Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1891 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1881-TWELVE FAGES.

THEY SAY THEY WILL FIGHT

AND HAVE RETAINED LEGAL COUNSEL la Order to Proeeente Their Claims The Foeelllxed Agricultural Board WhlU at Private) Corporation Want to Teed a While Longer. The members of the fossilized board of ajriculture have declared themselves. Fifteen members of that Bclf-perpetuaticg organization silently climbed the broad etone steps that load to the eastern en trance of the state-house Saturday after noon about 2 o'clock and locked them eelvea in the spacious room where they ere wont to hold their annual sessions. An inquisitive janitor, who. with the aid of a mop was removing all traces of the Fifty-seventh ceneral assembly from the tiled corridors paused in this laborious task for an instant to gaze in cpon the gathering, but he withdrew from the door with great alacity when a solemn Tieaed member dragged the curtain down ith a jerk. It was a secret session in tho etrict sense of the term, and all comers who could not give tho pass-word were barred. The object of this conference wa3 not to msko preparations for the next Ftato fair. s a matter of fact its real purpoM was to discuss ways and means whereby the present antique organization could hold the fort against the industrial and agricultural board created by an act of tho legislature. Very shortly after tho meeting liaJ been called to order, Mr. John M. Butler of the law firm of McDonald, Butler & Snow, put in an appearance. W. A. Banks, president of the board, informed )jim that the organization desired an opinion from him aa to the constitutionality of tha now law. Mr. Butlor jrave it as hi opinion that the action of tho legislature was wholly illegal. The result wui that the sixteen aolerunly asrreed that they would institute proceedings to enjoin tho new board after tho members thereof had been appointed, from taking pssesion of tho rooms that they now occupy or any of the property held by them. It was also cirrted that Mr. Butler should act as the legal reproecntative of the board. "The charge that tho present board of agriculture is a rt publican machine and n elf-pcrpetuating body is untrue," said Trefiilcat lianks to a reporter for The tKNTiNi"i. shortly after tho adjournment of the conference. "We don't fleet ourbolvs but arc elected by tho lCij agricultural hocieties that are In existence in this ftatc. We have had a democratic hecretary for beventeen yearn. Ah an organization we do not dabble in politics. Tho paramount idea with us id to further tho interests of this etato and not to advance thofu of uny political party. Wo of course will not give up popflehsion until thtfOjurts liave parsed on tho constitutionality of this law." The members of tho present organization arc without reason fearful that ih state officers in making up the new board will tender them appointment thereon, nnd they therefore make the declaration that they will not accept. They propopo to stick together and operato a private tnterprise on the funds of the state. The operations of this board tsinee it came into existence nnd that was before tho adoptfon oi the constitution iu l.S-31have been luarked bv a long perles of grievous blunders. A Grief review of its recent history wid not be uninteresting. Ihiring the year of liOO it expanded $7,:XK) in improvements at tho fair grounds, and added &,(00 to the premium list. It rained almost incessantly during the greater portion of the fair week, and the attendance waa very light. The result was that a balancing up its books the board found iUtelf $4,(Xk) abort. With this deplorable nato of affairs staring them in the face the members iudorxed one another's notes. This shor.age was simply the outcome of tho heavy expenditure for unnecehsary improvement. Just three year before thcte improvements wero made the board epent $-'.",0X) for twenty acres of land adjacent to tun grounds, rejecting an otler rf a choice ito of eighty acres on tho 1 VI t road and within ia.sy access of the citv. The present grounds, it will be boro in mind, are two miles and a half from any railroad depot snd on a street railway lino that can barely accommodate its regular t ity tratlic. It is wife to say that forty per cent, of tho visitors walk to tho grounds. For Tears local horseraenHiave deplored the fact that Indianapolis was without a roileof track. Half mile courses have for years boen relics of the dim shadowy !a?t, and owners of irood lorse flewh positively refuse to peed their animals on such courses. The board turned a deaf car to the entrcatica to tho turf'i en, however, and reconstructed tho cM half mile track. At the annual meeting of tho board, Jan. 3, 1&S7, Mayor Denny delivered an able address to tho board on behalf of the city of Indianapolis, suggesting m:iny murli-needd relorm in the management and general policy of the institution. In tho courue of hid lengthy addrew, he said: f believe your good fortune, which resulted last year in the moil eucoensful and profitable fair you have aver held, and but beeo. so quickly followed by placing1 your aoeiety in permanent poiuiiionof tnree delightful quarters, will ooaiio.ua for many year to come. The