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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. TBIHTTT1T) TWIOB-A-WEBK?WEDNESDAY AXD SATURDAY. i. k. QBI8T * soys, Pnbiisherg. } % ^aiitilg gtrossgaptr: 4or the promotion af the goliticat, jgoqial, g-griqaltuiiat and g^mmeyial gnt tresis of the gouth. {'ESco"'macctto!!C8' VOLUME 42. YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1896. NUMBER 58. "*" 9 I ^.1 1 ? ?A ??11 ~1?'? ?A 5? I wowTj" " an<4 oTl nr?QTTQt"Q nf TxrVl df IlO TOflfl I ?a. _ 4. _ U ^ M yiyxrwi to mwm BY W. W. C Copyright, 1896, by the Author. CHAPTER VH. t Ruralville, 0., Oct 4. ' d My Dear Kendall?I have put a tel- S egram into the hands of a man who has n promised to ride the seven miles across tl the hills to the station as rapidly as pos- h sibla I hope you will receive it early b this afternoon. I have no doubt it will t convey to both you and Mrs. Kendall si the most welcome news you have ever c received. a Briefly I will tell you what you do a not already know about Powell's disap- r< ftnH ftionr vprv. He was born d and lived here till he was nearly 15 o years of age. His parents died when he o was yoting, and he was adopted by his h mother's brother, who treated him rather to harshly. His name was Charles Preston, d and as the uncle who adopted him was u named Howell he was known as Charles h Preston Howell Smarting under some b Indignity, he left his home and ran ? away. In a year he had drifted to New si York He changed his name at once on tl getting away from this locality, fearing ? that should he give his own name he h might be more easily followed. h He tells me that when he went into v Kreeger's shop a year ago the 27th of n last May he heard two customers talking . about business matters, and that one of " them spoke of a reoent visit he had e * made to his old homa Powell at once li fell asleep, as was often his custom, and dreamed of a visit to his own birthplace e and of beautifying and improving his \ father's burial plot and of erecting suit- fi able monuments over the graves of his b father and mother. He dreamed of the ii streams where he used to fish, the hills ? over which he had hunted, the orchards h from which he h'ad eaten fruit, this h quaint little town in which he had been a boy. He could scarcely believe when n he first awoke that he had been dream- to ing, so natural had it all seemed. That y night he thought it all over and went to his office the next morning a changed o man. In looking up his route he made the d memorandum I found in "Ben-Hur." Some of the figures were superfluous. For instance, you will remember that he had checked the figures S :19, and I supposed it indicated a change of cars. It h was, however, the time his train would I pass through Middletown, Pa., and he a wanted to catch a glimpse of the town, a far when beating his way eastward as a a boy he had spent several months at s that point He came directly through n to Pittsburg by rail and then took a river t steamer. r The river is nearly 50 miles south of t here, and he left the boat where he could f make connections by railroad to the ( nearest town, seven miles away. By a 1 careful study of the different time cards I hit upon the Same route and left the t train at the station mentioned at the t same hour and minute Mr. Powell left' c his train about 16 months ago. As the i train neared the station it ran in on a c J J " x??A AMJ AM IrtOTMMr* fl^n T I 4 biatJ irucA) ULIU uu icayiug tuv WMVU *. was cautioned to "look out for the flier." Just then I heard the rumbling of an approaching train, and in an instant it dashed past at great speed. This caution was probably never given to Mr. Powell, for when he left his train he stepped in front of the fast express. There was a shout, and he jamped, but he did not wholly escape, for he was thrown against the depot platform, crushed, bleeding, senseless and almost lifeless. When the physicians had patched him up as best they could, they searched his clothing for something that might give a clew to his identity. They found over $1,000 in money, but not a scrap of paper, a card, a letter or anything to disclose his name. He hovered between life and death for nearly two weeks, but finally partially regained consciousness and told them his name was Charles Preston Howell, and that his residence was in this place. Efforts were made to find his relatives here, but none was now alive. Many remembered the x>v of 25 years ago, but could not tell where he bad been in the interim. To Mr. Powell his whole life from the moment he ran away from the home in which he received ill treatment until he awoke to consciousness in the hotel was a blank. He was simply Charles Preston Howell, a farm lad, anxious to escape from his uncle. Ho had no recollection of any other place, of business transactions, 01 names, aares or events, i He closed his eyes as a runaway boy; he 1 opened them to find himself a man in i