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RALEIGH N, C, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1900. 25 Cents Month SOUTHERN STRIKE AGAINST STRIKERS More Operators Now ;Than they Have Positions SELMA THE LAST SHUT OFFICE OPENS TONIGHT University begun Talkie; at 4 O'clock This Afternoon All Trains Run - ing Practicaly on Time Cau ses ThatLed up to Strike. Southern .Hallway telegraph opera tors who went on u strike on tins di vision yesterday seem to have, lost their fight ns every office between (ireenshoro and (ioldslioro lias a regu lar operator at work and all tickets imil baggage facilities lire as smooth ns thev have been in the pout. The only oftioes where the strike is con tinued in this division is a night op erator at Carv and an operator at Selma, and these two will lie out ol the question hv tonight. The Southern deemed fo ilo nwiiv with a night operator at Cnry for the present, it. not being absolutely ne eessnry to the workings of the road. At. Selimi, where the most serious trouble was expected and where threats against the life of any limn who should attempt to take charge of the key had been liuide, the trouble is about, over. It will be at an end as soon as the eiistboiind train renehes that town. Mr. Henry V. .Miller, of First Vice President Andrews' oftiee, had a long talk over the long distance telephone this afternoon with the Mayor of Sel ma. arid received information that the telegraph operator at that point held to the key. 'lai mi nir that he could not be made to give up possession of the oftiee until an auditor of the company would come and check him out of the office. This was satisfactory to the. Southern Itailway offieiuls. though it is not necessary for them to comply with the demand of the man at Sel nin, so this afternoon a travelling au ditor of the company left Kaleigh at 4 o'clock to chock up the accounts or tho fielma operator and pay him off. when n new operator will be put. to work at once. The Mayor of Sclnia has promised that everything, i.11 his Kwer will be done to give the new man protection if it is needed. At Helniu there lias been a deal of talk and excitement todav. No tick ets could be purchased and no bag gage could be cheeked. The regular mails made their way through with out trouble, but freight traffic was considerably hitched for the local merchants. This, too. is all over now and tonight Selma will "be in as pood humor as the other stations along the line. University Station was anion"' the number to stop business. The doors to the depot wecr closed and locked and no one could enter to get to the telegraph key. This, however, was at an end this niternooii a few moments after four o'clock, when talking was resumed and the afternoon west hound train will be cleared from that station as usual. Locally the strike was a failure. The operators went out from the freight office, but a day and night operators are doing the work as usual todny. ItWns announced this afternoon that, the number of men ready to take their positions as telegraph operators in the places of those who desired to gn on the strike had been so large that the Southern could not accom modate lliem and that every office had already been filled. One question that is being consider ed by those who have rend of the strike nnd who have taken any inter est in the matter is what position will the Southern Itailway take in future toward the men who have gone on the strike. It is generally supposed that the rond will put those names on the black list and will let them seek employment elsewhere. The' cause of the strike lies with an agitator named Powell who came from St. Louis, lie is at the head of the organization' of Kail road Tele graph Operators and is seeking recog nition. He is a carpet bagger from the West and the Southern l.ailwny is not. favorably inclined toward al lowing him to come between the road and its employees in the matter of manngemeiit. It is stated in a dispatch that the strike is the outcome of trouble that has been brewing between the opera tors and the Southern for sometime. The demands of the operators are three-fold: First. that standard wages of $4(1 be paid nil operators. That is. 'that operators in small of . flees, "who now receive from $'-!." to $35. be a id $40 per month. Second, that the .Southern road recognize the Order of lUiilwav Telegraph Opera tors; and third, that oXTators he paid for extra work. FEW MUX IX STRIKE. Xorfolk. Va.. April 13. Onlv; fifty one. telegraphers, out of the entire Southern Kailroad system went out on the strike. These were: iMioxville Division. 14.. . Charlotte Division, i. Auheville Division, o. Atlanta Division. 