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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-07-19
A DESERT CLAIM.
By MARY E. sTIOKNEY.
copyright, 1894 by J. B. Lippincott Company.
CHAPTER ].

With an air of brusque impatience,
as if it had been minded to pass by a
spot of earth so insignificant. the long
overland train halted before the tiny
box of a station that introduced the
travelling world to Hereford City. A
few pieces of baggage and express mat
ter were shot out upon the platform,
while from the last sleeper, SO far in the
rear as to seem altogether outside the
corporate limits of the place, one pas
senger was assisted to the ground with
a gallant care on the part of conductor
and porter which told all observers that
the lady was young and fair, even be-
fore her features were fully revealed.
Then, with blatant grumbling, as il
wholly exasperated at SO much time
wasted, the heavy train strained dog
gedly onward toward the glowing west,
and Hereford City was left to desola-
tion which seemed akin to shipwreck.
Edith Ellery stood for moment mo-
tionless on the bare, weather beaten plat
form, glancing expectantly around the
assembled faces, her gaze rather blank
ly straying on to the frame section
house across the way, like the station
neatly painted in that dark red brown
beloved of the Union Pacific railroad,
surprisedly considering the untidy array
Of sheds and corrals that Uttered the
foreground nearer the tracks and the
huge water tank on the other side, with
the engine house squatting in its shad-
ow, from the door Of which the blue
shirted engineer returned her gaze with
meditative interest. These, with a few
empty cattle cars on a side track, sp-
peared to comprise all that man had
been able to do for Hereford City. She
had an annoyed consciousness that she
had beooIIe an object Of quite intense
interest to all the small community.
A slatternly woman appeared in the
open doorway of the section house, un-
tremendously brushing the children out
of the way while she usurped their
place on the step. A couple of men, who
had been lounging in the rear of the COW
sheds, strolled heavily nearer. The alert
young station agent plainly had one eye
upon her while he delivered some of the
late arrived express matter to man Of
the cowboy type who also betrayed his
interest in covert glances, while a
NANCY dog, having the advantage over
his human competitors in freedom from
conventional restraint, walked up, sniff
ing about her gown with sanguine dem
onstrations of friendliness.
There had been distinct expression
of surprise and discontinue in the first
glance around, oomprehending that no
friendly face was there to bid her well
come, which now was deepening into
something like CONSERVATION as she
grasped the limitations of this place in
which she found herself, to all intents,
alone, with night so near at hand. But
Edith Ellery was not given to nervous
tremors, and although she felt her heart
sinking within her she still wore a stur-
dy little air of self reliance as she made
her way toward the observant gentle
man in the official cap.
81 was expecting the Ellery carriage
to meet me-from the z 6 ranch" she
began, with questioning infection, a
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~ "Ah," said a kind-hearted old
lady, who was passing an asylum for
the blind, ''if all the world were blind,
what a melancholy sight it would be-"
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Stearns,
Smalley,
Spalding

Joe was quick wtted The blood leaped
TO his face. II deserve it, he thought,
but he said, 'fWho was he talking to,
Bessie?"
why to papa, when he made the new
axe handle, and 1 helped him, an it's
nice one. too, joe said Bessie. Joe,
do you like aunt? Pap says she's nice.
tause she makes pie for supper, an oh,
Joe, she laughed at DIR. Grey. an mamma
jess scolded her.
Joe's conscience pricked him though his
heart gave a glad bound, and he turned
Prince around, saying, L expect Aunt
Lucinda is ready now. Let US see how
fast Prince can co.
Lucinda was at the gate as they
drove up, and Bessie was lifted out,
laughing merrily, and insisting on kiss
ing Joe goodbye and telling him mot to
run off with Aunt, tause she looked so
nice in her new dress"
Mice" thought Joe. "She looks like
an angel" and such a feeling of
unworthiness came over him that he
scarcely lifted his eyes. AMI helped the
"angeI' into the buggy 50 awkwarlly.
that her dress caught on the step, and
she almost fell into his arms.
She laughed, however. saying, ct
seems 1 never can get INFO Il buggy with
out trouble I 90 wish r was no, so
clumsy" and joe. without word, seated
himself by her sid. and drove off grim as
a statue.
When thy arrived at the picnic
or. unds, they found a gay crowd assem-
bled and Lucinda, being a Universal
favorite, was at once surrounded and
hurried off to join in a game of croquet.
And when dinner time came, and the
baskets were unpacked, it was Lucinda
who must superintend the arrangements.
Joe vainly tried to get near her. DIR.
Grey was gracefully unconscious of be-
ing in anybedy's way, and managed,
somehow to be of so much assistance
in unpacking dishes and rescuing pies
and cakes from perilous places, that all
the girls were calling on him for adj
vice and help. And when dinner was
ready he easily succeeded in placing him
self at Lucnda's side, and kept up a con-
slant stream of laughter and jest. If
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NOT THAT kIND OF a MAN.

