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lack of sympathy from her neighbors?
Discomfort is easily sown and the negro
is still weighted down by'superstition.
The Fifteenth amendment did not
quite knock off all his chains"
eyes, but that is nothing to her. For
if there ever was a person in this world
who reckoned she was just born to
manage everything and everybody it is
Sally Bows"
Sally Dows!' repeated CORTLAND,
with a slight start.
Eyes, Sally Bows, of Pineville."
"You say she was half union, but did
she have any relations or-or-friends
in the war-on your side? Any who
were killed in battle?"
They were all killed, l reckon, re-
turned Miss Reed, darlily. "There was
her cousin, Jules Jeffcourt, shot in the
cemetery with her beau-who they say
was Sally's, too; there was Chef Brooks
and Joyce Masterton, who We're both
gone on her. and both killed, too; and
there was old Capt. Bows himself, who
never lifted his head again after Rich
mond was taken and drank himself to
death. It wasn't considered healthy to
be Miss Sally's relation in those times,
or to be even wantin' to be one"
Col. CORTLAND did not reply. The
face of the dead young officer coming
toward him out of the blue smoke rose
as wildly as on that memorable day.
The pictures and letters he had taken
from the dead mans breast, which he
had retained ever since; the romantic
and fruitless quest he had made for the
fair original in after days, and the
strange and fateful interest in her
which had grown up in his heart since
then, he now knew had only been
lulled to sleep in the busy preoccupa-
ton of the last six months, for it all
came back to him with redoubled force.
His present mission and its practical
object, his honest zeal in its pursuit
and the cautious skill and experience
had brought to it, all seemed to
be suddenly displaced by this ro-
mantle and unreal fantasy. Oddly
enough, it appeared now to be the only
reality in his life-the rest was an inco-
herent, purposeless dream.
'Is-is-Miss Sally married." he
asked, collecting himself with an effort.
Married? Yes, to that farm of her
aunt's! l reckon that's the only thing
she cares for"
CORTLAND looked up, recovering his
usual cheerful calm. well, l think
that after luncheon I'll pay my respects
to her husband From what you have
just told me the farm is certainly an
experiment worth seeing. | suppose
your father will have no objection to
giving me letter to Miss Dows."
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been vein Of southern insincerity in
his good humor.
Paw" said Miss 0ctavia with gloomy
confidence to CORTLAND but with a
pretty curl of the hereditary lip, is about
the only reconstructed one OF the en-
tire family. We don't make EN- much
about yer. But I'd advise yo friend,
Mr.. Drummond-if he's coming here
carpet bagging, not to trust too much
to paws reconstruction 1t won't
wash" But when CORTLAND fastened
to assure her that Drummond was not
carpet Dagger, was not only free
from any of the political intrigue i'm
piled under that baleful title, but was a
wealthy northern capitalist simply
seeking investment, the young lady
was scarcely more hopeful. Il suppose
he reckons to pay paw for those mig
gers yo' stole?" she suggested, with
gloomy sarcasm.
NO" said CORTLAND, smiling, but
what if he reckoned to pay those mig
gers for working for your father and
him?"
IF paw is going into the trading
business with him-if Maj. Reed, a
so'th'n gentleman, is going to keep
shop he hain't such fool as to believe
niggers will work when they amt
obliged to. That's been tried over at
Mirandy Bows, not five miles from here,
and the niggers are half the time runnin'
round here takin' holiday. She put up
new quarters for EN- and tried to make
'em eat together at long table like
those low-down folks up north, and did
away with their cabins and their melon
patches, and allowed it would get 'em
out of lying round too much and want
ed 'em to work over time and get mo-
pay. And the result was that she and
her niece and a lot of poor whites,
Irish and Scotch, that she had to pick
up long the river, do all the work. And
her niece Sally was mo- than half union
woman during the wah and up to all
no'then tricks and lodges and swearin
by them, and yet for all that the thing
won't work"
But isn't that partly the reason:
Isn't her failure a great deal due to thi.
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something more than a mere coinci-
dence in his Unexpectedly finding him
self in such favorable conditions for
making her acquaintance. For the
rest-if there was any rest-he would
simply trust to fate. And so, believing
himself cool, sagacious reasoner, but
being actually, as far as Miss Bows was
concerned, as blind. fatuous and nm
reasoning as any of her previous adj
mirers, he rode complacently forward
until he reached the lane that LED to
the Bows plantation.
Here a better kept roadway and
fence, whose careful repair would have
delighted Drummond, seemed to augur
well for the new enterprise. Presently
even the old-fashioned local form of the
fence-a slanting zig-zag-gave way to
the more direct line of post and rail, in
the northern fashion. Beyond it, pres
emily appeared long, low frontage Of
modern buildings which to Courtland's
surprise were entirely new in structure
and design. There was no Renaissance
of the usual southern porticoed gable
or columns and veranda. Yet it was not
northern either. The factory-like out
lines of facade were partly hidden in
Cherokee rose and iessamine. A long,
rooted gallery connected the buildings
and became veranda to one. A broad,
well-rolled gravel drive led from the
open gate to the newest building which
seemed to be an edifce; smaller path
diverged from it to the corner house,
which, despite its severe simplicity, had
more residential appearance. Unlike
Reeds house there were no lounging
servants or field hands to be seen; they
were evidently attending to their re-
spective duties Dismounting, Court
land tied his horse to post at the Office
door and took the smaller path to the
corner house.
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Paper Gas Pines.

