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HUSAROCHT coxexrren. tacky to git off with our skins, ana tc have farms to aettle down upon.' 'Extry pay! Wal not muchf But Direiia vu not to M driven from her main point, even by micb corn as tbia. "Dank, tell me this," she began a tnoment later, -'an' I won't pester you-un no more. A in' a corp'ral at big as a jedjre now?" Hit's diffrunt." began Dank philo sophically, after something of a pauss. "Yes. "hit's diffrunt," she repeated eagerly, "bnt ain't it soaiethln' like? Don't corp'rals go to Congress, an' git to be somebody roor'n Allowee FolU7" "Huccom ye sech a durn fool'" he cried aaagely for him "I caynt make out head nor tail toyer talk no how. I 'low I'm allers gom' to live down yer on the Allowee now I'ts got back yer. Hit was good enough for my pap an' your pap, an' hit's good enough fer me. Go to Congrcus! Lord! They ain any southerners goin' to con gress fur one while, not if they-uns up Kawth can help it, you bet! Congressl ' I 'law ye're goin' crary, shore, Bexv!" Dank rose and shuffled off to tne Fo' ornens, whnee he returned very drunk two or three hours later. The last spark of hope in Direxia's heart that the social position of herself and tier children was ever to be bettered by her husband was out She devoted'herself now to the train ing of her children, and almost spoiled fcer'hcalth and her head in trying to help them and she had some dim no tion of helping herself also in th long evenings when Dank was away with his mates, and the younger chil dren were ask-on. Then a fifth child came, but though Direxia tended hlml with feverish care, hn sickened and died before he was three years old. The one next older, the brightest and prettiest of them all, a boy on whom he had set bright hopes, followed him. Earl was heavy-faced, gentle and force less like his father: but Direxia would not admit even to herself that he was ot so "likely" as "Voylet.- At fifteen Voylet was a beauty for the Allowee. She had learned, hei fond mother told her neighbors, every thing that could be learned in the val ley, and in the full ,she was going tc Trail to school. By saving and pinch ing, in the true New England fashion, though Direxia 'might have stopped it if she had suspected that she was copy ing so reprehensible a model, she had Amassed a little fund, to which she was constantly, adding, by the roost inces sant labor, for the education of her children. No lawyer, nor anybody else, she was determined, should hold bis head above her children, on account of superior knowledge. With an Innate acutene&s which seized the best of the conclusions at 'Which she arrived by slow and painful mental processes, and held them fast, she had discerned that edu cation was the key to that broader ex istence which she coveted for her chil dren, and she proposed to devote her , tne to securing it for them. Her father and mother did not sur vive the war many years. They lived long enough to hear from their north ern friends of the sad changes which had taken place during the five or six years which' had passed ince they had written last; and to learn in the most chaste and explicit New England plain speech that they tvere regarded as "rebs" of the blackest dye, and as cut off forever from the sweet influences of family affection. Elicier retorted in kind, and he and ilexy gave up at last a hope which they had secretly cherished to go back to their old home some time and "see the folks." In the better land to which they departed soon afterward, a land to which they might have remained -strangers for years to come if they had Only staid under the shadows of the salubrious blue hills of the North, in- stead of subjecting their ignorant I Maine constitutions to the miasms ol the Allowee, in that better land, no -doubt, their foolish quarrels were all -settled. Cyrus succeeded to his father's farm, but the money which the old people -bad saved, considerably over a thou sand dollars, despite the ravages of the war, fell to Direxia. She put it hun grily by for her children, though Dank thought he knew of other ways to pend it Direxia, despite her love for him, on this one matter was adamant. Those children were going to be edu cated. ' Cyrus had not turned out to be essen tially different from the small planters around him. He drank more than was good for him, and his "shif less" young wife, who had once been the belle of the Allowee, had faded in a few years to a dragged-out-looking woman with the clayey complexion and lustreless yes which characterized the female portion of