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laaUBP TWlCE-A-WI!Ilg?w|lDWIIHDAT AMD SATURDAY. l.x. omst * sons, publishers. } % ^amjlg jforosgagtr: 4flr promotion of the golitical, Social, g-grtoallmjal and (gommeitcial Interests of tht ftouth. {TERsiyofE0cwT"4LlECEllNT8NCE' VOLUME 42. YOEKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1896. NUMBER 78. BY ALFRED Copyright, 1896, by American Press Associati . CHAPTER XXIX. As Bon ton fell the rifle he was about to aim at Captain Brandon dropped from his hand, and he wheeled about as if on a pivot and so faced his astonished men. All heard the shot, but they did not know what to make of it There was no foe in sight, and they were on the point of concluding that it was an o/wldontal oViot from nnfi of their own rifles when they heard yells coming down from the cliffs, and looking up they saw Black Eagle motioning wildly at something still lower down. The astounded outlaws forgot for the moment the man they were about to execute and scattered to get a better view of the source of danger. While they were watching Black Eagle and his Indians, Henry Kyle, whose unerring rifle had stretched Bouton on the earth, never to rise again, dropped into the valley, with Kushat beside him, and before the outlaws could realize what had happened they threw themselves before the captain, and, both having pistols, opened fire. Fairplay was the first to recover his presence of mind, and shouting to his companions to follow him he fired at the young hero and the Indian girL In a few seconds a volley was poured at the devouted pair, and they fell across the captain, completely covering him. That was Fairplay's last order. Before -- ^ -?-1 11 toe men coma retreat tue ww ax txie valley directly in their front seemed to open, and from it a band of men swarmed out, with the Prophet at their head and Howard Blanchard and Louis Kyle close behind. The Prophet shouted: "For God and justice 1 Charge I" A cheer was the answer, and the immigrants and herders threw themselves with irresistible force on the outlaws. Utterly demoralized, though they outnumbered their assailants' four to one, they fled precipitously through the can yon by which they had entered the valley. t Here Font Robb succeeded in halting them, when suddenly a cry went up from the outlaws: "Troops, Robb, troops! Let us retreat or we shall be lost!" A bugle rang out clear and loud above the roar of the conflict Neither friend nor foe was long in doubt Out from the black rift the blue clad horsemen swarmed, and as they entered tne valley they drew their sabers and formed in line till the snn flashed on 60 uplifted blades. The officer in command hesitated Though he saw that a fight was going on, he could not tell friend from foe. Seeing his perplexity, the Prophet ran toward the young officer, whom he had not seen before, and shouted: "Yonder are the invaders and outlaws. Charge them, in God's name, and smite them hip and thigh till the power of Belial be broken!" Still Captain Duncan deliberated, and it is doubtful if he would have gone into the action had not Black Eagle and his warriors opened fire from the cliffs, a fact that encouraged the fugitives to make a stand Riding quietly to the front of the line, the handsome young officer in command called out calmly: "Attention!" In an instant the men sat straight in their saddles, grasped the bridle reins In their left hands, and, with their saber hilts restinsr aeaiust their right hips, they gazed fixedly at an imaginary line 50 feet in front. Even the jaded horses * pricked up their ears in anticipation of the next order. "Forward, trot!" The line moved forward to the music of jingling spurs and clattering scabbitrds. The next instant the thrilling notes of the "Charge" rang out. From each man's hip a blade flashed high in the air, and from each rider's lips burst the cavalry cheer: "Charge! Charge!" "We surrender! We surrender!" 