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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-08-06
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''There," said the magnate, when the
evenings budget was finised. ''now III
put my thinking cap on tonight, and
We'll see what can be done about the
girl. You give her some more flowers in
the morning. Come tomorrow night as
usual. Good night, sir"
Once alone the magnate touched the
call bell. 1t was Immediately answered
by a servant who had learned ere this
the pecuniary value of promptness.
"Get me Baltimore paper" he said.
"The stand is closed, sab" was the re-
ply.
sect me Baltimore paper!" thun-
dered the king in tones that made the
darby tremble and woke up a man in
the next room.
eyes, .sah," exclaimed obsequious
darkness, and fed down stairs to the
clerk with the message that the gentle
man in No. - wanted Baltimore paper
shuah. And the clerk got one.
When the boy brought it up the mag
nate took it hurriedly and turned to the
amusement advertisements. He ran
uOhn lue uols I6u6Cb6u a ulOu16uJ, anu
then sat down at his desk and scratched
off half dozen short dispatches.
"Here, boy" he said roughly to the
servant, ''take these to the Western
Union Telegraph Office. Here's dollar.
See you do it right and quick or I'll have
you discharged.
eyes, sah!" said Hopeful Africa, with
an obeisance and a grin, and disap-
peared
Cant buy 'e1n. hey?" muttered the
king, as he paced the floor. We'll see
about THAR
He crossed the carpet few times,
smile in his eyes and mouth that made
his harsh features kindly and winsOme.
Then he stopped abruptly, seated him
self at his desk, brushed aside the litter
of business and taking Il well worn pack
Of cards from the drawer played solitaire,
according to his invariable habit on re-
firing, an hour by the clock to compose
his brains and thus fight off that YAM
pire that feeds on millionaires-insom
MIA.
1t may have been the cards, or it may
have been from some other cause, but |
that night the king slept restfully and |
,weetly.
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This was reassurng, but not salts
flying.
"What do you think of Quireg' asket
Stevens, with burning eyes.
"Why, l don't know" Windward re
sponded. 81 don't like him much-cer
tainly not in that light. I never talked
with Floy about it; perhaps ought to
He makes himself agreeable, and they
are much together. What do you Think
HE loves her," said Stevens fiercely
"Ah, can see that much, and that side
And it is only natural, suppose, that
should watch her anxiously to discover
her feelings-toward him. She likes him;
that is certain, and anybody can see.
And don't know tell you. don't
want her to marry him. He is no
goodg"
"Oh, no, he is of no particular &C
count" said Windward. 'He's a pretty
good fellow; mean in his way"
(which is very bad way" retorted
Stevens angrily, rising and pacing the
floor. "She might better marry clerk.
declare, don't see why women love
the military-gOod women, 1 mean.
They are the truest and most devoted
Christians; the soldier is the natural en-
envy Of Christ. Women are tender,
compassionate, and faint at blood; the
soldier is professional homicide, man
who makes living by killing prople.
Women are Virtuous; the soldiers morals
are those of the camp and seaport. /
don't understand 1t. 1t is one of the
contradictions of human nature. Still,
we must recognize facts, and as matter
OF fact-it may be but jealousy look
on Quire as dangerous man. The first
you know he will win her, if the thing
is let go by default, or mismanaged.
You asked my judgment, Windward,
and there it is. 1 confess I'm very much
prejudiced; still it's a matter I've had
cause to study pretty closely"
"Well, I'll talk it over with mother
tonight" said Windward. "And we
will find some way of sounding Florence
But, pshaw, don't believe she is going
to marry man just because he has seen
. volcano"
"You can't TELL" said the fearful
lover. Good women, and choice wom-
en-, have married men for less reason
even than that"
True; they're curious" observed
Windward, with the air of philosopher
who has had large experience with the
wiles and freaks of the sex.
81 declare, it's nearly o'clock ex-
claimed Stevens Il must be getting
over to the hotel, though I feel terribly
unlike work. Well, Windward, think
we understand each other, and you can't
imagine how happy am in your friend
ship and aid"
1--WE will hope for the best, Peter"
said Windward, shaking hands warmly
with his friend. "And you can depend |
on my help"
And with this assurance to gladden. .
his troubled heart the anxious lover sped |
down town, collecting his strength as
best he could for a hard long spell of |
drudgery, while his fate, perhaps, was
being decided few squares distant.
