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panions would tomorrow show to the search
ers surely where the body lay! No animal in
that country may die on highway or byway,
ON plain, gulch or mountain, and though it
be ever so thickly screened by bushes,
though not one Of these scavengers be visible,
vet within few hours trooping they come,
led by some wondrous faculty of scent or
vision to the carcass, their feast.
That body, must remove, and this very
night. / jumped up, dressed myself in the
darkness and in few minutes was stumbling
ND the mountain side An ''old moon" gave
me its fading yeLowish light Much Of the
trail, both up and down, lay in almost total
darkness. Where the pines grew thickly some
times lost my way entirely. groped and
stumbled over bush and rock In two hours
was again on the spot.
It was my intent to drag the body down
the mountain side and throw it in the river.
Whether it was found far or near, it would,
I thought. lessen and break the web of cir
cumstantial evidence saw weaving about
me. It would put Pratt off the ground l
must frequent.
The fragment Of moon remaining was just
above the dark outline Of the hills on the
other side Of the river. In ten minutes
should be left in. total darkness
I commenced removing the brush from
Pratt's body. I took it first from the legs
and trunk. The face I didn't want to
see if possible. I worked the slower as
approached the head. The moon sunk
entirely behind the dark ridge opposite
Iremoved the brush from the head l had
reached the last branch covering it. l At
tempted to removethat. Something seemed
to hold it with feeble resistance I stopped
lower, shivering. The branch was clutched
in Pratt's right hand. Yet the body lay in
corpse-like rigidity. 1t did not seem, as I
then sawi it, the act of live man. 1t seemed
dead body holding on with dead life.
Almost desperate with horror, tugged at
the branch. Then heard Pratt's voice say
ing family: "It's not your mountain"
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Impossible! I looked, after that, but at
that one figure. The pose and bearing were
those of Blanche. In standing, Blanche's at
titude always gave one the impression that
she alone owned the ground she then stood
over. In speaking, or when spoken to, she
seemed to turn her whole mind in the direc-
tion of the subject of the moment, and never
seemed in mind to stray or waver from that
subject
So did this actress. But the makeup puz-
zled me. Hair, eyebrows, complexion were
different. The voice was pitched in higher
key than ever had heard from Blanche.
Once let the doubt beset you as to tho
identity of any person long unseen, or seen
suddenly under unexpected circumstances,
and generally that doubt remains until dis
PEELED by certain recognition and indentlflca-
tion. So did mine then as to the identity OF
the person before me.
"That gal means bizness," heard one man
whisper to another "P' her in tight
place, and she'd shoot"
noticed that Broener was regarding her
as attentively q, l. He heard the remark
mentioned above and smiled, saying:
Trough diamonds One as a character
reader in the house, and one-a brilliant on
the stage"
looked for her name in the cast on the
roughly printed programme. 1t read:
"Mss H. Brown"
The stage was not more than twenty feet
in width Once she stood so near the box l
could have reached forth and touched her.
Height. contour, bearing-al resembled
those of Blanche Seton. But as to the face,
that was so ''made up" as to leave ME in
doubt Once her eyes ranged across the box
where l sat They were Blanche Sefton's
eyes, but there was no recognition in their
expression Physically they looke1 a. me
otherwise they seemed no more to s.e me
than would those of a wax figure.
The play was over. The curtain fell. The
audience struggled in congested state for
exit from the one narrow front entrance.
Broencr turned i'll the opposite direction to-
ward door leading to the stage, saying: II
have an old friend in the company and am
going behind the scenes. Good night"
He had gone. I would 60 to the stage
door in the rear, and in some way solve my
doubts But was impeded by the crowd.
A wretchcl fracas, between two armed
inebriates. had developed directly in front Of
the "opera house." and the lingering mass,
nothing 10th to see blood shed, cluttered up
the passageway and sidewalk.
Freeing myself from them at last 1 sought
the stage door, A high board fence ran
from the middle of the rear Of the theatre.
which in reality was but the wing OF another
house got on the wrong side Of the fence,
ran back and was obliged to pass out again
in front of the theatre. At last l stood by
the door I sought. Two ladies and their
escort passed out. She certainly was not
of them. The third and last, closely veiled,
finally came, and accompanying her was
Broener!