3houted the outlaws as they threw down the arms they had just nervously discharged. They spoke too late to restrain thr onset, even had the officer commanding ordered it, which he had not time to do They threw themselves before the captain. before the blue wave broke, the sabers fell and half of them flose again crimson. In as brief time as it takes to write it the outlaws were dead or prisoners in the hands of the troops. The few that had attempted flight were halted by the Prophet's rifles. "Welcome, thrice welcome!" cried Pv. no 111! nrK'niipprl tn Oir>tnill Duncan with extended hands. "And 1 am glad to be here to help 7011, my friend," said the young officer with that deference of manner that showed his high respect for the man before him. "I think," he added with a grim smile, "that I came none too soon." R. CALHOUN. < i on. "Did my messenger, reach Port Keogh?" "He did, but he had been wounded, J and was so faint when he came in that ( he had as much difficulty in telling his story as we had in comprehending it I told the general that I knew you and ( that your messenger could be trusted, so , oent. me. and. thoueh we had a , rough ride of it, I am glad we are here J But before we can explain further let us ( see about the wounded." Captain Duncan rode off to give orders to his men, and the Prophet went to where his own friends were gathering across the valley near where Captain Brandon had been set up as a target On ' the outskirts of the crowd he saw one of the immigrant women bending over a v wounded man and giving him water. He approached and discovered Bon ton, with the death damp on his yellow forehead and his lifeblood welling from his ( yellow breast "This is the end I have foreseen for thee and all who travel thy ways," said the Prophet dropping on his knee beside the dying outlaw. 1 "Have you power to shrive and con- 1 fess me?" said the outlaw. "I claim no such power, but while life lasts mercy and forgivenes extend their arms," said the Prophet solemnly. The outlaw struggled as if he would * say mure, uut iku uiu;&, nuu ma pim.tulips drawn back from his white teeth, and over his eyes fell the glazed death veil, the scarcely percepitble yet impenetrable film that divides time from 1 eternity. j The Prophet heaved a sigh and muttered a prayer, then went to the throng that surrounded objects of greater interest. 1 As he forced his way through low 1 sobs, as from breaking hearts, fell upon his ears. He raised his bowed head and 1 saw the tall form of Captain Brandon. There was blood on his face and breast, blood that covered the scar on his cheek, 1 but it was not his own. It was the life- : blood of Henry Kyla For a moment ' the two friends were in each other's > arms. "1 tnanK tnee, tnou ureas .lenovau, cried the Prophet, "that thou hast saved < my friend!" ' "Come this way. Let us withdraw, " 1 whispered Captain Brandon. ! The Prophet looked into the center of 1 the group and saw Dr. Blanchard plac- i ing Henry Kyle and Kushat on two stretchers that had been hastily con- 3 structed of rifles and blankets. < "Are they dead?" asked the Prophet. | "Not yet. Come, let us talk apart < We can follow them to the grava " They walked under the towering ' rocks and watched the sad procession < forming and moving across the valley. ' All the Kyles and the Blanch ards were t riipro hnt the wailinc of the women 1 told that the journey of one of them would not end, but rather begin when his bearers had set him down again. "The rifles were raised to destroy me, and I looked into the black muzzles with a feeling that they were the last things on which my earthly eyes would rest, but, like a guardian angel, he dropped down from the sky and saved me," sobbed the captain. The Prophet laid his hand on the capfain's broad shoulder and looked into his blood stained face with an expression of unutterable questioning and tenderness. "Let us wait It may be better to say no more?better that the dead past should bury its dead." "No, no, Captain Brandon; this must not be. Break the seals which the angels of charity and silence have so long v.ln/tA/1 nr? TTAn t? 1 i rvc Kmolr fVtnm Of T piavcu Ull JUUX iiyo Ul^MA VA1VXU) V* * I will," said the Prophet with great earnestness. i "If the silence is to be broken I will t do it But we must now consider the i course that would bring the greatest i happiness. Am I not right?" i The two friends walked across the j valley, and on the way they passed the e bodies of a number of dead outlaws t with their ghastly faces upturned to the I sun. Among them was Fairplay, his bronzed hands still clutching his rifle, i As they were nearing the cave Captain rDuncan met them and greeted Captain ? Brandon with a warmth that showed t they were valued friends. There is a t man over here, a prisoner, who wants to < speak to one of you gentlemen," said ^ Captain Duncan. ? "Who is he?" asked the Prophet t "I believes he calls hinist If Font Robb, but L recognize in him a criminal ? who is wanted by