One of the many uses to which paper
is now put is that Of making gas pipes.
Manila paper is cut in strips equaling
in width the length Of the pipe to be
made. These are passed through yes
sci filed with melted asphalt and then
wrapped firmly aud uniformly round an
iron core until the required thickness is
attained. The pipe is then subjected to
powerful pressure, after which the out
side is strewn over with sand and the
whole cooled in water. The core is then
removed and the outside of the pipe
coated with waterproof composition.
These pipes are claimed to be perfectly
gas-tight and are said to be much
cheaper than iron pipes. = Liverpool
Mercury.
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tain company. But he will be offended
if we refuse"
He is friend of yours, then?" asked
Drummond.
Il fought against his division at
Stony creek" said CORTLAND, grimly
He never tires of talking of it to me,
so suppose l am"
\ few moments later the train gGded
beside the Redlands platform. As the
two travellers descended hand was
laid on Courtland's shoulder, and a
stout figure in the blacklist and shiniest
of alpaca jackets and the whitest and
broadcast of Panama hats welcomed
him. "Glad to see go, cOn'nel. l reck-
oned I'd waltz over and bring along the
boy" pointing to a grizzled negro serv-
ant of sixty who was bowling before
them, Ito tote yo'r things over instead
of using a hack. l haven't run much
on horse flesh since the wah-ha! hal
what | didn't use for remounts l reckon
yo'r commissary gobbled up with the
other live stock, eh?" He laughed
heartily as if the recollections were
purely humorous, and again clapped
CORTLAND on the back.
Let me introduce my friend, Mr..
Drummond, Maj. Reed" said Court
land, smiling.
"YO' were in the wah, sir?"
"No-I-" returned Drummond hest
tating, he knew not why, and angry at
his own embarrassment.
Mr. Drummond, the vice president
of the company" interposed CORTLAND,
cheerfully, was engaged in furnishing
to us the sinews of war"
Maj Reed bowed a little more for
mally. Most of us heah, sir, were in
the wah some time or other, and if you
gentlemen will honah me by joining in
a social glass at the hotel across the
way, I'll introduce you to Capt. Prem
dergast, who left leg at Fair Oaks. "
Drummond would have declined, but a
significant pressure at his arm from
CORTLAND changed his determination.
He followed them to the hotel and into
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the presence of the one-legged warrior,
(who turned out to be the landlord and
barkeeper), to whom CORTLAND was
hilariously introduced by Maj. Reed as
1.-The man, sir, who had pounded my
division for three hours at Stony Creek"
Maj. Reeds house was but a few min
utes walk down the dusty lane, and was
presentlyheralded by the baying of three
or four fox hounds, and foreshadowed
by a dilapidated condition of picket
fence and succeed gate front. Beyond
it stretched the wooden doric columns
of the usual southern mansion, dimly
seen through the broad leaves of the
horse chestnut trees that shaded it.
There was the usual listless, black shad-
ows haunting the veranda and outer
offices-former slaves and still attached
house servants-arrested like lizards in
breathleSs attitudes at the approach of
strange footsteps, and still holding the
brush, broom, buster or home implements
they had been lazily using, in their fixed
hands. From the doorway of the de-
tached kitchen connected by gallery
to the wing of the mansion, "Aunt
Martha the cook, gazed also with a
saucepan claSped to her bosom and her
revolving hand with the scrubbing
cloth in it apparently stopped on a
dead center"
Drummond, whose gorge had risen at
these evidences of hopeless incapacity
and utter shiftlessness, was not relieved
by the presence Of Mrs. Reed-a soured,
disappointed woman of forty, who still
carried in her small dark eyes and thin
handsome lips something of the bitter
ness and antagonism of the typical
southern rights woman-nor of her two
daughters, Octavia and Augusta-whose
languid atrabiliousnesS seemed a part
of the mourning they still wore. The
optimistic gallantry and good fellow
ship of the major appeared the more re-
markable by contrast with his cypress
Swallowed family, and their venomous
possibilities. Perhaps there might have
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under the old system of enforced labor
and life servitude, to undergo the cost
of maintaining incompetence and idle
ness. The old sentiment of slave own
ing has disappeared beforenatur COM
mon sense and selfShness. am salts
fed that by some such process as this
utilizing of the old master and the new
freedom we viii be better able to cult
vate our lands than by buying up their
estates, and setting them adrift with q
little money in their pockets as an idle,
discontented class to revive old political
dogmas, and foment new issues, or per-
haps set up dangerous position to US"
"You don't mean to say that those
internal niggerS would give the pref
erence to their old oppressors?"
Dollar for dollar in wages-yesl
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BOYHOOD DAYS.
OFT in boyhood DAYS l wandered