Old Bill McGammOn, who keeps a
grocery store in the suburbs of Austin.
is one of the closest men in the state
of Texas. He abbreviates his words
in writing. He abbreviates his names
on the drawers and boxes of the con-
tents in mis- grocery. Instead of paint
ing the names in full, for instance, he
painted on the sugar barrel, 'Br. Su-
gar" for Brown Sugar" and so on.
One day a, feeble looking stranger
dropped into Mr.. McGammon'S store,
and after looking around, asked:
rs DR.. Prunes in?''
Old McGammon started and said he
reckoned not.
rs Dr. Goldfish in. them" asked the
stranger.
mo, he is not" said old McGammon.
emphatically.
Then tell DR.. Cherries I would like
to see him, if he is at leisure
You get out of here. 1 believe you
escaped from the lunatic asylum. This
amt no medicine college. This is a
grocery" retorted old McGammon,
getting red in the face.
IF this is grocery. then you had
better carry them doctors signs to
where you stole them FROM" responded
the stranger, strolling out.
Old McGammon looked where the
stranger had pointed, and for the first
time noticed the result Of abbreviating
the word dried into Dr." for on the
drawers read, in large letters: Or
Prunes," 'tDr. Peaches" Or. Goldfish"
DIR. Cherries" DIR. Peas" DIR. April
cots" and DIR. Beef."-Texas Siftings.
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and I'm a coward but I'm in for it
now" and Lucinda, glancing at his face,
was so startled at his determined look,
that she exclaimed in a half frightened
voice, "Oh, Joe, what is the matter?
You are so pale, are you sick?"
mo he said sharply, I'm not sick:
/, say, Lucinda let's get married. and
Lucinda said softly "Well. Joe let's" In
a twinkling Joe's arm was around her
and a jerk of the line brought Prince TO
walk do you mean it, Lucinda"
cried Joe. do you love me half as well
as 1 do your Lucinda pushed him away.
''Of course mean it, she said. ''but
there is a carriage right behind us, for
mercy's sake don't let them pass us"
Joe Strengthened up, and Prince was off
like a dart while his driver waved his
hand derisively at the occupants of the
other carriage, now close behind them,
and shouted mo passes on this road"
Lucinda leaned back in the buggy, half
laughing. half crying, while Joe drove
Prince with the air of a hero.
''What do you think your sister will
say to us?" he said, presently. IF she
had seen you today" said Lucinda, II
expect she would ask you how you sup
posed Miss Golden would feel when she
found how basely you had treated her"
"Weu, Lucinda said Joe. whose BASH
fulness had somehow all left him, when
ever you say Miss Golden, I shall ask
after DIR Grey's welfare" and then the
simpletons laughed as if there had been
something very witty said.
When they drove up to the Miller home
stead, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller were in the
front yard watching the people going
home from the picnic, and Mr.. Miller
came forward at once, extending his hand
to assist Lucinda, but Joe called out,
Look after Prince, Miller, and I'll see
to Lucinda; she belongs to me now
'Is that SOP" said Mr.. Miller "Well,
all can say is that you've got a nice
piece of property. What do you say,
Marthy?"
Martha caught her breath and a fence
post at the same time, and before she
could speak Lucinda had slipped from
Joe's grasp and was through the gate
and in the house.
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Then Mrs. Miller, having recovered her
self, said: Never mind, Joe; she's all
right. But how in the world did you
ever"
Her husband interrupted her. "Come in.
joe he said ''Of course you will take
supper with u.s.
"Of course" said Mrs. Miller. You will
have to take pot luck but that's no
matter. You're one of the family now.
reckon. Here, Bessie" as the little girl
came running toward them, come and
kiss your Uncle joe"
Bessie did not understand until matters
were explained, and then, while she did
not object to Joe as an uncle, she pro-
tested loudly against this taking her aunt
away. Joe whispered, Il will give you
the incest little colt. Bessie; for though
nobody knows it, you helped me out of all
my trouble" and Bessie, if she was ig-
norant of how she had helped, was salts
fed.
Mrs. Joe Stebbins tells her husband she
knows no girl ever had proposal like
hers. '.Why.-Jo e.'' she says, you fright
ened me: your words came like bullets"
Well" says Joe, they hit the mark,
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sometimes Lucinda cast glance at Joe,
who was heroically devoting himself to
an elderly spinster, he was ignorant of it,
and Miss Golden was so fiattered by his
attentions, that she whispered to him that
she had always felt when congenial
spirits met, a slight difference in age
should not be considered, as the soul
knowing nothing of time was always
young
Joe nssented to the remark, as he
would have assented to anything she
said but he thought if his soul knew
nothing of time, it was queer it should
be so wretchedly tired and anxious for
that particular time to end. But it
ended at last, and Joe was once more
in the buggy, with Lucinda by his side
That .'impertinent pup" as Joe inwardly
called DR.. Grey, had fingered near her
until Joe han gathered up the reins,
when with q bow and smile he had
mounted his own horse and galloped
away. Nowfas they sped over the prairie
Joe was fully determined to tell his love
ST can't feel much worse. and it's just
got to belsettled. Mrs Miller was right
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THE WHIST FIEND.
He is the Man who Knows it All
and Makes Everybody Weary.