the governors of half 1 a dozen stat'sand territories," replied I Captain Duncan. ( They went over to where the prison- ? ers were seated on in<? ground, guarded i by a number i f cavalrymen. i "See har, gents," said Font Robb, t rising and rouching his cap, "I've got i a favor to ask. and I'll say it's the one 1 I'd do for either of you if you was in j the same fix 1 am." ( "What is that?" asked the Prophet, i who was now in a mood to grant any i reasonable favor, even to an outlaw and i an enemy i "Don't let tho sojers carry me off," t said Font Robb. i "Carry you off?" t "Yes. tote me away from har." c "What would yon have me do?" i Why, I'd have you gents take the i law in your own hands. You're the parties as I've gono for last, and you c oughtn't to let the military interfere, c You'd ought to make it your own j fan'ral and prepare the corpse accordin i to taste." o " I must say 1 do not understand you," a Baid the Prophet si "Waal, I ain't much on the chinnin, p that's a fact. But har's the pint: Why {] can't you and Captain Brandon take me h right out and shoot me? If you don't ii want to take a whack at me, mebbe tl Louis Kyle would. The fact is I don't ai want to be took off and tried where I'm g pretty sure of bein strung up. This is g( the favor, gents, and I'd be forever r< Obliged if you was to grant it, "said p: Pont Robb again, touching his cap. "We have not the power to grant your request," said the Prophet, "and we would not if we could. Life to us is sacred Live while you can and prepare to meet the God whom you have offend>? 3U. TO BE CONTINUED. r< i glisi?llanr(i?is ^fading., u ?~ oi CARE OF THE FEET. T DO Very few seem to realize the importance of giving the feet pr^r-ar attention 8( in order to secure better health as well di as general comfort It is almost inoon- T ceivable that in our civilized nation in le the modern age there are still so many o1 otherwise sensible women who are willing to maim and cripple their feet and C1 suffer tortures for the sake of wearing c< shoes just a little too small, or which t are, as they imagine falsely, pretty cir more fashionable. We see the folly of the cramping process upon the feet of rc the Chinese women, but how much morp ct inexcusable it is for women of this en- m lightened oountry. ,. In former times it has been the faslfion for shoes to be made with high w heels, narrow, pointed toes and all sorts c! of extravagant shapes contrary to ease m and comfort, and as too many people J" have felt, it incumbent upon them to Dl bow to the demands of the tyrant fash- B ion, no matter how unreasonable her oi demands, the result has been for sue- 01 seeding generations untold suffering in m A/Mmn K v? *-i i/-\r> a onr? nfViav W LliU XU.ili Ui VUiU C, uuu deformities, until now it is comparative- y< ly rare to see, except among savage na- dq tions, a perfect, well shaped foot. But pi a more sensible fashion allows the wear-1 ing of various styles of sensible shoes ti< that are adapted to the ease and com- st fort of the wearer, with thick soles, di wide, low heels and plenty of room for ai free expansion of the toes and muscles, ct and the numerous corns, which are not it Dnly exceedingly painful, but often seri- B ana affairs, are gradually disappearing tl from the feet of the sensible ones and at the ideal foot is no longer the cramped tt and tortured foot. sc The celebrated anatomist, Professor n< Hyrti of Vienna university, opened one to af his lectures to his class with the sin- je ?ular question,'1 Which is the most beau- n< Siful foot, considered from the anatom- o\ ical standpoint?" and then continued: "It is remarkable that there are so many re livergent opinions on this subject. 'I While the sons of men look upon a ot small, slender and graceful foot, a lady's sli foot, as an ideal one, the anatomist nt- ti ;erly rejects it as beautiful, and only re :he large, long and broad foot is the of ideal one in his eyes. Even the greatest m :lassie writers of antiquity, Horace, Ca- ar ;allus, and others, who had great appre- p| nation of the feminine beauty, never to mentioned in the descriptions of their |a leloved?and, as is well known, they tij lad many?their small feet. ac "The people belonging to the Celtic 1S race have small feet; the Hindoos es- gfc serially have such feet and hands that x hey may be envied by many European jountesses. The native troops of the a] English army in India possess in Eng- y( .and their own armory