the Allowee folks. Her children were neglected, her house was worse even than the average of her eighbors', and Direxia hated to go to the poor cabin which her mother had ept spotlessly neat through so many years. But Cyrus did not seem to mind it - - "I've heern tell as how they's colleges fer gyurls nowadays, same as they is fer boys," Direxia told her husband one day, shortly after she learned of the amount of money which had come to her from heriparents. "If they is, Voylet is goin' fer shore." Dank had no opinion of this putting forward of women-bodies, and he said so, but Direxia was far in advance of him and, indeed, of her entire section. Voylet was going to have the best kind of an education that v as to be had, and if colleges supplied that, why, to a col lege Voylot should go. f In the fall, as Direxia had "reckoned," Voylet went to Trail A boarding place was found for her in a respecta ble family who had moved into town from the Allowee. Friday nights some one drove in for her and brought her borne. But one night in February, when the Journey to town had been made with infinite labor through liquid miles of mud, Earl came home without Voylet Hs brought a lady-like note xrom ina nigniy educated young per son, saying that the roads were so "ter cible" that she thought she wouldn't go home this tuse.evpeciany as she had as invitation to attend a concert the next evening and was having a power ful good time. Direxia sniffad trouble immediately. The next morning she went m person, and brought her daughter home. She learned then, what she had dimly suspected before, that Voyltt s young affections were fixed, upon untsculine object in the person of a journeyman plumber in Trail. Direxia wept and pleaded, but as the wueUs want ou she saw there was no ue in olo- t.on. Voylet was wilful andepj:!eJ; the young man aeeuieu a nicely enoufe'n sort of fellow, and devoted to her. Dank thought it was a neap better for "the gyurl to settle down as gyurls should, stid o' set- tin' out to git heap u Wino. tucy hadn't no use fer," and in the Mar following the Trail educational ex periment Voylet was mai.ied, and after a trip to Memphis the "settled down" in a little home of her own. Now Direxia concentrated all her hopes upon Earl The boy was not stupid, and when he left the log school house, where he had had a year of in struction from tho best teacher that Allowee had ever known, it was pre dicted that by s year more of (olid study be might be ready to en ter collt-ge in the next county, to which Pii-exla's ambition had tinned. The young teacher had taken the pains to tutor Earl out of school hours for a little extra pay, and had bad a faculty of interesting the boy, so that he had ' really done well. He was accordingly sent to school in Trail just as his sister had been, only he boarded with her, and to do her justice, she attempted to second her mother's projects' He worked through the year uud came home in June, having accomplished his task. ' That summer Cyrus wanted extra hands and Earl went over to the old homestead and staid several weeks with him.' lie earned some money by this means, but he acquired a habit which was worse than any lack of money. Officious neighbors brought the news of it to Diroxia. They- thought she would not mind it much. Dank drank enough, heaven knew. Hut there were not so many hopes pinned to Dank as to Earl. Direxia was wild at the thought of her son's future being im perilled by a possible appetite for liquor, and she had long talks with the boy on the subject before he started for college in the fail. He made her many fair promises, but before another summer came around he was expelled for getting into some scrape while he was not himself, and he came home to find his mother heart-broken. The boy was sorry, bnt he was too shallow and too easy-going to feel his disgrace and ber disappointment very long; and as Dank, who had had the 'middlin' poorlys" ever sine, his army life, and had not lived in a way to get over them, sickened during the sprinr, and was not able to do a stroke of work all the season, the boy had his hands full. In the fall Dank died, p.iid poor Direxia mourned him sincerely. The next year she and Earl managed the farm together. He did not conquer his habits, but he was fond of hor, and with tho overweening love of a mother, she had managed to forgive him, out wardly at least ' The year following, Earl was 21. Tho women on the Allowee were old at 40, and though Direxia was not much more than that, she felt that her life was spent She had cherished her poor little