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ZSSUTE?? SEKX^WEISL^ l. m. grist & sons, Publishers. } % cjfamilir gercspager: <dfor the promotion of the fjolitlral, Social, Agricultural, and Commercial Jnt^sts of the ?outh. { t^rm8Sino?e NCE* ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKYILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1899. NO. 25. " i r~ : : : ? r: r i ~7~: i : r~ By WETHERI Copyright, 1899, by Weatherley Chesney Synopsis of Previous Installments In order that new readers of The En quirer may begin with the following in stallmentof this story, and understand i just the same as though they had read i all from the beginning, we here give i synopsis of that portion of it which ha already been published: Commander Duncan Brett. R. N., hav ing been accepted by Mabel Fenton, 01 his way home tinds her brother Georg< bending over the dead body of a woman In her band is the broken oft hilt of i glass dagger?a curio which has hung ii George's room?the blade buried in thi woman's heart. A man, Fitzgerald, en deavors to take possession of the woman' jewelry. Brett interferes, whereupon thi man deuouuces him to the police as thi murderer, and he is marched to the sta tion. Brett proves bis innocence and i discharged. George Fenton endeavors U escape, but after a long flight is a last ar rested, charged with the murder of Harri et Staples, a woman to whom he has lon| been known to be attached. Mabel Fen ton has faith in her brother's innocence She tells Brett that if George is guilty sb< will never marry him, being the sister o a murderer. Mr. Keighley Gates is heart talking about the glass dagger. Brett re solves to establish George's innocence George describes the murder of Harrie Staples as he witnessed it. She refused U marry him. He turned from her, heart her fall and saw a man running away, th< dagger being in her breast. Brett get Harriet Staples' photograph and discov era that it is the likeness of Lady Floreuoi Mostyn, daughter of the Duke of Luudy Brett calls upon Keighley Gates and no tices in a drawer of Gates' desk a photo graph of a woman which he recognizes a one he had seen in Scotland Yard over tin name of Lady Florence Mostyn. Bret finds a visitor in his room, Mr. Vandel eur, an actor who tells him that he hac S'ayed with Lady Florence Mostyn, o ary Western, or Harriet Staples, o whatever she might be, and through Van deleur, Brett gets on the track of Artbu Durant and is led to believe that the mur dered woman was disreputable. Bret consults Arabella Pridgett and learni more of the murdered woman, as Lad: Florence Mostyn, which makes her ap pear as a receiver of stolen goods. It it discovered that the father of Lady Flor ence Mostyn had married a widow with i son, who had gone to the bad. ;Brett vis its Keigbley Gates and meets Dr. Fitz gerald, whom he recognizes as the mat who attempted to rifle the body of th< murdered woman. At Scotland Yarc Brett, is informed that Keighley Gate: had stolen the photograph from the al bum and substituted another. CHAPTER XIJX PLANNING AN ABDCCTION. Most of what follows 1 learned afterward from various sources, but for sake of continuity it is told here. Yes, one or two little incidents had served toannoyMr. Keighley Gates that morning. His letters, in the first place, had been far from satisfactory, and then thprft was Dr. Fitzeerald's visit. He had ot come by appointment, and it was evident fiom bis reception that he was not welcome. "Ob, it's yon, is it?" said Mr. Gates, nngracionsly, when be entered. "I did not hear you knock." "No more did I?knuckles out of order?umbrella handle loose?all sorts ol reasons if required." "I've not the slightest doubt of it. Well, what do you want with me! Don't beat about the bush." Dr. Fitzgerald gave bis Bilk hat s loving polish with a gaudily colored handkerchief and then deposited it gin gerly on the table. He hnng up his umbrella on the mantelshelf, careful); pulled off his gloves, folded them uj and pocketed them, and finally, aftei some deliberation, deposited himself it the easiest chair in tbo room, froir which, with elbows resting on tbe armi of the chair, bandB clasped in elegani manner and one leg 6wung negligeutl; over the other, he blandly surveyed Mr Eeighley Gates. "I hope you are quite comtortabh now," said the latter, politely "Perfectly, Bob. Delightful roomperfect chair?genial host?what more Congratulations?excellent taste in fur niture?hire system?" "When you are quite ready perhapi you will tell me what you waut," saic Mr. Gates, ignoring Or. Fitzgerald'i flattering remarks. "? s. d.?friend of my youth?onl] too delighted to