the possession of money, strange cloth- s ing, jewelry and other articles in his 1 pockets and valise which he had never s seen before to his knowledge. It was something over five months be- t fore he was able to leave his room. The i railroad company made a satisfactory \ settlement w ith him, and when he had i regained his strength he came over here i to his old home, used a portion of his < money to buy out a dealer in produce and settled down to the prosaic life of a \ country storekeeper. Sometimes he < would almost succeed in grasping the ; secret of his past, but it would slip away i from him, and he would plod along in ; his every day rut very quietly. < I learned all about the accident be- < fore I made his acquaintance, and then i I visited his store two or three times a i day for nearly two weeks. Every time I 1 went there I talked about New York, i the Stock Exchange, the streets, build- i ings, etc. Then I would bring in the 1 names of prominent brokers and opera- ] tors, mention the rise and fall ofsecuri Of 1 ORSftd i anfield. ! E f 1 ies in which he had been interested and ( iscus8 bonds, mortgages and loans. 1 ometimes he would look at me in a aanner that led me to believe he was s [linking more than listening. One even- t ag he made the remark that all I had een talking about sounded very familiar a him, and that it must be he had in x ame way been connected with the big c ity and its transactions during his long 1 bsence. This gave me encouragement, 1 -J ? -"-l-A T mr 1 LIU BU iUBl liJKUli x UiVAlCU !?"" vu UIJ 1 x>m in the little hoteL I proceeded to s etail as carefully as possible the story a f his life in New York. I described his t ffice, his employees, his daily habits, c is investments and his rooms. Then I t 5ld of his visit to Kreeger's shop, his t ream, his changed manner in the morn- c ig, his attendance at your wedding mid is disappearance. Then I took out his a rain memoranda and followed him to t Ittsburg and down the river on .the s teamer. Toward the last I could see t iat he was becoming greatly excited, s [e was walking the floor rapidly, both j ands pressed against the sides of his a ead, when he suddenly pitched for- t rard into my arms, exhausted and al- c lost fainting. a "I see it all, Cochrane," he sobbed, s I am Charles PowelL I remember ev- t rything now; it has come back to me c ike a flash!" ' t It was after midnight when Mr. Pow- p II came to a full realization of his past. 7e talked till nearly morning, and I nally induced him to go to sleep in my ed, while I went out for a long walk 1 the dawn of a beautiful October day. . t was nearly noon before he awoke, but ~ is mind was as clear as at any time in is life. Mr. Powell also writes you by this ^ rail, and I will write again in a day or ' wo. I am very anxious to get hold of our honest hand, and I hope the good ews I have sent you will put the roses j nee more into your cheeks. Remember me kindly to Mrs. KenalL Ever your true friend, Stacey Cochrane. #### ##[ Ruralville, O., Oct 4. My Dear Kendall?You can never now with what joy I write these words, feel thatl am once more restored to life, nd I know that I can never repay you nd Cochrane for your brave fight ganist public opinion and for the per- f istent search that has finally resulted in ( ay discovery. In all probability after he lapse of years I would have fully ecovered my memory, but I am none he less grateful that you, my dear old ellow, pushed the search, and that Cochrane found me and "brought me to ifo " v Rest assured it shall be my aim to see hat you and Anna are well repaid for he great anxiety and trouble I have aused you. Most of all, I regret the mputations that have been cast on your haracter, but now that I have been 'discovered" they will vanish like aagic and you will hear those who were oremost in directing suspicion against on loudly declaring that they knew all he time I would eventually be found. Cochrane has left me one thingto tell on, and only one. In my dream at Ireeger's I saw the face of a girl, sevraj years younger than I, who attended he village school with me here 25 years igo. I saw her as a little schoolgirl, >right, pretty and interesting, and in hinting it over I remembered that as a >oy 14 or 15 years old I had hoped some ime to marry her. It was this memory hat changed me from an unpleasant ynio and induced me to make it possi>le for you and Anna to marry. It irought me to a realization of my selfshness. I had known for some time hat you loved each other, and when I ecalled how shabbily I had treated you ; was heartily ashamed of myself. But it is all right now, John. You ire happily married, and I?well, when ; ; came here nearly recovered from my iccident I found the same girl, now jrown into mature womanhood?a handome, intelligent, lovable woman, who J ? 