VOL XXX
Jennie E. Zimmerman.
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You are cordially invited to call and in
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JENNIE E. ZIMMERMAN,
(Successor to Rittc-r & Ralston.)
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every Saturday during the Winter Season. Commencing Saturday,
Nov. 4th. J. E. Z.
DOIsT'T YOU THINK
You had better be getting your
WINTER FOOTWEAR?,
The boys and girls are now going to school. The cold, wet
weather is here, and they must have boots and shoes that will posi
tively keep their feet dry and warm.
SHODDY GOODS WON'T DO IT,
No one can afford to have cold, wet feet. It costs too much to
settle THE DOCTOR'S BILL. It's penny wise and pound foolish.
HUSELTON
keep* the kind of Footwear 70a are looking for, both in quality and price, and what be
tolla, von can rely on ia right.
READ A FEW PRICES:
Men'* Kip Boot*, tap tole box-t s3.oo and .J3.50
lleo'a Kip Boota. *ole leather counter 250 and 2.75
Hen'a Heavy Bootn, prime 1.40 and 2.00
Men's He**/ Shoe* 70 and 1.00
Men'i Fine Hbom, Con')?, and Bah 95 and l«j
Boys' Extra Prime Kip BooU 1.75 and 2.00
Boya' Extra Heavy BooU 1.25 and 1.50
Boys' Heavy Bhoe* 75 and 1.00
Boya* Fine Shoe*, button and lace 1.00 aod 125
Boya' Extra High t'ut Tap Sole Shoe* 1.75 and 2.00
Women'* Fine Shoe*, button 86c , l.ro and 126
Women'* Extra Oil G-a n Hattoo Shoes 1.00 and 1.25
Women's Extra Oil Grain Lace Shoe* 1.00 and 1.2"
Women's V«*l Kip Lace Shoe* 75 aud 1.00
Women'* Kiu Shoea, uniined SIOO, 1.25 and 1.50
Mlaaea' Good Heavy Shoea 75 and 1.00
Misses Fine I Kid Button 75
Mi we* Fine DonfcoU Button, Pat. Kip 1.00
Women'* and WimwV Kip and Calf Shoea a specialty.
Womcu'i Warm Flannel Lined Shoea 75 and 1.00
Women's Warm Flannel Lined Slipper* 50
WE LEAD IN RUBBER GOODS!
Men's Firat Qualitv Rubber Boota 2.40
Boy a' Rubber Boota 1.75 find 200
Ladies' Rubber*
Ladies, Fine Goaaamer Rubber* 35 and 45
Children'* and Mime*' Robber* 25 and 3 r
Men'* and Women'* Piccadilla Rubber* for Narrow loe shoe*
Men'a Hip and Knee Boota, all atylea, in Alaska* and Buckle Arctic*
Men'* Felt Boota and Rublx-r* 2.00
Boya' Felt Boota and Rubbers 1.85
I haven't had time to count the unraber of pair* I have in all the*e good*, but I will
Mr I have .wice a* many a* any other boase io Butler, and better g>>>d4 in I lower price <
We don't carry onr stock in the newspaper. Come aod sea m.
B. C. HUSELTON.
Ho. 102 North Main Street - Butler, Fa.
FALL OPENING
OF FINE^
FURNITURE
AND
QUEENSWARE,
X atock superior to anything we have previously shown, and at prices tbat will
terrst shrewd buyer*.
Gold Chairs.
Nothing prettier for your Parlor than one of thene Chair* A fine
assortment to select from
Onyx Stands.
Exclusive Style* in then* goods, and the prices will please you
Lamps.
In Bran*, Dresden China and Clam. Onis of those will improve
the appearance of any Parlor.
Decorated China,
111 all the fine ware*, Mich a* Royal Worcester, Tepletz, Doleton
Royal Dresden, Royal Bonn, Ac., £O.
Plain White China.
Nothing more taeiiutifal for a Present 1 linn a piece of ibi* waro,
nicely decorated.
Decorated Dinner Sets.
Miny New Pattern* aud a large an.-ortment at Popular Prices!
Brass and Iron Beds.
When yon want to improvo the appearance of yonr Bed-room bny
one of these Bed*.
BED ROOM SUITS, BOOK CASES, CURTAIN POLES.
PARLOR BUITB, WINDOW SHAPES,
BIDE BOARDS, CURTAINS, STOVES AND TINWARE.
CARPETS.
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[Copyright. 1593. by A. N. KeMofcfc Newspa^^o
CHAPTER VIL
A MTwritrocs rtra
The manner and of Mr.
Dorion did but increase my anxiety to
hear all that he cotild tell about my
strangle benefactor. To overcome his
reluctance. I gave him the story of my
life as it has been set forth in the pre
vious chapters, dwelling much upon
the deep impression that Mr. Bostock's
liberality and his interest in me had
produced, how for years I had cher
ished the hope of joining' him here,
the difficulties I had overcome to do so,
and my present deep disappointment.
