertul and industrial centres of the South betoken the roost gratifying condition of affkirt. Crops every ah :rr in the South are alove tbe avrrrgv and jbc geceral volcm: cf business In creased. Lp to a lottnigLt ago nuney wrs easy, and, while collections arc somewhat slower now, tbe movement of M Ml . ft inc crops win improve tne r situation. The industrial situation is very a-live and manufacturers are crowded with order, and the larccst iron works ate running on double time. Hallroad build ine is inactive prozresa in many cf the Southern states, and rtllisz rnill in Chattanooga aod Biimingham hire or ders for months ahead. Returns from the Southern cottcn rnilU how important improvements, the consumption of cotton having ircrcaed over 20,000 tales In th3 pat twelve ote huf per mills up t September 1, 1837, was 249; number of spindles 1,213,310; number of loom 27. 163; cotton consumed per yerr 401,432 bdrs. New companies are teing larMly formed. In the past three months thiity two new factories have been orginired, dhldcd as folbwt: Alalana, 3; Arkan ta, 1; Georgia, 2 Louisiana, 2; North Carolina, 12; SouTh Carolina, 3; Ten nessee, 2; Texas. 7. Ihi iron industry. Southern iron masters hive been greatly rerp!exedovcr the scarcity of coke, but ti l problem is being solved bv imrortant dcveioptreoti in thia brant h. In the past three mmiths twelve coke companies have bjen fonre 1 Four la Alalnma, four in Tr noemee. two in Virginia and two la Wist Vir- ?;inia, and many others arc in r.cca f ormatioa. Work is rapidly progressing on new blast furnaces in pi ores of erection in tbe South. Ip tbe pist quar ter eleven new furnace companies wi re organic d: Five in GetTjiia, three in Mississippi, one in Virginia and one ii We it Virg'nit. Gold and silver mine. One of th features in the past quaiter baa been the remarkable development m gol 1 and silver mining. Much attentioa iibting paid to tbe industry, and v.istly im proved methods of mining arc be ins adopted. In the r t'urw month i fifteen smelting works have b.en evicted la Arkansas acd thirty-one mining and quarrying companies formed. Natural ess acd il. In all the Smth- em states much capital is Uing rxer.d The air win trembk to the sound cf weep- In; pale and stm with white aad foUel hands The ooe yoa lore wia silently be akepinx. And burning tears wf3 rata from jmx as IWtt Ten fii to ralne whi pawn injj; Then wait not for the Litter day to row, Fmt .rtrrifch whila yoa may lHa VW tWann. Som day the air wia echo to sweet nraai? Of drum and boj call and martial treai. A iv I with tho flag drapM o'rr hU 1im 1 bon. Tb calUnt r4-!r will t rcW and Aud all th trirot b-apl npnn Ma bnom WillLulto thrill hf bwt wttS -y or pri-te. Hut ha 1 ha beard In lifcavhalf your rrai Or rl your fi r utsm h taJ roC d-L Oh, keep n- back tl word that might ba okrn; White hrart era hunRfrtoC for tba bleasrd upeech. Value your trrsure, foil It to your boaocn llrf'T It Lpi forrrrr from ytmr reach. Tbo llt worls that mman- In all iiVs nvasure Are th", wtubz from Ux heart by ovl fate. The nn lertone to errry note of pla.ura, I foun-I tnyjewvl's valw, all too Ut" D. il. Jordan. HI 510 It OF THE DAT. 11 take to the ten's has been dispelled, for I ei in tne carch of nat iral ga. N'nc this one drizzling and rainy day more applications for such shelter have b.en made than tents are ready. But the neighboring hotels and boarding bouses offer relief for the surplus Io iraf cise s the veteran will stop in camp anu house his family. nlatr rf fin rlnttiinrr All r 1rBt.oarlir7l d him tOStOU worn at her evening receptions are made coming trip so inc oouiu. iuv i e Old Shoes "Worked Oter.M One ol the curious industries of New York is the rehabilitation of old shoes; the cast-off kind gathered from the ash of the White Mouse, and who has had an by the famous "Worth, and as it would ncvei do for her to appear at two recep tions inoneseason in the same dress it may readily be imagined that her ward robe is quite extensive. A lady fncd who is upon terms with the fair mistress " Yoi expected to meet him here, then? said Doe. "I merely hoped for the chance of his venturing here, forj I've been informed that "he occasionally made a secret resort of this place before it changed hands. See; I was