where peculiar ta rinds of weapons are constructed for n( hem, and the sword hilts made for h< hem are much too small for us to grasp fr vith ease. Tho greatest beauties of Eu- re ope. the Italians, have really long and ?? iroad feet.'' But even if wo do not care to bo con- f0 iuced that tho ideal foot is tho foot UJ hat is long and broad, wo can certainly vv ealizc the importance of care in select- ^ ltg shoes of the proper size for comfort j8 is well as teuuty The foot never looks q iretty in a shoe too small for it, and uj. ;uch shoes soon become unshapely from aj. indue pressure, giving anything but a ag iretty appearance. On tho other hand, wo should not fall U| nto tho error of buying shoes too large. Chose are qpitc as apt to cause corns as ^ imnll ones by rubbing certain parts of ? he foot. If any one has the misfortune ^ ( iU Ictii iiiiu una xuiaiuivu, it umoj uu iwuu- rp lied to a great extent by inserting a soft ,vad of cotton batting in the too of the ihoo or in the part that rubs against . he foot. The same caro is necessary in buying . ihoes as in buying gloves. They will !n ast much longer and have a better ap- J learauce when made of new, good skins. * Did leather or kid is not soft and elastic md does not easily shape itself to the toot or the hand. This is not only a .. natter of comfort, but of economy. In ' his, as in many other things, "the best . s the cheapest," and as few women, or nen either, for that matter, are good udges of leather it will be wiso to buy w Vnlv nf hnnpKt. exnerinneed dealers, ill so iVhoin we can confide, for wo cannot tfford risks in a matter where so much I)C s involved. An uncomfortable shoe is co eally a very serious matter when we |v alee into consideration the pain and * ! 1 i.sconifort, the probable deformities in se ho way of coins and bunions, tho wear ju tho nervous system iind the unpleas- le uit consequences of our irritable ternicrs because of persoual discomfort. 111 It scarcely seems necessary to speak 1" )f the importance of frequent bathing >f the ft t and paring of the nails, and w< ret many are surprisingly careless in his respect Corns "are 'simply composed f a great number of layers of onticle, r scarf skin, one above another, each , nccessive layer being larger than the , receding, so that the whole assumes tie form of a grain of Indian corn; enoe its name. This is constantly press- , lg its point upon the tender flesh when ( le shoe presses or rubs against it, and 9 this cutiole is easily dissolved to a reat extent by the warm water and )ap we can see that bathing is the most , jady and harmless remedy as well as reventive. ?Exchange. HOW TO FOIL INSOMNIA. ime Schemes Which May Work When Others Fall. rora The New York Tribune. "I have been trying The Tribune's ' ;cipe for inducing sleep," Raid a husiess man while sitting on the piazza F a summer hotel one eyening during le last week. . "I have also tried an- 1 Lher recipe given in The Boston 1 ranscript. Both are good, and in a lajority of cases, perhaps, either of lein would prove effective. But >metimes they will fail, as I have 1 iscovered by personal experience. 1 0 meet such stubborn cases of sleep- 1 jssness I have a suggestion of my 1 wn to offer, which, when carried out 1 1 connection with either of these re- 1 pes, or, better still, both of them 1 jmbined, will cure the most aggrava- ! :d case of wakefulness. "The Tribune's method was, in rief, to treat the brain as it it was a )ll-top desk-. In the majority of ises sleeplessness is due to the abnor- ' al activity of the brain. After you ) to bed you begin to speculate over l mith's ability to pay you his note hen it falls due, or your own solven- i ir when your paper held by Brown i atures. From abstract speculation i 3U speedily pass to nervous worry, < it only in regard to Smith and i rown, but in regard to the business j t the day, and the things that may I may not happen tomorrow. The ] ore you think the more feverish and < akeful you become, and the result is i iu get no restful sleep, but rise next i orning more wearied mentally and bysically than when you went to bed. I "Now the remedy for this suggeson in The Tribune was simply to op thinking. Whenever a thought 1 irts out of the brain, throw it back, : id close the lid on it so to speak. Of < >urse, it will try to get out again, but ; must be put back again promptly, y thus refusing to entertain any t lought for half an hour, you will be )le to sleep. As I