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enthusiastically received wherever 1t has been pre-
scented.
The popularity of the concerts at the Eden Musee
Is shown by the fact that since the series by Koev
essy's orchestra began the attendance has con-
sderaby increased. The afternoon concerts are
attended largely by women and children. The pro-
grammes while mainly of classical selections. con-
tain also many of the latest popular melodies Many
new groups have been outlined. and the Musee
artists are working to get them ready. TWO new
groups will be ready this week ana VIII DE OF an
elaborate character. Many OF the groups In prep
aration consist OF reproductions OF famous
paintings
Tomorrow evening the Tooth performance OF
Rice's burlesque company in Excelsior. Jr..' at
the Olympia Theatre will be celebrated by the pre-
sentation of souvenirs In the shape OF china clocks
To the women of the audience. The burlesque is
sin playing to good houses and each week the
addition of new speclaltics
Proctor's Pleasure Palace presents another COM
blnaton OF entertainers this week. in the Russell
Brothers comedians. George Lockharts elephants,
as popular now as when the palace opened. begin
their farewell fortnight The Marlo-Dunham trio
repeats the triple horizontal bar act. La Roche.
who IL to be n feature of the next Barnum and
Bailey show ascends and descends spiral stair
way In his mysterious globe. Elsie Adair reap
fects. The Andors the Donatos one-legged clowns:
the Bengalis Eva Swinburne. vocalist and Paul
Slutor, mimic, appear The Russell Brothers give
their funny portrayal OF the Irish girls and
appear in a burlcsque OF THE Two Orphans" in
which James Russell initiates Kate Claxton. In
their retinue OF entertainers are Fields and Lewis.
Johnnie Carroll, comic singer; May Howard, char
acter singer; Fake and Senon O'Brien and Havcl,
Randall and the Soreos For the Sunday eenc ana
from 2:30 to IL the special enteri aners Will In
ciude May Howard Mile. Frasotty. the And0ra
The herald., 1896-03-22
CHAPTER II.
FATHER AND SON

NV Lord Justice-Clerk was known to
many; the man Adam Weir perhaps to
none He had nothing to explain or to
conceal he sufficed wholly and silently to
himself; and that part of our nature which
goes out doo often with false coin) to ac-
uuire glory or love, seemed in MIN TO pc
omitted. He did not try to be loved, he
did not care to be; it is probable the very
thought of it was stranger to his MIND.
He was an admired lawyer, an hlghiy un-
popular Judge; and he looked down upon
those who were his interiors in either dis
tinction, who were lawyers of less grasp or
Judges not so much detested. In all the
rest of his days and doings, not one trace
vanity appeared; and he went on through
life with a mechanical movement, as OF
the unconscious, that was almost august
He saw little of his son. In the childlsh
malades with which the boy was troupied
he would make daily inquiries and daily
pay him a visit, entering the sick-room
with a facetious and appalling countenance,
letting off few perfunctory jests, and
going again swiftly, to the patients relief.
Once. a Court holiday falling opportunely,
my lord had his carriage, and drove the
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lords orders" and set forth as usual. Arch.
lie was visible in the acre bog. engaged
upon some childish enterprise, the instru-
ment OF which was mire; and she stood
and looked at him awhile like one about to
call; then thought otherwise. sighed, and
shook her head. and proceeded on her
rounds alone. The house lassies were at
the burnside washing, and saw her pass
with her loose. weary, dowdy gait.
She's terrible feckless wife, the mis-
tress"' said the one.
Tut" said the other, "the wumman's S
seeck."
"Weel, I Gamma see nae differ in her."
returned the first. "a fushionless auean.
a feckless carline."
The poor creature thus discussed rambled
a while in the grounds without a purpose.
Tides in her mind ebbed and flowed, and
carried her to and fro like seaweed She
tried path. paused, returned, and tried
another; questing, forgetting her quest !;
the spirit of choice extinct in her BOSOM
or devoid of sequency. On a sudden. it ap-
peared as though she had remembered, or
had formed a resolution, wheeled about
returned with hurried steps, and appeared
in the dining-room, where Kirstie was at
the cleaning, like one charged with an i'm
portant errand.
'Kirstie!' she began, and paused; and
then with conviction. "Mr. Weir is nae
speeritualy minded, but he has been
good man to me-"
1t was perhaps the first time since her
husbands elevation, that she had forgotten
the handle to his name, of which the ten
dn- nSic tny,f
proud. And when Kirstie looked up at the
speakers face, she was aware of a change.
"Godsake, what's the matter wi We.
The herald., 1896-03-22
PART I.
INTRODUCTORY.