OF course, my friend, you would have stayed
in camp that night. and found out "some-
how" whether the girl was Blanche Seton OF
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John Fitzgerald, the newly elected pres
ident of the National Irish Land League,
was born in Ireland in 1881, thus making
him fifty-five years old. He is small,
thick set man, full of determination and
energy. He will make creditable rep
resentative of Irish affairs and interests,
being fully aware that the work to be
done is not of mean or ordinary preten-
sions. Mr.. Fitzgerald came to the United
States when very young, not having full
ly completed his eighteenth year; he
found employment on a farm, not only
sustaining himself but an aged father.
He is one of the prominent Irish-Ameri-
cans who seem to be born to be leaders.
He was elected to the presidency of the
National Land League on the 18th day of
August, 1886. Mr.. Fitzgerald succeeds Mr..
Patrick Egan, as president of the league
and should he make himself as popular
as his predecessor, he will be doing we'll
indeed. John f. Finerty was looked upon
as Mr.. Egan's successor and probably
would have been elected had he not op-
posed the policy of Mr.. Michael Davitt
in the convention. Although the course
which Mr.. Finerty pursued was received
with appreciation by many of the dele
gates it was seen that to follow him meant
the formation of factions and to avoid
this the election of John Fitzgerald was
agreed upon.
THE BEES STING.-The hive and its
imates afford, perhaps, a more interesting
field for microscopic research than any
thing in the whole insect kingdom. Take
the bees sting; why, that alone might oc-
cupy all the rest of this paper. The
sheathe makes the first wound, and, inside
it, so managed that they inclose tube-like
space down which the poison runs, are two
darts, all built in such strictly nechan-
ical way that-Mr. Cheshire ays-they
remind him of the guide rods of steam
engine. The poison is gummy, but it is
prevented from clogging the machine by a
gland, which secretes lubricating oil.
The queens sting is bigger than the
worker's-drones have none-but it is
practically barbless, and can therefore be
easily brought away instead of being
left in the wound and thereby causing the
death of its precious owner. 1t is for
midable weapon, the sheath is so hard that
it turns the finest razor's edge; but a
queen never stings, except in contest with
another queen she may be handled with
impunity. OF the worker it is mistake
to say that it always leaves its sting in
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CHAPTER XIII.
SURPRISE.


The play was "Othello." It was farce
relative to properties and mounting. Two
wings of the signboard style of art had to
serve all the scenic demands Of the piece.
The "dreadful bell" was the tocsin Of the
Placer hotel, borrowed for the occasion, and
its tones being recognized by some of the
boardels drew from them the cry, Thine
for Bangs hash" The jealous Moor was
commented on as the ''nigger," and during
the entire performance was made target
from the demonstrative portion Of the
audience for running fire of combined
criticism and admonition, not friendly in its
character, and evidently based on the Sec
tional prejudices of those who, coming from
the south, looked with no favor on "nigger"
for daring to aspire to the hand Of white
maiden Their chronological research had
never Disseminated between Moor and
Ethiopian. Iago was the favorite of the
house, more and more as the drama ad-
vanced, and as he, playing on the Moor's
emotions, made him more and more miser-
able, one enthusiastic commentator bawled
out as encouragement: 'That's right! SOCK
it to him"
occupied with Broener one Of the two
dingy recesses on either side of the stage, dig
nifed by the name Of "boxes," and held at
$40 each for the night. His keen apprecia-
tion of the part continually played by the
audience, his hearty relish Of the total failure
to impress them with aught Of the serious
ness of the play, and his instant detection OF
every ludicrous point brought about by the
misflt Of the drama relative to the time, tenn
per and character Of nine -tenths Of the look
ers on, made his society to me equivalent to
fine comedy played simultaneously with the
piece set before u.s.
In reality many Of these rough fellows
were critics, in their way, Of no mean order,
though themselves entirely unaware OF It,
think that their years of isolation from the
conventional life Of the older settled locali-
ties from which they originally came, and
the lack of shanfand pretence in the life they
now led, had quickened their minds to dis
criminate between what was natural and
what was artifcial-what was acted with
real emotion and what was merely stilted
defamation, as much Of the piece before us
was on the part of the principal character.