My account evidently touched the
listener.
"I see I must tell you what I know.
.You have a plain right to be told. The
whole story has grown into the most
disagreeable recollection of my life,
and with any ordinary inquirer I
should ignore the whole business. And
if j-ouwill hear it, you must be warned,
at the start, that it will furnish what
I should think will be good reasons
why you should now abandon your
search for Pierce Bostock. Shall Igo
on?"
"By all means."
I will put the narrative in his own
language, as nearly as possible.
My acquaintance with Bostock be
gan about the year 1841, when he
came up here from Louisiana to look
for a cotton plantation that would
suit him. The account that he gave of
himself was, I have no doubt, strictly
true. He had been raising sugar al
most all his life in La Fourche district
of Louisiana, and he desired a change.
He proposed to keep his great planta
tion there under the charge of a
competent overseer, aq<l to live here,
ne must be immensely wealthy; for
seeing and liking this plantation he
paid cash for it. If you'll look over it
with me in the morning, you can
oasily make up your mind that it re
quired a fortune to do that.
He removed here that September,
brinpinp some of his house servants.
He had two children —an infant in its
nurse's arms, littlo Coralie, of whom
you will presently hear more; and a
son, Conrad, then fifteen years old.
He never said much about his wife.
In fact, he never named her of his own
accord; to those who thought they
had the right to ask questions, he in
variably replied that she was Parisian
born, and could not live away from
Paris, even with her husband and
children. All understood from this
that it was a case where husband and
wife had "agreed to disagree."
1 never could see that any one of the
numerous slave women that were
about this house in those days occu
pied the position of housekeeper. There
were two or three of them who were
quite capable of it; but Bostock was
accustomed to get along in an easy, in
dulgent way, without anyone to look
sharply after the household affairs.
Ho there was waste, extravagance and
confusion, as there always will be
where there is an indulgent m#>ter,
and no white woman to hold the rein
over a lot of idle, shiftless darkies.
The boy Conrad I liad better dispose
of at once. It has been many years
since I saw him. I certainly never
want to sec him again. He was a
wild, undutiful fellow, and in con
tinual difliculty with his father.
When he was twenty he disappeared.
I presume that Mr. Bostock knew
where he went; but he never men
tioned him and nobody cared to know.
If there could be such a tiling as a
born gambler, I should say that Conrad
THK WARimVK.
Bostock was one. When but sixteen
he woulil go to Vlcksburg and spend
days and nights there, in the lowest
resorts along the river. He never
seemed to mo to btand in tho least awe
of his father, but Mr. Bostock always
appeared uacaay when ho was about.
AVhen ho went away there was a rumor
that he received a large sum of money
from his father upon condition that
ho should never return. This may
have been mere rumor; I only know
that the people about here never did '
see him again, anil that I, knowing as
much as anybody of the family in those
days, never saw tho least sign of af
fection between father and son.
To a person who had never seen
l'ierco Bostock, all this would natural
ly convey an unfavorable impression.
It would be said that there seemed to
be something unexplained, and that
tho man's life could not have been
what it ought to have been. To you,
who saw him at the time that every
body was charmed ami captivated by
him, I ran say that we hardly be-
Btowed a thought on these things. Tho
man made friends witli everybody.
This house was Goodfellow's hall to
the men; if the ladies could not como
hero because thcro was no Mrs. lios
tock, nor even a housekeeper, they
nevertheless spoko of its master as
the most gallant and men.
Especially was thia so after he had got
rid of his scapegrace son. There
seemed then to bo not a cloud in his
sky. Ho was cheerful, even hilarious,
tho idol of Ills friends, owning the
finest cotton lands in middle Mifsit
t ippl. You have heard something of
southern hospitality; you should have
seen fur yourself how it was dispensed
here in the days of Pierce llo' toek.
Ye' I have not R'T tried t'l" « hi«-f SOUK •
of »1, mi!i. ' ..-.pin.- I' vas hi
She was atwjut fifteen when I last
saw her; she must be in the vicinity of
eighteen now.
My young friend, you'll agree that I
ain rather too old a man to fro into any
raptures about female beauty. You
saw my wife and daughters; they aro
good enough for me; they are my mod
els among women. Yet I must say
that Coraiio Bostock, when 1 last saw
her, war, the finest girl that I ever laid
eyes on; and I suppose that she is to
day the most beautiful one at the south.
There aro not many pure nativo
blonde-, among us; she is one. But her
hair, her eyes, her eyebrows and long
lashes are dark as midnight.
She was slender, but not petite, in
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HT T TLTCR. FA.,FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1893.
her laugh was more musical than tho
song of the mocking bird. Her man
ners were winning anil gracious, even
from a little girl.
She seemed the very apple of her
father's eye. At one time he took her
down to New Orleans, and left her
with the Sisters of the .Sacred Heart to
be educated. But ho could not do
without her. In less than a month he
had brought her home, and from that
time he had her teachers here in the
house half the year. She learned
quickly; music and the languages
seemed to come to her like a second
nature. And never did child more
warmly reciprocate a parent's lavish
affection than did Coralie that of her
father.