Copyright. 1896, by Stone Kimball)
In the wild end of a moorland parish,
far out of the sight Of any house, there
stands cairn among the heather, and a
little by east of it, in the going down OF
the braeside, monument with some verses
half defaced. 1t was here that Claverhouse
shot with his own hand the Praying Wea-
yer Of Balweary, and the chisel Of Old Nor
tality has clinked on that lonely grave
stone. Public and domestic history have
thus marked with a bloody finger this hol-
low among the hills; and since the Cam
eronian gave his life there, two hundred
years ago, in a glorious folly, and without
comprehension or regret. the silence Of the
moss has been broken once again by the
report of firearms and the cry of the dying.
The Del's Hays was the old name. But
the place is now called Francie's Cairn
For while it was told that Francie walk
ed. Aggie Hogg met him in the cleaning
by the cairnside, and he spoke to her, with
chattering teeth, so that his words were
lost. He pursued Rob Todd Qf anyone
could have believed Robbe) for the space
of half a mile with pitiful entreaties. But
the age is one of incredulity; these SUPER
stitious decorations speedily fell off; and
the facts of the story itself, like the bones
of giant buried there and half dug up,
survived. naked and imperfect. in the men,
ory of the scattered neighbours. To this
day, of winter nights, when the sleet is
on the window and the cattle are quiet in
the byre there will be told again, amid the
silence of the young and the addition: and
corrections of the old, the tale of the JUS
nf
ton, that vanished from mems knowledge;
of the two Kirsties and the Four Black
Brothers of the Cauldstaneslap; and of
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but never met Archie" No one had met
| Archie. a malady most incident to only
sons. He flew his private signal, and none
needed it; it seemed he was abroad In q
world from which the very hope of inti-
macy was banished and he looked round
about him on the concourse of his fellow
students, and forward to the trivial days
and acquaintances that were to come, with.
out hope or interest.
As time went on. the tough and rough old
sinner felt himself drawn to the son Of his
loins and sole continuator Of his new FAM
| lily, with softness of sentiment that he
could hardly credit and was wholly impo-
| tent to express. With face voice, and
manner trained through forty years to ter
rify and repel, Rhadamanthus may be
great but he will scarce be engaging. It
| is fact that he tried to propitiate Archie,
but a fact that cannot be too lightly taken:
| the attempt was so unconspicuously made,
the failure so stoically supported. Sympa.
| thy is not due to these steadfast iron ma.
lures. If he failed to gain his sons friend.
ship, or even his sons federation, on he
went up the great bare staircase of his
duty, uncheered and undepressed. There
might have been more pleasure in his re-
lations with Archie. much he may have
recognised at moments; but pleasure was
a bi-produce of the singular chemistry of
life, which only fools expected.
An idea of Archie's attitude, since we are
all grown up and have forgotten the days
of our youth, it is more difficult to convey.
He made no attempt whatsoever to UNDER
stand the man with whom he dined and
breakfasted. Parsimony of pain, glut of
pleasure, these are the two alternating
ends of youth; and Archie was of the par
simonious. The wind blew cold out of a
certain quarter-he turned his back upon
it, stayed as little as was possible in his
fathers presence: and when there, averted
his eyes as much as was decent from his
fathers face. The lamp shone for many
hundred days upon these two at table
my lord ruddy, gloomy, and unreverent;
Archie with a potential brightness that was
always dimmed and yelled in that society;
and there were not perhaps, in Christen-
dom two men more radically strangers.
The father. with a grand simplicity, either
spoke of what interested himself, or main
tanned an unaffected silence. The son
turned in his head for some topic that
should be quite safe, that would spare him
fresh evidences either of my lords inher-
ent grossness or of the innocence of his
inhumanity; treading gingerly the ways Of
intercourse, like lady gathering up her
skirts in a by-path. If he made a mistake
and my lord began to abound in matter Of
offence, Archie drew himself up, his brow
grew dark, his share of the talk expired;
but my lord would faithfully and cheerfully
continue to pour out the worst of himself
before his silent and offended son.
'Well, it's a poor hert that never re-
joices!' he would say at the conclusion of
such a nightmare interview. but I
must get to my plew-stilts." And he would
seclude himself as usual in the back room,
and Archie go forth into the night and the
city quivering with animosity and scorn.
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menu" cried the housekeeper, starting
! from the rug.
II do not ken," answered her mistress
shaking her head. but he is not speerit-
ually minded, my dear"
Here sit down with ye, Godsake what
ails the wife," cried Kirstie, and helped
and forced her into my lords own chair
by the cheek of the hearth.
| keep me, what's this?' she gasped.
"Kirstie, what's this? I'm frich'ened."
They were her last words.
| 1t was the lowering nightfall when nv
| lord returned He had the sunset in his
back, all clouds and glory; and before him,
by the wayside, spied Kirstie Elliot wait
ing. She was dissolved in tears, and ad-
dressed him in the high, false note of
fhe Lord pes9ey saGh at LII ngsrS
prepare yer she keened out. Weary up
on me, that should have to tell it''
He reined in his hor>s and looked upon
her with the hang;Hg face.
"Has the Fren>n landit?" cried he.
"Man, mar she said 'is that a. ye
can thinl> of? The Lord prepare ye: the
Lord comfort and support ye!''
'Is onybody deid?" says his lordship
cts no Erche?"
| "Bethankit, nor exclaimed the woman
startled into a more natural tone. "Na, ma
it's no sac bad as that. It's the mistress
my lord; she just fair flittat before my cen
She just gi'ed a sab and was by with it
Eth, my bonny Miss JEANNE, that l mint