OFT in boyhood days wandered
Round our bright and happy home:
In the meadows, through the woodland,
1t was my delight to roam.
knew where the brightest flowers
Sent their fragrance through the air,
Where the squirrels were the thickest,
And the gray fox had his lair.
Where the bee its sweetest honey
In the hollow tree had stored,
Where the prairie dogs and gophers,
In the ground their holes had bored;
Where the sweetest berries ripened,
Just across the little rill,
Where to catch the trout and pick'rel
1t required the greatest skill
Then at night when play was over
Mother lulled me to my sleep,
And prayed God that ever Ger me
He would watchful vigil keep;
Prayed that he would keep her darling
Ever safe beneath His care
That through life, its cares and trouble,
He might never have to share.
Years have flown, now am aged,
Mothers voice is heard no more,
But know she waits TO greet me
When reach the other shore
Boyhood's days are long since over,
All their sorrows, all their JOY,
But I'll ne'er forget the pleasure
That had when but boy.
&C. Benz. Hopkins, in Chicago News
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with the avowed intention Of bringing
her letter from an admirer who had
been dead three years, and whole mem
DRY she had probably buried. Neither
was it tactful to recall sentiment
which might have been a weakness OF
which she was ashamed. Yet, clear
headed and logical as CORTLAND was in
his ordinary affairs, he was nevertheless
not entirely free from that peculiar
superstition which surrounds every
mans romance. He believed there was
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And why shouldn't they? Their old
masters understand them better and
treat them generally better. They
know our interest in them is only an
abstract sentiment, not a real liking.
We show it at every turn. But we are
nearing Redlands, and Maj. Reed will,
l have no doubt, corroborate my i'm
pressions. He insists upon our staying
at his house, although the poor old fell
low, l imagine, can i'll afford to enter
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CHAPTER II.
NEVERTHELESS

zvERTHELESS
as Col. Court
land rode DELHI
erately toward
Bows Folly"
as the new ex-
pertinent W a S
locally called
although he had
not abated his
romantic enthu-
siasn in the
least, he wasnot
sorry that he
was able to visit
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A Strong Affection

Cubbage-I hear you have a deep af-
lection for Miss Brodakers.
Hilow-I have. love the ground she
walks on.-Judge.
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CHAPTER L.-CoYTNuED.

CHAPTER L-CoNTNUED
DR.. DrummOnd shifted at this damn
ing record of neglect and Indifference.
Even if they had been ruined they
might still spend a few cents for nails
and Stats to enable them to look decent
before folks, and not parade their pow
erty before their neighbors," he said.
But that's just where you misundcr-
stand them, Drummond," said Court
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under practical pretext. II was rath-
er late new to seek out Miss Sally Dow
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lack of sympathy from her neighbors?
Discomfort is easily sown and the negro
is still weighted down by'superstition.
The Fifteenth amendment did not
o,,;4o 1-nool. - &C Ill r.. hi, -
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-03-10
The Old and the New.