Time passed on, and that fatal April
of 1853 came round.
Bostock had issued invitations fpr a
gentleman's dinner party. I was in
vited, of course. Alphonse Basnet, a
Frenchman owning the plantation
adjoining the one I then occupied,
called on me in the morning, and
asked me if I should attend Bostock's
party.
I told him that I should.
"Well," he said, "I want your ad
vice. lam asked, too. A countryman
of mine, Castex by name, who has
lived in Louisiana, and more lately in
Arba, arrived at my place yesterday.
When I told him of my invitation
he became greatly interested and asked
me to take him along."
"Take him, then. That, I believe,
is one of the usages of society tho
world over."
"Yes, to be sure; but Castex leads
me to think that he has known our
host before. He has asked me fifty
questions about him. He seems much
more interested than he naturally
would be, growing out of any ordinary
acquaintance in past years. I must
take him, of course. What I want you
to advise me about is: Shall I go over
and speak to Mr. Bostock this morning
about him?"
I was on the point of advising Al
phonse to do so, by all means, as I cer
tainly should have done had Castex
been my visitor. I have often thought,
that, had I obeyed my impulse, the
bloody combat that has been described
to you might have been avoided. Then
came the reluctance to interfere in a
matter of other men's social responsi
bilities, and I declined to advise him.
Alphonse returned home, and his guest
accompanied him to the dinner-party
unheralded.
It so happened that these two arrived
last. With them there were thirteen
in the parlors, tho host making the
fourteenth. All who had been invited
were present, save one; and I remem
ber "iat as Mr. Castex was presented
to the company, there was much re
mark and jest about our good luck In
hnving him there, so as to avoid the
awkward thirteen at the table.
When he was introduced to the host,
a different scene occurred. Mr. Bos
tock started, changed color, withdrew
his proffered hand and made a slight
bew instead. Castex smiled, bowed,
and turned away. In my eyes bo had
a most disagreeable face, and the smile
was very nearly a sneer.
It was an awkward incident, and
threw a chill over the party at the
start; for everybody observed it. Still,
there was no outbreak just then. Din
ner was soon announced, and Mr. Bos
tock led the way to tho hall.
Tho host was at the head of tho
table, of course; I happened to be at
the foot. Next on the right of the
head was a doctor; next sat Basnet, his
friend beside him.
The soup had but just been served
when Coralie, then but twelve years
old, came to an open door and stood an
instant. She evidently desired to speak
to her father, but, seeing that he and
his guests were seated, she went away.
Castex saw her, and stared at her.
Directing the attention of Bostock to
her, he put a question to him in French.
It was answered in the affirmative.
Basnet says that the question was:
"Is that your child, monsieur?"
Then, upon receiving the reply, Cas
tex leaned over the angle of the table
and made a rapid rejoinder also in
French. Basnet distinguished the
words: "Wife," "avenged" and "New
Orleans." More than these nobody un
derstood.
Nobody but tho host. The remark,
whatever it was, was for his ears, and
he heard every word of it. He looked
at Castex—horror, indignation, hate,
were in the look. The attention of
the whole table was fastened upon tho
scene.
"Gentlemen," said Bostock, "some
thing very disagreeable has occurred.
I could pardon much in a man sitting
at my table and eating my salt; but I
say now that cither Napoleon Castex
or I must leave this table. Well know
ing that his presence in my house and
at my board would be idiocyho has
taken advantage of a social license
to force himself upon me. 'I hat I could
endure in silence, out of regard for my
friends, that nothing unseemly might
occur here. But ho is not content with
tbat exhibition of hia malignant heart;
he has just this moment put upon mo
an insult which 1 cannot and will not
tolerate. If I could I know not what
next to expect from him. f repeat it—
either he or I must leave this table."
In the painful silence that succeeded
this startling speech, all eyes were
fixed on Castex. He rose from his seat,
cool and smiling.
"It pi ease a roe very much to retire,"
h«- said. "Witness It, tnossieura'.—yon
der gentleman drives me. from his table
and his house."
He bowed, and immediately left tho
room. Alphonse Basnet squirmed in
his chair, anil at last blurted out:
"Bostock, my dear fellow excuse
me—but you see I can't remain. This
is a wretched business; 1 hope it will
end here. But I brought my friend
here, and of course I must go with
him."
And ho did. Tho soup grew cold,
and was removed untasted; course after
course of tho choicest dishes succeeded
aud were hardly touched. Everybody
was under a dreadful constraint; occa
sionally there was a solitary remark,
but the effort to keep up a conversa
tion was a flat failure. I have said so
much, that I ought to tell tho whole
truth. When tho wine appeared, tho
guests turned to it as a relief from the
awkwardness of the situation. 1 pre
sume everybody drank too much; 1 am
certain that I did. I will except Bos
tock. He sat pale, rigid and silent
through it all. Tho guests departed
early, with hardly an effort to make
the usual compliments to the host.