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A FAINT HEART.

As soon as his labors were over for the
evening Stevens rushed back to the
house and sought out his friend, whom
he interrogated at once as to the state of
the siege. Windward was able to tell
him that nothing was irrevocable, but
he could not give him any very positive
comfort. He said he had had talk
with his mother, and he found that Floy
had opened her heart to her also. The
sister, it appeared, was not insensible to
the many kind and significant attentions
of the lieutenant.
Mrs. BaSsett, however, was not SO COM
placent. She liked Mr.. Quire well enough,
and if the young people suited each other
she was not inclined to thwart their
wishes. She knew so little as yet, how
ever, of Mr.. Quire's antecedents, fam
lily, character, circumstances, etc, that
she was disposed TO stand on the de-
fensive till he could establish his pre-
tensions. The lieutenant meanwhile had
contented himself with making love
with looks and actions. No words had
passed between them, and if he were to
speak now he would be obliged, so the
mother said and felt, to be satisfied with
a passive answer and bide his time.
''In short" said Windward, 81 am
pretty certain that Floy is not in love
with Quire. She feels that he loves
her, and the idea does not displease her.
1 suppose she is thinking it over, and"
he added with smile, Il hope she is
thinking you over tooF
"Well, am glad it is no worse" said
Stevens, with very serious face.
"You can depend upon it, continued
Windward, ''that told mother some
things we both know about Quire that
won't help him. 1 propose Floy shall
take him with her eyes open if at all"
Stevens thought this policy very just
and brotherly.
81 should tell you" Windward went
on, ''that we have found an ally, and 1
believe very useful one, in an unexpect-
ed quarter"
"How sos" cried Stevens, eager for
any straw.
"Why, in Miss Sophia" said Wind
ward. "You see, the lieutenant has
been flirting with her little, and, be
tween US, think the table gossip has
some foundation that she would like to
get him-at least, she may have felt so
at one time. But now. the gay rover has
spread his sails and run away, naturally
she don't like it, and no more do L
Sophia is fine woman, and Quire has
acted shabbily. He might better take
her and call himself lucky, and get out
of our way at the same time. Well, as
l say, she doesn't like it, and she is not
above spelling his new game. And as it
happens, she knows a good deal about
him." Here Windward burst suddenly
into such merry peal of laughter that
Stevens had to laugh, too, in the midst
of his misery, for very sympathy.
whats the matter now!" he asked.
''Oh, she made the funniest mistake
last night" Windward explained ..She |
told me, when was talking with hen |
this evening, that ought to know that |
after I went fp bed lastnight the lieu
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The ''Old Man" was waiting when
Stevens entered, all aglow, and the die.
tation began at once. The secretary
nerved himself for the task, and fol
lowed the quick, crisp speech of the
magnate as well as he could, but the
strain was too great. Soon he made one
blunder and then a second and third;
and finally he dropped his pen in des-
peration and threw himself on the mercy
of the court.
81 can't write; I'm too excitedl" he ex-
claimed, burying his face in his hands.
Whats up now?" asked the magnate
sharply.
why, I've just asked Windward Bas-
sett for his sister, and he is talking about
it with the mother now. I suppose" was
the reply.
cit strikes me you've left out the girl, 4"
said the magnate dryly. However, tell
me how matters stand.
This was a service much more TO the
secretary's mind Just then, and he at
once launched forth into turgid stream
Of doubts and hopes and fears.
Afraid of Buttons, are youg' inter
rupted the "Old Man" 81 guess that is
all right. Did yougiveh her some fowers:1
eyes, sir; this morning; and yery
awkward / was, too"
That's right; the awkwarder the bet
ter. Oh, she won't elope to night with
Buttons. Don't get excited. guess
you'll get her, and if you don't I'll intro
duce you to some other nice girls Just as
good as she is
This certainly was a new and dread
fully practical way Of looking at it, but.
somehow, it was wonderfully consoling
way. 1t comforted Stevens more than
he would dare admit to himself. A
reasonable, and yet a very soothing,
thought flashed through his mind that
the protege of an arch millionaire mighr
properly consider himself as belonging
TO that class known to mammas as eligi-
BILE young men. No doubt, the magnate
could, if he chose, introduce him TO
sone exceedingly nice girls-but out
mon such baseness and disloyaltyi And
out they went, but they left his nerves
ouieted, sid be could now Do his work
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II the morning Windward decided,
upon reflection, to open the new love
trouble to Miss Sheffield first, and seek
her counsel before speaking to McArdle.