assist?Q. E. D ." "Then you've come to me for money?' "The dear boy! Guessed it firs time." Mr. Keighley Gates unlocked a draw er and produced a book. "Look here, Richmond; this is nr bank passbook. Do you see the balanci ??500 on the wrong side?" "Why, bless my soul, so it is! Who'< have thought it?" said the imperturba bio Dr. Fitzgerald. "Here is a letter," continued Mr Gates, "received this morning from m; bankers, Syrac & Co." "Most respectable firm?know en well." "You eee, they respectfully call m; attention to the fact that they will no be able to honor any more of m; checks." "Confound impudence! Call in th police." "Here are a few dunning letters,1 continued Mr. Gates, shoving a pile t - ? ? - * ?1? ~ cnvvuroH thorn UI8 visilur, vvuu uaiuuij sua ? "Sinippit & Paddom?bunting sai ?eilk faced frock coat?norfolk jacke ?fur lined overcoat?not in the militia are you??total, oue-fit'ty-flve-six. Aby? einia & Co.?gold repeater?diamon studs?ditto rings?got 'em all on, Bot ?total two-tweuty-three-four. Pans & Sons, florists?large bouquets?ob, Bay; it was becoming interesting." Mr. Gates bad snatched tbe bills ou cf Lr. Fitzgerald's bauds. "Here," he 6aid, diving into bi pocket and producing a purse, which h< jxnptied on the table?"here is ni] ready cash. Look?one sovereign, tw< half dollars and a threepenny bit." "Total, one-four-three," said Dr Fitzgerald. jEY chesney. "Exactly. That's the state of my ' finanoes today. Yon'll have to apply - elsewhere for assistance." " 'Nou sequitnr?j'y suis;' here I 1 stop," said the other. 1 "Then perhaps you'll kindly explain a how 1 am to advance yon money when 8 I haven't srot any for myself?" "No good at details. Ask another." j "Don't be an ass, Richmond. Yon e can't bleed a stone." "Got to be done. Send to Moses for 1 particulars." g "Look here, Richmond, stop this fool. ing! I'm in a tight corner?a deuceds ly tight corner?and it's no use your e applying to me today." "Fur lined overcoat?gold repeater? s diamond Etuds?ditto ring?large bou3 quets?must be in militia?or is it " houee of lords?" murmured Dr. Fitz? gerald. Mr. Eeigbley Gates was in bad health, his prospects were dark, his asf Bets nil and his visitor unwelcome. So ] he may fairly be excused a display of - bad temper. ? "Confound it, man, don't sit there 5 muttering like a jackdaw. Take your ] traps and go." 9 Dr. Fitzgerald was equal to the occa9 sion. He rose to his feet and towered 9 over Mr. Gates, and from this eminence . gave vent to his feelings. He was oo* herent enough in his remarks now. j "You confounded Sybarite, living 3 here on the fat of the land while better t men are starving. Sell your fur lined : coat and your diamond studs?sell your r large bouquets?sell your infernal soul _ it n nan raico ? nHvfir on it. but raise r J VU UUU M - the wind for me you must or by the r heavens above you'll rue it, "and having l got rid of this torrent of words he pros ceeded to put on his gloves with delibf erate slowness, then gathered his umg brella and hat and stalked to the door. Mr. Keigbley Gates saw he had said i too mnoh and "hastened to mollify his " visitor. 1 "Confound it, Richmond, you'll drive 3 me mad. Haven't I enough to worry me 1 without your adding to my perplexities? 3 You know perfectly well that if I had money you should share it. I don't forget old friends in a hurry. If you're short of a sovereign, take this. The two half dollars will see me through the day, and after that the deluge." Fitzgerald waved him off magniffi cently. "Keep your quid, Mr. Keighley Gates. You've insulted me, Dr. Fitz; gerald, T. C. D.,"land County Water' n T 1 ? ? ? " ? K"f komova fha rora. X JCHVti yuu uun, uuu uonaxv, ?U? day will come! Meantime, good mom[ ing!" and with this eloquent peroration , Dr. Fitzgerald closed the door behind , him. Gates gave a sigh of relief when he bad gone. I " What does that infernal ass mean by threatening me, I wonder? Thank heav. en, I have never trusted him very far. j Now, who the devil's this? Come in!" The door opened and Commander Brett entered, and the reader has already had ? an aocountof the interview that followed. ( When Brett left the room Mr. Keigh[ ley Gates gave vent to his feelings. "So, Commander Brett, V. C., R. N., . you are still on the track of your mare's , nest. You are a clever young man whose , talents are simply thrown way on board . ship. The late lamented Sherlock , Holmes would have been pleased to fln, ish your education for you, for it wants i | finishing. You are a deuced sight too 6 clever, my young friend, and it's time r yon knew it. Your wings must be clipped, and that at once, or there will be trouble in the camp. But which is the j best way to perform that operation?? that is the first question to decide. You have been arrested once, and if that t could be managed a second time? But how? Let me 6ee. No, that won't do. Must find a weaker spot. The girl! Ahl j that's it?must strike him through the j girl! Jealousy? Too difficult. Bravol I 5 have it I" and Mr. Keighley Gates enap j j j . ' < jy fa?