10. lfichmond Division, J. . Himiinghnui Division, 0. Maeon Division, J. Chattanooga reports, representing the operators, sav that nearly all the telegrapher of the Southern Itailway will fro out. The railroad officials' sav onlv ten per cent, of the Knoxville Division are on the strike. , SECY. PORTER RESIGNS. Washington, April l.t. John Addi soi l'orter, Secretary to ('resident McKinlcy, has resigned. Ill health is given as the cause. George II. ( or telyou, for some time assistant secre tary, is appointed as his successor. HKIiOIC SACIill'H K. New ork. April lo. - A tenement house on t liutoii street was burned this morning, 'lailor Hvman Heller was burned fatally, finding the tire very hot, he placed himself between the flames and his wife and children. ANDREWS REFUSES. Lincoln. April i.t. Ii-. I'., I'.cn iiiinni Andrews will, on .Saturday, notify the lfegents that he cannot accept the po sition of chancellor of the I niversitv of Xebraska, to which he was elected last ednesdnv. lie has received as surances that his tenure of oftiee as Superintendent of the. I'ublie Schools of ( hicago will not be disl urhed. While grateful to the Nebraska lie gents he prefers to remain where he now is. FAIR KASTKI! SI NDAY. 'J he official weather bulletin pre dicts for Italeigh and vicinity: Fair weather, cooler tonight: fair Saturday and Kuster Suiuluy. The barometer is still low on the middle and north Atlantic coast, siml over the Lake region. Itnins occurred 'throughout the eastern stales in small amounts, and snow is still fall ing at Marquette and Cleveland. The weather is generally fair and cool throughout the southern, central, and western districts. Heavy frost was reported at A t Ian t fa and light frosts at Macon and Meridian. The temper ature is still a few degrees below freezing in the extreme northwest. CHINESE COMING. San Francisco. April i:i. The Daily ( alls says lhat thousands of Chinese are passing the barriers of the custom house anil arc not on! being lauded, but are accepted as native eiliens o California, and each will vote and have tpmrlflcfttioia to participate in the Mditical affairs of this city and State. It is asserted thai in the past thirty four months ten thousand Chinese have been lauded, a hundred of whom are admitted each month on the ground that they were born ill this State. (iOOl) l-'IMDAY. New York. April Li. -Hood Friday is well ohscrw'd. Many business bouses are closed. All echang"cs an closed. KENTUCKY'S GOVERNOR. Louisville, April 111. Indictments against (iovernor Inylor and Senator Delloe are said to have been found by the grand jury, also other presenta tion of officials will be presented tomorrow. THF. SfMNF.i:. (iibraltar, April Ki. fnitcd States tran.sMrt "Sumner" arrived here to day and will sail for Malta tomorrow. The extra chairs that were used by the Democratic Convention were loan ed by the Sunday school of the Church of the (iood Shepherd and were hauled to and fro from the Academy of Mus ic by Messrs. Crowder and ltnnd and Wyatt Itrothers without charge. 'A GOOD GAME TOMORROW Ladies Will be Charged Admission But Numbers will Attend. I .oven of out -door sport will be given an opportunity tomorrow to see what promises to be the best exhibi tion of ball playing that will be given in Kiileigh this season. The A. and M. liaseball team will cross bats with the team from Lehigh I'niversity. The game will be called alxmt four o'clock in the afternoon, and at that time the farmer boys hope to see a large aggregation of linleighites on the grounds. Ladies will not be ad Biitted five, but the boys hope this will not keep away any of those who were in the large crowd in attendance on the recent, games when ladies were admitted without charge. The A. and l. team is in excellent condition and the team from Pennsyl vania is one of the lies! that comes South this vejir from Northern ttuiver sities. It is to be hoped that the crowd will turn out.- ami that the greatest game of the year between '1 ar Heels and the (Junkers will result in favor of the Carolinians. Senators Allen, of .Nebraska, and l'ettlgrew. of South Dakota, will Hpeak here iie.xt Tuesday night, on the eve of the, Populist State conven tion, ; I i ROBERTS KEEPS GOOD FRIDAY i Operations in South Africa Seems Suspended BOER LOSSES IN RECENT FIGHT HEAVY Boers Have Adopted Plan of Working ' Their Farmi by Night and Fighting by Day. London. April It.