Interest wbirb baa recently besn awakened in agricultural matter throughout the state, the rapid increase in farm product and stock railing la all lectioai of the itite, and tlit evident eneouraeement you yourselves feel under the sew inspirations surrounding you, will, I am sure, give new life and energy to your work from now on, and result In great gain to the Interest you represent. AsacituenofIndis.ua, 1 feel a deep interest in yoar success, and as a resident of Indianapolis, my interest is doubled, for I know that success, for your association means improvement and auccesa for the eity al-o. finding that tha annual exhibitions of farm products, live stock, machinery, manufactured goods, ete., bad outgrown tha thirty-six acres of ground, so loner used for your fairs, your board has recently purchased twenty acres more, adjoining it on the north, making fiftysix aerea in all. This shows enterprise, and until recently I waa personally well enough pleased with your action, although I had hoped to see you sell your old grounds, if possible, and boy new ones near tha Una of the Belt railroad, as I briefly ei pressed myself last year. I learned from your worthy president a few days ago, for the first time since your recent purchase, a thing which induces roe to douht the wisdom of jour action, however, and makes me disposed to criticise a little. As you have put my name oo your program for an "address," without giving me a subject, I most he allowed tome latitude as to what I shall talk about, and if I object a little to some things cono-p'ed with your present plans, you must pot scold me too severely for it, I supposed, until otnerwisa informed by yoar president, that your new purchase would give you a mile race-course, and that one of tha to&in reasons for buying the additional ground wee to supply this want in yoar old grounds. Itis not neeoasary tor me to express my own views at to the propriety or impropriety of eneoorscinj the speeding and racing of hones at yonr (aire as a pert of the annual exhibitions, or that I should koow the ideas of any memter of jcur board to this matter, to mil me to sire an opinion on this subject. Without re'erenoe to the interest yen or I may take in the racing feature of tha fair, or onr individual ideas of the same, we all know that it baa become so iodieeelably connected with the other features of these annual exhibitions

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HEWERS Or OLD HONESTY TOBACCO VILL SOOfJ Tip JFjfT 1J LASTS LOfJCEl, TASJES SWEETER THJAI OjljEI TOBACCOS, AfJD WILL pLESE n I ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT, UU AND INSIST ON GETTING IT. EVEy pLJG STAINED LIE boVe cJj. IKO-IXZER ft Lonlsiffla, Ej. that it Is folly to talk about divorcing the two. The people would not tolerate it, This bcioc true, and knowing also that there is no intention on your part to attempt to do so, the question arUe t, What otuht now to be done with reference to it? I am adrlsed that the present half-mile track will be abandoned and another of the same circumference built further i:orth, provided the old grounds and the new addition are settled on for the permanent use of the association. Th a, snd the other things necessary to be done in luting up the new ground, will cost a large sum of money. Would it not, thorefore, be wise to reconsider carefully this whole subject before making tht large outlay? 1 suppose your board cau, within six months front this time, sell the twsuty acrea recently purchased for a handsome profit; aod there can he little douht but that the other thirty-six sores can be readily sold at a good price. Indeed, 1 suppose the fifty-aii acrts, nfter removing all the material on and around it, could be sold for more than enough to buy seventy or eighty acres near the Kelt railroad and fit It up for fnir purposes, including a mile track. I fear the best sites were not examined by your oommittee a year ago. I think at least one piece of land can be had near the Kelt road, splendidly located, which la every way could be made preterable to the present grounds. Without a mile track you eannot induee the owners of f&st horses of the country to oome here. With one, you can, and thereby almost double your receipts. Itesides, the board could no doubt get a good revenue each year from trotting asociatious for the use of the track. 1 am sure you would greatly benefit the city of Indianapolis, as well as your own aoclety, by providing a good rude track. Hut if it is finally and irrevocably settled that the fair must remain where it has heretofore been held, then 1 hope the extra ground recently Eurohated will be improved before next fall; ut if it is not, I certainly think that another ed'ort out;ht to be made to secure a new location, where stock will not have to be driven or hauled two miles by exhibitors, and where the greatest attraction for the general publio can be provided by giving exhibitions of speed on a mil trark. I trust the foregoing remarks en this suhJeet will be taken in the same friendly spirit u which they are offered. 