So, when lagos wife, who, it will be remem-
bered, is but little prominent in the first ac.
ton Of this drama, stigmatized her scheIning
husband and wished for whip to scourge
such scoundrels through the world, the house
''rose to her."
had ceased to pay much attention to the
play, being more interested in the motley and
tumultuous audience. But the voice Of this
actress seemed strangely familiar.
I regarded her closely, and my thought
said: That girl is wonderfully like Blanche
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"treated" our partners at the bar, as GUS
tomary, to harmless soda, the only beverage
they took, made a pretence Of drinking our
selves and left for the theatre
As we were entering the theatre Broener
said: "You must 60 home alone tonight. l
shall not return till some time tomorrow"
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American or English cities. They don't get
drunk, won't pick your pocket, and
though morality sits lightly on them, still
they have a certain respect for themselves
which keeps them out of CUTTERS"
We went in. Broener was soon whirhng
one of these tawny beauties about in waltz
followed his example. The dance over, We
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the wound, and dies from the loss. If it
generally does so, the fault often lies in
your impatience; bear it like a hero, and
the bee will work its sting round and
round till it is able to withdraw it with
without impediment. Of course you get
pierced deeper and deeper, but then, con-
slider, the creatures life is saved by your
suffering.-AU the Year Round.
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saT No one becomes good by acci-
dent. You may have a windfall of
material wealth, but not of grace.
TO be really good is the result of
choice and set purpose of each indi-
vidual. To wait for something to
happen which will take you to heav-
en- is to sink to the depths of hell.
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HOME.

The home governs the world.
All social and moral laws of our COM
mon civilization revolve around the home,
1t is the school of social progress: Pub
lie opinion is the collective opinions of
our home.
Clear-sighted reformers aim to direct
the power that rules the home. In GER
tain sense we are all reformers, we all
try to make the world better; some are
trying in one way, some in another; but
we should all begin at home.
Let the home be cheerful, sunshiny
place. There let US find neatness and
comfort. Above all, let us have always
good nature and means Of improvement.
Home is the place for all the best things;
therefore don't keep all your cheerfulness
for society, nor shut out all the sunshine
except when you have visitors. Cheer
fulness and sunshine do not cost anything,
but withhold them and you are heavy
loser.
1t is not alone the housekeepers duty
to keep the home rooms neat and tidy;
each member of the family should assist
in it.. There are a thousand ways of keep
ing clean that saves vast amount of maxi
ing clean. Anyone of refined feeling re-
CARDS all labor to secure neatness labor
of love and duty.
Did you ever hear that little fable of
the chairs? For fear you haven't I'll tell
it to you.
"Well," said straight backed, straight
legged chair to cosy rocking chair by
whose side it chanced to he placed, "before
would be such drudge rs you, l would
be a stool or, if possible, something more
insignificant People are not content
with making you nurse everyone, be they
big or little, but you must be continually
rocking them to and fro."
ITO be sure" answered the little rock.
ing chair, II am always busy and on the
60 for the qualification of others; but
thereby have | won many friends, and
appear to be great favorite with all.
This pays me for all my trouble.'
The moral of this pretty fable is, that
all who cheerfully and willingly do for
others are the ones who gain most for
themselves.
This is most beautiful lesson to utilize
for home life.
One of the pleasantest and noblest duties
of the family is to furnish it's members
with good reading. In times that are
past, it was considered enough to clothe,
feed and shelter family. But now it is
recognized as O fact that we all have hun
cry minds to be satisfied.
They must be fed healthy diet; they
want to be sheltered from the pitiless
storm of error and vice. An ignorant
family is a dark spot on our modern in
telligence.
Let good reading go into home and
the very atmosphere changes. The boys
begin to talk of men, principles. the past
and the future. The girls find opening
before them new life of knowledge, duty
and love.
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CHAPTER XII.
SUSPICION.

Bending over Pratt put to him the usual
idiotic question under such circumstances:
sPrattl are you aliveF
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a9r The greatest pleasure / know
is to do a good action by stealth and
have it found out by accident.--Ldnb.
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THE MOBILE RIFLES.