Tho next morning I was hardly out
of bed when Pierce Bostock walked In.
Ho looked as stem and white as when
he was denouncing ''astex at his own
table.
"Well, li«-'s challenged you," was my
salutation.
"No. I shall challenge him. Here's
the note. 'Jake It to him, and then
go to the man that he names as hla
friend."
I was thunderstruck. I tried to re
monstrate with him. I told him that,
so far as an outsider cotild judge, i<
anybody had cause to send a challenge,
it was Caste x. I begged him to tell
tne, in the strict confidence of friend
ship, what the language was that
Castes had uttered to him. I told him
that I could not act intelligently for
him in this matter, unless I was ad
vised. He peremptorily refused to tell
me.
"You have been my friend, Dorion,"
he said. "When I say to you that no
human being must know my cause of
offense, you will believe that there
the best of reason for my silence. Na
poleon Caste* knows, no man better
knows, the nature of his offense. Ho
knows mt, also; and he understands
that if he were to lisp a hint of my
reasons for challenging him. I would
seek him and shoot him down like a
dog! Don't argue with me, Alfred
Dorion; I tell you the man is a cold
blooded scoundrel; he has sought me
out to force a quarrel upon me, and
there are the best of reasons why the
affair must go on."
There was nothing for me to do but
to deliver the challenge. I found Cas
tex cool, polite and consenting.
"There is not one of my name," he
said, with his marked French accent,
"who ever refused the request of a
gentleman to meet him on the field of
honor. M. Bostock thinks him
self insulted. Some might think that
I was. No matter; here is his chal
lenge. Take it to my dear Alphonse;
he will arrange everything with you.
I only say to you, that my remark to
M. Bostock was the truth. He knows
it to be the truth; and he has not the
grace to sec that I put it in the lan
guage of la-belle France, that others
might not understand it. So much you
may tell him, if you choose."
The affair went on to its frightful
end. Nobody could discover the truth.
Basnet tried his best to make his man
divulge the cause of offense, but in
vain.
"I only told him the truth, and told
it in French, that it might not be
heard by others. After I have fought
him, I will tell it very loudly, in your
harsh English, do you be sure. Mean
while, I am quite willing to fight him.
I knew him long before you did."
The wound that Pierce Bostock re
ceived was as nearly fatal as a wound
can be and leave the victim alive. The
ball traversed his lung; nothing but
the extraordinary skill of tho doctor
saved him. The doctor had served in
the Mexican war, and happened to wit
ness tho successful operation of a
Mexican surgeon upon a similar wound
of Gen. Shields, by cleansing it with a
silk handkerchief. In this way Bos
tock's life was saved; but the fever that
followed confined him to his bed for
weeks, drained his strength, and loft
him only the shadow of his former self.
His affection for his daughter seemed
doubled, if that were possible, by this
dreadful experience. In every waking
hour he wanted her with him. In his
delirium he would call her name; when
conscious, he would hold her hand and
look silently into her face as she sat by
his bed.
I used often to call upon him while
he was confined to the house. One day
he sent Coralio out of the room and
asked mc to shut the door.
"You are still my friend, Alfred
Dorion—arc you not?" lie abruptly be
gan.
"To be sure I am. While I am dread
fully distressed by what has hap
pened—"
"No matter about that. I want you
to tell mc something. What hap
pened after I got that man's bullet? I
think iny senses were wandering.
What did I say?"
I told him. I repeated his expres
sions—that he regretted that he had
killed Castex; that he wanted to spare
him; that he was anxious to hear from
him a retraction of the words which
had caused the duel. His face darkened
as he listened.
"Do you mean to say that I said all
that silly stuff?"
"I have only repeated your own
words."
"Then my brain vat wandering.
Dorion, I meant to kill him. He has
gone to be judged, as I must be one
day; but, I tell you, I am not sorry he
has gone. Ho well knew when he
camo up here with his malignant
tongue that cither his lifo or mine
must be forfeited."
You can imagine what effect such a
declaration had on me. It showed me
a sidoof Bostock's character that I had
never suspected to exist. I began to
DRAW away from him, as did others of
hia friends. *
In less than two years after the duel
ho had alienated himself from all of
us. Ills nature seemed to have
changed. Ho became cold, reserved
and haughty. He was very little seen
away from his home. When ho re
moved to Louisiana, ho passed away
from all intercourse with his old
friends licro. He has answered no let
ters. When I bought this place, I ne
gotiated with him through an agent.
You can sec, knowing all this, that
his life before ho came here was cloud
ed with something fearful and mys
terious. I have wearied my brain in
it can be. Ills wife,
Conrad, Coralie, —which of them does
it affect —or does it relate to all of
them?
If you can guess, you are shrewder
than I.
CHAPTER VIII.
IIETWEE* DUTY AHD TEMPTATION.