1 ? J ta r\AoeAaaQ/l las truveieu CAIC1I61> cij onu. 10 puoocoocu ?f many accomplishments. She spends i certain portion of each year at her old ] lome in this place. I think she took , )ity on my condition, for she has not , >een indifferent to the little attentions ] [ have fonnd time to pay her. I was not 3 rery sure of my ground with a strange j nystery hanging over my life. No one ] mew, nor did I know myself, what had < lappened during the vanished years. It j night be that I had a wife and children j iomewhere, and I did not know that I ^ lad the right to even think of my old \ ichoolmate as a lover. Today after dinner I called upon her md told the whole story. I know I nade a botch of one part of it, but she , inderstood me, and that, is all that is 1 lecessary. We are to be married three 3 veeks from today at her home in Cin- ' jinnati. Now, dear John, I want you to shut * lp the office at once and with your wife lome here for a visit You will both en- ' joy this delightful spot and the beauti- 1 :ul weather. I cannot be contented till < 7on are here with me, and you 'must ' jertainly stay till after the wedding. ' Cochrane has promised to be my grooms- 1 nan. He has a little affair of the same ' aature on his own hands. It seems he ? aas been engaged about five years, wait ing all the time till he should be able to ] support a wife. The reward you offered tor my discovery, and which he has < nore than earned, will enable him to i renture the marriage. As we return ' rom umcinuuii wu mo tu awuui^ou; u Cochrane to his home and be present at a lis wedding. v Now, my dear old fellow, let nothing v stand in your way. Just lock the office ji tnd leave affairs to take care of them- i selves. No doubt you have the business d ill in such good shape that no interests a vill suffer by five or six weeks' absence n Write us what day you will start, and \ Cochrane and I will meet you in Pitts- d mrg. v With love to Anna and goodby till I i] see you again, I will close. Yours as a sver, Charles Powell. t] #**# ^ The firm of Powell, Kendall & Coch- o ane is as well known as any in the city tJ >f New York It has a reputation for h lonorable dealing with all men, for it A ias never yet been concerned in a shady tx ransaction and confines its operations h trictly to those lines of business that ft re above suspicion. Its members have he fullest trust and confidence in each _ ither, and since tneir parmersnip rem- a. ions began, now about eight years ago, 1j heir friendships have ripened and be- fi ome stronger with each day. ri Every autumn there is a migration to r; , quiet little Ohio town just outside ri he Muskingum valley, and there for e everal weeks the three inseparables and heir wives haunt the woods and n treams, wander through meadows and jj lastures and take delightful drives t] long the pleasant highways. Around ? he big, old fashioned homestead, racing ? ip and down the well trimmed lawn p nd playing hide and seek among the i hrubbery, filling all the place with a heir laughter and sunshine, is a troop f( if happy children, on whom the eyes of ^ hree fond mothers rest with growing v Tide. tj THE END. ~ b RlisccUancous Reading. n& ci IRISHMEMN GRAY. t C rHE FIFTH CONFEDERATE REGIMENT C OF TENNESSEE'S ADOPTED 80NS. c. t< Sallied to the Standard of Pat Clebturne, f( "The Stonewall of the We?t"?Fighting d With Lytle'a Irish Regiment at Perry- d 11 le?The last Charge at Franklin. C d Copyright, 1895, by American Press Assoc la- . tion. Book rights reserved. 1 n v ?HEN the histo- p \ / rian of a regi- a \ A / ment composed > of immigrants t] r *I0m Erin's Isle ^ ( prefaces his story ^ \ ^, ifc sT of its battles with a V the statement tj ' that the men of v the Irish race ^ J "take to fighting b WT as readily as ^ ducks to water," ie starts out with a broad text The s. itory of the Fifth Confederate regiment e] n the "Military Annals of Tennessee" b >pens with that bold declaration from b he pen of the author, who was an offl- b :er in that command throughout its ?] 'our years of fighting, or from Belmont Q. o Bentonville. No effort was required Q. o make good the claim. The sketch in- c, xoduces the reader to good company _ mder both flags, but chiefly tells how he Irishmen in gray bore the battle on he hottest fields of the west. The title ^ 'Fifth Confederates" was a unique one b fiven to a regiment formed by consoli- g{ latiOn of two Tennessee regiments after he battle of Shiloh. The members of ^ he original regiments were nearly all ^ rishmen from Memphis, and we must ^ uppose that they were the very ones vho had plenty of the fighting spirit ^ nff 'I'hn AArtonli'rlQfiArt r>m^nno/1 Vm f. * sight companies, scant ones at that, ^ mistering about 500 or 600 effective ioldiers, although but 30Q .engaged in he next battle, and the author naively ^ emarks that the Union blockade inter- ^ lered with southern immigration; hence a here was no chance to get recruits. A ;rained soldier was placed at the head ^ if the new command?J. A. Smith. Nothing more seemed necessary for the & jnviroument of these