sac weelw And forth again upon tina
pouring tide of lamentation in which WON
en- of her class excel and overabound.
!. 80 In he hn
holding her. Then he seemed to recove
!. command upon himself,
"Weel, it's something of the suddenest,
said he. But she was dwaibly bod.
from the first
. And he rode home at a precipitate am
BILE with Kirstie at his horses heels.
: Dressed as she was for her last walk
they had laid the dead lady on her bed
| She was never interesting in life; in dealt
, she was not impressive; and as her hus
t band stood before her, with his hand
, crossed behind his powerful back, tina
which he looked upon was the very imag
: of the insignificant.
! "Her and me were never cut out for on
} another he remarked at last. ut was
t daft-like marriage" And then with mos
unusual gentleness of tone. "Puir bitch,
e said he, "puir bitch!' Then suddenly
"Wheres Erchie?"
Kirstie had decoyed him to her room an
= given him "a jeely-piece."
"Ye have some kind of gumption, too
observed the Judge, and considered hi
e housekeeper grimly. "When all's said,' h
d added, 81 might have done waur-I mich
t have been marriet upon skirling Jezebe
0 like your
, There's naebody thinking of you, HeI
: miston!" cried the offended woman. wv
d think of her that's out of her sorrows. An
g could she have done waur? Tell me thai
; Hermiston-tell me that before her clay
i cauld corp"
{; "Weel, there's some of them gey an i
f to please" observed his lordship.
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ing, and to what a horror of an immortal
ity! care not two sparrows," "Whosoever
shall smite thee" God sendeth His rain"
Judge not, that we be not judged these
texts made her body of divinity; she put
them on in the morning with her clothes
and lay down to sleep with them at night;
they haunted her like favorite air, they
clung about her like a favorite perfume.
Their minister was marrowy eXpounder
of the law, and my lord sat under him with
relish; but Mrs. Weir respected him from
far off; heard him dixie the cannon of a
beleaguered city usefully booming outside
on the dogmatic ramparts; and meanwhile,
within and out of shot, dwelt in her private
garden which she watered with grateful
tears. 1t seems strange to say of this col
orless and Intellectual woman. but she was
true enthusiast, and might have made
the sunshine and the glory of a closter
Perhaps none but Archie knew she could
be eloquent; perhaps none but he had seer
| her-her color raised, her hands clasped
or quivering-glow with gentle ardour
There is a corner of the policy of Hermis
| ton, where you come suddenly in view ot
the summit of Black Fell, sometimes like
| the mere grass top of hill, sometimes
| land this is her own eXpression) like 6
precious jewel in the heavens. On sucI
days, upon the sudden view of it, her hant
would tighten on the child's fingers, hel
voice rise like song. 81 to the hlls!' sht
would repeat. "And o, Erchie, are nae
these like the hills of Naphtali?" and hel
| easy tears would flow.
Upon an impressionable child the effect
of this continual and pretty accompaniment
to life was deep. The woman's quietism
and piety passed on to his different nature
undiminished; but whereas in her it was
a native sentiment in him it was only al
| implanted dogma. Nature and the child's
| pugnacity at times revolted. cad from
| the Potter-row once struck him in the
mouth; he struck back, the pair fought il
out in the back stable towards the Mead
ows, and Archie returned with a consid
cradle decline in the number of his from
teeth, and unregenerately boasting of the
losses of the foe. 1t was a sore day fol
Mrs. Weir; she wept and prayed over the
infant backslder until my lord was due
from Court, and she must resume that all
of tremulous composure with which sh
always greeted him. The Judge was tina
day in an observant mood, and remarked
upon the absent teeth.
Il am afraid Erchie will have been fecht
ing with some of they blagyard lads sait
| Mrs. Weir.
My lords voice rang out as it did seldom
in the privacy Of his own house. III
have nonn of that, sir.' he cried. "Do yo,
hear me ?-nonn of that! No son of min
shall be speldering in the glaur with any
dirty raibble.''
The anxious mother was grateful for 81
much support; she had even feared th'
contrary. And that night when she pu
the child to bed-"Now, my dear, ye see!'
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she said. II told you what your father
would think of it. if he heard we had fal
len into this dreidful sin; and let you and
me pray to God that ye may be keepit from
the like temptation or stren'thened to re-
sist it.'
The inimitable womanly falsity Of this
was thrown away. Ice and iron cannot be
welded. and the points of view of the JUS
tice-Clerk and Mrs. Weir were not less
unassimilable. The character and position
OF his father had long been a stumbling
block to Archie, and with every year of his
age the difficulty grew more instant. The
man was mostly SILENT when he spoke at
all, it was to speak of the things of the
world, always in a worldly spirit, often in
language that the child had been schooled
TO think coarse, and sometimes with words
that he knew to be sins in themselves.
tenderness was the first duty and my lord
was invariably harsh. God was love- the
name of my lord Ito all who knew him) was
fear. In the world, as schematised for
Archie by his mother, the place was mark
ed for such a creature. There were some
whom it was good to pity and well Though
very likely useless) to pray for; they were
named reprobates, goats, Gods enemies,
brands for the burning; and Archie tailed
every mark Of Identification, and drew
the inevitable private inference that the
Lord Justice-Clerk was the chief of sinners
The mothers honesty was scarce COM
plete. There was one influence she feared
for the child and still secretly combated; ;
that was my lords; and half unconsciously
half in wilful blindness, she continued
to undermine her husband with his son.
As long as Archie remained si
lent, she did SO ruthlessly, with
a single eye to heaven and the childs
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CHAPTER 1.