I slept very soundly that night. The
experience and revelations of tho last
twenty-fon* hours had been to mo more
f WAS 1.1011TK.11 Mill \ PAIR 0» TAf.f,
WAX cAirm.Ks.
than incomprehensible; they were
staggering. I tried to think about
the astounding story that Mr. Dorion
had told me, after I had bidden
him good nitfht, aod had been lighted
with a pafr of tall wax tapers up
a broad stairway to a large,
square bed-chamber, where a great
high-posted, canopied and curtained
bed awaited me. I say I tried to think
of it; but I could make nothing of it; I
speedily tfavo it up, and lapsed away
into slumber.
Bodily and mentally, 1 was tired,
aud I slept late. 1 was aroused by a
prolonged knocking at my chamber
door, through which ran a continual
current of tiogro-talk.
"Please, young maussa, would you
get up au' come down to breakfast?
Maussa Dorion say, wake yo' up easy;
an' yo' pass out yo' boots to be shlned."
When, au hour later, I was seated at
the planter's hospitable table, it
DSimulJil Vvcu Mt.
here for a year. Mr. Dorion, clad in a
loose linen suit, his wife and three
daughters, all pleasant, cool and at
least one of them handsome, Enter
tained n«e with easy and agreeable
conversation. It warms my heart
now to think of this, my first agree
able introduction to southern hospital
ity. As for the feast tliat was spread
on that board —I despair of conveying
an adequate idea of its profusion. I
was the "stranger within their gates:"
I was therefore entitled to all that
they could set before mc. Coffee, and
milk, bacon, eggs, white and corn
broad, fish from the river, hominy—
where shall I stop? I had an appetite;
but it soon surrendered before the
great supply that loaded the table.
After breakfast, Mr. Dorion took me
out on the shady west veranda, and
smoked. I declined the weed, and he
good-humoredly said:
"You'll have to learn, youngster, if
you're going to stay in the south. Like
the morning cocktail, tobacco is a
social force here. And you've been
here at my plantation fourteen hours
and haven't said a word about politics
or slavery. lam beginning to doubt
whether you are northern born or not."
I saw that he was bantering me, but
I replied, serionsl}-;
"I have never voted yet, and I know
nothing about politics. As to slavery,
I hope to get some information about
it. I have very little yet."
He clapped me heartily on the shoul
der.
"You talk like a sensible young fel
low. I wish all this noise in congress
and in the press could stop, and that
the northerners could come down here,
and see what slavery is like. Come
along with me, and I'll show you a
little of it."
We went back to the negro quarters;
a small street of comfortable white
cabins. As we passed through, the
darkies ran out to see "Ole Maussa."
The young children, with hardly an
apology of cotton clothing to hide
their blackness, laughed and chatted
round him. Withered old crones and
rheumatic "uncles" hobbled to the
doors to see him. Lusty young negroes
and negresses gathered about him,
eagerly discussing the prt«pects of "the
crop."
"Here they are," said Mr. Dorion.
"Something more than a hundred of
them. You see their disposition. All
that are able to work are aching to
get into the cotton field to 'save do
crop.' "
"Would you sell one of these slaves?"
"Sell one of them? Me? Why, I'd
as soon think of selling one of my own
girls."
"Do all planters feel that way?"
"I can't say; likely not. I know of
many who do."
"Is it not true that at the slave
marts in New Orleans and Charleston
young girls are sold on the auction
block, and that mothers are separated
from young children?"
Mr. Dorion answered with some
warmth:
"You said you didn't know anything
about slavery, my boy; your questions
show me that you have read a great
deal about it. I suppose the things
that you speak of do exist; I don't
know; they are just as strange to mo
MR. DORION FAJFNED lIIMBr.I.F WITH HIS
KAT.
as though my lifo had been passed in
Siberia. Here is my south—right here,
among these people who raiso a bale
of cotton to the acre, and care for their
niggerH as no white man at tho north
could be coaxed or driven to do. JWell,
here we are, at tho edge of the cotton
fields. Take a look there!"
I looked, and I saw tho sight that I
had already seen a dozen times at a
distance on my way down the river.
Hundreds of acres bursting into tho
snowy bloom of the cotton; a mimic
snowstorm, with tho contrast of deep
green foliage all about It, and azuro
skies and unclouded sun above it.
The sight was one to remember for a
lifetime.
Under the shade of a broad-armed
oak at tho border of the fields Mr.
Dorion sat down and fanned himself
with his hat.
"See here, my boy," he said, "I've
got something to say to you. I want
to talk to you like a father. Sit down
there and hear me."
I complied.
"When you camo here, last night,
you were no more to me or to my fam
ily than any other traveler from tho
north would bo. You have been with
us but a little while, and, I'm free to
say, you have grown on us. You aro
a lad of sense and spirit; I like you.
My wifo told me this morning that slio
hoped I could keep you hero awhile.