Memphis braves a mt a brigadier of their own "ilk and ^ jtamp," an event that came about when ^ hey joined forces with Pat Cleburne's Arkansans. Cleburne was an enthusiastic young ^ irishman from Little Rock, who led out i regiment of his countrymen in 1861 ind gained a star for good work hitting leads at Shiloh. Strangely enough, the , aew regiment received its baptism of 1 ire in a close contest with Irishmen in ' alue, the Tenth Ohio, also called the 'Montgomery regiment" in honor of the ,, jallant Irish-American Revolutionary hero, who fell at Quebec. Lytle, the . poet-soldier, author of the famous lines 11 beginning I am dying, Egypt, dying, ] was the father of the Tenth. t< The historian of the Fifth Confederate a is sparing of red ink, enlivening his ^ narrative instead with personal inci- g :lents, but official descriptions of the bat- d ties of the regiment fill in the dark side a nf the page. d The battle between the Ohioans and e rennesseeans was fought on Kentucky soil, at Perryville. Perryville might be y compared to Donnybrook in more re- b jpects than one. The heads to be hit u were in masses, as, for instance, the bat- b teries, battalions and regiments lying tl around loose. Things were helter skelter fl on both sides of the line. When the I Fifth marched to the front, charmed by y the sounds of the fighting, it seemed p like a chase after a rainbow. The smoke t< and roar of battle receded as it dashed g ahead. All at once while the regiment y was perfectly screened, as it appeared to C Lit* ujeii, uy u hiuutJ wan uuuui ou rua> way, hundreds of rifles opened on them 1 pith a terrinc crash. Lytie's Irishmen rere behind the convenient wall using S to screen their own heads. The line of > !ennesseeans swayed, and as one man < xew back. A glance at the former po- i ition showed a goodly rank of prostrate aen, cut down in files as they marched. 1 Pith a fierce yell, not stopping for or- 1 ers, the Tennesseeans dashed for the rail, leaping over the dead and dying a the mad charge. Lytle's men, alone i nd without ammunition, gave way, but hey had the pluck of their race and rereated only a few rods. Every request f Lytle's for aid brought the reply that here was none to send him, but that is position must be held at any cost Lt last he saw that he would he forced 3 yield the ground after sacrificing all is men. Forming a bare skirmish line rom his old regiment, the Tenth Irish -he commanded a brigade at the time -he charged toward the walL The lender line was wiped ont and its galmt leader left for dead on the field. In filing back the remainder of the Tenth an the gantlet of the Confederate Irish Lfles, and the pathway was marked with dws of dead. So far the account was ven. Lytle became prisoner to his countrylen, who gave timely aid and saved is life. Other Onion regiments took np be fight at the stone wall and the Fifth Confederate barely escaped annihilation. Cleburne rescued it by heading a deserate charge with fresh troops. The enth Ohio lost half of its men killed j ud wounded. Its Irish antagonists suf- ( ;red a loss of about one-third. While . le Memphiaus were marohing northward on the disastrous Kentuoky raid 1 leir thoughts had been upon the rol- , eking times they promised themselves ( eyond the Ohio, especially in Cincinati, a river town where they would , ? s 1 ti_i. .1 < na congenial pleasures. cni, aias i v>ra- , innati meant other things for them aan good times, and, moreover, had ! let them half way. Lytle hailed from lincinnati and had recruited his Tenth >hio in the Queen City. Stone River followed Perryville so ; losely that fighting blood hadn't time ) cool off. The Very men who bad jught Perryville opened the fight, Haree's Confederates once more swooping own upon McCook's unguarded flank leburne had been promoted to lead a , ivision, but kept his Irishmen around , im, Arkansans and Teunesseeans as relL His old brigade, under Luoiu.'olk, made some of tlie bloodiest charge*-, ! f the day and always had the luck to an against Union batteries. They took aem in, too, on the way. The Tennea;e Irishmen alone ran through one. ithout stopping to count guns or prisners. This was at the hospital, which 1 iey carried by a grand rush. They like:ise fought in the famous cedar brake. ith the regulars. One incident of th;:- < loody spot is described by the Tenne.- < ;e annalist, showing that Irishmen 211 1 reciato valor for its own sake. He < lys: "Our regiment, having dfiven the < nemy from the bushes on our left, wa- < otly engaged in front when a regimen 1 1 blue, forced oat on our right, movoi 1 y the left flank at double quick, righ: 1 noulder shift, across our front, taking ] ar well directed fire at 50 paces with- 1 ut altering the step of a single man. 1 j illed for a cheer for those men as they assed out of range." ] A thrilling description of the battery ; ipture is also given. The author led a < jmpany in that charge and lost over alf his men. "In our advance," he its, "we had driven a line across n irnfield the other side of which stood a mr gun battery, still playing on us. 