ideals, but she had seen them shat tered; and since Dank's death she hail felt that she had little to live for. Burl, like- all of the young fellows of the neighborhood, among whom he hail tost none of prestige by his escapades, spent every evening away from home, and usually in the store at the 1m' Corners, lie was regarded as an ora.'le among his companions. His language was better and he knew more than any other young man upon the Allowee There had been some talk about lii- "TOU-'JNS OCT TO 00 HOW. ' studying law, but eveu '..is ambitions mother did not encourage biro to do so. one nan a blind lee hug that as long as he was at home where she could look after him, ho would not go quite to the dogs. She was not so sure of it, if he should try to shift for himself. Earl, though he enjoyed the aistinction awarded him bv his com panions, seemed utterly destitute from aspiration. It had seemed to be his auty, alter his father a death, to stay with his mother, and to carry on the plantation as well as he could. He had been content to rest iu that place. One night he came home sober- than usual. Direxia did not always sit up lor mm, but to-night she happened to. His eyes were very bright, and looked fairly handsome, though he had never been thought so good-looking as his sister. 1 ve got some news for you, moth er," he began, almost before he opened tne door. A sudden dread smote her heart She had picked up some of the phrases of civilization from her children, but in her excitement she reverted to the old vernacular in which she first talked and in which she thought "You-uns struck me all of a heap, Earl," she began, tremulously, "but I low' it's good news by yer looks." "You're right it is." he rejoined, with smiling pride. "Jinny Powers, is going to marry me. I've made her set the day already. I told her everything was ready here for her and I knew yoty were lonesome. She says the wedding may come off the first of Maroh." It was now the middle of January. Direxia drew aquick breath. Bee conhj i not even congratulate her boy, thougt the girl was well enough, and sjemld that hs was perfectly happy. fh sol dumb. "Speak out. mammy! he cried, wrth a spice of masculine sternness In hit tone. "Ain't you glad? Ain VI a iuckj fellow? Half the boys on tho AJ.owee are afUr Jinny. and she's gwing tc have me!" "Hit's powerful p'easant, I 'low,' stammered Direxia. "IbopeyouHmek her a goad husband, Earl, Tm shore I do an' that sUo'il malts you a good wife. I I ain't so dreadful Ioneon, cept long o' mlisin" your pappy, an' tain t likely she's goin" to be like he was to me." I'oor mammy!" cried the young man, too lull ol happiness to .rpproaeu her for not enteriu? more fully into bit joy. "You've had a laird Uiiie. but you'll like Jinny and sltc'il like you, and we'll enjoy ourselves now, you'll see." But to Direxia ths thought of having this giddy young Jinny I'owews come into her home as tho mistress thereof was very hrd. She went to bed weep ing unreasonably, and all through the next day she could not keep her thoughts on her work. Hr shining kitchen! There was none Hire it oil the Allowee. Jinny Towers would doubtless allow her molher-in-kiw the priviiej'd of keeping it clean in the fu ture as she had done in the past bnl Direxia was not sure that Kbe should thoroughly enjoy that privilege under the changed coLditious of her itfe Earl went off soon after uj.per the next evening, and Direxia sat dovn be side the lump, and gazed into the fire through tho tears which rolled silently down her cheeks from time to time. At last, from sheer weariness' of het thoughts, she picked up the cmrnty paper, published at Trail, and glanced idly over ltt columns. She regarded with prido tho advertisement of the plumbers for whom Voylet's husband worked. Then she read a rttory, at the silly sentimental ism of which tKe hard headed yet, after all, fievily Sen timental old woman sniffed" disdain fully. Then she turnsd to a col u in n of local advertisements, and one among them caught her eye. Me read it over several times. It said: "Wanted, a matron for the new orphan asylum, at once. Apply to Mrs. Judgv Burnley." A matron! reflected Direxia. "I don't rightly know what a matron is I reckon ll'.s somebody to look after the housekeepin' for them pore little things. I reckon she'd,likely have to see that the house wus scrubbed clean, and tlx young una too, an see to the cookin an' anon-like." "l'hatyor would lrkely be powerful hard work," she pursued a moment later. "Hit's a mighty big bulldin', that yer orphan aeylum. I seen it when I was to T'rall many a time. 