1 feel that a great future is opening up for this atate and city, and consequently for the work of your board; and that in all our enterprises we should prepare for the "boom" Unit is coming. When we build we should build for the future, and not alone for the present. On tho next dey a ppcrial commltte appointed on Mayor Denny' luMrccs rcinrtcd that he bo thanked for liin open, frank and mouthy criticisms ami commended many m hi iucBtlonn, but further Haid in regard to tho purchnao of now ground as f.l,ove: On this point we must beg leave to' duient from the viw expreasad by him in the matter. We are of the opinion that the notion of the board in securing the additional twenty aerea to the present was a Jiidiolona and wle aelection. It ia a matter of the greatest Importance to the welfare of the state bonrd that this matter be finally settled uutil the annual exhibitions shall have outgrown the grouuda already provided. 1 be question of aocess to the grounds, when it is once finally settled, will easily adjust itself by providing cable cars, etc. Tho general assembly of 1KS0 appropriated for tho board of agriculture the hum of $'0,00() payahlo in livo installments of $10,000 each. Of tho ucpretrnte amount S'JO.OOO has been drawn and applied faithfully to tho payment of the bonded debt. The leuifdature) just adjourned paw-;cd a bill appropriating $l,.r00 per annum for expen.-e. Tho revenues derived from tho fair avcratfa from $22,000 to S.'M.OOO per annum, while the premium list amount? to about $13,000. The hoard owes S2().O0O on the bonded debt at 0 per cent, interest. The entiro amount is due next June, secured by a mortgage on the first thirty-nix acrea. Tho board owcb $,000 on the purchase of the last twenty acres, aecured by a mortgage. Of thin amount $2,000 fell duo on Monday last; $2,000 due March ?), 18!2; $2,000 due March J, IS'JX ilesides this there is a floating debt of $8,000 borrowed money, $),0i)0of which is due individual members on their notea in tank, while the remaining $2,000 is due a citizen of Indianapolis. Thero is no doubt that the present state of aifaira will inilitaU strongly aainet a euccemful disposal of the grounds in the city, and where and how the next fair will be held is a matter of conjecture. However, the key to the situation lies in the constitutionality of tho act crcatinsr a new board, and other r.ttorneys than Mr. Butler think this act constitutional. tert"iie Ilanger Threatens every man, woman or ehlld living: la a region of auuntry where fever aod ague is prevalent, since the germs of inslarlal disease are inhaled from the air aod ar-swallowed from t be water of euoh a region. Medicinal safeguard Is absolutely neeeasary to nullify ttiis danger. Asa means of fortifying and aeclinialtng the eytem ao aa to be able to resist the malarial pUon, lloelettr'e Stomach Btttera iJ lneouiparablj the best aod the inot popular. Irregularities of the stomach, liver and bowhs easoursge malaria; bet tbe are apeadil rectified by the Bitter-. Tee functions of digestion and secretion are aulttrd by Its me, and a vigorous ai well regular condition of tbo ayatom promoted by It. Constitution and physique are tbo defended against the Id roa'ls of malaria by this mttchle'S preventive, which la also a eertalo and thorough remedy ia tbe worst caass of iatermltteat and remittent tevers.

A NEAR SHAVE I am but a common man, with next to no book learnin' certainly nothin' like as much as is wantin' to make anything proper to put in print. Nevertheless, I'm goin' to do my best to tell a story of summat that happened to me, and which bo yond all doubt was more than a little bit out of the common run of thing?. And while you're listenin' to me I mean while you're a-readin' you must please think of me as Amos Kerr, a rough collier, who's spent tho best part of his life, boy and man, at the bottom of a coal pit. It ain't a cheerful sort of life, as you may easily guess, and if tolkg thought the matter out they'd be ready to make excuses for os if, when we get up into tho fresh air, wc are a bit rougher and untiddier in our ways than most men. I don't say we're bound to bo wild, but I want to put it so that you'll remember there ia two 6idcs to this question as well aa most others. I warn't so bad a lad as some I worked among. I could drink nnd swear and gamble my money away at cards and piuin' llyin', but for all that I might have been a great deal worpe than I v.aH if it hadn't been for Margaret Kerr, and for the great love I'd had for her ever einee she had been a little toddlin' thing of eight and mo a big, clumsy lad of thirteen. You see there were five years between us nnd we'd grown up as brother and sister, for her father and ruiue were brothers. I should like to tell you what Mop: vras like, only I know I couldn't never find tho words that would suit her curly chestnut hair and her big b!uo eyes," and what could I say of her sweet luouth and the bloom on her goft cheeks and the little dimple that came when she Htniled; and of how the looked when I grieved her, which I did only too often from the very lirbt, only, thank Heaven, I never vexed her so bad that she left oti' caring for me? I was left an orphan at thirteen. My mother had died at my birth and my father was killed in a Welsh colliery ; Bo, as was nat'ral, I went to live with my uncle, w ho kept the "Cross Keys" Inn at Cannock. He got me a job at the West Cannock colliery, and