'or a moment we lay low from the ratling grape, but quick the order was assed down the line, 'Fix bayonets as ou lie!' At once, with a yell we were n the run; the line of supports gave ay and two gnus followed. The riders f the other two cut their horses loose ud left their gunners, the last of whom ;as killed with the lanyard iu his hand, imoug my killed was my first lienteunt, an educated Irishman brave to a rait. He told me that morning lie rould die that day?this was in answer j my question as to why he had donned Vwf'raVtf ?imtf on/1 trhifo Irirlc? Ullf^UU UC >Y UiillVHUJ MUV? u u?w a*ww dding that he had saved them for the ccasiou and meant 'to die like a geulemau.' " The Tennessee captain lays stress upon nother peculiarity of his Irishmen, he wounded never "hollered. " In the attery charge mentioned one of them ad a leg badly shattered by a bullet. ] l strong kind hearted prisoner, seeing ? is cheerfulness offered to "tote" him ( 3 the surgeons in the rear. As he was j orue away upon the back of the Fed- . ral, his captain heard him whistling The Girl I Left Behind Me. " , The Fifth could not have been a fightag regiment of the west nor a Cleburne egiment without a record at Chickalauga, Atlanta and Franklin. In these liree desperate contests Cleburne turned , o his old command for a last resource s Jackson often did to the "Stonewall . rigade." In fact it was his habit to j ght a division until it was no longer a j ivision, then take in the brigades sep- ( rately until they ceased to be brigades, ( oing the same with the regiments and | nd up with the scattered fragments. ( The greatest war tragedy of the west ras closely connected with this band of ' elligerent exiles. That was the mysBrious killing of McPherson. At the attle of July 22, in front of Atlanta, ( he Fifth marched with Cleburne on his lank attack, and in passing along the ' Jnion front became entangled in some ' roods. Three men, among them Cor- . oral Robert Coleman, made a short cut o reach the column beyond the ob- ! truction and encountered McPherson, rith his aids, riding between the lines, i Joleman singled out the "shining ' doing shot down the commander of the Army of the Tennessee. Coleman was taken prisoner soon after and in the north learned who his victim was. It is easy to accept the statement of the annalist that Coleman "always regretted that shot, so fatally made on the im puis? or toe moment, ne was as moaest and unassuming as he was true and brave." No martial career ever had more lofty olimax than Cleburne's at Frankliq. All but a few flies of these men who had CORPORAL COLEMAK. . [Slayer of McFberaon.] helped to make that career brilliant went down in the disaster, closing the battle record of the Fifth as a regiment "The held of Franklin was the bloodiest of the war. Clebnrne was killed at the Works. He sought out our regiment, sharged in it and with it and died with it He could have selected no better place. Just here I want to say I never saw him in a fight without his full uni form, and lie often went witn tne srarmish line. Next morning there were but 21 of us left Their blood ran in the ditch in front of the works. I desire to place three names in this sketoh?Dick Cahill, John Porter and Joe Sears. Before the charge was ordered they agreed to go over the works or die, and that they would neither assist each other nor any one else. Sears was killed before reaching the first works; Porter was shot through the head, falling between the lines, and Cahill' body was found ten feet inside of the inner works, with four bayonet wounds through him. This was near the ootton gin, directly in front of where Cleburne fell" George L. Ktt.mtb. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Doll at Smuter and Camden; bat at Lancas Mjr 11 urvw lavciici* After a recess for the Chicago convention, the state campaign was rejpened at Sumter last Monday. The jnly new feature was the appearance Df Judge Earle on the stump. Govirnor Evans was not present, and the levelopments were not especially interesting. Mr. Duncan declined to attack the governor in his absence. It was the same way at Camden ; but at Lancaster, the governor was present and the situation began to grow more interesting. Judge Earle was the first speaker. Ele began by outlining his position in L890. He said that he had much to io With the formation of the Farmers' JOHN GARY EVANS. movement platform. When Captain Tillman went about through the state ienouncing and charging corruption the administration of which be was i member, be felt it was his duty to iefend it. He did so to the best of tiis ability, and Captain Tillman had complimented him for his honesty and courage. He had no apologies to make for his course. When, after the election, The News and Courier asked bis opinion as to wnat