'lowed hit was nigh about finished up. Likely they're ready to move into :t They's a heap o' orphans, I heern tefl, an' now hit's got too small fer 'em in the old place pore little things, theii pappies were killed in the war. I'd like right well to do 'era a good turn myself." The next morning, Direxia put on her best mourning bonnet and shawl, and harnessing a mule with her own hands, started for T'rall, with the dim mest possible ideas as to what she was going to do. She went at onoe to the grand residence of Judge Burnley. It was well along in the twilight when Direxia and the mule were on their homeward way. There had been old neighbors of the Driggses in T'rall, to whom Direxia had referred Mrs. Born ley. They all testified to Dirxia's capabilities as a housekeeper in the Allow -. e meaning of the word. They told now she had run the farm vfhen her uusband had been away. They iaM -"Meers Dank Driggs' paeeed fer a powerful smart woman" up Allowee way. Direxia was going to undertake to be matron of the great new orpean asylum, at a salary which seiwnod to her too munificent to be true. As slut rode along, her thoughts kept time to the jogging of the old mule, something like this: "Wal, Rexy Drigffs! what in time would Dank say if be was to know this yer? Likely as not he dxs sense it up thar," and Direxia turnoe her face reverently toward the skv, "Liks as not he's a laughin' fit to k411,antne ao he useter, wlien he was tiokied hya. Wal, he wouldn't strike ont to be a lawyer nor agineral. He waa bonn' fer to be a planter down in the bottom of the Allowee, an' so he was. I ain't sayin' but it was best so," with a guilty thought that she was doing ber kind, weak husband an injustice, "but I always did think that Dank Drtggs could have took his place to be more 'count than eve'r he set up to be. Then I was powerful onhappy because Voy let up ah' got married so, toetore she had come to bein' sensible, 's ye might say. I wanted Voylet to be like Jedge Burnley's gals, and them as they goes with, but she ain't She's a nice gal, Voylet is, and she takes powerful good keer of her habby, but she's a livin' along, fer all I see, not much better'n I always wee on the Allowee, and I meant se should have something a heap bettor. I do' know as she was to blame. Likely she couldn't see it as I'do. An' then thar's Earl I always thought he wee the likeliest boy in Allowee connty. He mought have gone to Congress, he niought have been President likely, if if , Direxia could not name even to her herself the cause of the failure of her idol to come up to her hopes of him. She sobbed aloud as she raHled over the rough road. "But " gather ing her strength with a long sigfe, "likely he won't git mueh worse. Likely Jinny Powers'U change him. He's boun' to be the biggee man on the Allowee, 'outen he gfes worm But taint what I planned fn him. An' now after all this projeekin' to git the res' to start out in the worl' an' be difl runt the old woman hereerf has hs4 to do it for 'em." She laughed to heneH, doubtful as she really f elt'in hey modest soul of her t apacity to de the work which she had undertaken. "She's set out to be somebody, an m oen mean to give np till shes wore te a piutnb frazzle." Direxia felt an exaltation akin to that with which a sculptor regards the shape in the clay toward wfekfe his thought has long been tapd-tng, but which has hitherto eluded his yearn ing touch. To her simple sryi it was an ambition of the loftiest kind to become the matron of as orphan asy lum. For twenty years Direxia Dyiggs labored in the sphere to WWtfh she had bn ra'ed r th clian'e rear.lng of the Trail parxr tiiat night She he ram the pet of ti.e directors of the in stHutiim. who n;iir.Wred aoina of the leading women of the county. Her Juicy idioms, her ttrong yet gentle character, her loving devotion to duty, made her the friend and favorite of them all. When she died in IS-- the mourning for her was more like fhe mourning for a great hero of the war than for "only a woman" a plain, homely woman from the Allowee. She had instilled into the children who had been under her care her own lofty am bitions. She had lived to 6e some of them realize her hopes for them hopes which had been almost as fervent as those which ei.e had cherished and which had ended so miserably for her 'Ml f -DAHK. TELL MK Tttl.V." own children. In the broader life which she had entered into in her new sphere of labor she had found the hap piness which she had hoped for. 1 1 had been a realization such as is seldom granted to mortals. The