Now, don't you l>e too much flottered,
my lad. My wifo '» a sensible woman;
she knows that tw<*of our daughters
are engaged to be married, and that
the other is likely to be, very soon. I
don't expect any danger from you in
that quarter. But my overseer is get
ting cranky; he is a northern man, and
he don't use the field hands Just as I
would like. Tho Idea has been pass
ing through my mind all night that I
would like to keep you %vith me, and
learn you all about tho plantation and
the hands. Then, In a few months, I
can dismiss the'overseer and put you
in his place. You are northern born;
but I feel as if you would be a suc
cess in that place. What do you say?'
I felt tempted. * hesitated, and
knew not what to say. Then I replied:
"You overpower me with your offer,
Mr. Dorion. If it were not for my duty
to Mr. Bostock —"
He snatched me up Impatiently:
"Your duty to Bostock? Yon owo
him none. Let me warn yon not to
sacrifice your prospect* to a mere sen
timent. The man that you think you
owo some obligation to is a changed,
embittered man. Do not thinl. that
ho will receive you with th® cordiality
that he showed you ten years ago in
your northern home. Ho may not
know you at all. I don't know what
manner of reception he will give you.
Have you thought of this?"
I was silent. Ho was encouraged by
my silence, and went ou:
"And think, for a moment, what you
are exposing yourself to! You aro seek
ing to link your fortunes to those of a
man who has clouded his life. He has
alienated ull tho friends that he mailo
hero. There ia a fearful mystery bung
ing over his pant life. Ido not know —
you do not know-how you may be
come complicated with it. If you persist
in going on. I only say to you—ahun
him!"
I heard his words. I reflected; and
the temptation to heed them grew less
and less. 1 recoiled tho poverty of my
lifo on tb© Nevir Hampablro farm; iny
yearning to bo with him. "When," I
thought,"did he noed friendamore than
now?" I was quickly decided.
"I am grateful, very grateful to you,
M r - X>vd"?i" y "But I must stand
by Mr. Bostce!:."
lie looked hard ut me, and seized ray
hand.
"Yon ore a splendid fellow," he sai«l.
"I am disappointed; but 1 reckon you
are right. "
|TO IX COSTISCED.J
GREATEST OF LIGHTS.
Tho Mighty Senrehor Now in Usa
at Chicago.
Th© R(fl««et4<d Hrxru Out l»j th« Mam
moth Luntcru to Milhoni
('poll .tl ill ion A of
C andlt*?.
To America belongs the honor of con
structing the largest and most power
ful electric search light in the world,
now being set up at the world's fair.
It stands about ten feet .six inches high
to the upper side of the ventilator on
•Ac top of the drum, and the total
jveight is about 6,000 pounds, but so
perfectly is it mounted and balanced
that a child can move it in any di
rection.
The reflecting ler.s mirror used in
this projector is 150 centimeters, or 00
inches in diameter. It is a concave
spherical mirror of the Mangin type,
free from spherical aberration, reflect
ing a sensibly parallel beam of light.
It was manufactured especially for this
projector in Paris, France, and is a
most perfect specimen of optical work,
three und one-fourth inches thick at
the edges and one-sixteenth of an inch
thick at the center, and weighs aliout
SOO poun ls.
The metal ring in which it is mount
ed weighs about "50 pounds, and tho
total lens, ring and cover weigh about
1 600 pounds. This great mirror is
mounted at one end of the big drum,
the outer end of which is furnished
with a door consisting of a metal rim
in which arc fixed a number of plate
glass strips five-sixteenths of an inch
thick by six inches wide. Inside this
drum and sliding upon ways arranged
on the bottom is placed the electric
lamp, the source of the light which is
reflected by the mirror.
It is entirely automatic in its actiou,
is six feet high and weighs about 400
pounds. The carbons used are also
made especially for it. The upper or
positive carbon is one and one-half
inches in diameter and twenty-two
and one-half inches long, with a five
sixteenth of an inch core of soft carbon
running from end to end through its
center. The lower or negative carbon
is one and one-fourth inches in diame
ter. is fifteen inches long und also has
a core of soft carbon running through
its center. In addition its outer sur
face is heavily coated with copper.
The positive carbon is set a little in
front of the negative, and thus almost
all the intense light of the incandes
cent crater is cast upon the reflector.
The maximum cuirent at which this
lamp operates is 200 amperes, and at
this current the lamp has u luminous
intensity of about 90,000 to 100,000 can
diet., the reflected beam a total lumin
ous intensity of about 875,000,000 can
dles, an intensity which the eye cannot
appreciate. In looking at the side of
the lieam the spectator only distin
guishes a stream of light of compara
tively low intensity, but in looking ut
the beam directly its brilliancy is ful
ly seen and the effect is absolutely
blinding. Ventilators at the top and
sides allow a constant current of air
to pass through the drums and dissi
pate the heat generated by the arc
lamp, and they arc so arranged that
no light can escape through tliem
All the connections for adjusting the
positions of the cartons and the lamp
are brought through the drum to the
outside, and are arranged in close
proximity to one another at one side,
so that all may l>e manipulated :>y the
operator without moving from his po
sition. Through openings in the drum
covered by densely colored glass the
opcfltilon of the lamp may be watched
and its adjustments verified.