no it came about that I grew up w ith my cousin Margaret. My uncle, Job Kerr, was a well-Join' man. lie kept his public veiry strict and wouldn t encourage no evil way there. He was ueed to say that no honest man could hope to thrive on tho money that wastrils and losels spent on makin' beaMs of themselves. And no doubt ho was right, for his house had n good name, and ho got on year by year till ho'd bought a bit of land out lledgeford way and a few eharen in some of tho new collieries. "Jt's the duty of every man tobo savin'," ho would say, "both ns regards his old ago and as regards his children. We've only got Meg left, but that don't hinder me being ai careful as if all three of tho bairns had lived i'stead of ouly one. Meg'llmako a real tidy wife for any man brought up as she's been even if her husband got nothing along of her; but uho won't go from her homo cmty-handed, and, therefore, 1 don't mean to give her to a man as I don't think well of. This ho said so often that I knew his pentiracnta otr by heart, and I knew, too, that he didn't think so very well of me. Ko morodid myaunt,who was even harder to please than hi in. Perhaps you'll say that I ought to have kep' etruight, peein' that my lot was thrown among them as held themselves above all low ways; but aceordin' to my experience, thin.s in generul, and lads in pertickler, don't always go azac tly as they onghter do, in spile of all that's said to the contrary. There wns plenty of evil put in my way, and if I tood out sgaiu' it four days there came a fifth when 1 mado a me-s o' matters. Now, my undo and aunt took too little account o' the good spell, nnd a deal too much o' thoHo wretched tinnw when with a chap I liked 'ticing mo along, and a chap I hat eil jeerin' and eneerin' at me I did what I wns sorry for afterward, only couldn't undo. Hut I nupposo they wero pretty patient with me, for I lived over ten years in their bonne, which made me three-and-twentyand Maggie eiirhteen.and all thoi.0 ten 'ears I had gone on lovin her more and more every day; but I had not spoken of it, lor my carnin's wero naught to Mieak of, and, an l'venhown, my undo wann t liko to have let her listen to me. Yet they let her go for a btroll with me of a .Sunday evening up on to tho ChAMO, and there we'd hit us down on the short grass and heather and looked across at tho sun setting behind tho Wrekin and the little villages with a sott cloud of blue smoked over them hero and thero in tho valley. Then 1 would tell Margaret all I could tell her ot what had hefal cu ino in tho week, and she would talk to me an no one clno had the nark, and I would walk homo henide her liatenin' to her and makin'up my mind to good resolves, which 1 didn't always keep, and which I was mortal aahumed of breakin'; but who knows what would have become of mo if I had never made them? All that time though I often told her there wan no one in the world I cared for except her, yet I never triad to w in a promine from her, or to find out if she reaily t-poko all that was in her heart w hen

fche said; "You are the only brother I have, Amos: so 1 must lovo you as much as I should havo loved tho little brother and uister who died before I was boru." In the winter we used to sit together in tho little room behind the bar, where only very oM customers ever took the liberty of comin' Meg with her work, and mo w ith a book, which I used to try and spell out with a helpin' hand from her. It wad my undo who served in tho bar, and my aunt helped him on a buy niht. Me? never went there that was one o' tha ways Khe'd been brought up careful. It was her work to eee to the lodgers' rooms and their cookin', when there were lodgers which was oftencr than not. Sho and 1 1 d ten had tho littlo parlor all to oursuIvcm, and if any one came in I was upt to fetil sorely put out, aa if no one el.-o had aright there; only, nat'rally, I couldn't aay aught about uch a thing. It was when Meg was af)Out eighteen that this all began to change a little. Firstly. I could ate that my aunt and uncle were gettin' shy of our walkin about together, and were doin all tney could to hinder it quietly: nextly, came Mr. Kalph Henderson to turn everything topsy turvy. v I'm not jroin' to pit myself in any way agenst Mr. llender.-on ;.if I was to, him. and perhaps others, would think I had taken loavo of my eentcs, for ho waa one of the engineers at the West Can k Col lierr, while I was onlv a working miner. He was a man about thirty years of age, tall, and well favored in tho facu and build; but for all his fine, gentleman ways, and his carry-all-before-him sort of air. in one thing ho and I ran on tho same level, only ho was far behind me ves. certainly, far behind, for ho couldn't never have loved -Margaret Kerr near bo w ell ad I did. He came to West Can'k with a great no tion of his own importance about uira. and when some one recommended him to lodtte at the "Crcwt Keys" he'd more'n half a mind to turn ur his noso at the idea ; but lodgin's be'n' scarce he came to nee me about it, and once ho had peen Meg his mind was made up. He took the best bedroom and another room to sit in, which he did n't of ten use, for he purferred eittin' elsewhere. From tho hour he took up his abodo at the "Cross Keys" he waa just what he