- It is calculated that deneral lloberis lias :.'l-l.nnu men effective and twelve llioiisiind or more are under orders afloat. Ill a round-about wnv London hears that deneral ltolicrts. in writing flic I'rince ol Wales at Copenhagen congratula tions, added two or three hopeful sentences. Hrteiiding an earlv ad vance ol Wide reaching combinations. Quite assurances are passed around among the military men thai (icnernl Huberts is employing a great iirntv effectively anil that the liner com manders are likely to be enniesed. lilocinfontein, April IX Corporal Lloyd, who escaped from a convoy of five hundred, was captured lit a drift near the waterworks, lie says that he recognized among the burghers, w ho trapped I lie convoy, many Or ange Free .-it .iters, who had been sell ii.g produce at deneral lioberts camp at Thabanclia. WOIIK AT Nidi IT. Aliwal North. April Kl. -A detach ment of two hundred from liouxville commando are patrolling in this di rection. Many men do work on their farms at night and rejoin i lie detach ment in the morning. Commando numbers seven hundred, large body from llasutos are watching events from I lie border. P.OKI.'S LOST IIKAVII.Y. Aliwal North. April i:!. Ills report ed that Ihe lioers lost heavily in Hie recent righting at W'epcner. There was much weeping among tue women. I'rgent messages for assistance have been scut to the Uouwillc commando. News from the liner source at W'ep cner communicated officially Aiy? four I'.oei- guns were disabled, and the lioer com urn nda in s killed or wounded. Tuesday night the P.ritisli made a sortie capturing a lioer gun nnd taking some prisoners. dOOl) FItlDAY IN AI'UICA. London, April I I. Judging from I In lack of news fro South Africa ii is thought that (iood Friday is being kept there as religiously as if is lu re. Presumably the situation remains on changed. MR?. W. T. STAINBACK DEAD Passed Pecefully Away at Her Residence Before Noon Today Mrs. Annie Stainliaek. wife of Mr. W. T. Stainliaek, of the Ilellcr I'.ros. Shoe Store, who was recently success fully operated upon at l!ex Hospital and' whose condition had dinned to improve since she was removed from the hospital to her home on New hern avenue, died this morning at 11:10 o'clock. Mrs. Stainliaek was born August r'tith. 1 sr. Itefore her marriage slic was Miss Annie Hurt and was raised ill this eily. She leaves a husband, and several children to mourn their loss. The children are Thomas and Frank Stainliaek. two bright curriers of The Times-Visitor: Theodore and Clara and a little baby. Jlrs. Stainblick was a noble Chris tian woman. patient, unselfish and laboring- incessantly for :hosc whom she loved. The funeral services over the re mains of Mrs. Stainliaek will be held tomorrow afternoon Iroin the First baptist church. The hour will be an nounced in the morning papers. Till'. IMDICI LOI S OPTIMIST. There was once a man who smiled I'ecause the dn.v, was bright: Iteeanse he slept at night: Decause (iod gave him sight To gaze uHn his child! Pecanse his little one Could leap and laugh and run, I'ecause the distant sun Smiled on the earth, he smiled. lie smiled because' the sky Was high above his head; I'ecause the rose was red : Jiccausc the past was dead! lie never wondered why The Lord had blundered so Mint all things have to go 'I lie wronir way here below lhat overarching skv. He toiled and still was glad I'ecnuse the air was free: Heeaiise he loved and she 'I hnt-tdiiiined Ins love and he Shared all the ioys thev hud! liecHiise the grasses grew. I'ecause the sweet winds blew. Iteeanse that he could hew And hammer, he was glad. llecnuse he lived he smiled And did not look ahead With bitterness or dread, Ibit nightly sought his bed As calmly as a child; . And people called him mud For always lieing glad. And shook their heads and smiled. 8. E. Kaiser in Chicago Times-ller-old,- MET SUDDEN'DEATH AWAY FROM HOME Mr. Alf Barron Received Sud den Stroke of Paralysis WAS DRIVING ON THE ROAD 10 WAKE FOREST Taken Home by Laborers He Died Soon Almost Immediately Was Well known Here and Had a Son in Town. New s reached Kah igh I Ins inornini; of the sudden death of Mr. All'. I'.ar roni. a highly respected and fairly well-to-do laiiner of P.arlon s ( reck Township, last night, pist after to wns taken home by some laborers from a neighboring plantation. Mr. Ilarroni decided yesterday shortly afternoon that he would go to Wake Forest to at lend to some busi ness. He hitched his horse to, a buggy nnd stalled from hoi biring tin- earlv afternoon, expecting to return :oi soon as he could complete the business that reipurcd Ins presence at Wake Forest. While he was on his way to the town he received a sudden stroke of paralysis and was at once seen to be in a critical condition, lie was taken home in his own vehicle by some la borers from the farm through which he was passing when Ihe stroke came to hjin. It was known from the first that