said, I have tried lis remedy, and it has worked? imetimes. But it is often impossible )t to think. The very attempt not think itself becomes a prolific subct of thought, and induces the very irvous unrest that you are trying to /ercome. "The Boston Transcript remedy is ally taken from Dr. Call's book on 'ower Through Repose.' It is based t the same principle of inducing eep by the suspension of mental acvity. But it aims to bring about this suit by relaxing the physical tension the body. Most people whose inds are very active during the day e unconsciously keyed up to a high lysical tension. And when they go bed it doesn't occur to them to rex that tension. Every muscle is as ght as a drum, and is throbbing with itivity, and while that is the case it impossible to sleep even if you 1 miiM dPBSfi to think altogether. So he Transcript's receipt is as follows: i " 'Begin at your toes to relax ; loosen ( 1 your joints and muscles, unbind ; jur fingers, shake your wrists loose, ke the curve and stiain out of your i ;ck ; go all to pieces, in fact, and see < >w the day's fatigue seems to slip off < om you, and the gentle mantle of st and oblivion to enfold you like a t irment.' " . i "I have tried this method and have i uud it effective. But it won't work 1 iless you can batten down the hatchays of your brain so that worrying 1 oughts will not pop out. And here t where my suggestion comes in. f euerally speaking, you must think i >out something. The brain is not t isolutely at rest, even when you are leep. Very well. The thing to do, 1 en, is to imitate as far as possible the f iconscious thinking of sleep when c m go to bed. Get into the wuy of be- ( nnimr tn dream before VOU GO to sleep, t id the first thing you know you won't t low anything, for you will be asleep. ( hat is my method, and it works like t charm. First of all, I relax my 1 usoles so that I am in absolute physal rest. And then, instead of think- J g of the things in my life that have j them the power to worry me, I con- t re up impossible, wierd and dreamy t iuations, and in a few minutes I am t :acefully slumbering. ' r "Thus far I have rung the changes i two conceits which have been pro- s ic in restful sleep-inducing trains of t ought. But anyone who has the c ast imagination can conjure up doz- r is of such ideal worlds. Sometimes I hen I go to bed and become con- r ions that I am going to be harrassed t r thoughts relating to business, I sup- t >se myself to be in receipt of an in- t me of $15,000 or $20,000 a day, e hick I inherited on the condition that diould spend it all each day. Non- v nsical, you say ? Of course it is, t it that is just its merit. It is so ut- <i rly impossible and unreal that I can't I: it anxious over it, while at the same I ne there is an intellectual rest and a eusure in dreamily imagining the v irtling and humorous situations that u ould arise out of such a state of af- t irs. For instance the other night I t imagined myself at 11.30 o'clock at night with $10,000 of my daily income Btill unspent, and no available way of spending it. If I did not get rid of it by 12 o'clock I would lose my fortune, and so I started to devise some way of spending $10,000 in half an hour. I don't know how I finally did it, for in the effort I promptly fell ioto a dreamless sleep. i "My other method is to imagine my- i self to have discovered a new law of matter which would enable me to i transport myself bodily from New York to London in 10 or 15 minutes. I let myself think of the surprises that the exercise of such a power would occasion when, for instance, I would visit the London correspondent * of The Tribune some day and give him a copy of that day's issue of The ' Tribune. You can realize at once the ! unbounded possibilities of such aline of thought. I haven't yet begun to ' exhaust them, for I always go to sleep before I have elaborated any one sit- 1 UAtion. ' "There may be some people so satu- ' rated with the material and the real ' that they can't give themselves up to 1 these waking dreams, for that is what . they are. Such people are to be pitied. But those who are fortunate ' enough to have the faculty of imagi- 1 nation well developed will find this 1 method of inducing sleep infallible. 