liked to be that is, cock of the walk. It

was Mr. Henderson tnis and Mr. Henderson that, and such a fuss about doin his cookin' right, and fiuch fad about all that had to do" w ith him, that I was rcg'lar sick of his very name. Perhaps you'll think I was jealous of him.butthat wasn't it. Mv mind had been mada up about dislikin' him as eoon as I set eyes on him. lie wasn t a favor ight in mineral, neither, for he'd a hard temper and a bitter tongue. It may have been in the shadow of what was to come that fell eo dark betwixt mo and him; I'm not cliver enough to mako out guch things, but,' whether or no, I took again' him before he ever saw Margaret, and I make no doubt he had much tho Fame feeling for me, though he wouldn't have condescended to own it. I'd been Btiddy for along spell then. I'd been wondering if, now that she and I wero both of an age to think of eweethearting, I might work my way up a bit, so as to count for more in my uncle s eight. 1'ut when I came home night nfter nwht, and found Mr. Henderson pitting jut where I used to eit, with a good cigar Letween his teeth which he always aked Meg's leave to light talking away, and J makin' hisself as agreeable as never was, and lookin' at me as if he wondered how 1 had the cheek to come and pit down with tho likes of him then I m-cd to have a one-too-many Bort of fee'.in', and after I'd eat my 6upper in the bark placo I began to keep out of hh way. I'd slink out o' tho back door and get rid of tho time as bes,t I could, and not allays to my own credit. j 1 needn't tell you how miserable 1 was in them days and nights. At my work I went over and over the good times we'd had before Mr. Henderson got in the light, and from that to tho grudge I had against him for hid sturk-up wavs. Then I'd puzzle my head whether Meg cared most for me or for him. With him sho was rather stand-oil and quiet; it was plain to see she kep' him at a distance; when he talked to her sho answered him rof-peck-f ul, as if she always bore in miud that ho waa above her in station, and when he was not there rhe "carco tpoko of him at all. Sometimes I'd tell myself she did all this because the didn't care a rap about him, and yet couldn't venture to Bend him about his business;' but other times I tutped the matter tho other way, and felt t uro sho fought "hy of him becnuso she thought more of him than of them as she treated freer and easier. With pich thoughts in my head all day, I felt gloomy and sulky o' nights, and when I sneaked out o the back door, n4 I'vo said, it was to drown them if 1 could, and no matter how. At last, ono wet Funday evening in tho winter, when my uncle and aunt had gone to church and 'Meg was stayin' to keep house, 1 made up my mind that mw or never tho timo had como for mo to find out how matters wero to turn betwixt us, and whether I w as to bo hnppy or miHcrablo for tho rest o' mydavs. Mr. HenderBon was gone to .Statlbrd for tho day, so I knew as I opened tho parlor door that the cast would be clear of him. There was no light in tho room but tho lire, which wasn't very bright, neither, and for half a minute I tlioujilit nho wasn't thero. I'.ut she ppoko out of tho Uu.ukines near the winder. "Come in, Ames," sho paid : "its a nasty, wet night outside, ain't it?" "Why, Maggie, you're all in tho dark," I said, as I groped my way past tho chairs; "wouldn't it bo moro checrful-liko if wo lit up?" "Just as you please, Amos if you don't think the firelight's good enough for talking by," eho made answer. Now I wanted to see her fare better than I could by the flickering light o tho blazo ; betides, it wasn't liko her tobo sittin' bo it seemed unnat'ral ;o I turned on tho gas and put a match to it. "What wero you doinxiitthe dark, Insido?" 1 began, as I sat clown beside her. It was hard to make a ptart on what I wanted to eay that did as well as anythink else. "I was thinkln, Amos," hho said. "And what were you thmkln' of,lasie? Wns it, mayhap, about me 7" "I was thinkin' o' many things, Amos, and you among 'em," sho said. "Ihat's all right," 1 tinswered. "I'm glad to hear you haven't give up thinkin' about mo." "Why, Amos," she said, "what do yon pay that for? Ant 1 one to change toward thorn I caro for?" Hho looked at me as she said it, and if I could i-peak as pcholards can, I'd tell you how d liferent her look was from any other I ever saw; but I can't, so 1 won't make a mess of It by trying. "Meg, my htHS." 1 begin, "I've got summat on my miud summit I must say to you." I 1 ant nearer to her as I Hpoko and put my hand on her two. "Let mo hold your hand whilo I tell you, Maggie, though after nil there's no need for any tellin' ; you munt 'a' know'd it all along.'' I could hear my voice went queer and quivery as I spoke, and I could seo In her face that she heard if, too, for sho looked a bit scared like and drew back from me. "Amos," rhe said, in a sort of hurry, "I couldn't be quite sure of what you want to say to mo; but I can pretty wed puesn. Don't 'co ay it, A mun; it'll bo hotter loft unsaid." "What do you mean by that, Meg?" I cried, firing up. "What I've got to pry I'll nay and you must hear it, becos there'rt naught but your answer that can settlw it." I'.ut nhe stopped mo rgftin. "Don't