prepared to demand his sub mission or his life. And the steward pro duced a fins revolver, with a lather boast fnl air. "Bat. my jGod! to think of my sleeping at my postj and being here at hs heaps and refuge of the streets. A regu lar market for these is found in the cob blers' basements along Baxter and Mul berry streets more particularly in the region known at ' -1 he-ftci 1 i his re jected stock is worked over by the shoe makers, mended and patched so as to be water tight, and then blacked to the brilliancy of stove .pousn. .Long rows of them may be seen displayed on the boards in front of the cobbler shops in 'The Bend," glistening in the moonday sun with dazzling brightness. A small boy. generally one of tho scions of the paternal son of Crispin, stands at their side in the double cnaracter oi guardian or (salesman, though the former duty is often discharged by the oscillating falcs man In charge of the stock of cheap clothing on the floor above, who halloos dowu the basement to the proprietor whenever a would-be customer for the shoes stops to make an investment Prices for this strange merchandise range from seventy-five cents up to $1.50 a pair. There must be a market for it, or it wouldn't bo produced. Its existence shows how many poor fellows are ''down on their luck and compelled ; to buy such goods. Eroollyn CUuen. ; Haymakiar In, the Alps. The inhabitants of the Bavarian Alps denend lanrelv upon their goats for sub sistence, Ther are very poor; they have modest little homes among the moun t?n thir rtwts sumlv them wrtn a littlp. milk, and they make cheese and , butter. Bread is quite rare, therefore hv rnw potatoes on a scanty farm to i - --. , ... - WASHINGTON NOTES. THE PRESIDENT WILL STOP AT CITATTA NOOOA, TENN. Ex-HcprevntatiTC Pettibonc, of Tenn essee, headed a committee from Chatta nooga waited on the President and at that city on bis opportunity to inspect her wardrobe. says that the annual cost for clothes must be about $6,000. - Mrs. Cleveland keers a sewing woman employed all the. time in making altera tions and chances in tha trimming of her various costume, so that the actual i outlay for clothing in a year probably docs not exceed the amount named, although many ladies in private life spend a much larger sum. These various items aggregate $34,- 700 per annum, and another $300 may be added for traveling expense and inci dentals, making a total personal expen diture on the part of the President of just $25,000, or one-hfuf of the amount of salary appropriated for his ouicc. It is safe to say that at the end of Mr. Cleveland's term of office he will be worth $100,000 more than when he entered the White House. dent informed the Chattanooga commit tee that he would tpend one hour in that city on his way from Nashville t At lanta on Monday, October 17. COMMEJICE WITH SPA!.. Tbe President has issued a prociami tion removing the discriminating duties against Spanith commerce, "he having been officially assured by memorandum of an agreement beta een the American secretary of State and the Spanish minis ter at Wishing oattrt-noiuch duties were eniorcea uy epaio againti Amen can commerce. has Inen found in paring ouantiti, but prosrectora arc greatly encouraged. In the past quarter thirty-e no natuial ga and oil companies have been formrd; In Alabama 3, Arkansas 3, Kentucky 'J, Tennessee Tcxai 5. Virginii 3. Woodworking mills. In the jwit quarter 83 woodwerking etablishuirnts have been formed in tho South rxelus ire of saw mill: In Alabama 22, Ar kansas 10, Florida"!, Georgia TO, Ken tucky 4, Louisiana 3, MisiisMpi I 3, North Carolina 13, South Carolina 1. Tennessee I, Texas 1, Virginia 3, an 1 West Virginia 3. Rrilroid. Eigbtv-ieven railroad compinics have been incorporated in the East three months, of ahich Alahima s jiice. Aikansis 12, Florida 0, Geor gia 21, Kentucky 4, lMmitna 2. Minii sipi 2. North Carolina 6, South Caro lina I, Tennessee 10, Texas .7, Virgirii 3 and West Virginia 5. DESTROYED BY THE WATER. Complaint of the stage carpente wcrk and no play. To remove mill-due pay ou what Is due on the mill, of course. SWing. Although the hen is proud of her litth? one, yet does the love to sit on them. JVi. The most opular man in theTO. department- General delivery. Wig- . ton