* ? "Total, one-*our-three," said Dr. Fitzgery aid. ped big finger and tnumo triumpnauuy, 0 while a smile of malignant joy that would have doue credit to Mephistopheles plotting for the soul of Faust played 0 round his thin lips. "Yes, I'll clip your ' wings, Commander Brett, and that witht out a moment's delay. " 't Mr. Gates drew paper and pen toward him, and, still beaming contentedly, i- wrote: ^ Deak Richmond? Excuse my vile temper of >? this morning and call round at your earliest. y Plans of a remunerative nature to discuss. 1 He addressed the letter to an obscure treet S. E., and then, at peace with t himself, he went to bed. It was evening before he wae aroused s from hie slumbers. Dr. Fitzgerald had 3 recovered bis good temper. He was 7 friendly, even philanthropic. 3 "Pulse," said he, when he had deposited his various paraphernalia. "Um . ?feverish; tongue?um?bad. Paper," and he sat down and wrote. He then I rang the bell. "Boots, chemist," said he to the waiter who answered it. "Bring bottle back?oharge Mr. Gates' account." Then he sat down before the bed and waited for Mr. Gates to open the conference. "Richmond," said the latter blandly, and with no apparent recollection of anything but brotherly love, "I've two things on hand that most be attended to. There's a crift to crack and a girl to abduct." "Town or country?" "Town?De Vere Gardens." "Both?" "Yes. same place." "Bad spot?pnlioe handy." "Oan't help it. Girl must go tomorrow, and yon mast take her." "Where?" "To a qniet house somewhere or other." "Love?" "No, Richmond. Downright solid hate." "That's better. Let's have particulars." "You know a naval chap?a Commander Brett?" "Know him perfeotly?for a cad." "It's his girl." "Good! Proceed." "Brett is trying to implicate me in a serious affair, and"? "South Audley street?" "Yes?and a clumsy move on my part may put him on my track any day. Of course, I have no connection with the murder, but I am mixed up in the side issues, and it might be awkward if he got really on my scent. He must be stopped at once, and the only way to do it is by diverting his energies. Once get bis girl away, and he will devote himself to her pursuit and leave the other affair." "1 see, and the pay?" "Fifty pounds??25 in the morning and the rest when you've done the trick. You should have the first ?25 now, but I have not got it. I expect Glasher here tonight. I shall sell him my diamonds, and even the fur lined coat will go," added Mr. Gates, with a pleasant smile, "if the crib doesn't turn , out well." i "Are they rich?" "Fairly well off; solid family plate i at any rate. The old man will be bo out up at the girl's dieappearanoe that he won't be able to sleep. So we must get up a scent for him. We'll run him down into Gloucestershire for a night and then do the trick." i "Oml That's your department I've to tackle the girl. Any ideas?" i "Yes. Bowl up in a four wheeler? not a hansom, by the way?with the news that the gallant oaptain has met with an accident somewhere or other i and is asking for her. She will be in a mortal funk and will never stop to think. Let it be afternoon, when the old un is at his club. You can manage her all right." i Fitzgerald reflected. "Serious matter ?abduction. Make it ?100, Bob??50 i extra when the crib is cracked. We go < halves there, I suppose?" i "All right." replied Gates. "You : never found me a sorew, did you, Rich- i mond?" "This morning, sir, you were a screw." Gates smiled amiably, and Dr. Fitzgerald took his leave when a few of the details had been discueeed. About half an hour after he had gone a gentleman of the Jewish raoe, who gave his name as Glasher, waited upon 1 Mr. Gates. As a result of two satiB- 1 factory interviews aud Dr. Fitzgerald's prescription that worthy schemer final- 1 ly fell into a profouud sleep, as peaoe- ' ful and untroubled as that of a child. CHAPTER XIV. | A CONSULTATION. Commander Brett was not able to report his interview with Mr. Keighley Gates to Miss Fenton until the follow- ! ing day. The morning's post had brought a letter from his friend Wray, ( aud with this in his pocket he proceeded to De Vere Gardens. "Well. Duncan, have you brought any news?" Mabel asked anxiously, when lovers' greetings