He is the Man who Knows it Ali
and Makes Everybody Weary.
There is one variety of the whist
fend [ do not like. It is the man who
sets himself UP as an authority on that
noble and much-abused game. IAN one
has TO do in order to be a self made
authority on whist is to be able to re-
peat the formula. lace. king, queen,
jack" the maxim, never trump your
partners ace,'' and to have once seen
a copy of Hoyle.
And one possessing these data and
a strong pair of lungs can shine as an
authority and reformer at the various
neighborly whist parties, where the
neighbors meet informally to have a
good time, where whist is merrily dis
cussed and you're supposed to play
Just to pass away the evening, where
the women gather together to enjoy
the game and compare household
notes. where the men meet to forget
their cares, chat with the ladies and
enjoy themselves.
In such places the whist authority
comes like a wet blanket over the joy
of the evening. He has been invited
in to keep the game on. Poor, mis-
guided company. Before the evening
is over he has nearly broken up the
DdIIY DX uGIG4y dlIlIS liz kdlQdOlS
knowledge he possesses. on the subject
of whist.
He calls the ladies down on their
method of playing, rebukes the men
because they do not know as much as
he. and before the evening is over gets
himself thoroughly disliked.
But he does not care. He holds forth
during refreshment time on the duties
of playing whist properly, brings up
little personal "reminiscences of the
evening, calling the attention of the
whole company to the fact that little
Mrs. Brown doesn't know a heart from
a spade. Mrs. Brown bushes, and
Brown gets so mad he threatens TO
leave But the hostess prevails on him
to stay, and after the refreshments the
game goes on.
But the interest flags, and all Of the
company, except the authority, play
in a sulky, half-hearte6 manner. But
the authority doesn't care. He is hav-
ing a splendid time and he holds
forth on correct playing and calls
down every one who throws card.
He is the show of the evening, but he
is not popular.
The women hate him for showing up
their mistakes, and the men deSpiSe
him for being a cad. He is Stunned.
His invitations grow fewer and fewer.
People do not dare invite him. He
WOHQeTS why ne is HOL invited OUT 10
play whist any more, when he tries
so hard to bring about a correct mode
of playing.
He wanders about from one club to
another, but ends in being dropped by
all. YEARLY and listlessly he spends
his evenings, his wife even refusing to
play with him. Poor. misguided man,
like many another reformer, you fhave
struck y. You have thrown a pail
over the innocent joys of your neigh
borhood. You have gotten yourself
disliked for so doing.
Now you can either stay at home
nursing your knowledge, or else throw
it away, get a new birth and come
humbly and repentantly and as the
rest of us for a good time only into
our whist parties. We will take you
back and you can play with US once
more if you'll only drop what you
know about whist
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You must not for an instant think that
Mrs Miller was an i'll natured woman
for she was not. She dearly loved the
young orphan sister who had beSn with
her for years, and really liked young
Stebbins, the neighboring farmers son. of
whom she had spoken so contemptu-
ously. But her ambition had been aroused
by the very evident desire of a rising
young physician in the vicinity to visit
her sister. She had an idea that a mar
rage with a doctor would increase I.u-
cinda's prospects of a happy future, and
was V.exed that Lucinda did not seem to
share her opinions. but showed Il decided
preference for Joe Stebbins, the aforesaid
young farmer.
Poor Joe. What anguish he would
have felt If he had known the thoughts
Mrs. Miller harbored of him. He was a
fine, manly fellow, but had such hum
BILE opinion of himself that he never
could do himself justice. He truly loved
Lucinda Hart. and had repeated to him