1 For it is the method of nature." STONEWALL JACKSON'S FOE. | Be Feared the Whtiky In a Liquor Warehouse More Than the Enemy. From The Youth's Companion. "About daylight of the day before j the second battle of Manassas,'.' said ( a Confederate officeraat a recent reun- , ion of the blue and the grey, I was or- , tiered to report to General T. J. Jack- ( son, with a detail of a hundred men, for special orders. I went at once to ( headquarters and presented the orders , [ had received. General Jackson came . out, and beckoning me to follow him, j rode some 50 yards from his staff and . then turned to me and baited : " 'Captain, do you ever use liquor?" j he asked. " 'No, sir,' I replied. , "A smile lit up his rugged face as ( he said: 'I sent for a special detail of ] LOO men under command of an offieer ( who never used spirituous liquors. Are , you that man ?' , "Yes, sir,' I said, 'I was detailed on that account." " 'Well then,' he contiuued, 'I have , in order to give, upon the execution , :>f which depends the success of the present movement and the result of the battle soon to be fought.' " 'If to keep sober is all that is need- j ?d, general, you may depend upon me,' , [ said. " 'No,' he answered, "that is not all; t 3ut unless you can resist temptation to ( Irink, you cannot carry out my orders. | Do you see that warehouse over . there ?' pointing to a large building a ] ittle way off. 'Take your command j jp to that depot, have the barrels >f bread rolled out and sent dowu to . the railroad track, so that my men can j !? ae thoir nana onH thpn tfttrft vnnr . JV-l IV , J sicked men into the building and spill ill the liquor there; don't spare a irop, nor let any man taste it under ?ny circumstances. This order I exsect you to execute at any cost.' uHe turned, and was about to ride sack to bis staff, when I called hastily : " 'One moment, general! Suppose in officer of superior rank should orier me under arrest and then gain jj sossession of the warehouse "Coming up close to me, and look- { ng me through and through, as it seem- f ;d to me, he said, with a look of sol;mnity that I shall never forget : J " 'Until I relieve you in person, you i ire exempt from arrest except upon * ny written order. I fear that liquor " nore than Pope's army,' he added, as * se rode rapidly away. "I took my men down to the ware- c louse which had become so important ind threw a guard around it placing ive men at each entrauce, with orders leither to al?jw any one to enter, nor J .0 enter themselves. i "The next thing was to roll out the iread, which I did. Just as we were I inishing that task I was called to one >f the entrances to find a general * >ffieer with his staff demanding that he guards should either allow him to v nter or bring him out some liquor. 1 )f course, I refused to comply with ^ he command, upon which he ordered *! lis adjutant to place me under arrest. "I told him I was there by General fackson's personal order, and was eslecially exempt from arrest. He or- j lered his staff to dismount and enter I he warehouse, and I gave my men { he order to level their guns and make I eady. { "This made the general halt, in l pite of his thirst, and hold a consulta- } ion with his officers. They conclu- i led to try persuasion, since they could J lot get what they wanted by force. I Jut they found that method of no j uore avail than the other. Then I hey demanded to know my name and j o what command I belonged to, and i hreatened to report me for disobedimce. .1 should never have yielded, and 1 whether they would have pushed * hings to an extremity, in their raging lesire for the liquor, I do not know; ? ?ut just at that moment General A. P. Till came galloping up with his staff md naturally wanted to know what t* vas the trouble. I explained the sit- il lation, which the quick-wittfed general r ook in at once, and ordered the thirs- "i y squad off. fi " 'Have you orders to burn the building ?" he asked. " 'No,' I answered, 'I have not.' "Without a word he rode away, and within an hour there came an order from General Jackson to fire the warehouse, and when it was well destroyed to report to him. "I carried out the order to the letter ; not a man got a drink that day, and for that time the foe that Stonewall Jackson most dreaded was vanquished." CAMPAIGN CLIPPINGS. Kansas City Times: It is admitted by other foreign countries that America can force the world to bimetallism. Kansas City Journal: Mr. Harrison will speak once more for the Re publican ticket and then retire. Mr. McKinley will continue to talk every day, but will join Mr. Harrison later. Indianapolis Sentinel: Bismarck , agrees with Bryan upon the silver