Critic' '. A man running for ofllce may get out M breath: but lie will le more apt to get out of money. Yciywar. - When you come to Ihink of it, jcflcg man, isn't the mania jre ceremony miss lejilin Yonleit f.Msiaa. An exchange publishes 'Thc Song of theCa Man." t If cruise it l sung to j long meter. .Vrmt In'lfjicnt. j Send us the dresses a women has worn, i and we ian tell yeu whetLer ber husband Uin C?nnda or not. fmtVi WoHJ. When yu set a person literaMy devour ing a iKHik tou may le sure it Is filled with tin-ler-Vinen. rf . i Talk i cheap. The man who talks too much ,c: -o lileraljbst he gives lihnsf If aw.tr,-Ililtit'.tc.KirricaA. It is true that doctor disagree, biit they doa'l disagree half so much as their niKc;3Ci Yy. IJrltMyt0,t Fn Vrtt. An u-ewuiitiy town is proud of a fcma'.e blaekrnilh. Wc nresume she be gan by shooing hena. .V LfatSer Ti'1nter. Mr. Joners, of St. Paul, lu had ,the blood of a laml introduced into his veia. He is now rije for Will street. l!urliyfo Frte.ln: Coffee and tea it Is wr kno w. Are ait to naW h fi-atum bruwn An l o tL RirU. I m pVt-a.! tuatate. Have cot t- rir rliaik-o'-Ut. Vfroit Vaf f. No wonder t Ley wy tbe Yankees e x ""crat' Vo kn"v frr wIit complained tO hisln;'.. ..c. I.IJ lu J lC. e Ol ieiK sent him wan so tough that hi mother could not chew the gravy. liottl t7i- utu. What I didike about Ihe large h ttls1" d MiJ Culture, their gTega riotisnes. Well." responded the Chi cago maiden, rather bewildered, )-tho fancy pudding neer'did agte with roe either. "JlMton M. . Proligal Son -Father, after twenty years of fruitless wandering. I Late re turned to my obi 10010." "Oh, it's you, is it. Bill? Will, there ain't an j wood split for vour ma to cook th: dinner with. P'rips jou'd better get up an appetite." 2i ll-i r ye$. A ia:i whw fa:rfitiira wrr terribly inarnM PyanVfleat.aa.!: "Utile bl re!- giv to m ov, ltit my lo k, tboogb .jt tnad Slllagra C'aataleielf wa Aaiaf-Cireal HaSTailac la Texa. JCo' 1- mr a Watches for the Blind " This is one of the cutest things in the watch line that has yet appeared," said Jeweler Charles S. Croasman, hold ing tjd one of the ne Bwiss watches ae signed for the use of the blind. The old raised figure watches were ciurosy and the blind people were constantly bending or breaking the watch hands by touching them. In this waxen a smaii peg is set in the centre of each figure. When the hour hand is approaching a certain hour the peg for that hour drops when J Vr-- the ouarter Dei ore 11 is rasseu. 1 ur ici- son feels tbe peg is down, and then counts back to twelve. He can thu tell the lima within a fw minutrL and bv rrac- U1CJ fs1-' j - T , take its place, and with these, and the tice he can become so expert as to tell tbe produce of their goats, the people live time almost exactly. They have been in and keep heattny ana strong. ucjr cather as food for the goats the grass - 1 . A. : TL1a. A Case of Deliberate Wife Murder. A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn.," says: A white fisherman named John Davis was arrested for tbe murder of his wife and committed to jail without bail. Mrs. Davis died Mcndsy week very sud denly. Davis stated .at tbe time that she bed eaten a hearty supper ana was dead in an hour snd a half. Suspicious circumstances aroused the officials, and the remains were disinterred and the fact was revealed that the skull had been fractured by a blow. Davis aens claim that their mother had fallen In a fit and bruised herself, but later information is to the effect that Davis hurried the Te rrains to tbe grave without allowing sny one to examine the body. It is dearly a case of deliberate wife-murder. A dispatch fiom BrownnlUe, Texan, sajs: It is leported tbat gnat ili-trtw prevails on loth tides ol the upper in Crande country. ih Cf. bigh t ter. It is laid that entire lain art t.. der water, and ttat familica residing near the river have been washed out, and have lost all tteyha l. A large nnmlcr of these families have lot their entire crops reaped during th ,avt le 10 n. Tbe river has overflowed lu bank for mile, and looks like ax ocean. The water i still risicg at Browcsville. Edia'Airg and LaPutblo, situated sixty miles aove Brownsville, have b-en washd fr.m the fare of the earth: and at