me opposition jf Tillman should do, he replied that it should accept the result and do all in its power to help make the administration as successf^ as possible. Cleveland had promised him the district attorneyship of South Carolina ; but on account of this letter, the position was given 'to another. Next Judge Earle went into a discussion of national issues, declared himself for the free coinage of silver and in favor nf an income tax, etc. Duncun was the next speaker. He eulogized Tillman and said that the senator was greater than the president; that by his speech at Chicago, he had blazed out the way for the nomination nf Bryan. Mr. Duncan criticized Earle for not having joined tjie campaign earlier, and also for not being identified with either faction in the SlttlCj buyiug vuai uc cuum uw vvwmand the respect of either. Next, he devoted himself to Evans, saying that the administration had been a success in spite of him. He wanted Evans to answer one question, saying that be would then have something more to say. The question was: "Did you have any understanding with Rhind at the time you recommended him to refund this debt; and if so, what was the understanding?" Then he said that only the other day Evans bad convinced a man that he had not understood his original statement about this matter and tried to make the man take a different view. "Who was it ?" I ?1- - J Ti (it ? MmlU ObKeU ?jVttUB. UOlIy vrauuuj ivpiivu Duncan. "That is a lie:" said Evans, | "I never did any such thing." Duncan said Evans's only answer was: "That's a lie." No brave man will take advantage of a speaker nnder such circumstances, especially when be j has paid men around him ?o protect his cowardly bones. Next, Duncan !said that Tillman did not know anything about Evans's connection with the bond deal. Evans denied the assertion. Duncan asked if Evans meant to assert that Tillman would knowingly defend a culprit. Evans: "Certainly he would not. I am not guilty. Ton are the only man that charges that I am." Evans was the next speaker. Shortly after he commenced to speak, Judge/ Earle arose with a bit of paper in his ? hand and requested permission to ask a few questions. Evans acquiesced; Judge Earle?As the chairman of the state board of control, bow many , meetings did your board have in 1895? Governor Evans did not remember whether the board had any meetings at all. , Judge Earle?When you took charge of the dispensary was the insurance all placed with one agent ? Governor Evans said that the insurance matter was entirely in the hands J08EPH H. EARLE. of Colonel Mixon, and he knew nothing about it. His brother had gotten only a small portion of the insurance. Judge Earle asked several other questions. They seemed to imply that Governor Evans had neglected to call meetings of the dispensary board in order that he might run toe dispensary as he saw fit, and that he had given his brother insurance on the dispensaries at higher rates than was then being paid.' Evans denied all the inferences and asked Earle the meaning of the questions. "Because," said Earle, "if you have done these things you are unfit to hold the office of governor." v Evans?But you know they are not true, sir. Earle?I know nothing of the kind. I know nothing about you. I am responsible for the questions. The man who gave them to me will be responsible for the answers. Evans?I will bold you responsible for both the questions and answers. Earle?I am responsible sir for anything you please, uowand at all times. Evans continued his speech and in :* ..!/) ?V.of T?dt>lo ti'qq cannonntr tn Till 1U Dam tuav XJ?I IV ntw U *? ? man's coat tails. Earle sprang forwards and denounced the statement as untrue, and said that Evans knew it. Evans asked Earle not .to interrupt bim and proceeded to discuss national matters. tf&T Johnny bad not been at school Monday afternoon, so when he came on Tuesday morning the teacher sent bim home to get a written excuse from bis mother, explaining his absence. After about an hour be returned with ink on bis fingers and a somewhat soiled note, which read as follows: "Miss Brown, please excuse Johnny - ? --1 1 T tor DOl OeiDg to SUUUUi ^catciuaj. * could not come because I tore my pants, and oblige Mrs. J. Smith." General Gordon's Story.?General Gordon of Georgia tells the following story of the war period to illustrate the shrinkage of the Confederate currency: "One day a cavalryman rode into camp on a reasonably good horse. 'Hello, cavalryman,' said a foot soldier. 'I'll give you $3,000 for your horse.' 'You go to (the bad place),' was the horseman's reply. 'I just paid $1,000 to have him curried.," Not Equal to the Occasion.? "My dear," remonstrated a wife, peering out from under the bed clothes, "I do wish you would use the word 'sbeol.' It sounds better." "It may sound better at times," replied her husband, who was noisily nursing his heel, "but when a man steps on a tack he wants the old version." i v