The Administration Of President liar.
rson passed into history on Saturday
last. 1t will compare most fvoraby for
Jllustrious aud patriotic service with any
Presidential term since the organization
Of the Union. At home and abroad the
Republic has advanced in a degree that
has commanded the admiration Of friends
snd aroused the Jealousy Of enemies
The best of all tributes to the emiusntly
American spirit Of President Ilarrjson's
Administration is the fact that o where in
his departure from the White Ifeuse was
h. hailed with more marked Indications Of
pleasure than among the classes in for.
risn countries that have always regarded
with anxiety and aversion every sign Of
American prosperity and progress -
Those who hate the Amer,
can Republic, WIS rrjoiced in its re.
verses thirty years ago and who desire
to see it cbssked in the march of en- !. ne
to-day, think that they discern in Presi-
dent liarrisOn's retirement sign that
their wishes may Be fulfilled and they
may make no concealmeht Of their ioy
at Republican defeat.
1t is not strange that foreigners who
are envious Of American greatness should
rejoice in the Termination Of President
HarrisOn's four years % off, e. During
those yenrs the Republican party hiss
signally maintained the traditions and
principles which have distinguished It
for more chan a generation. While the
duties on customs have been decreased
TO the amount OF many millions yearly
below the duties collected during Mr.
Cleveland's Administration. protection of
American industry has been strengthen
ed to the manifest benefit of the Ameri-
can workiugman. He has had free
breakfast table through the removal Of
the tartf on sugar amounting to over
fifty millions of dollars a year. and he
Has been protected ia his wages by the
Mckinley law. designed to prevent an
derpaid European labor from driving
The products Of well paid American la
Dor from the American market The
beneficial effects of the protective policy
consistently maintained by President
Harrison and the Republican Fifty First
Congress may be seen in every part of
the United States. from the St Law.
renee to the Gulfof Mexico, from Maine
to the Pacific .-s.aa
The financial affairs of the nation
have been managed with sound discie
'iou aad with careful regard for the |,
sanctity of the national credit. The in
terest bearing debt has heen reduced
from 1888 100000 to S5s5.0t0, 9eoJ
-H'-''hStandinR the ,"'c--~ 80 the 1uty I
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-03-10
Maryland SUNDAY school Union.

Mr.. G. S. Griffin was elected f1r the
thirtieth consecutive term President Of
Maryland Sunday School upion =. the
aDnual needing of saa. organization a
few days SINCE Mr. Grifitb's annual
report gave a summary Of the years
work Of The ssso iation. GThe Union's
Missions; he said, i"has been misunder-
stood, and an unusual effort has been
made Of late soexplain to the public the
character and scope Of the work. AS a
result mlny who have stood aIssgare
giving US their hearty cosoperative aud
support. and the churches are being
brouelH together through the union
convention work. The eyes Of the re-
ligious public are opening to the utility
of the country and district otganiz ltion
and barriers. once formidable are being
removed. Mr.. Grifi,haeccmmends that
the union use its best Efforts to have a
dry in-each year set apart by the church.
es to De known as Sunday Scbpol Union
Day, on whish the work q the min
would be made an object Of, special
prayer u ~ 49,
The Presidents report showed that
during the past year nearly 5000 chill
dren were brought into the Soudss
School through the unions efforts and
70 900 tracts. books and paper were
distributed. There are in MaryIshd q
4Si Sunday Schools. 3l,7l7 teachers
aud 259 92s scholars. State Superin-
tendent W. A. Baker also read his an
nual report, giving an encouraging ou.-
look for the coming year.
Officers for the ensaing year were. re-
elected as follows President, Goldsbo-
rough S. Griffith; Vice Presidents. Rev.
Drs J. W. NJ Williams, J. T Smith,
J, 7. Lief wich, J. Z Grammar, W. U.
and Bishop J. A. Latane;
Treasurer, james R. E'lmunds; Record
ing Secretary. Frank 4. Woods; State
Superintendent, W, A. Barker; State
Organizer. Rev George II Mock. i
The Following, names were added to
he Board of Managers: Rev. Or. C. S.
Albert, E F. Wilmer, 9. F. Taylor and
Dr. p. G. Williams.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-03-10
sheep raising In MARYLAND.