The following little incident, touching
ly significant of the better feeling existing
between the military people of the North
and South, occurred recently at Mobile,
Ala. A general of the United States army
was on his way from Arizona to New
York, where he purposed entering a sur
gical college to have a difficult operation
performed. AS the train with the sick
soldier approached Mobile, his aid saw that
he was rapidly becoming very i'll, and
telegraphed ahead for assistance to con-
vey him to hospital. DR.. Hutton, the
medical superintendent of the Marine
Hospital, was at the depot with attendants
and a carriage. The invalid was comfor-
tably placed in it with the gentlest and
most assiduous attention, but he died
within sight of the building, a stranger in
strange land.
The next day DR.. Hutton telegraphed
to the family of the dead officer in Ari-
zona for instruction as to the disposal of
the remains, and received in reply:
"Bury him where he died"
AS soon as the Mobile Rifles had heard
"a soldier Of the legion
Lay dying in Algiers,''
they fastened to his help. But he was
already dead, and it only remained for
them to do honor to his memory. This
they did by taking upon themselves the
performance Of the last rites as though
the dead stranger had been one of their
own comrades. They carried him draped
with flags to the National Cemetery and
gave him all the honors of military bur-
ial. In the afternoon of one of the hottest
days Of the Southern summer they march
ed in procession over the two miles of
dusty road, and as the sun went down
fired farewell shot over the strangers
grave. Then covering it with flowers,
they left him in the peaceful bivouac of the
dead.
The deceased soldier was Philadel-
phian, and when the Mayor of Philadel-
phia heard Of the "brotherly love" of the
Mobile Rifles he sent them an autograph
letter of thanks, accompanied by beau
tiful tribute.
Surely this little incident is an earnest
of united interests, and proof that ever
and always
1.-The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring"
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BH~ Common sense in an uncommon de-
gree is what the world calls wisdom.
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FAINrING.-Its is surprising how every.
body rushes at a fainting person and
strives to raise him up, and especially to
keep his head erect. There must be an
instructive apprehension that if a person
seized with a faiting fit fall into a'recum-
bent position death is more imminent.
Always remember this fact, namely:
Painting is caused by want Of blood in
the brain. The heart ceases to act with
sufficient force to send the usual amount
of blood to the brain, and hence the per-
son loses consciousness because the func-
tion of the brain ceases. Restore the
blood to the brain and instantly the per-
son recovers. Now, though the blood IS
propelled to all parts of the body by &C
tion of the heart, yet it is still under the
influence of the laws of gravitatlon. IN
the erect position the blood ascends to the
head against gravitation, and the supply
to the brain is diminished, as compared
with the recumbent position, the hearts
pulsation being equal. If, then, you
place a person sitting, whose heart mas
nearly ceased to beat, his brain will fail
to receive the blood; while if you lay
him down with the head lower than the
heart, blood will run into the brain by
mere force of gravity, and in sufficient
quantity to restore consciousness. In
deed, nature teaches us how to manage
fainting persons, for they always fall and
frequently are at once restored by the re-
cumbent position into which they are
thrown.
Out from that family will 20 intelli-
gent men and women to fill useful and
honorable places in society.
Let the torch of improvement be lit in
every household. Let the young and the
old vie with one another in introducing
new and useful topics of investigation and
in chershing a love for study and advance
ment.
Such home implants memories in the
heart that can never die. The rough rubs
of the world can never obliterate them.
Lives so formed are the timbers that up
hold the world. Chicago Ledger.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-09-25
THr FpExca BRoAD RAIEwAY.


The FRENCH BROAD RAIEwAY.
We alluded to the organization ofthit
road, to connect the w. N. G. Road with
Knoxville, yesterdays We copy the
following concerning the same from the
Knoxyille Tribune y, : g = I. {. 'ss4
| n Preliminary surveys vii be made ol
two routes from Unaka 10 Knoxville. one
Was Seyieryille through Sewer county and
theiother via Dandr1dge through Jeffer.
son county. The engineers will begin
their work within ten days, beginning
! Major Wilson will whit Knoxville be.
fore beginning the survey and the direc.
tors viii make trip to th IS city in a few
! weeks. IS go
Z The capital stock of the French Broad
railroad, one million dollars, will nearly
all be subscribed by John II, Innan, oi
New York and other stock lders in the
Richmond.and Danville, such gentlemen
las were yesterday elected dir tors Of the
Isnew road. Knoxville viii q upon
to subscribe SI00, go Sr .S5eo, ,56o NJ the
stock and Knox. Sewer, Jeferson and
Cooke counties will be expected to sub
scribe l1berally.