had been exchanged. "Indeed I have, dear, and somewhat surprising news too. It was Gates himself who substituted the photograph for Lady Florence's in the album." ? "Mr. Gates! What in the world did he do it for?" "That is what 1 Bhould very much like to know myself. As a matter of fact, be told me he had not done so? told me emphatically, and without being asked the question. Afterward I learned at Scotland Yard that he was the very man who did it." "How strange! What possible interest could Mr. Keighley Gates have in the matter?" "That I do not know?in fact, I know very little of the man. He was a friend of George's, was he not?" "An acquaintance?hardly a friend. George met him at some club or other, and found him interesting. They had one or two tastes in common?fishing, big game shooting, and hunting, and Mr. Gates suggested a trip to the Zambezia for elephants; but I don't fancy George really liked the man, or he would have jumped at the idea." "Then you know of nothing that would connect him in the faintest way with the present trouble?" "Nothing. Butstop! You remember he was here on the day of the murder ?it was then, indeed, he noticed the dagger that led to snspicion falling on George. That day he spoke to George abont his infatuation for Harriet Staples, and urged him to break with her. He had never alluded to the subject before, and George considered he bad taken a great liberty in doing so at all, and he told him so. George was very muoh annoyed, I remember, and he spoke to me about it before he left the house that evening." "Did Gates give any reason for mentioning the matter?" "He said he did it out of pure friendship for George." This was certainly news. Brett knew nothing against Mr. Gates, except the lie be had told him abont the photograph, if tne police were to be believed. Bat he did not think he was the sort of man to interfere in a matter of this kind ont of pare disinterested friendship. Still he might be doing him an ' injustice. "Well, it is nseless speculating on his reasons," said he. "There's the 1 ohanging of the photographs to bring it borne to him, but for the life of me I i don't see bow it is to be done. I can't very well tax him with it, for he has distinctly told me he did not do it." "Never mind, Duncan. Bnt we most be on oar guard against him. If he is nlaving false, be will be sure to betray himself before long." "I have had a letter from Wray this morning," said Brett after a pause. "He has sent me a description of Lady Florence Mostyn's brother?a sandy " Precisely. He lost an arm some time after leaving them." man, with a cat across his forehead. Bnt let me read yon exactly what he says about bim: 'I never saw Robert King, tbe duke's stepson, so I cannot give yon a description first band, but I am told be wasta fair youtb, witb light brown?almostjred?hair. There was a scar across fiis forehead, tbe result of a fall against tbp bar of a grate when a mere child. Tfhis soar was noticeable when be was grown up, and I do not think will have left bim. He was tall ?nearly six feet. No, be bad not lost an arm. Beyond this I am afraid I can tell you nothing of bis personal appearance.' " Mabel listened intently. "Then it must have been tbe actor, Lambert, who was her brother!" she exclaimed. "Precisely. He lost an arm some time after leaving them." The terrible anxiety of the past few weeks was telling severely on Mabel, and today Brett noticed witb alarm bow pale and ill she looked. She was thoroughly unstrung, and while they were discussing the next move to be taken Bhe broke down altogether and sobbed . pitifully. Brett tried with all a lover's resources to soothe her, but his tender words aud caresses were in vain. "It is all so hopeless, Dunoan?so 1 terribly hopeless. In another week there 1 will be the trial, and with all your 1 work what partiole of evidenoe have we ' that will weigh one feather's weight with the jury?" 1 Brett could only kneel at her side and ' dumbly caress her hands, while great J sobs shook her frame. Then he pulled 1 himself together with an effort, and seating himself by her drew her gently 1 to him. "Mabel, my darling, this is not like 1 you. You have been so brave and help- 1 ful all the time. It will never do to 1 give up hope now that we have un- ' earthed so much of the woman's past ' life, discovered her real name and who 1 her relations are apd traced her doings ' since she left home. At any moment we may learn something that will put us 1 on the track of the murderer. Don't, ' dearest, don't. I need all my strength J for my work, aud it utterly unmans J me to see you give way." < Mabel forced back