he could not recover and as soon as he reached home lie was uiven all of the attention of his wile and daughters to make his last moment's as comfortable as possible. He passed away lafe in the afternoon. The fun eral' will be held at the old l.arrom place tomorrow morning. Mr. I.arrom was well Known in i,ai-( eigh. lie was a freipicnl visiior to, ihe city and in times gone by his was a familiar figure about the county court house, lie leaves a wife, two daughters and two sone. bm n of thej sons now living in this eil.v. One son , living here is Mr. D. I'arrom. an cm-' ployee al Johnson's Liverv Stables, on Martin street, and the other at , I'.ovd's shop. I Mr. i'.arroin was iiImiui sixty years of age anil was a Confederate veter an. He served ill. the War I'elween , ,11m Slates in a regimen' thai was I composed almost exclusively ol men J I from this section of the Stale. ! !' Al'ST." Fausl will be presented at tin- Aca demy of Music on Faster Monilav night by the Lahmlie Company. The following criticism of the play and Company is taken from the Kokonio Daily Dispatch: "Kokiinio h:is had numerous pi educ tions of Faust, bv Lewis Morison's company aiming others, but play has never been staged with such scru pulous care as by the l.abadie com pany, seen at the opera house last nighl. This does tint relate to a single scene, us in the P.roeken. on which, as a general thing, the skill of the scientific artist and th'e stage ma chinist is concentrate the neglect of other npportiinifies no less import ant . The t.abatlics carry every stitch of scenery used, and every act anil scene is a complete picture. The handling of Ihe lights was also ex cellently managed. ie electric effects being particularly striking. Mr. La bailic's "Mephisfo" hardly follows the conventional lines, but it loses noth ing in art or effectiveness for It is slrong and clean cut. virile out beiiiii- robust ions. Miss Trump. I.nhdie's "Marguerite." lilcasiiig. and in the test scenes. that. with Van was as in the act. she met all requirements. The company is a capable and well balanced one. The Labilities can claim for their Faust that it is a scenic production without doing violence to truth, as is too often the ease." lieserve seats art' now on sale. (JON K TO WAS1IIN0TON. District Attorney C. M. Iieriuird and I'nitetl States Marshall Henry Clay Dockery. left early this morning for Washington, where they will sec some of the l.'epiiblicnu lenders iroin this Slate. dFNFIi.VI. TO(,)N. The Democratic Nominee for Super intendent of Public Instruction, deneral Thomas F. Toon, the nomi nee for Superintendent of Public In struction is being much discussed on the streets and many questions are asked about him. He. was bom in Columbus county, in IS4II. was edu cated at Wake Forest College. gVad ti nted there in 1S1. hut May L'O of lhat year went in the Confederate service iir a private m the twentieth North (arohiiii IJcgiinent. He got a fur lough and returned to the college, where he graduated in June. rcoincd his regiment. He was elected lieu tenant, captain and colonel, by vote of his command, becoming colonel in lsti:t. In isiit. upon the wounding of (ieneral 1!. !. Johnson, at Spottsylva ma. Colonel loon, who was also wounded, refused to leave (he Held and for this was made brigadier geu - end in ISM. He was wounded six bgjou running about in the churches, times, five times seriously, but fought Such movements as Mr. Sheldon's are all the while save when in hospital. on the whole a great injury to the After the war he was for sixteen years cause he wants to help " hi the. raMrond service on t lie Atlantic .Tim I!ov. .1 s Stone of the Mott Coast Line. Then he established a 1 enue ( hiirch. New York, replied to school at Fair lUtiff, and nfterwavds - r. ( nil man in some sharp remarks ttwpht in the ltolesoii Institute. Thisi The conference by a large vote de work he continued until Inst autumn, i cided to memoralizc the (ienernl Con wheii he devoted his whole time to . fereuee to do awav with the five-venr farming, havinir three fiu tns in od-1 ijme ilnjt, for. minister. This- was eration. . lone after considerable discussion. LOCAL BRIEFS Miss Imii.-i Norwood, ol Waviiesvillc. is visiting Miss I. ula llriggs. Mr. l.d. Potter has bimght out Johnsons stables on Marnii street and will run a first class stable lor board there. l-cdcial i'oii.