lawn which stretches out in front of the orphan asylum is one oi the most beautiful in the South. Mag nolia and tulip trees, pink judas trees, bowers covered with the vines of tin multiflora rose, all of the choicest products of that favored clime hnv been taught to grow there; but on littlo knoll, clear and high amid tlih luxuriance of greenery and bloom all the shrubs and trees have been cut away, and only the velvet grass is rev erently allowed to grow. The knoll is crowned by a costly statue. It was carved by one of the foremost of living ' sculptors, and repre sents , a woman in cap and spectacles a homely, large-featured old woman but with a look npon her face which is an inspiration to every one who beholds it On the base of the statue, cut deep into the living stone, is the pame "Direxia Driggs." "This woman," the inscription goes on to say "though her lot lay always among the humble and afflicted, ever reached forward to the things which are before, and taught to all about her the sacred lesson that mortals should make the most of such gifts as the providence of God bestows. She rests from her labors, and her works, yea, even the praise of a mighty host of ' those for ;hom sheunselfishly toiled, do follow her." Tho.-e who know all of Direxia's pathetic story cannot behold the beau tiful memorial, in its inexpressible simplicity and dignity, without tears. Voylet and Earl come there some times, and bring their children to gaze npon the statue. They often say dully, "It was monstrous strange how mammy was for pushin' ns all on to be somebody," and shake their heads. I-V8 OOt SOME HEWS FOR TOT. Their hearts ache dumbly even Earl's under his sodden skin for the pangs which they know they caused her. Bnt it was not in them to be like her. They will be Allowee Folks to the end of the chapter. BRUIN IN WINTER. How He Selects m House for Hit Long Rest. Bruin does not retire from the open till he is compelled to do so by frost and snow. He lives through the sum mer on berries, buds, insects of every kind, grass mice of any other small animals that he can get I may say, for the behefit of the gentlemen that publish so many' terrifying bear stories in the daily newspapers, that Bruin is as harmless as a cow during the sum mer and will take to his heels in fright on sight of a human being. It is only when he leaves his lair too early in the spring and he is not able to find anything to eat that he will attack man; bnt he prefers a calf or a sheep, and the farm er's table is often short at sundown. Bnt as I have said, when winter over takes him he sets about to find a winter home. He has very likely, during the summer, when poking his nose into hollow trees looking for the honey of wild bees seen some, place that will suit him. and to this he goes straight way. The tree must be a large one, sad he will not select it unless there is a space with, plenty of room where'the snow or rain cannot reach him. This secured, he bundles himself together, his heed on his paws, closes his eyes, and remains in this posture till "those blind motions of - the sprinp" tell that "the year has turned." ' Then he drags himself out and once more begins his struggle for an existence. Sometimes, however, when lying in this stupor, loud sounds startle hira, and his tree castle shakes: this is when the lumber men have found him and are assailing the tree with their axes. He seldom escapes, and if he does he will surely die in the snowy forest unless he csn find another home. f- ;sse- ..jMi ?-.VT' fM"rf' ' t tvrferilr lllci-: The idea of having money af- fordej thj raeii by the government so that the banks and money-leaders cannot control them U preposterous! The whole scheme is an outrage! The better element will newer sub mit to any such foolishness! There sre people made to be managed and controlled, and to work for others, and there is no power that can af ford equal chances and equal oppor tunities to all!" These remarks fell from the lips of a gentleman well dressed, intelligent and the owner of a good farm. He seemed to be imbued with the earnestness of his statements and no doubt was sincere in all he said. On inquiry the splendid farm of that genll.iraan was found to be under mortgage to a syndicate for half its value. He rents out most of it and farm on a small portion. He is barely able to pay rent to his master, known in more polite terms, as interest to the syndicate. He can never redeem his land unless there shall come a favor able change in the financial system, by which the Masses shall be afforded money without