her sobs and ' brushed her tears away. i "You are right, Duncan. It is fool- I iah of trifi?worse than foolish. I will i be brave, dear." And she smiled pit- i eonsly. I "Look here, darling. Yon don't get i oat enough. I will call for yon this j afternoon and we will have a stroll to- i gether in the park. I may have eome- i thing further to report by then. What I do you say, dear one? At 4?" < "As yon like, Duncan, but do not < worry about me in the least. We must i be successful in the end, and then, you j know, I shall be perfeotly well again. I will be waiting for yon at 4." < In a few minutes Commander Brett i hurried away. j to be continued. ' ?'gggg I The Date of Easter.?A question i that has been often answered, what fixes the date of Easter each year, and why isn't it, like Christmas, the same i date every year ? Easter is the first Sunday after the j full moon that occurs on or next after i March 21; and if the full moon fall on i the 21st, Easter is the next Sunday. < Of course if the date were the same each year, the day would be Sunday i only once in six years. Some of the early Christians did fix the date in this < way, while others used the present i way. But in the year 325 the matter i was brought by Constantine before the " * ** - ?*?no Airl rl/ln t 1 \7 C0UDC11 01 iMce, a Liu iu ?u? ltiuvu>.j thought best that the anniversary of the event which changed the Sabbath i from the seventh day of the week to the first day should always fall upon the first day ; for they, deciding between < the two ways then in use, selected for the whole church the method which would briDg Easter always on Sunday. Since that decision Easter cannot < fall earlier than March 22, nor later than April 25 in any year. These dates are called the "Easter Limits." i Easter occurred on March 22 in 1818, hut cannot come again on that day until 2285. ptecfUancouji fading. CDBA AND THE CUBANS. ANOTHER INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION FROM SERGEANT DEAL. HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NATIVES. Peculiar Extreme* of Cruelty and Kindness?Commercial Dishonesty and Social Hospitality?Miscellaneous Notes and Comments?The Visit of Senator Tillman and Party?The Boys Are Homesick. Correspondence ot the Torkrille Enquirer. Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba, March 20.?I have been intending for sometime to write a letter descriptive sf our life and the things we have seen in Cuba ; but there is so much to tell ?so much that can hardly be comprehended by our civilized, human people?that I was at a loss as to bow far [ might trust their credulity, and as to what would be of most interest to Lbem. To begin with, the men are about all pretty anxious to get home, [t is thus in all the volunteer regiments. Tbey have become accustomed to the beauties and attractions oi the island, and aided by the desire to go home, these have naturally become eommouplace. Then it is not very inspiring to see human beings fishing in our filthy slopbarrels for bread and eating Blop like greedy bogs; nor pleasant to continually view physical contortions and enormous swellings of body and limbs eaused by excessive hunger or the ravages of some loathful disease. Many of the men really gave up lucrative Dositions to enlist, and tbey feel now that tbey have done all that should be required of them, and that they should not be longer sacrificed to the policy of the government; but allowed to return to the dear ones at home. Another mustering out petition was circulated sometime ago and signed by a good many; but tba occasion was not marked by outbursts of dissatisfaction and disorder as is usual in such cases. Colonel Jones's only remark when be heard of it was: "Well, these boys ire great on petitions," be having received two long ones himself, when it was rumored that he intended to resign, earnestly begging him to remain with the regiment. Senator Tillman and party came out to the regiment yesterday to visit the camp and address the men ; but it was just after "pay day," and many preferred a trip to Havana. A stand was erectud in front of the colonel's tent and several of the party made briel speeches. Our camp, under the efficient charge of Major Hagener, as sanitary officer, is in excellent condition, it being considered one of the best in the corps. Since the several layers of rock have been removed and the other necessary work done, the duties of the men have been light. Tbey are allowed to explore the surrounding country and little towns to their hearts' content, or seek such other divertisement as best suits their disposition. Onlv last evening, as