Frank Innes. "the young fool advocate" !"
that came into these moorland parts 10 nnd
his DESTINY
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11

RESOLVED, That this Committee
direct the County Central Cnmmit
tees OF the Silver Party in the several
counties in the State to call primary
elections at the time designated by
this Committee and 10 district coun
ties, apportion delegates to the
State Convention among the districts
OF their respective counties, and SUI
pervise the election of such delegp tes
and that in couuties having no regu
larlv organized County Ger tral Com.
mittees, we recommend that members
OF the State Central Committee in
such counties be and are hereby auth.
orized TO call Primary Elections and
to supervise the election of such del.
egates.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
ASSESSMENT NOTICE,

0CTORORAG GOLD MINING COMPANY.
" Location Of principal place of business.
Wells, Elko county, Nevada. Location OF
works, Mardis mining district, Elko county
Nevada.-Notice Is hereby given that at q
meeting OF the Board o Directors, held on
the 28th day Of July, 1895, an assessment
mo. y OF one cent per share was levied
upon the capital stock Of the corporation,
payable immediately to the Treasurer, at
his office In Park City. Utah. Any stock
upon which this assessment shall remain
unpaid on
The 1st day of September, 1896,
Will be delinquent and advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on Tuesday, the
22d day OF September, 1895, to pay the de-
nnquent assessment, together with the cost
OF advertising and expense OF sale. BY
orderOf the Board OF Directors.
~ }. H DEMING, Secretay
Omce-First National Bank, Park City.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
NOTICE.

