6 "TIRED OUT." Wan was dead there—with his eyes Sturin' starward, at cold skies. Hands there, crossed upon his breast. Thankful tor the gift of rest. Dead there—never any doubt; Left this message: "Tired out:" "Tired out!"— Life's weary ways- Solemn nights, and h pelesa iTnys; Kyes the mists of grief made dim — Thorns that pierced the feet of him. Cry of fallen—victor s shout — All are ended: "Tired out!" Let him rest—blind to the sun. And earth's sorrows: I.ife is done— And a voice sings, after strife: "Death Is kinder far than l.Sfe! On a curtained couch of sod. Tired out, we dream of God!" Sleep. O, traveler of the years. Far from terror and from tears! In that sleep's supreme control. Dream the toiler had a soul! Dead there—done with faith and doubt. With this message; "Tired out!'' —F. I_. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A DAUGHTER'S SACRIFICE Byr MARCEL PREVOST \\f E WEKE talking one evening yy over our cigard anil coffee in Arm and G 's beautiful library, alter a dinner that was perfectly planned to stimulate the minds of men who live by their brain and pen. We spoke of woman's invasion iu the field of contemporary literature. The name of "authoress" is legion in the English language. Out of every j three novels from across the Channel or the wider ocean two are signed by a feminine name. And the custom is spreading in France. V , a surly protectionist in all i matters of art, detested the feminine j p^riy. "Not a single one of them has shown talent superior to the least of us," he 1 growled, "and they exceed the biggest ! of us in envy and vanity. I keep away from petticoats as 1 would a raging lire." "Upon my word, I must have been l.iore lucky than you in my meeting of j the fair writers," exclaimed our host, j "I have the most cordial relations with certain literary petticoats. And just j recently I was forced to make a com- j parison between one of my brother au thors and his opponent which was en tirely to the advantage of Miss Petti coats." Wo immediately demanded the story: "Willingly," he replied. "It is in structive and interesting. A scholar would even say that it was a good con tribution to the chronicle of literary feminism. I will begin at once. "Like all the rest of you, I received a good many letters from strangers. Many are mere waste paper, some abu sive, and by far the greater number ask for help in influence or money. "These last I never read without a twitch at my heartstrings. In the face of the paper dated from some country town or eccentric corner of Faris 1 im agine 1 can read such anxiety an<) dis tress as 1 once felt, a struggling writer without genius or fortune. "Why should 1 have succeeded where so many fail? I know well that cer tain professional beggars write in turn to every author. Ido not care. I an swer each letter as it comes, if only to say that 1 am poweiiess to help. "Toward the end of last year I re ceived a letter signed by a name I did not know: Jean Seguin. He had writ ten a novel; he wished to submit it j to me, and, if i was pleased with it, | would I help him to find a paper and an editor? "I answered: 'Send me your manu script.' For if the reading of strange ' manuscripts is one of our most tire- | some duties, 1 hold that it is one of the most imperious. "I did not have long to wait. It was | a large manuscript, finely written, in ' a feminine hand which did not seem \ to me that of a professional copyist. "I opened it without enthusiasm—it is so rare a surprise to discover any thing beyond an eager ignorance, or at the most a certain clever imitation. I read the first pages wearily; they were heavy and embarrassed. "Later, a situation was sketched in a curiously handled environment. Evi dently it was a woman's own history, with real letters and incidents that had happened. "I became so interested that I fin ished the entire manuscript at a sin gle sitting. It was at night, I remem ber, and the clock pointeil to ten min utes past two when at last I looked up. ' Irt the joy of my discovery. I sat ! down and wrote immediately to the author, congratulating him and beg ging him to come to see me. I told him he might hope for much. "Two days later, in the morning, my faithful Constant handed me a card: "Jean Seguin. 9 rue Renouard." " 'The lady says that she has an en gagement with you, sir.' "I had guessed aright; Jean Seguin ! was a woman. "She was introduced. I saw a 'lady ! of about 25, dressed in black, with ir- ! regular features, but of a charming I freshness, her face surrounded by ' bands of chestnut hair that wared nat- ' orally. The mouth, rather large, was > smiling; the nose was characterless, j but the brown eyes, which looked j straight into mine, were deep and in- I telligcnt. " 'You are the author of"The Mor tal Test," mademoiselle?' I asked. " 'Yes. sir.' " "Good. I do not like the title you have chosen, but the work is full ol merit. I am surprised thai so young a woman should have written en well at the stirt.' * 'I hay® worked for a long time. monsieur,' she replied s!mpl>. "Fearlessly, ana even with a cer tain pride, she told me that she hud j been a schoolmistress, but had always loved literature, and lrom the time | she was a little girl had amused hor- ! self writing stories. " 'My uncle, a professor in a pro- j vincial school, lias written many books on education,' bhe went on, 'and my father, too, has written —' " 'Ah, your father?' " 'lt was some time ago. He doe 3 not write any more now.' "She changed the subject quickly and naturally. 1 did not insist. "Presently she seemed more at ease and talked readily of her plans for the future. She was not ignorant of the difficulties of literary life; rather, she exaggerated them. "She pleased me. She was capable of the greatest enthusiasm, but was without the slightest trace of envy or bitterness. "We parted warm friends. She took her manuscript with her, for she wished to make a few changes. The very next day I set about finding an editor for her work. "It was easier than I had hoped. The first review to which I wrote needed | a shorter novel to bring in between two long ones. The editor, happy over his coming promotion in the Legion of Honor, interrupted me at once: 'I accept anything on your recom mendation, old man. Bring on your George Sand.' "1 hastened to send the good news to Jean Seguin, begging her to send me the novel at once, as the review was waiting for it To my keen sur j prise, the young girl did not come to my office, nor did she send me any re ply. The days passed. 