self a hundred times the very words in
which he would tell of his love- but
once in her presence doubts beset him,
and one glance of her blue eyes renderd
him dumb. Thus he was always at dis
advantage when with her
AS for Lucinda, we cannot tell what her
feeling for him was. She was nischiev-
iously kind at one time, and saucily cruel
the next. She laughed at him to his
face, but quickly resented any one else
doing so, and invariably defended him
when her sister ridiculed or found fault
with him.
A few days after the conversation we
have recorded between Mr. and Mrs.
Miller, Joe in a new buggy, and driving
his favorite horse Prince, drove up to
Mr.. Miller's gate for the purpose of TAX
ing Lucinda to picnic in the neighbor-
hood as had been arranged by them
selves the Sunday before. From her
window Lucinda saw him, and leaning
out she called to Bessie who was playing
in the yard, to tell Mr.. Stebbins she
was not quite ready, but would be in
few minutes Bessie ran joyfully out,
for she liked Joe, as she always called
him, and after delivering her aunts mes
sage, begged him to take her lust a lit
tie ride
'.All right" said Joe, good naturally.
.'Give me your hands, and catching her
UP he seated her by his side and drove
off.
Bessie was delighted. She chatted gaily
about any and everything, while Joe.
his thoughts intent on what he wished
to say to Lucinda. was silent. The child
was disturbed She did not like this 81
ience "Joe,' she said, what makes you
SO SIP Don't you like me?" Then
before he could answer she exclaimed,
"Oh, Jo3 do you know what a dog in a
Joe ianShed. .You midget" he said.
.swbst n,fHhat into your head?''
..WhY Mamma said she 'spised 'em;
they was plays around keepin' folks
away" sajd Bessie.
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Speaking Of her work among the
legislators Mrs. Amy said: II must
say that I was always treated with
the utmost respect, not only as an in
dividual, but as the representative of
the movement for which I spoke. The
matter is now before the people and it
will become one of the factors in the
state campaign next fall"
Mrs. Amy is a slight, frail-looking
woman, not much over 20. Chautau-
qua county, where she lives, is a verit-
able hotbed Of believers in suffrage for
women. The whole population of the
place, men and women, have declared
themselves in favor of it, and Mrs.
Amy was one of the first to contract
the infection.
Mrs. GreenIeafs Important Post.
Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf is des-
tined to figure prominently in suffrage
affairs when the campaign begins. She
is the president of the state aSsocia-
ton, having succeeded Mrs. Blake in
that position. Mrs. Greenleaf's hus-
band is an eX-congressman and their
home in Rochester is one of the finest
wealthy woman and is an ardent
worker in the cause. She is tall,
massive woman, with a fine presence
and possessed of rare executive abil-
ity. She is not much of an orator, but
makes a good presiding officer. Her
husband is interested in the movement,
and his political experience has proven
beneficial more than once.
The First Suffra Eist.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who
can almost be called the grandmother
Of the woman's suffrage crusade, is
now in her eightieth year. and al
though she maintains a lively interest
in all that is said and done, her age
prevents here from active participation
in the work. Mrs. Stanton presented
the first appeal for suffrage ever made
on behalf of women in this country
1T was at an equal rights convention
held at Seneca Falls in 1S48 that Miss
Cady introduced the motion which
started the great crusade. This con-
vention was really for the purpose of
anti-slavery agitation which monopo-
lized the attention of reform in those
times. but Mrs. Stanton took advan-
tage of the occasion to open up the
question for discussion. and, four years
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Correspondents of The Herald.I