the intervention of tho banks and money-lenders. But this man is a queer specimen. He is a stnyige freaic. He labors under the hallucination tha'. ho owns a farm, when in fact ho is only a tenant, who has sub-tenants. He believes he is not of the masses, but a sort of su perior being, to whom the common affairs of life do not reach, and that all this contention for -equal rights to all" does not reach nor affect him. He is above it There are many of the same sort They are too proud to admit that they have failed at farming! that they are bankrupts; that their homes belong to others; but they still think they belong to the wealthy and money-lending part of tho community, a financial position they probably once held. More cu rious still they suspect that all their neighbors look upon them still as the wealthy and influential citizen of yore. These people deserve sympathy: they merit commiseration; they know not what changes have come to them; they do not realize the fact that they are in tho toils of an octopus that is gradually tightening upon them and will eventually consume all their sub stance and leave them in penury; they cannot wake up; they cannot realize the changes that have taken place; they cannot know tho fact that tho money sought for tho masses is their only hope of redemption from debt and freedom from serfdom. Where li tho lUflfareurnl Gold and silver bullion aro com modities of fictitious value, bncause they can not bo used for practical purposes in susta;nins life or effect inj comforts nocessary to health. Corn, wheat, oats and cotton are com modities of actual value, because they have tho capabiMties this bullion does not possess. Tho government stores in its warehouses those commodities of fictitious valuo and issues its notes upon thorn. That is constitutional and proper. It doe not take the com modities of actual value to store and issue money upon them. Why? What is tha difference? One is the product of tbe miner, tho other the product of the innrcr. Tho distiller stores tho product of his distillery and equivalent to bor rows 80 per cent of its value, by the government not exacting the tax for three years. The government fur nishes tho warehouse, tho gauger and the storekeeper and affords him direct and substantial aid. This is a Demo cratic measure. It has been cham pioned by Senator Carlisle and other Kentucky Democrats sinee it was first introduced. What is the difference between advancing 80 per cent on tho manufactured articlos from grain and upon grain itself? The first is Demo cratic; the latter is claimed t be anti Domocratic What is tho difference in the principle inuolved? What is the distinction in the policy as a gov ernment iuestion? None. The only difference in any respect is that dis tillerios aro the properties of corpora tions, and corporations are tho special pets of the government The distillers have grown prosperous since Shyiock's grasp upon their throats has boon released by this mu nificent provision of goverament for their protection. Farmers, accorded similar protection, would soon be out of the grasp of Shylock and become prosperous. Why not havo a sub treasury for imperishable farm pro ducts and afford this blossin? to tho producer? The distillers have dem onstrated that it is practical safe and beneficial to the recipient, and no loss to the ovarment "Equal rights to all and special favors to none" de mands this aid mid assistance, in the nature of protection to the farmer from the cupidity and avarice of Shy. lock, should be accorded. Trusts, combines and syndicates would be the onlysufferers; and all other busi ness would bo tho beneficiaries. Tho Reformer. Freaks f Ntr. The Capital still talks about the government being compelled to pay (1. '23 J per ounce for silver under a free coinage law. If its editor does net know better than this he is a fit candidate for a lunatic asylum. If he does, and still persists in these efforts at deception, there is another public institution to which he might very properly be assigned. There is no provision in our laws however, for the apprehension of such character. Their habitual prevarications havo been considered harmless and they have been permitted to run at large. They have been regarded as freaks of nature and sub ects of amusement to the curious. Their numbers have in creased so rapidly of lata, however, as to deprive them even of their nov elty. As they cease to become ob jects of curiosity, they become bores; and society has little patience with them. 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