1 wrote again. Then I received the following tele gram: "Pardon me. monsieur, but pray for i get about my book. My father is very | sick just now and I cannot leave him for a moment.' i "More than a moment passed. The ; editor of the review found another novel, and 1 must confess 1 had almost forgotten jean Seguin, when one morn ing Constant brought me her card. "The young girl entered, shook | hands and sat down. There before me ( was still the same face, kind and in- j J teiligent, but worn, almost lined, with j | weariness and sorrow. She smiled j j sadly. 'My father has heart trouble,' she explained, 'and these attacks are al ways terrible. But, for the present, he is out of danger.' " 'And "The Mortal Test?" Have you brought me nothing?' "She looked me straight into my eyes, bit her lips with amusing hesi tation and then, as I repeated my question, she suddenly burst into a Hood of tears. She sobbed, gasping out the words: 'lt is finished—l—l—l can—never publish it!' "At last, when she grew calmer, shs wiped her eyes and said: " 'Forgive me, monsieur—l have been foolish to give way so—but you have been so kind —I owe you an ex planation. I should not like you to think me a fool. Only I ask silence on your part. My real name is Georgette L .' "She told me a name that you would all recognize, the name of a man fa- ! mous in our fathers' time. Bitterly j jealous, he had quarreled with the other members of his sect and since • then he had lived, solitary and lonely, i with his daughter, or rather she had supported him. "The thin, yellow face, the rasping I voice of this wretched man rose be : fore me as I listened to the voice of his daughter. She explained why I had not received 'The Mortal Test' and j why her novel would never be pub- j I lished. "Her father, spiteful in his home, as J among his confreres, had always - mocked the idea of his daughter ever ; writing. But, overcome with joy at | the good news I sent her, Georgette j : had rashly told the story of her success to her father. " 'I thought he would suffocate on j the spot,' she said, simply. 'He fell I back in his chair, tearing the collar I of his shirt. For several moments he | could not speak. " 'When at length he found his voice j he buried me beneath the horror of his wrath, accusing me of bribing the edi- | tor and yourself, monsieur! Then came fresh suffocation and for a week his life was in the greatest danger. " 'Then I arranged with the doctor, ; who is one of his old friends and I knows him well, a story of how my I hopes had been dashed and the editor j of the Review no longer wanted my i manuscript. Papa saw that I was heartbroken; it did him good. He grew slowly better. " 'Now he is all right, only he stis- j pects me. He has locked up my manu- j scripts of"The Mortal Test," and he j watches me closely whenever he sees j a pen in my hand.' " 'But what will you do?' I asked i j her I " 'What is there left for me? I shall ! I remrcn a schoolmistress.' j "And two big tears rolled slowly J \ down her cheeks. At her very start | | she had met the bitterest enemy of ; woman writers in all Paris—her | father!" —From the French, in N. Y. j ! Sun. Naming the Czars. It has been a tradition since the time !of Nicholas I.to name the czarowitzes i alternately Alexander and Nicholas, ; says the New York Tribune. But the ! murder of Alexander 11. caused his j name to be considered unlucky, so there will be no more Alexanders on the Rus sian throne, as there will be no mora Pauls or Peters. The czarowitz was therefore named Alexis, after the fa ; ther of Peter the Great. He was a pow> \ erlul and successful ruitr. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1504. Who is Your Clothier? If it's R. BEGER & CO,, you are getting the right kind of merchandise. There is no small or grand decep tion practiced in their Btore. 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Mukden, Nov. IC.—An unbroken cannonade of siege guns, throwing 50 or 60 shells hourly against the Japa nese position in the region of Shakho station, begun early Monday morning ended only at nightfall, when more than half a thousand big shells had been thrown into the Japanese army's strongest position in the plain. Che Foo, Nov. 1G. —A Russian tor pedo boat destroyer has entered the harbor. She has not been communi cated with yet, owing to the roughness of the sea. It is reported that a Jap anese torpedo boat destroyer has been seen outside, watch'ng the movements of the Russian vessel. o—o —o RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT BLOWN UP. The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Rastoropny has been blown up by her commander in the harbor of Che Foo, after having eluded the blockade of Port .Arthur and succeeded in filing dispatches from Gen. Stoessei to St. Petersburg. It is presumed that she was destroyed in order to prevent the Japanese from cutting her out as they did the Ryeshitelni. 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IS.—lt is reported j | that 30,000 Japanese troops have been landed at New Chwang and 30,000 oth ers at Pitsewo and that a turning ! movement on the Russian right is ex- ! pected. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18.—As a re i suit of the dispatch received from Gen. Stoessei, the war office expresses entire confidence that Port Arthur will be able to hold out till the arrival of the Russian second Pacific squadron. Gen. Stoessei in his dispatches to Emperor Nicholas reports the repulse of a Japanese attack October 2(5 on the north front of Port Arthur. The Rus- j sian losses were 4SO killed or wound- i j ed. All the attacks on November I! j i were repulsed. Gen. Stoessei was slightly wounded in the head during one of the latest assaults on Port Arthur. Gen. Kuropatkin reports that in an ambuscade November 15 near Sin | chinpu 32 Japanese dragoons were I killed or wounded. 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