-i will convene nl l-.li-nbctli (ilv next Inesilnv. and the New hern eourl I he week a 1 1 er. JiiiIl''' I lioiuas Ii. Puruclt will preside. Miss Harding left the luorinnc.. cit v this Miss Vnllllg. daucliler ol Mr. J. b. oiing. i-eturiied lo Henderson toilav. Mi-s. I-.. I. hriggs lelt this iiiorni n-j' tor l-Jizabetli ( itv to visit her daugh ter. Mrs. I;. I-. Avillette. -she was ac companied to l-Jizabeth (itv hv hci son. Mr. T. II. llriggs. Mr. lii-iicc While returned ti linton todav. I'rank Mrs. II. ( ). daliis. who has been in haltiinni'c some linic. will return Sun day. She will fie met in Portsmouth Saturday by her husband. Mr. II. O. dattis. ol I his cit v . Mr. K. (iicrschs rcsiaiirant will con tinue t be one of flic most attractive places in the city during tfie spring and summer, just as it has I n in the winter. Ice cream is served al any time in this favorite resort of ladies and gent leiiien. hi ml his new advert isciucnf in fins issue -jivnie prices lor furnishing ereiiin. lit v . John 1 loiii- lass Clinton today. ret 1 1 1-1 d I. Mr l-one and Mrs. deoru'i to New hern. Allen h:m The tiootl Shepherd Chapter No. I of the. I'.rotherhood of Si. Andrew. I have eleetetl Messrs. Watkins Kohards. I Fred Mahler. Win. .1. Andrews and .1. I II. (Irimes.ey delegates to the i'.roth- t-rhood convention which meets in Washington. N. ('.. the r.'Uth. The dat. fixed. in May- probablv has not vet been TO LIFT P.AN ON DANCINl Two Con f'crenrcs Also cil'ie Proh i hi t ion Ai tries and Cards btj Nevv York. April l.- I'hat Spc- linsl Thea- Alllitdled. If the deneral Conference of the Methodist Church adopts the suggestions made yester day by the New York Conference, meeting in this city, and the Nevv York Fast Conference, in session in Danhiiry. Conn., members of the sect may danet-. plnv cards or go to the theatre without breaking anv it the prescribed rules of conduct. This does, not mean, that these worldly pleasures are approved of by Methodists, hut the proposition is made to revise the I'ook of Discipline so lhat the amiiseineui s frovv ucil up on hv the church will not be spceilied. This is the New York ( oiil'erenee resoliii ion int i-oilut-etl by the Ucv . A. 'Hippie, of St. James' Church, thi city : "That provided the eoiimiiilec i.n the constitution of the church shall decide thai paragraph :.'s nl the Dis cipline is const it ill itniiil. the (ieneral Conference be mciiiorii liet I to omit from paragraph -Jfs the incomplete catalogue of prohibited amusements, ami lo substitute for the omillcd cubist's the following- paragraph in tl hiipter of Special ilviee Chris tian Conduct :' "The command to follow Christ U an appeal to the humblest Christian I living. We are no longer free lo fol low our own inclinations, havine; he- come servants to do the will of (ioil. J "Wo arc lo please One who is our ! Master, even Christ. In all Ihings. i even in our recrenl ions and our pleas- lires. we a re to do all unto the glor.v I of dud. It is therefore urged I hut ! all members of our churches shall I redeeiiit he tine-, makine wise use of i the time which (mil has committed to the keeping- of every tiinn. to grow 1 in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ: that llicy be not lovers of pleasure more than of dod: i that they abstain from all such di . versions as cannot he used in the ; name of the Lord Jesus (see the den : era I llnlt-s. chapter :.l: that thev avoid the very appearance of evil, ami that if in niivlhing caitscth offense, they will denv themselves, for the I sake of their weaker brethren'." I At the Danhiiry Con Terence Prof. I ii'iee. of Weslevnn I'niversity. intro- tlueetl a similar rcsolutem ami spoke i very plainly. He said: "The atteinpr to legislate evil out of the Methodist Church has proved : an evil in itself worse even tiiau that which it tries to prohibit. Personally 1 am opposed to card-playing, theatro- going and dancing, but I think it is , ii sad mistake to have such explicit I clause in the Hook of Discipline." I After a lively discussion the New York Conference voted bv a large ma ; jority to strike out of the report of I the committee on periodicals deroga tory references to the Ucv. Mr. Shel don's paper and to the l!ev. Dr. Mac Arthur's work as a religious editor of a local nevvsnnper. A member of the conference saitl he doubted the propriety ol reference to the l!ev. Mr. Sheldon. Ihe Key. James M. lung, dclcgatc-clccl to the (ieneral ( oiilercncc. said: "It is an awful mistake for anv man to edit a daily n, u:, paper or :inv other paper, assuming to know what Jesus ( lirlst would do. I think that it ts nothing less than blasphemy. ' 'Ihe I'ev. S. P. (adman, of the Me tropolitan Icm pic. said: "There is nl ( toirethcr too much of this kind of RALEIGH MAN CRUELLY JILTED Mr. Biitr. Waits in Vain for His Betroth -d WEDDING SUPPER REMAINS UNTOUCHED Mrs. Parker Gave Mr. Brill the Slip and Carried His Gold Watcb and $100. With Her Fears and Un known: Riva. (Dm