Santa Maria I tie wster is gradually miking its way to destroy the piscc. markM man. iryWd." ioVoa ISmHgof. Woag Chin Foo, who has the wlmkera of a tiger, whoe wait U three mile round, and wWc wit i the foret of ncili. ak in the AirfA A'rimm IU riv. "Why am I a heathen T llacause, i in ir.rt rikC anl courtly mandarin, thj. t lorn a ioy. lUIt tLvu lcen a girl, thou wouldst hate been a she, then. Send us the cbromo. Or hold ; we'll take aa ulster. JUrdctU. mercy! I "It can't be helped now." said I, "and our only consolation is that, if tbe rascal did manage to wormj his tody through Ih-tt. window, upon hearing our voices, he re- which grows on the almost inaccessible shelves of the mountain sides. A mower is often in a dangerous position, let down by his comrades by. a rope in order to cut grass. Under him is a precipice of, say, -150 fort, which descends to a little valiey where h:s home is. He cut the grass, ties it io a bund'e. and it is drawn up to be dried in lbs tun. Fm.1 Lvilie9, . - use about six months, and there Is a steady and growing demand for them. Aieia York Sun. m Onght to Have It, She (blushing slightly) "Do you know, George, I've heard it said that in iccient times kissing a pretty girl was a :ure for a headache.". He (with monumental stupidity! A headache is something I've rever had. Brake. The first glints of dawn were stealing through the loopholes of the iron shutters when the gambler rose from the table cleaned out." Tm broke," he said. Then his eye fell upon the loopholes of the windows and he added with a smile : And I've got company, for I notice daj's broke, too." Dotton Courier. A -Fair" Joke. Bcppoae, at the fair, tbr should offer torn Two w ashinij machine to Leatow On the cood, boiwst fanner, w bo sent tbe beat hay, Tbe cocapetitioo woo 1 never be alow. Then, ruppose, at the fair, tbe winner thouVi K - A ckth asi aocae amp for bis pains; And told they were wcuaia ueA, yon The committee gats ap and explain. Yon need not call that a cheat and a b. And co o3 like ems gunpowder nock-, Vafair you might cad it; yeS so ahouU not I, I snooVl call K a prKtyatr Vfce. eVoooIT Ana. Sharp Goes to Sine-Sing. A dispatch from New York, sajs : The Suprerce Court io general term aCirrced the judgement of coaviction in the e ae of Jacob Sharp, all four of the Jodgts concurring. The case can be appealed to the Co nt of Appeals, bet Sbsrp mill be scot to Sing Sicg at race. In 18-50 there were onlv about 500 miles of railway in Mexico. Dr the close of the pre -en t year there will be more than3,toQ, with a capital cf $120,000, 000 in retted. Of this amount 2,70) miles are owned axd opet ated by Ameri cans. Their benfit to the country is demonstrated by tbe increase of the public revenue -from $I7.O0,QC0 in 1 173 to $3 .OX,'00 in 1 The gra n elevator catcity of CI!o-) is 2S,$M,000 busheU. Sympathy in Do?s aad Cats. A favorite rctneraniau dog wat cruelly b!inlci by a carfr's lih, and, while bis. owtcr tendrrly Latlel the in Carnal eyes, "Blackie, the alck tomcat, al ways tat by with a kindly look of pity in his luminous green eye. W'hea "Lad- die." the b!iod d ae called In at eight, he often failed to fin 1 tbe door, or would strike his venerable-bead azains't th rost. ',B!ackie,, hiviog noticed this diSIculty, would Ju:np otf hit warm cushion by the kit-Un fire. trot out with a "cw'' into the dark nicht, and in a few minutes return with Laddie" shoulder to ihooldtr, as it . - 1 , . , were, ana me 1 nee is wtraia iwea rrpm rate for the ni?ht. Laddie." ha younger, Lad quietly resented ib atten tions thown or LU owner 10 a ja-ina- -ting kitten, wbouel to frolu with Lis long, frioaed tail: lnit be was tco r.oble tosiiow active dbiike. When tus Kitten diolin convuhicrn a) victim to D-rca and a bx'd of cotton and its ownrr int over tLe stiflene 1 form in gnef. MLal- die came gravely cp aod ku-sed it. lie followed it toth- grave, aod for many .l.naii seenbv his ra'utre to roup tbe garden andVt upon tbe sod. Was this hi "av of showing remorse for hi former coldness, or mipht it be. tn ex pression of fTrnj-athy for his berearcd owner! JnJn ftU'or. Trna wver works; it cats, and under nlnes. k.A rof. and msts, aa 1 tlestmrs. P.ut .1 never works. It only gna us aa I opportunity to work 5. i ) V - -