BY order of the Board Of COUNTY
Commissioners of Elko County State
Of Nevada, made this 4th day Of
March, 1895, notice Is hereby given
that all persons who are charges lop
the county must come to the County
Hospital, or all claims for their sup
port will be disallowed by said Board
except in cases Of extreme emergen.
cy.
Attest:
WEBSTER PATTERSON,
Deputy County Clerk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
Collection Agency.

Indorsed by the Leading Firms Of the
Coast.
What is? 5.
The INTERSTATE COMMERCIAL
AND COLLECTION AGENCY.
Send your slow accounts to them t,rscol-
lection.
once, 91O Fifth Street. Sacramen >, Cal.
Don't delay. Call at once and let :. have
your business.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
FILE YOUR Bill -.

BY order of the Board OF County Commits.
sioriers, all bills against tho County to be
acted upon by the Board must h fled oDOr
before the Saturday immediately preceding
the Monday upon which the Board meets,
otherwise the bills will not bo acted upon
until the next meeting Of the Board.
Attest: JOHN HENDERSON,
County Clerk.
BY w PATTERSON, Deputy.
Dated March 2 1906.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
WARNING TO VAGRANTS.

BY order OF the Board Of County Commits.
sioners all male persons having the physi
cal ability TO work, convicted OF vagrancy
shall be required TO perform labor on the
public works, buildings, grounds and ways
Of Elko county.
Attest: -
JOHN HENDERSON,
County Clerk.
BY. w. PATTERSON,
Deputy Clerk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11

II am In favor Of Bryan and SewalI for
President and Vice President Of the United
States and the Free and Unlimited Coinage
Of Silver at the ratio of I6 to 1, by the Unit
ed States, independent Of any other nation
and will support the nominees OF the Silver
Party. ...
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11

Tne several Silver Party County Central
Committees will COLL q Primary Election Of
tho people on
Saturday, August 22nd, 1896.
For the purpose Of electing delegates to
the said convention, the primary election
to be carried out in compliance with the
lows Of the State.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
TEST.

The following test will bo required Of
voters at said primary election:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-11
Also for the appointment OF q State Cen.
trail Committe and the transaction Of
such other business as may properly
come before the Convention.

The basis of representation Of the respec-
tive counties in the said convention shall
be one delegate for each Fifty votes cast
for the Silver party nominee for Governor
and one for each fraction exceeding Twen.
ty-Hve, at the State election held in 1894, ag.
gregating lO7 delegates, and apportioned as
fol1nuva. = ~
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
JAMES T. FLOWERS DEAD.
A Former Citizen Of Manning died i
Columbia and His Remains M
tered in Sumter.

Mr. jas I. Flowers. ST., died last night
at his home At 7l5 L"mbcr street al 1924
O'Clock. His illness WAS v"ry brief. IL
was attacked Satrr.:.,r nic:,t with hcait
failure an! never rallied. He vas GO year
old and w.S born IN Sumter county. !3e
was oae Of the first 10 volunteer II d.
ferse cf the Confelcracy and served
Throughout the war under Captain Dtpass,
of Camden. After the war lie returned 70
Sumter. where he engaged IN the carriage
manufacturing trade. He retired from
business several years ago "ni has since
been living in Columbia. He l"a"e5 th:e"
sons. Messrs. =. e. and J. 7. Flowers. of
this city, and Mr.. E. G.. Flowers, of Lake
City, Fla. His wifA, WHO was Miss Mary
N. Gilbert OF Snmter. died u years ago
The SOP in Florida was tciegraphed for and
arrived in the city this morning. 1t is
likely the remains will be carried to Sun-
ter for interment The sons have the SYM
pathv OF mary friends il this city il! the
loss of their father, who was in green cli
age which gave promise that he would be
spared to them for many years to c1nle.
Columbia Register.
Mr.. Flowerss remains were taken to
Sumter from Columbia, being accompanied
by his sons. Messrs. E. E. and J. T. Flow
ers, of Columbia, and SIr E. G. Flowers.
OF Lake City, Fla. The funeral services
We're held at the First Methodist church,
Rev. J. ". Daniel officiating.