Much interest is now being manifest
ed in Prince Georges Ct unity in the rails
ing Of sheep. Tn, subject has been rev.
| ly brought e ihe. attention Of farmers in
,hstsfsgpn by Rear Adhital Daniel
AmmeD. U s. N, sho has country
home, known as Ammendale, BE- ween
Laurel and Washington. In all that re-
lates to the material prosperity Of the
State the distinguished naval warrior
iakesa marked sol:citude, aud the Laurel
Free Quill asser that he is now devel-
opng plan to make waste lands profit
able by sheep culture.
While Maryland has never been given
great prominence in the list of sheep
raising States, that branch of agricul-
tural industry has for some years been
pursued with remnperative results in
various counties. Long ago many pro-
gressive farmers came to the conclusion
that present methods Of conducting their
farpis we're neither profitable nor practi-
cable The, day when corn and wheat
assured adequate returns has gone BY,
and only in the cultivation Of vegetables
and the raising Of live stock can Mary
land hope to retain its prosperity and
commercial influence.
Admiral AmmeD's suggestions will
doubtless meet With hearty response,
and he carefully and coBscientiously fol-
lowed BY the intelligent and Wide-awake
agricultarists Of the State, who are ready
to hail him as one Of themselves and to
appreciate any effort be may make to
advance theiy interests. Baltimore Sun
day News.
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In lla


,nGs. "a Notwithstanding that the
Republican Administration has provid
ell literally fer the building up Of the
navy. and has faithfully carried out the
pledges of the nation to- the nations de
tenders
The Democratic parry is now in the
control of all the different br inches Of
the government for the first lime s5fce
the war. and the people will watch its
management of public affairs with inter
est and cuncern. If the party under
takes to carry out oil the promises
q the nstioBsi platform il xin be stand
Cd in the shortest time For IN
stance, if Congress undertakes to repeal
the tax on State banks and thereby
food the country with Wild cat money,
or pass a law in furtherance of the pop
ular craze for what is technically called
free coinage Of silver, or to repeal the
Mckinley tariff act, its lease Of power
WI be exceedingly short life.
The hope of the party is in the courage
and farsightedness Of the President, He
is not believer in any of his party's
heresies, has the courage to speake his
mind and to back his Judgment when the
SECESSION demands.
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pMsAsN

LION n, . 49,. - 49,. 8. ,-,.,,.
Pers II CHARLES county during Sss$ Y
lie Spr1pz season, cornneh ing April Is, 1898
n rrrns .r-SeHvice fee $40 o0.eash AZ he time
lot srrxikel, s,' s1a-q s.sfef ss'
3 DESC iptioa .--.iNDrman' lisa 4 ippse brown,
ut be. nfifui cultir, 8 YEARS old, rangy In np-
rearasret and S-iphs liver 500 pounds5ass
Pedigree His pcdigtee-isUf Tie higheAt or.
der. lie was sired nv 'iZlla." who WAS isn-
t,orled and srpA t'v Hon. VIM =. Waters nj
Baltimore county. his dam. Nance" was
sired oy ''Charievs,r impaired by hon Chas
Carroll OF Howard county. Nor nHn" was
purchased from Gov. Frank Brown, on WHOSE
farm, Vt Springfield, Carroll county, he was
fred. I'm 1892 Gov Brown sold number Of
lJwn and three year odd c,lss by ''Njrnan"
weighing between Zoo and 1880 pounds.
Mormon" is one OF the finest Percheron Stall
lions in America.
He will stani at the following places:
Gains Lot, March 9th to April LIST, il.
elusive.
Bel Alton. April Bird and 4th
Ia Plata, April 5th and 9Th.
Robert H Turner, near Newport, April 18th
and 8.h, and at regular i.terYas at the above
places lur.ng the season.
He will be sent to auy part of Charles county
on a guarantee of ten mares
For fnrihei particulars address,
ROBERT GRAIN,
205 CORTLAND Street,
NH lO-cm Baltimore, Md.
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The Japanese government is tired Of
having the seals of its coast taken BY the
vessels of all nations, and has notified its
cnnsuls that it proposes to prohibit for
eigners sealing within the International
limits of its coast. Warships will pa
troll the coasts, AID an appropriation has
already been made for the necessary ex-
penses. 1t is estimated that $50, 900
worth of seals were taken on the Japan
coasts last year by foreigners. while the
native sealers only hot $25. 900 worth.