bo vexed, Aiiio.h," she said softly: "don't take it amies that I cut you chort n what you've begun. Listen to thin. Ah wo aro good Iriends-aren't we, Amos? just as brother and ehter should be; but you might tay word, and so might I, th'at would put all that wrong, and then it 'ud be very hard to pull it to rights again. Can't you understand why I stop vou, Amos? It better for us both---I'm sure it is." She was right, aa she mostly wns when we dilTered, ami I was w rong. I knew it at the time, but I wouldn't be shut up. "Margaret Kerr," I said, "don't nay you won't hear me-you sha'l; it's ..my right to be heard. Do yon think I'm going to drag on day after day without tellin' you that I don't mean to be brother and sifter any longer that I want you for my wife? Why, las, it begun ten years ago, what I feel for you did, and will lat, ail my life. What can I do but speak of it?" "And what can i do, Amoa," she began, sadly, "but tell you tho truth, since you will make me put it quite plain to you? Wife of yours 1 never can be; ray brother you've been as far back as I can remember, and that's all you ever cau bo." I'd guessed as much ; I'd felt beforehand what her answer was nearly euro to be; but now that I heard it in so many woids it put me betide myself. . I jumped up and stood over her. "All you ever can be," I said, after her, "then who's foing to take tho other place? You:vo got some one, else why should you know so surely that it can't be me? In it that pretty-faced, glib-tongued, dandified Henderson, who's always dangling after you, that you've fixed on? You'd needn't say nothin'. It's my turn to guess right now, and want no answer." ' I tell all this just as it happened. I know I was a brute, but I make uo excuses Lot myself I wfl3 60 angry that I strove to make her cower and tremble. Hut she didn't eho waan't that sort. ho got up and faced me. ' "Amoa," ahe stvd, "nuppose I rnred for you as you've aeked ino to, would you think it fair for another man to come and put me in the wronsr for lovin vou?" "I don't know what J should think if you did caro for me". I cried; "the thing is. you don't. I'm not fine cent enough;

I'm a dirty, rough workman. I've got into bad ways and you know it. But he's no better at tbe bottom than I am. He's got the devil of a temper, and he don't love you half as well as I do." I might ha' taid more, but the door opened sharply and tome one spoke from tho threshold. It waa Mr. Henderson. "What h this?" he asked, just a if he was bofs of the place. "What does this mean?" And he looked from Margaret to me, and from me to Margaret. "It means you've come back sooner than wo expected you, and sooner than you was wanted," 1 eaid. Him, at least, I could anger, and I meant to do it. "Not quite t-o soon as I was wanted, I should Fay," he eaid, as he walked across to where Margaret stood; "but, now I have come, I'll trouble you to go and make this tipsy row in a more suitable place." "Then you'll trouble mc to no purpose," I made answer. "I'm no more tipsy than

you are youryelf, and there s no man living shall order me out of this room." "Then if you won't go for asking civilly," he went on, "I shall go so far as to turn you out. I don't allow any one to speak to the girl who has promised to be my wife in tho tone vou havo spoken. There's the door, and the quicker you aro on the ottier hide of it the better for you." iow, 1 .don't want to throw the blame on him, at lead, not all of it. We hated ono another, and he had bested me in tho one thing I wanted moot in the world. It seem? to me there'd be a deal to say of how things etood at that minute betwixt him and me, if I had larnin' to put it in ship-shape, w hich 1 haven't. Meg di'l not cpoak. Sho etood with her eyes on the ground and her bosom heavin'. 1 could sue r-he was unhappy, and all beeause o' me ; but 1 hadn't the right to comfort her, and I knew she couldn't take my part nor do anything for me if 1 stayed there, yet I couldn't demean myself to do his biddin', not even for her sake. When he'd waited a minute he raid: "Well, do you hear?" "I heard right enough," "and if you want my answer, there it is." 1 sprang at him as I f poke, with my fist doubled and my arm raised. Now if any one had ever told me that I could have been such a brute in front of my little Margaret, I should have eworo it was impossible; but at that moment all I wanted was to strike him down and to see her crving for fright. Ho wasn't prepared, neither even he thought better things ot me and I could give have him a blow on the head that would havo half killed him, only she was too quick for me. She put herself between us, holdin' him back with one hand, whilo eho laid tho other on my uplifted arm, and still ahe did't speak." Mie only looked at me. Her face was as pale as death, her Hps trembled, and her eyes were swimming with tears as 6he fixed them on mine. It was such a look as might have tamed a wild beast. "Amos!" she mid, in a faint, far-off sort of tone, "Amos!" That was all; then down went my arm, my list unclinched, and 1 forgot that he could seo I was conquered. I forgot everything except that 1 loved her, and that in the depths of her eyes 1 could seo she cared for mo still, though sho wasn't to bo kit wife. I tried to eay something, but when I opened my hns nothin came but a great sob. Then I turned round and went out of tho room, and out of the house, and away out of Cannock altogether. 