question. The old man will be branded now as an "anarchist," a "lunatic" and a "silver crank" by the goldbug press of London and America. Atlanta Constitution : The New York Commercial Advertiser pulls the real issue from under the bed when it declares that the eastern states have a right to dominate, the rest of the republic. Denver Times: To be consistent, Major McKinley, if elected, should honor Herr Most with a cabinet position. Tbe major and Herr Most certainly continue to agree on the financial question. Kansas City Times: Canton, 0., will be referred to by the future historian as having been in 1896 the mecca af political deadheads; also as the resort of political deadheads; likewise is the residence of a political dead duck. Chattanooga News: McKinley's dignity will not allow him to go among the people and ask them to elect him president; it demands that the people shall ero to him and bee him to become president. Will be be tbe servant of ibe people or tbe people bis servants if he is elected ? St. Louis Republic: Prince Bismarck's opinion that tbe United States can without help sustain tbe policy of cimetallism is the opinion of a practical and able statesman of long and' wide experience. It should bave great weight, especially with the GermanAmerican voters. The New York Journal : Mr. Brym put tbe essence of the money question in a nutshell when be said at Washington last Saturday: "The gold standard is bad because the man who has money can profit by the raise n tbe value of that money without asing it in commerce or trade." Nashville Sun : McKinley is still it Canton. Hired trains, with hired excursions, headed by hired brass cands, worked up by hired tools of ;be monopolies, and introduced by cired politicians to a willing and waitng candidate characterizes the campaign. We will admit that they will get everything that there is for sale, cut the presidency is not in the auction list. Brooklyn Citizen: The money cower is in the nature of a taxing lower, wnen a comparatively iew Dersons are permitted to determine its volume. These persons stand distinguished from the general laboring nultitude, as a despotic government, vhich, according to the measure of its itrength, levies tribute upon all its mbjects. New York Journal: According to be Sun, rain did not drive indoors iny of the 20,000?or was it 200,000 ?? >ersons who visited the Sage of Canon on Saturday, while at Baltimore dr. Bryau's hearers were simply itampeded by the showers. It is a )ity that Major McKinley's followers lo not know enough to go in out of he rain. They will be wiser after the Id of November. Severe Droughts.?An interesting ecord is that of severe droughts as ar back as the lauding of the Pilgrims, low many thousand times are observations made like the following: 'Such a cold season !" "Such a hot eason!" "Such dry weather !" or 'Such wet weather!" "Such high viuds or calm," etc. All those who hink the dry spell we have bad this ear is the longest ever known, says ,n exchange, will do well to read the 1>J1UW11J? . Iu the spring and summer of 1621, '4 days in succession without rain. 11 1030, 41 days In succession without rain, n 1057, 75 days in succession without rain, n 1002, 80 days In succession without rain, n 1074, 45 days In succession without rain, n 1080, 81 days in succession without rain, n 10H4, 02 days in succession without rain, n 170-3, 40 days in succession without rain, n 1724, 01 days in succession without rain, n 1728, 01 days in succession without raid. 1 n 17-10, 92 days in succession without rain, n 1741, 72 days in succession without rain, ii 1749, 108 days in succession without rain, n 1755, 42 days in succession without rain, n 1702, 123 days in succession without rain, n 1783, 80 days in succession without rain, n 1791, 82 days in succession without rain, n 1802, 21 days in succession without rain, n 1812, 28 days in succession without rain. n 1850, 24 days in succession without rain, n 1871, 42 days in succession without rain, n 1875, 20 duys in succession without rain, n 1870, 27 days in succession without rain. It will be seen that the longest time hat ever occurred in America was in he summer of 1762. No rain fell rom the first day of May to the first f September, 123 days without rain. flaT1 The supreme court of the Unied States is three years behind with :s business, which is piling up at a ate that is likely, predicts the New rork World, to set the court still Lirther in arrears.