It was observed that the space with
in the beum was violently agitated,
and closer observation revealed the
fnet that millions of moths anil minute
insects were hoverinif in it, attracted
by the brilliancy of the light. Next
morning bushels of dead moths, beetles,
other insects and some small birds
were swept up from the roof on
which the projector stood. They had
boen killed by the intensity of the
light.
How far the powerful beam of light
of this instrument can l>c seen is dif
ficult to state. The search light set up
on Mount Washington, in the White
mountains, has a diameter of only
thirty inches, and a reflected light
from the mirror of about 100,000 candle
power, yet the newspaper can be read
in its beam ten miles away, and the
light can be seen from jxiints 100 miles
away. Uow much farther then could this
875,000,000 candle power light be seen
in a clear atmosphere, free from
moisture, if the projector could be
mounted upon ail eminence sufficiently
high to clear all obstacles.
Titllori' Dummies,
Wax figures are slowly disappearing
as advertising agencies. The cheap
tailors use figures of wire with heads
of plaster and papier uiache. and the
cheap dentists have taken in some of
their horrible heads with staring eye*
and teeth that were gnashed by ma
chinery. The effect of summer sun on
a few of the wax figures that are still
used in shop windows is ghastly.
There is one figure of a woman whose
ftrin in drooping into a half-circle, and
there is a tailor's dummy whose fore
head is falling into his eyes, giving
him a very malign expression. In a
certain farce comedy a loud laugh Is
raised at an incident in a tailor's shop.
A comedian undertakes to sing "White
Wind's," when one of the dummies that
lias heen standing stiffly against the
wall moves forward with clasped
hands, makes a gesture of agonised en
treaty, and walks off like an autom
aton The singer stops.
A Kindly I'rlnce**.
The princess of Wales is very kind
toiler poor nciglmrs at Sandringham.
A writer in the Idler say* that oftrn
she may be seen picking up the dusty
little dots of children from the roods
placing them in her own carriage un* 11
It is completely packed, and then duly
delivering each at Its own home t<
boast of having enjoyed n ride with
her
Another lilm!.
Old Mr. Tenacres < all them cows!
f never see no cows that looked like
thein. '
Oambosh (who painted them, irrita
bly)— Well, I don't suppose you've
keen all the cows in the world. Bos
ton (Jlobe.
I'prplritng.
He - 1 do not well see how you can bo
a sister to me.
She —And why not, pray?
|| f —Because I can't remember ever
having been spanked on your account,
and you never told any lies for me.
Vogue. _
And It Would liniiilil III'.
"What time have you 7" inquired the
oily pickpocket, approaching the stout
man with the heavy watch chain.
"My own," said the stout man, and
without taking his watch out. < hieago
Record.
lllil Him Injustice.
Old Lady- I heard you swearing just
now. You have a bad heart.
Tramp —You do me injustice. 11i tiro.
It isn't a bad heart; It's a bsd tooth -
N. Y. Weekly.
tMO 50
£ -J •'
P° PS:
THE POULTRY BUSINESS.
Fowls Cannot !Jp Xex-irtrd Without D#y
rrditb; the Income.
The poultry business is enjoying
something of a boom. There is a grow
ing interest in it. People are learning
that it is a source of ready profit and a
bank that can be drawn upon at almost
any time. They arc learning that while
fowls cannot bo neglected and be
profitable, that after all they need no
more attention than they will repay,
and repay well. * They ore learning
that good fowls are just as readily ob
tained and reared as poor ones; that A
hen will lay eggs if she is given any
thing to make egg out of, and is kept
comfortable, and they are more and
more conforming their management to
these ncrr ary conditions. Farmers
are getting better breeds; they arc
building more convenient and mow
comfortable houses, and they are feed
ing more scientifically. Whoever does
those things will be pleased with the
results. The hen, like the cow, must
be kept comfortable, and the rule
shou'd he stated and compliance with
it urged as often as in the case of the
cow Poultry that in summer is per
mitted to roast in a hot poultry house
or run, or is foreed'nearly to freeze iu
■winter, eon do nothing. In summer
time as comfortable a place as eau be
prepared should be prepared for tho
hens. The poultry house in hot
weather, while it affords shade, is like
an oven. In cold weather the house
should be warm. A cold hen will not
lay. Tile farmer has the best chance in
the world to make poultry pay. lie
has a variety of food at hand, wheat,
corn anil vegetables. lie may need to
buy bone.i. Green bones pulverized
are the best, but the purchased bono
meal is good. In winter corn is best at
night, and the fowl should have a gen
erous night meal if it has not a full
meal at any other time of the day, for
the fast from roosting time until morn
ing is a long one. Hut the feeding
should be generous all the time, with a
variety of foods. There is much neg
lect in the matter of providing good
water for fowls. This should not be.
Pure water is an essential, and to pro
vide it only needs a very little exertion.
Farmers' Yoice.