1 wasn't goin' in stay thero and seo Margaret Kerr the wife of Mr. Henderson.' After that 1 went right nway up iorth. and got work at a Wigan colliery. I heard nothing of any one, for I called myself bv another name, and took good caro not to let any ono know what had liecorao of me. Sometimes, though, 1 had a bitter longing to co back and aee her onco again, lor I couldn't leave oil lovin' her, nor put any one in tho placo I'd wanted her to take; but I got tho letter of my home-sicknees, and time went on, till it was a matter o1 feven 'ear since I'd turned my back on Cunnoek. Then ono day I was took greatly aback by sotno ono as clapped mo on tho back and called mo by my own namo. It was ono oi my old mate troin the Wo-t tan It pits, and the sight of him mado mo all of sudden hungrier for news of her than ever I d been. "Come ami have 'arf a pint for the sako of old times, Amos " says he, and you may think if 1 went nothlng'loth. 1 lo hadn't como straight from Cannock ; ho'd been knock in about from one pit to another for a couple of years. Nevertheless, he'd plenty to tell ino, and 1 let him go on without venturin' to try and gut him to what my ears were burnin'to hear. 'And then thero was that littlo lass you'd used to walk with on Sunday evenlng," ho naid at lust; "her as lived at tho 'Cross Keys,' on tho Stafford road. You ain't forgot h-r among tho Lancashiro winches, nave you?" "1 warn't likely to havo forgot her," I faid ; "we were kintdolk." "Then mopt likely, you know what become of her?" he said. "I knowsi nothink whatlver," I answered; and I tipped up my mug over my face, so thnt he shouldn't eco if 1 turned color. "Well, you remember young Henderson," ho went on, "a nasty" aort of chap, in tho Weat Can'k pit? Wi ll, him and her got married, and there was a deal o' talk about the marriage, Somo folks said he oughter done better for hlsself." "Twas'tother way ubout, 1 thould fay," I put in. '.So should I," ho made answer; "but Ids family thought otherwise. They wouldn't havo nothink to do with tho last, nor with him. That riled him sorely, and as sho was nearest to him, the had to bear the brunt of it." "She was a high-spirited las?," I fiiid; "sho wasn't ono ho could bully. 1 expect eho learned him betU-r, didn't'she?" "She didn't, my lad. It Beems 6ho was greatly wrapped up in him, and when ho began to be unkind to her and neglect her she couldn't bear it. Sho couldn't bear it ! it broko her heart." "What do you mean?" I called out. I could scarce keep mv head. "I menu eho pined away and died," he eaid. "If you'd stuck to her she might ha been livin' still." "You know nothink about it, mate," I said. "And what became of yon bruto of a Henderson?" "Oh, he's at West Can'k still. He's bead engineer now at two or three pits, and ho's married a Cno new wife what drives her pair of ponies." Then he told me a lot more, but I paid no heed. My head was full of one thought how I could be even w ith tho scamp as had broken my darlin's heart. A 1 that night I lay a-tbinkin', and in tho mornin' my mind was made up. I would punish him as'he deserved as heaven ought to have ?unished him already, I 6aid to myself, hat week end I jacked my job at Wigan and took tho train for Cannock, and on the Monday 1 went to the pit and found out all about Mr. Henderson how he came to his office and when ha went away and what road ho took, and all without seemln' too much to atk questions. He'd long pgo left off livin' in lodgin's and had lately rented a big fine house far out on the Chase, and every evening he rodo thero on his cob along the lonely Chasfl lanes. Perhaps poor Meg's bit o' money counted for sum mat in this finery, which she wasn't grand enough for. It was the month of November, when the d tys are short and cloomy, and by 6 o'clock that Monday afternoon it waa quite dark so dark that if 1 hadn't known mv i way on tha Chase very well I coulda t

have found the place where I meant to be on the lookout for Mr. iienderson. It was a lonely lane which led from the main road to his house, and there under

the shelter of a holly buslu on a stony slope where he'd have to pull his cob in and go gently, I stood and listened until I should hear him comin' along. In my right hand I'd got a loaded revolver, and my finger was on the trigger; that was what 1 was goin' to punish him with for breakin' Maggie Kerr's heart. i I went through it all as I stood there on tho damp grass of the roadside how the horpe wouid (jallop oir when he fell, and how ho would bo found in the morning with a bullet in his heart and the life gone out of him and of the joy I should feel that ho had paid me at last, "it did not troublo me to think that his blood would be on my head for ever and ever; I only said to myself that by heaven's law his life was owing for hers and that I would be the one to do her justice. He was a long time comin'. The clouds cleared oil and the etars came out. So much the better. 