I came up the company street, I saw several warm games of "craps," and in another tent a less exciting and noisy, but no less interesting game of poker. One crap game seemed to be of particular interest, being more noisy and having a larger crowd, and so 1 stopped to watch it. There were continual cries of "shoot de dime," "shoot de quarter," "shoot de half," "shoot de dollar," and occasionally "shoot de bill," for we had been paid only the day before and the men still bad plenty af money. As I came up, one little fellow bad the dice and was rattling off* a perfect stream of crap slang, which would be punctuated by a chorus of graduated grunts as a "shot" was made. I cannot attempt to describe it, for the jlang itself, mixed with the numerous army terms and military orders that the men weave iu, though ludicrous, is nothing. It is the peculiar risiug and falling intonation of the voice ol the "shooter," his alternatiug pleading and commanding tones as he "con jures" the dice; the constant Dantering and bickering for a fabe (bet); the strained attention of men down on their hands and knees in a circle; the excited chorus of "ughs;" and the earnestness of it all thatleud the scene its interest and make it novel and picturesque. Several attempts have been made tc stop gambling among the men ; but they were so unsuccessful, the men going off in groups to the shade oi some big tree in the country, or to the gambling dens in the towns, and it seemed to be such a great part of their lives, that now they are not molested. The ever present typhoid fever has its usual number of cases ; but so far as I know, only two deaths?a comparatively small number?have occurred in the regiment since we have been iu Cuba. There are, however, numer ous cases of malarial fever, but of a very mild character that generally lasts only a few days. Something of the kind that Colonel Coward, at the Citadel, used to designate with his cutting Barcasm, "malaise." This malaria seems very strange to me, for we are up in the hills, and there is no dead vegetation around, and although it is - - I -. .L*. beginning 10 get very am iu mo auu or wilh exertion, yet uuder the shade of a teut, with the walls rolled up so that the stroug breeze, or rather wind, can sweep through, it is cool and positively delightful. Every sanitary precaution, however, has been taken, aud about 100 bushels of lime is scattered daily throughout the camp, causing a thin white coating to cover the ground, somewhat resembling snow or frost on a cold morning; but how unlike when the wind blows it in your eyes. A few cases of yellow fever have also developed, and I understand? i Dame Rumor says; but I do not know i how truly?that if it becomes at all ( prevalent, and the southern ports close- 1 ly closed against us, we will be sent s to Montauk Point, N. Y., there to be t quarantined and mustered out. Texas 1 and Louisiana already have orders \ to leave for the states, so that they will 1 not be held up by the general quar- \ antine which, I hear, begins the first 1 of May, and it is reported that we are t to leave next Saturday. At any rate i i it appears that it will not be long now ' until we return to the states; and al- 1 though all are anxious to go, they e have no doubt all enjoyed the trip and \ the opportunity of seeing the country and the people at this time. \ I have myself made many excursions t tbrougn toe surrouoaiog couairy uuu spent several glorious days rambliDg through the dilapidated but grand old city of Havana. But I have seen little that favorably impressed me with the character and customs of the people. I have tried not to become prejudiced against them; but I suppose I am too i much of an American and seen too little of the world to be a fair judge, for where I find one thing to admire, I find a dozen to condemn. * The people though are courteous, i hospitable and seem to have the kindi liest feelings for the Americans; but they are lazy, will swindle you unmeri cifully, and are cruel to a degree that is barbarous?that will rival the stories i we have read of the ancient Assyrians and Romans. Passing through -Marianne one day, i for instance, I saw what I at first took to be three deep gashes, completely encircling an ankle of one of the little i ponies, the two outer gashes circling toward the middle one at the front and , rear, and the space between thickly , studded with little round holes. On i looking closer, I saw that they were indeed gashes; but that they had been , burned and that the leg was much swollen and could bear no pressure, i Stopping to enquire what disease could merit such heroic