The road will probably be bonded for
SIC, 1000 per mile. tits calculated that the
cost of building the seyentv-four miles
from Unaka to Knoxville will reach about
81, ,750, 600. No.hing is included for roll.
ing stock and it is expected that theR Rich
mond and Danville win operate the new
road when completed.
While the new road will be constructed
as the French Broad railway it is practi-
cally an extension of the Richmond and
Danville system to Knoxville. 1t is well
known that the Richmond and Danville
owns the Western North Carolina road
and also the Knoxville and Augusta road
and that the French Broad, which will
be. the link connecting the two, will be
built chiefly by stockholders of the Rich
mond and Danville.
Mayor Luttrell and General Hood re-
turned to the city last night, both highly
elated at the prospect of soon having un-
der way new railroad for Knoxville.
Both these gentlemen have been laboring
| faithfully to bring about this result, and
for their earnest efforts they deserve the
gratitude of our citizens. Both have been
hopeful from the beginning, even when
everybody else doubted that the road
would be built.
We had a talk with Mayor Luttrell
last night after his return from Unaka
He was highly pleased with the cordial
manner in which he and Gen. Hood were
met by the Richmond and Danville
officials and says that he never met q
more courteous party of gentlemen. He
is confident that they mean business
Mayor Luttrell, who has at no time lost
faith in the enterprise, says he has nc
doubt the road will now be built without
delay. He has been in correspondence
Danville and the Louisville and Nash
vile roads and thinks there is no doubt
that it is the intention of these two great
SYSTEMS to meet at Knoxville.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-09-25
MORE PLEASANT Views.

Mr.. P. P. Bishop, resident of Pa
latka, Fla, an author tof some note,
attpresent In 4sheviffe Slide he
has spent the SUMMER, writes to the
Palatka Daily Neaos from which we
make the following extract:
This is the third time that I have
spent July. and August in Ashe-
Vile, and the third time that
I have found the midsummer cli-
mate here all that I could desire.
There have been some hot days, of
course, but we have had no cheated
term" of long duration. On the
whole, / have been more comforta-
BILE here than I was at Saratoga last
year. Even when the temperature
was highest, it seemed to me that
the atmosphere of this elevated
region possessed some vitalizing
properties which precluded all de-
bilitating effects. But 1 should be
willing to suffer a little general
langour for the sake of this glorious
mountain scenery. There are no
awe-inspiring heights in view. ssnone
that evoke the sentiment of gran
deur in its highest force. But there
is beauty, beauty everywhere. There
are deep green, forestaclad nouns
tains near at hand, and oyertop-
ping these or seen through gaps be
tween them, 2 are more distant
mountains, each of them with out
lines peculiar to itself. There is a
great variety of'colors due to vary
ing distance, and such are the at
mospheric effects that the hues
upon each mountain side are con-
statly changing but always delicious
to the eye.
Property owners here look upon
the business of keeping boarders as
one which promises the city rapid
growth, and / think they are justi-
fed in doing so. When sAsheville
had no railroads, and the accommo-
dations were poor compared with
what they now are, the natural at
fractions of the place drew many
sojourners. AS might have been
expected, every advance in accessi-
bility has been followed by an in
crease in the number of hotels and
boarding houses. The Battery Park
Hotel was completed and opened in
July of this year, and has been
practically full down to the present
time. For weeks many guests were
turned away every day. The house
now has capacity for about
300 guests, Is rooms are to
be added to it Immediately. il
stands on the highest ground in the
city and commands a magnificent
| prospect. The charges are from ST.
| to $25 per week, while those at ex.
lcellent private boarding houses are
about $50 per months The propri-
etors of the Battery Park are going
to try the experiment of keeping
open throughout the year.