He accordingly made his call very early
in the afternoon, so as to find time for a
talk before they went to the agency.
She met him with a friendly smile and
showed him choice bouquet and bas.
ket of dainties which were to be his bur.
den on their walk to the invalid's bed,
side.
''But you viii have lunch with Us
first, she said ''I am waiting for un-
Gle now"
az don't mind" replied Windward,
Though I've had mine. But before the
colonel comes I want to say that I've got
into another love affair"
"Why, you are enterprising, laughed
Miss Sheffield. DO tell me about it."
This time it Is my sister Florence
exclaimed Windward. s'You see, Floy Is
young yet and romantic. and there's a
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IleaSeQ TO rum
Others woOin'.

Never happy In your own"
mo" insisted Windward, ''that isn't
it. We are only exchanging an unde-
sirable lover for better one."
''That is for love, not friendship, to de,
eide" answered the colonel. ''He may
be an ideal friend, and in loves eyes be
as uninteresting as the scenery between
here and New York-gently undulating
and very tedious"
mo, sir, that doesn't describe Stevens, -
exclaimed Windward. "Not at all.
And then the lieutenant is a naval Of
ficer, and don't like military people.
As Stevens says, they are professional
homicides."
"Oh, does he!" retorted the colonel.
"Well they are certainly lady killers, Z"
and then dropping his lighter manner he
added severely; 'Your friend is right;
they are, but till the world grows more
civilized we've got to tolerate them, and
they are, after all, about as good as
other people. They are narrow in their
ideas, internal gossips, and death on pay;
yes, for monumental people, they GER
tainly ere death ON pay, but 1 like them
well enough, only I think they ought to
marry, like actors, in their. own set.
Then the ladies know what to expect,
and how to talk the service slang, and
how to act, and for that reason I'll come
between lovers. Your sister wouldn't
like to be wife and widow at once; she
hasn't been brought up with that idea"
ITO BE CONTINUED
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boards at our table, who is IN love with
her, too, but the rest of Us don't want
him. Now he applied some time ago to
be ordered to the Asiatic station, and
we now want to make sure that he will
get his orders, and 1 thought you could
help"
81 congratulate your landlady," said
the colonel gravely. ':It must be profit
able to keep boarding house for lovers.
see you are not eating anything now"
''Oh, 1 have just come from lunch, {"
exclaimed Windward. ''Mrs. Elk doesn't
make anything out of me. My appetite
is yet sound, am glad to say"
"And to hear" replied the colonel.
$50 long as the malady of love is peri
cardiac, with tears, dreams, untidiness,
ETC., as the symptoms, it is compare
lively harmless, and the patients friends
need fear no serious consequences. But
when the disorder attacks the stomach,
when love reaches the dyspeptic stage,
then it has ceased to be a laughing mat
ter. But as to the present case-why
should interfere?"
"That is what 1 want to know" added
Louise.
81 hold you to your debt" said Wind
ward, grimly.
"You force me to quote the poet Gays
lines on fiirts, J." replied McArdle:
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Our Wonderfully Complete StOC!

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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-26
A TALE OF RECONCILIATION.
Malone and Langston Said to
Have Come Together.
The News Comes From Washington That
the Little General and the Colored
ex-Congressman Have Been Reconciled
by the Intervention of ex-Congress-
man Waddill-Signs of n Confirmation
Of the Story In n New York Paper.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-[Speciall-
The Star tonight publishes a column
story to the effect that complete re-
Cancellation between Malone and Lang
ston has been brought about through the
intervention of ex Congressman Wad-
dill, from which the following extracts
are made: This was their first greeting
since the presidential convention in 1888.
and it was just a trifle formal at first.
For three hours they travelled up and
down the line of Virginia politics, dis
cussed the records of the past, made
mutual explanations and promises and
calculated as to the next campaign,
gradually warming up to each other
until at the end OF the conference thew
had become faster friends than ever and
had formulated some of tho features of
the campaign.