treatment, I found that it was merely a fancy brand. Brauds are quite common and they are nanallo nn t.hia Iflviqh fltvle. VfttIUM1IJ V** V***~ " "" " ~*l " In plowing they use two and four \ oxen, for the soil is very bard, and a i plow very primitive, and that I should j imagine could be used very well for a ( railway snow plow. "Cal" Collier, one ( of the wits of the regimeot, described ( it as, "De same i-den-ti-cal plow dat Elisha was us'en when dey called him , to de prophecy." One man attempts i to guide the plow, while another, or a > i a boy, with a goad, a long pole with a sharp piece of iron on the end of it, i does the driving. From the frantic , movements of the tough, lazy oxen, 8 when jabbed with it, I imagine its J effects must be fearful. , I have often seen a little donkey ' staggering along with bis legs quivering beneath him, under a burden of 8 six five-gallon kegs of water?240 1 pounds of water alone?the big boxing 1 and padding to hold the heavy kegs, 8 and sitting on top of all this, the 1 driver singing and cracking a long ( whip. ? We see daily passing our camp, from > one to six of the little mules or ponies, strung out in single file, tandem fash- 1 ' ion, straining away upon a load twice * as large as would be put upon an 1 equal number of big strong mules in * i America. Immense two-wbeeled carts, Upoq ohnnt. nix inchpa hrnad and 1 wheels six feet high, are generally 1 used, and when they come to a rough 1 ' place in the road, the shaft mule is of- ' ten lifted bodily and set several feet to I > one side; but the lead mules soon jerk l? him straight and the grind goes on. i There are plenty of big, fine oxen, ' i and they balance and draw the im- I mense, heavy loaded carts with the 1 yoke strapped to their horns. ( Their savage treatment of the Spaniards, and vice versa, when they fell t into each other3 hands, is well-known. And here is another phase of the heartlessness of the race. Going to ( i Havana on the train yesterday, I i struck up with an American geutle- J man who said to me: "I had a cou- j tract to move 600 Spanish troops from , the hospital to a ship. They were geni erally about your size, and by G?d, j I don't believe there was a single one , of the privates that would have weighed 60 pounds, and the officers, damn | 'em, were fat and sleek. They called ( i it fever. I called it starvation." ) But the people have a better side. ? i They have numerous, and apparently * > unconscious, nice little courtesies that | are pleasing. For instance, if you ( take out a cigarette or cigar, they will ? instantly offer you theirs, with a polite | . little bow, for you to get a light. And several times, when on return- ( F ing from a ramble rather late in the ( > afternoon, in passing through their ( < yards, viewing their hog tied with a 1 ' rope around bis neck and other curi- ( ous customs, we have disturbed a fami ily at their supper?of sweet potatoes, j As soon as they saw us they would rush out in their excitable, euthusias- j . ?:? vuav anH hv pYPPssvft i?fl?tures in- . K.V, TTI.J ~J o [ i sist tbat we come in and share their little all. Aod when we had decliued, * i as best we could, with bows and smiles, i they would rush back aud briug us 1 i some of the big potatoes, which are, I am told, a kiud of cross between the ; Irish and sweet potato; but which, ] i boiled and then baked until they peel c i off in strips, are simply delicious. 1 And then bowiug and smiling and sa- t i luting with many a wee-uns tah-die t i (good evening) and ah-de-ah (good bye) \ i we would take our departure, wonder- ( ing more and more at these strange , people who would not hesitate to torture a dumb brute and swindle or crucify a man ; but would treat you in the , nicest manner, and insist upon your i partaking at their scanty board or helping yourself freely to the bananas i and oranges in their orchards,. On February 15, I went to Havana with a party and went through the U. i S. cruiser Brooklyn, seeing Captain Cook and many of-bis officers and > men who did such gallant work on tbat i lever-to-be-forgotten Sunday morning, vben the formidable fleet of Admiral 3ervera was completely destroyed. iVe rambled tbrougb the ship at will teeing her big guns which did such -errible execution at Santiago; her lonorable scars of battle, now barely Msible; the spot where the Seaman Sllis was killed by a 6-inch projectile vhich struck him in the mouth while le was taking the distance to one of he enemies ships, at the command of Admiral Schley; the ship's mascot, 'Billy Boy," the goat, and laughed leartily at an honest tar's confession is to how he felt when