1 was hidden where I stood and he would come riding over the hill against the sky, eo that I could make no mistake about "him. At last a horse came trottin' along the main road and into the lane. I heard it come nearer and nearer, and I strained my eyes all I could to make pos'tive it was him and no other. Yes, sure enough, it was Henderson. 1 could tee him quite plain from my shelter as ho drew rein to go down tbo hill. Ho came carefully, holdin' up his horse, and thinkin' oi no worse accident than a stumble oer a loose stone. Another three seconds end ho would be level with me. My heart thumped inside me like a sledge hammer; the blood fled to my head with a giddy rush. I 6but my eyes for ha f a second to collect myself, and, as 1 opened them, 1 raised my arm to shoot. But 1 didn't press the trigger, for in that socond I had stood with my eyes clovd, some one had come betw ixt him and me, etandin' close up to me, with one hand on my uplifted arm, and, as surely as 1 ti ll it you, it was Margaret Kerr, lookin' just aa eho had looked that last time 1 had f cn her, tixin' her eyes on mine with the big tears swirumin in tbeui. Her fare wua as Kale as death, but not pnler than it had centhen, and her sweet mouth seemed drawn with pity. As her hand fell on my arm a cold thrill ran over me. 1 could not stir nor speak neither did her lips move ; yet there neemed to ring in my ears a faroff sound of her voice calling my name. My arm dropped to my tide, and we ttood there the and I until down r.t the bottom of the hill the horse began to trot again. Kalph Henderson had gut away with his life, and thero waa no blood on my head after all. Then I put out my hands to take hold of her but there was no one. I was alone in tho w inter night. I'm a stroug man, and no dastard, but who cau wonder that I sank down there and then, like a weak woman, to the ground? I heard my pictol go oil' as I fell, ami there was at the samo time an awful burnin' pain through xny body. Thcu 1 remember no moro. When I camo to myself 1 was lyine on A bed in the Stallord iutinnary. I couldn't ask all the questions that came into mv bead, for I was too weak ; but bit by hit 1 learned how I had been found by tho roadside, nearly dead with cold anil Iops of blood, and how I had b. en taken totbo hospital and cared for. 1 told nothing myself, though 1 had many thought.-, ns lay thero week after week getting well. Some things I pondered over which I can't speak of, for tho same reason I'vo givoonceor twice before; but thero was one thought that staid by inc all tho time, which was that Margaret mu?t ha' cared for mo still, elso why should ahe ha' como to savo me from tho deadly deed I was lust about? You needn't say she caiuo for his sake if she had. he'd ha' been tho one to see her, which he didn't, for ho rode on And never knew what had been hangin' over him, nor how he got by safe. Tho spring was coming on when I got my discharge from the hospital. "Iet it be a Ichson to you how you go about w ith loaded firearms, my man," tho doctor said, tho last time I saw him: "we'vo pulled you through, you see, but it wns a nearer sliave than you think for. "I'm much obliirod to vou. fir." I inado answer ; but I didn't tell him that it was a deal nearer shave than even ho w as awaro of. MtrtD-.n -nl tli Conductor, fllarper'a Weekly. Mrs. Klizabeth B. Custer tells the fol lowing interesting anecdote of lion. Sherman; Iast winter I saw a very marked example of tho simplicity and appreciation of (ten. Shertmm's character. I chancod to bt on a Sixth-ave. eurfunj car with him, and as we talked on various topics he Faid: ''I am in debt to this line," nnd in reply to my question how it happened to a man who had such a horror of iruUbtedner--, ho said: "Nothing ago I camu iu a car and paid my fare. In a few moments the conductor camo to mo and handed back mv ", cents. 'Wliat'a wrong, young man':' I asked? and thn ho said: 'iuneral, I didn't know it wns you when you camo in. The peoHo on the platform told me. If I had 'a known it w;'s you I wouldn't have taken a cent. I can't tako nothing from a man that fit liko you.'" ' Tho Hay It Know In Ilut.i. W. Y. Kun.l The snowfall in tho southwestern rr Jon of tho Kiifsian Kmpire hns been so heavy this winter that in many villagt-d peasants could not get out oi their houses through tho door;, and wero compelled to open their roofs for the purpose. To establish communication between tho houses, sta hies aud barns deep trenches must bo dug in the enow, but it often happens that tbo walks so laboriously made iu the day aio covered up again teeral f .et hi.h during the night. The amount of misery among the pnasants and their cattle i Minoly inCalculable. Kvery IngreJient employed in producing Hood's Saraaparilhi i strh-tly per-, and is (he l";H of h kind it is psiho to buy. In the cournf f preparing Hood's Sarsopurilla everything i. cercfnlly watched with a view to attaining the beet result. "ffbea Baby vraa alek, we gava her Cas'cria. When the waa a Child, ahe cried for Cantoria. When the became Mian, nhe clung to CattorlM. Wbaa aha hod CUVircn, alia gtrt -hiia Ciilcriv We -n J Ok murvlr-n FrTfh Itfftwiy CALTMOG rrre,nl IcKftlrunradoc limit kiruc will M'Or niacka-jra A I.mlMtotta. l KKMpa-rmatarrLrcO "rl icile mm KtsTOUK U4Ylp Use it and fa if taUsf.cl. AHr... 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