HONEY EXTRACTOR.
One That Con Ito Ma'.o at nn lliprnw of
a Few Ccnt«.
For a bee-keeper running from five
to fifty colonies an extractor can bo
made for about 51.23, thus:
Four frames 10x18 inches, outside
measure, two boards seventeen inches
wide, fifteen inches long, seven cents;
ouo board twenty-one inches long,
twelve inches wide, three cents; six
sticks, four cents; nails, three cents;
barrel, ten cents; three feet of wire
cloth, thirty-three cents; and half a
day's work, sixty-rtvo cents; total,
*1.25.
To make it, nail two sticks about five
inches long to the inside of the barrel
opposite each other and four inches
from the bottom of it, having notchcj
in them to receive a cross bar, which
make about x 2 inches (off a bunch of
shingles.would do). The upright cen
ter piece for the basket is 2x2 inches,
and two feet long; bore two one-inch
holes through it ten inches apart, drive
through two round sticks eight and a
quarter inches long, that fit nicely —old
broom, mop or rakc-handle stuff. The
upright stick should be tapered off at
the bottom end and made rouud to one
inch diameter dear the top eud for a
Journal. A board two inches wide and
live inches long, with two or thrco
ha'.f-incli holes bored in it, and nailed
to the lop of it with wire nails, docs
very well for a crank to turn it by.
Nail two sticks seventeen inches long
to the seven teen-inch l>oards, und one
and a-half inches thick, and liore two
one-inch holes three-quarters of nn inch
deep and ten inches apart in each of
them, and tit them on the ends of
the round inch stocks. Nail on the
wire-cloth (which should be twelve
inches wide and nineteen inches long)
to tho ends of the boards as tight as
you can, and then spring tho boards
apart, and fasten firmly to the spokes.
Let your twenty-one-inch board cover
one-half inch more than half the top of
the barrel, and place a hook and staple
to fasten it to the wall (irmly, and box
on your center upright piece. The in
sido of the barrel should be sandpa
pered and waxed.—lt. F. Will teside.ix
American Beo Journal.
Iml {cmlon In Fowls.
The iuo:.t "frequent cause of indiges
tion in fowls is tho *ame us that with
humans —overeating. Itiuuy bv stated,
however, that tho hens have no teeth,
and must have some kind of sharp and
hard substances with which t<> assist in
grinding their food. In somo sections
this cannot be procured by them. In
digestion is frequently mistaken for
cholera, and all kinds of suggested
cholera remedies arc used as cures,
which do more harm than good. Tho
best remedy is to compel tho liens to
fast for forty-eight hours, lirit may
be provided by tho use of pounded
glass or broken china. There is no
risk in giving such materials, as the
liens wi'l not swallow more than they
may need* If tlio hens are fat (which
is usually tho case when they &i e affect
ed by indigestion) they should receive
no food but that which they can secure
for themselves by foraging and scratch
ing.
((imp drain* for I'oultrjr.
Oral,l may be cheap, but it is costly
food if it is used exclusively for tho
laying hens in winter, for the reason
that while grain cannot b • excelled for
keeping the hens warm, it '.'ill not
supply the.n with egg-formi'ig ma
terial, and if fed very liberally it causes
them to Ik'wiuo too "fat. It is not an
uncommon occurrence for farmers to
meet with disappointment in not pro
curing egg's although they r-applied
grain liberally, and yet if less grain
and a proportion of i n at hpd been
given the hens they would perhaps
have done belt -r and allowed a profit.
We do not condemn grain, but we ad
vise not to feed it exclusively to laying
hens.—Farm and Fireside.
Tii k wlno ponltrytnon avoi <ln ex
trernen, but feeds enough t« keep "the
fuwlt in a jfootl. thrifty condition.
tVoinlrrfulljr T:»klii(f Ar«-i»iti|>li«hm» , nt.
William I hoar that Charley Hodg
son In ii great mimic. They -ay be eun
take off anything.
Arthur— Tlmtexplainn it. I couldn't
Imagine where my umbrella bad (rone.
—Huston tllobe.
N.» Deception.
"Didn't yon promise to lore, honor
and oliey me?"
•'Yen; l>ut the minister has known
me all my life, und be knew 1 didn't
mean It." I 'nek. _
Mllll Emi.
Little Mini* Mufcg—l'ne ffot a bicycle,
and you ha*n't.
Mttle Minn Freckles- Yes, and now
everybody known you wear* domed
ntoekin'i.. (!ood Newt*.
h..mr Urn Ar« Itiilli Tlmt \V«jr.
"lle'n lazy, you nay?"
"1i87.vl That"* no name for it. He'll
run bulfa mile to eat U the omnibus to
ride two hundred yard a." Town Top
lon.
No < .111 *• for llftjrrl.
"I've eomo out of thin tltfht Ktjucezc
in pretty fx id shape," naid the* new
half dollar, fresh from th»> stamping
jUffhfo* —(fti}r«yu 'jYiinnns