hum Herald. I Micro was a wedding- scheduled lo lake place on Angicr avenue, ileal llie. ( onimoiivv call h cotton null last niuht. but it ditl not materialize. It was through no fault ol the would-be bridegroom that I lie cere mony whs not iM-rtoruied. It was not a ease of where he laded to show up anil lelt a broken hearted brulc-to-be. wondering what had become of her lover. In tins case the woiild-be-biide. who was a blushing widow id summers nnd an ctpial number ol Wlllicrs. sliM-d oil mill 1,-it 1i-i ,,4 year old sweet heart a sadder bu by far a wiser mail. The parties to this romantic love affair are d. W. I'.ritt, of Italeigh. and Mrs. C. N. Parker, who lives on Angicr avenue. Invitations were senl out yesterday announcing the wedding- to take place Jit (I o'clock last night at the home of Mrs. Parker. Itefore the hour named Mr. Ilritt. who bud dyed his chin whiskers a I t-: 1 1 1 1 iii I black and donned his Sun day best, went to the home the wo man' who. he thought, was soon to lie his wife. His heart beat like that of a school hoy who is about to declare his love to some blushing maiden. He went in ami found that the guests had already begun to arrive. Soon afterward the preacher came ami i o'clock was not far off. He became more nervous but the bride came not. and be hegitn to get impatient, fin ally he inquired of her whereabouts mid found that she was nowhere about the premises. dradually it dawned upon him that he had beer "fooled" and he said; down and wept. A supper had been prepared, (with money furnished by Mr. I'.ritt) and the guests sat down and ate of what was intended as n wedding supner. but. which hud proved to be far from one. Alter this they began to depart for their homes and ihe broken-hearted old mini came up the street inquiring- if any one had seen his Nancy. Mr. I'.ritt spent the night, or a pail of it. in the waiting room of the Soul hern depot. About I o'clock this morning ihe reporter had a talk with him and be told of how the whole matter occurred, and wound up by -iivine' he did no! want it to go in the papers. lie said thai le- received a note from Mrs. Parivcr ami in response to lhat note came up from Ualeigh yes terday ni'.i-iiiiig- ami went to her home. The two went into the parlor and she asked him what about get ting married. He saiil thai he told Iter he was ready, willing ami vvail ing. Then she said she wanted to get iiiarrictl but had no money w ith which i-p "fix" up. lie asked her how much she needed and she told tit 111 10(1, which he took from his pocket and gave her. lie then gave one of her daughters .-I wilb which to buy cukes. etc. lie saitl that he later came up the si rect ami sent her a gold vviilch as a bridal present. In the loe.-ititinic the services of a Mr. durley had been called into use. who secured the license ami wrote teh invitations, lie Ihouglil all was well until he wenl after his bride and found that she had flown. Mr. I'.ritt saitl this morning that he though! it was a deliberate and prc concocteil plan on her part til get his money, ami he intimated that lit in tended to sta.v in Durham and see the matter tint. As to Mrs. Parker lie said he had no idea as lo her whereabout? but was afraid she had gone otf and mar ried senile other man. WHY Till', l'N(i A( ! I-.MKNT WAS DKOKKX. I'roin the Chicago Post. "So voiir engagement is broken'.'" saitl l he g'irl in gray. "Yes." saitl the girl in brown, frowning at the recollection. S "What was the innlter?" "lie basely deceived me." answered the girl ill brown. "You see. it was this way: I asked him one day to promise ine that he never ug-uin would smoke cigarettes, anil he promised. Then I asked him to refrain from the use of tobacco in any form, and he promised to do that. Later 1 told him I had a horror of any one who touched liquor, anil lie agreed never to to neh it. After lhat I suggest ed that I thought clubs should exneet linn It. "ie 1 1ii-iii up. and he said he won bl . I also look up the subeet of gambling, and mailt- linn promise that he would stop plnvmg poker and buy mi: pools on Ihe races." Well, vnu duln t demand anything of linn, did you .' said the girl in . gray. I suppose he deceived yon ill the matter.' "He did." ' Hroke ins promise, did he? ' ' Oh. no; I could have forgiven that. Hut pist when 1 was congratulating myself that 1 at least had reformed one young man I found that he duln -need any reforming. He wasn't ad dicted to a single one of the habits I made him promise to break. It was a -terrible shock Ami 1 broke the en gagement npht away. There was no longer nnvthmg in it to make it In- f teresting-,"
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