a 6-inch shell vbirred just over his head. From here we sailed over to the vreck of the Maine. The flag on the ilted mast was at half-mast, and the ignung lop proiuseiy aecoraiea who loral Daval emblems, as it was the anlivereary of the day upon which the ihip was fatally destroyed by some nysterious explosion. I looked at the blackened, pitiful uins, and thought of the time when I iad seen ber in all her pride and glory, ipotlessly white, fitted with every apiliance of destruction, "A Mistress of be Sea, A Godess of War." The?wreck was covered with solliprs and sailors, and as we came withn a 100 yards of it, we could plainly lear the blows of hammers, for the nen had come prepared, as every loose jiece of iron or-wood that escaped the ire, has long since disappeared. We icrambled over the ruins, collecting elics for about half an hour, and I vould have gladly remained longer, jut some of the party got hungry, and, )f course, had to return. I send you a piece of wood, charred is you can see by fire, which I cut myself from the burned, twisted and alnost submerged deck of the Maine. Yesterday I tried for the third time e go through Morro Castle; but the deaniDg out of the cells, dungeons md passages, left clogged with filth by he Spaniards, Jiad not been completed, ind besides several cases of yellow ever bad brokeD out there, and so we vere again disappointed; but I am ;oiog again tomorrow with a party of >fficers, and this time trust to meet vitb better success. I will write again in a few days, tellng of what I saw at a Cuban all-day :ock main, at the Christobal Colon cemetery, and at the funeral of Gen:ral Garcia. Augustus Deal. SPANISH JUSTICE. L Remarkable Instance Given By a Mew York Lawyer. "Talk of Spanish devotion to form ind formality, said Counsellor J. A. 3eall, of No. 150 Broadway, the other ? lay, "it is in their courts that you must ook for the perfection of it. "A friend of mine gave me this in* itance of it which he vouched for on personal knowledge of the case: A ich Spaniard who had a spendthrift ion made a will leaving all bis wealth ,0 the local chapter of the Jesuit or* ler and directing them to give to bis ion, after his death, as much of it as hey desire. "He died and the estate was fonnd ;o be half a million of pesetas. The iesuits took into consideration that /he young man was a spendthrift, and io they gave him only 1,000 pesetas. The young man went to law. "The lawyer made this argument heore the court: 'The testator wished sis son to have of the estate as much as the Jesuits desired; the Jesuits aave demonstrated that they desired 199,000 pesetas; therefore that is righty the young man's share, and as he aas only received 1,000 pesetas, I ask bat your honor direct the society ;o pay him over the remaining 498,)00.' "And the judge solemnly decided ;o do that very thiDg." The Secret of Success.?Here is ;he secret of success, done up in a imall nareel: Look most to your spending. No matter what cornea in, f more goes out you will be poor always. The art does not consist in naking money, but in keeping it. Little expenses, like mice in a barn, svhen tbey are many make great tvaste. Hair by bair the bead gets )ald ; straw by straw the tbatch comes >ff the cottage; drop by drop rain ;omes into the cbambei. A barrel is toon empty if the tap leaks but a drop i minute. When you mean to save jegin with your mouth; there are nany thieves down the red lane. The lie jug is a great waste. In all things jeep within compass. In clothes choose iuitable and lasting stuff, and no tawIry fineries. To be warm is the main ,hing ; never stretch your legs further ban the blanket will reach, or you vill soon be cold. A fool' may make noney, but it ueeds a wise man to ipend it. Remember, it is easier to mild two chimneys than to keep one toing. If you give all to back and )oard there is nothing left for the savugs bauk. Fare bard and work while fou are young, and you will have a shance to rest when you are old. A jenny saved is a penny earned. "Do Not8" For the Driver.? Lord Hampden, who presided at a relent dinner of the London Cab-Drivers' noanniatiAn /tnmman^A/) DCUC VViC/uv ocavviovivuj wuiuivuuuu o the members the following lines, elating to the proper care of the horse, vhicb, he said he had hung up in his >wn stables: Up hill?whip me not. Down hill?hurry me not. Loose in stable?forget me not. Of hay and corn?rob me not. Of clean water?stint me not. With sponge and brush?neglect me lot. Of soft dry bed?deprive me not. Sick or cold?chill me not. With bit and reins?oh, jerk me not. When you are angry?strike me not. With tight check-rein?torture me lot. v