Langston repeatedly made this asser-
ton of his compromise: 81 shall Join
you as a Republican and rs such l shall
do my best to promote tho interests of
the party. l shall work for you and for
your success just as long as you help
me. But remember this is to continue
just so long as you treat me as Repub-
liCaH. L NO moment you oppose me In
the least because my hair curls, or be-
cause Lam black, shall turn around
and fight you to tho bitter end. l shall
fight any Republican on the color line,
but when that is obliterated can fight
with him."
Malone replied that he appreciated
the situation and that hencefo there
should be no partition of tho party on
the line of complexion. With this un-
derstanding the ex-enemies shook hands
and swore fealtY to their common
cause.
1t is understood that this means tho
sending of n Virginia delegation to the
next presidential convention instructed
for Harrison. No one, however. cares
to go so far as to predict this without
reservation. 1t is not known whether
the President had any hand in the eff
forts to bring about the compromise be-
tween the factions, but it is asserted
that he has quietly removed several OBJ
stacles to this result within the past
two months, and has done much to re-
lieve the pressure in the State.
NEW YORK, March 25--TSpeoiall-
The World to-day says that the move
ment to secure one Of the new circuit
court judgeships for colored man is
made in the interest of Langston, and
that hangston in his candidacy re-
lies for success in some measure upon
the white Republicans of Virginia.
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OFF cHIcAMIcoMlco.
Nineteen Men Lost With the
Steamer StraithairIy.

NORFOLK, Va, March 25.--lSpeciall-
Inc steamer which went ashore mile
below Chicamicomicol life saving station
on the North Carolina coast Yesterday
morning is the British steamer Strait
Marty, bound from Santiago de Cuba to
baltimore with iron ore. Out of the
crew OF twenty-six, nineteen were lost,
including all the officers except the
second mate. The steamer will be a
total loss.
1t is difficult to imagine a more DESC
late coast than that upon which the
unfortunate steamship Straithairly was
wrecked. For hundred miles south
from Cape Henry there extends a strip
OF sand cast up from the sea and separ-
ated from the mainland by many miles
OF broad salt sounds. Sometimes this
strip broadens to a width of few miles
and then shrinkS to mere thread of
gray sand. The inhabitants are few in
mum Der, scattered in solitary dwellings
ana without means of communicat ton
WIN the world save by an occasional
oyster sloop or fishing boat that at ir-
sounds.
Their living is derived from the sea
and the strip is nearly barren of vegeta-
tlon. On the seaside long sand-bars run
out and reefs abound, so that the vessel
wrecked upon this coast is sure to strike
at a distance from shore and be speedily
torn to pieces by the tremendous Hat.
teras surges that have made the vicin-
ity the dread of navigators for cen
fury and has strewn the white beaches
Wiz the timbers of numberless vessels
and countless sailors.
me hfe-saving service is of tho best
IN Inc country, but owing to the charac.
ter of the coast the most useful of their
appliances-the life line thrown from a
gun-can rarely be used, and crews are
compelled to rely largely upon their
SURF boats, which they manage to
launch and land with marvellous dexter.
lty In the fierce surf which constantly
rolls upon the beeches and bars
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-26
WHITE AND BLACK POPULATION.
The Disparity of Increase Favors
the Whites.
Important Statistics Furnished by the
Census Bureau-The Returns From the
Southern States Show That the Whites
Increased "a Per Cent. and the Colored
Population Less Than II Per Cent
What Virginia Has.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-[Special]-
superintendent Porter, of the Census
Bureau, has in preparation an important
bulletin, giving the population of the
South Atlantic and South Central
States, Missouri and Kansas, by races.
The total population embraced in this
count is given as 23,s75.259, of which
l6, S6S,2t5 are white, 6,9e6, 166 colored
and l0,SSs Chinese, Japanese and In
dams. In the States included were
found in 1890 fifteen.sixteenths OF the
entire colored population of the United
States, so that for the purpose of imme-
dlately ascertaining the percentage of
increase of the colored population the
returns of these States are adequate and
not likely to be materially affected by
returns of other States and territories,
whore the colored population is small.
The abnormal increase of population
in what is known as the black belt dur
ing the decade ending 1850 led to the
popular belief that the negroes were in
creasing at much greater rate than
the white population. This error was
a natural one, and arose from the diff
Guilty of ascertaining how much of the
AiN, cosy oHo"h w VIC 1cHIu ccHSuS was
real and how much was due to omissions
in the census of 1870. The facts as as
certained sustain the theory that the
high rate Of increase in the colored
population as shown in 1880 was appar-
ent, not real, and that it was due to i'm
perfect enumeration in tho Southern
States in 1870.