New York, May LIN the words. of
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake. the cru
sade for woman suffrage has now
reached its most critical stage. and
from now on the champions of the
cause in this state viii know no rest
until what they have striven for. for
more than a generation, has become
an assured fact
Both branches of the New York leg
isIature have passed a bill submitting
to the vote of the people the question
of suffrage to women. According to
the revised constitution of the state.
. the same bin will have to be passed
eSIpon by the next legislature before the
Question can be answered at the
polls.
1t is a hot and long campaign that
the women are going to face. First
they must win over the members Of
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THE HIGH PRICES UNwARRANTED.
DIR. SaImon's Report on the Advances
in Rates for Beef.

Referring to the letter addressed to
him by Secretary Morton directing an
investigation into the causes OF the
rise in the price of beef, DR.. Salmon,
the Chief of the Bureau of Animal IN
dustry, has presented 10 the Secretary
a brief statement as to the prices in
the Chicago market of dressed beef
and shipping steers since January l,
1895. This statement shows the ex-
tremes Of prices for this class of cattle
to have been. for January. 81 to S525;
for February. $40 to $3.50; for March.
S4.60 to $500; for April first half, $4.75
to Sc. Commenting on these figures,
DR.. Salmon says:
These prices show that cattle on foot
are approaching paying figures for
growers and feeders. But they do not
warrant any such sensation rise IN
the price of dressed beef tc butchers
by the great Strengthening esta blish-
ments, nor an advance such as has
been reported on the part Of the retail
dealers in meat to consumers. A nor
NAL rise in the wholesale price OF
dressed beef and in the retail prices
should be only in proportion TO the
rise indicated for beef on foot.
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later, in 1852. Miss Susan B. Anthony,
who was then a school teacher, be-
came infatuated with the idea and be-
gan a series of Orations favoring it,
which has been kept UP for more than
forty years.
Mrs. Mathilda Johnston Gage, an
other of the pioneers in the fight, is
now living at Fayetteville, near SYRIA
cuse. Her age prevents her from do
ing any active work, though her in
terest in its success is as lively as ever.
All of these women think that. a
great victory is near, and they intend
to earn it by common sense and hard
work. HELEN GRANGER.
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NICRo-oRGAN1sMs IN THE AIR.

To the unassisted eye the presence OF
even any solid particles in the air is. IS a
rule, entirelS invisible. We say this is so
as rule. for there are circumstances
when the solid particles in the air are
rendered visible. Every one is aware OF
the appearance of a stream of sunlight.
introduced through a slit or hole in the
shutter of a darkened room. Under such
circumstances the air through which the
sunlight passes is seen to be full Of mi
which are thus seen to people the sun
beam constitute. after a only a very
insignificant fraction of the total number
the air contains, for thousands of them
are far too minute to be visible to the
naked eye. Among these latter are the
germs.
1t is only indeed with the aid of our
most powerful microscopes that we are
enabled to discern these latter and form
any estimate of their size. Many of them
are less than the one tWenty-thOusandth
of an inch. In the words of Prof. Percy
this subject. -four hundred millions Of
these organisms could be spread over one
square inch in a single layer. Thus We
could have population one hundred
times as great as that of London settled
on an area of a single square inch with
not three acres, which certain politicians
tell us are necessary for the individual ,
man. but one four Observation-Disclosures of
a square inch, which is quite adequate
for citizen in the commonwealth of mi
cro-organisnns. The Gentleman's Maya
zine.
George III, for many years of his life,
read nothing but his Bible and his prayer
book.
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AFTER A WAR OF
FORTY YEARS.
Suffragists Believe the Fight is
Almost at an End.
NOW AT A CRITICAL STAGE.
NEW YORK LEADERS PREPARING
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

1t VIII BE II Hot and Il Long Strug-
gle, But the Women VIII Go in to
Win; VIII Ally Themselves With
No Party, But viii Work For the
Candidates Who Favor Their
Cause.
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anyway. Let's have a kiss and. laugh
ing, Lucinda says, Lets"
But never has Joe said word about
Bessies story of the dog in the man
ger''
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DARKExED.
took is dark"

THE outlook is dark
Moodily she gazed into the mirror.
Dark; yes, dark
Yes; there was no disputing that the
outlook was dark. And the worst of it
was, her eye was getting blacker every
moment Next time I have occasion to
90 down cellar viii take lamp along"
indianapolis Journal.
Raise a few sunaowers for the chick