The following table gives the number
of colored to every 100000 whites in the
United States for decades since 100
with the per cent. of increase of each.
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During the past decade the colored
race has not held its own against the
whites in the region where the climate
and conditions are, of all those which
the country affords, best suited to its
development.
1t is seen that in three decades, from
1900 to 1890, during part of which time
the slave trade was in progress, the
colored race has increased more rapidly
than the white. Since 1880 the whites
have steadily increasd at more rapid
rate than the colored people This in
crease has not been effected by the aid
of immigration, for, with the exception
of Kansas and Missouri, these States
have received comparatively few emf
grants, either from foreign countries or
from Northern States.
Similarly the proportion OF colored
inhabitants to the white increased some.
what between 1900 and 1890, but since
that time it has steadily diminished.
In 1880, When the proportion was at its
maximum, there were nearly six colored
inhabitants to ten white. but this pro-
portion has been reduced to n trife
more than four at the present date or
by nearly one-third of its amount. The
deficiencies of the ninth census are SO
apparent in this table that any ex-
tended reference to them is wholly un-
necessary.
Tho following table gives the present
white and colored population of the
several States under consideration:
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States.
Hearing in DR.. Garrison,s Case

WHEELING, w. Va, March 95.-The
preliminary hearing of DR.. George O.
Garrison, the murderer of DR.. George
Baird, took place in the Jail Yesterday
afternoon before Justice w. ii. Davis,
Senator j. Il. Comerville and Col. w. w.
Arnett appeared as counsel for the
defendent. Only two witnesses were
examined for the State-Dr. L. D.
Wilson, who conducted the post mortem,
and William Adelsberger, who was an
eyewitness to the shooting. The
defense declined to put any witnesses
on the stand, although they had sum-
moned eleven persons, and the justice
remanded the prisoner for the grand
illry
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-26
a Child Gored by "A Bull.

BRISTOL, Tenn, March 25.-lSpecial +
"A little child OF Matthew Oliver, liv-
ing near Piney Flats, was so badly
gored by bull yesterday that it will
probably die. The little fellow had
gone out with an Older brother to salt
the stock, when tho furious animal
rushed at him, lodging his horns in tho
child's face and holding him in mid-air
for few moments, shaking him with
We ngence, then throwing the child upon
the ground. The child's face and head
were terribly mutilatcd and one eve is
probably DESTROYED.
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THE TIMES OWL.
A Ferocious Bird of Prey Nearly
Wrecks the Office.

The TINES has been presented with
an emblem of wisdom by w. j. Poor,
one Of the foremen of the boiler shop OF
the Roanoke Machine Works. 1t is a
Virginia eared-owl, better known as
screech owl. His scholarship was
captured under the roof of the great
boiler shop, where he lodged early one
morning, with his mild yellow eye bent
steadily on mouse But daylight
came and he moved no more.
a cruel boy hurled a slug of sheet
iron at him, but it went wide OF its
mark. Mr.. Poor came to the rescue and
compelled the would be-assassin of clas-
sic lore to climb up and bring down the
bird with the two great eyes.
Dir. Poor placed him in neat cage
and turned him over to The TIMES.
he said the bird would be fitting en-
blem for the editorial room. Rats,
principal diet.
The first thing the owl tackled when
let loose was the editors little finger.
The editor will no doubt carry the mark
to his grave. The city editor was
clawed in the hair and came near losing
an eye. The owl was finally driven
into the lower portion Of desk. The
general manager came in and planted
himself on top of the desk to real an
exchange. Suddenly he uttered a howl
and fled. His owlship, with ruified
feathers, had got in his work and
clamped leg that was hanging over
his door. The reporter who brought
him in escaped without scratch, but
the owl is evidently saving him up for
lunch.
Judge Robertson examined his owl
ship and when the Judge was asked why
the owl was reckoned as an emblem of
wisdom, he said it was owing to his
silence, but he could not understand
what newspaper Office had to do with
that sort of an emblem.
The ferocious nocturnal bird Of prey
is six inches in his stocking feet and
his weight is four ounces. When he is
mad he weighs gallon.