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^ ^ ISSUED iEMI'WEESL^ ^ i m. grist & sons, publishers, j % 4amit8 tleuwgager: 4or tl,e ^romoiioti of the political, Social, Agricultural, and Commercial Interests of the people. { m5e'cran*"0"' established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 18997 NT). ~7TT THE MYSTE COUNT By FRED ^ Copyright, 1899, by the American rress associ Synopsis of Previous Installments. i In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Count Boris Landrinof, a young Russian student at Oxford, receives a telegram from his mother that his father, Count Yladimer Landrinof, is missing and asking him to return to Russia at once. Before starting for home Boris meets his friend Percy Morris, who tells him that be saw his father that very day in London. Boris, on arriving in Russia, finds that his father had gone to the railway station, but bad not taken a train. Here the trail was lost. Boris learns from a peasant that he bad driven three men to a post station. Percy arrives in Russia, and he and Boris interview the master of tne post station and are told that the postmater drove the party referred to to St. Petersburg. Percy and Boris direct him to drive mem to where he left the party, and be drives them to the Landrinof residence. Borofsky, a detective, is employed, and it is decided that Percy shall return to London and endeavor to obtain a photograph ot the man resembling the missing count. Percy secures the photograph, which greatly resembles the count. The countess then tells her son that her father had a brother who fell into criminal ways. Borofsky goes to London for the purpose of bringing back the man who resembles Count Landrinof. Borofsky follows his man, who endeavors to elude him. They have an interview, and the man agrees to return with him to Russia. Borofsky and the supposed count return. Boris does not believe that the latter is his father's brother, Andrew Landrinoff. The man (Andre) pretends never to have heard of the count's criminal brother. Andre is visited by a shabby student. Boris follows the student, who, perceiving that he is shadowed, endeavors to escape by crossing a frozen river. The ice breaks, the student falls into the water and is rescued by Boris. Boris demands information of his father of the student and to secure it takes him home and entertains him as a guest. The student admits that he possesses the required information and de0-,r if Rnriq ncrees to Dav uiaiiuo ?" ,?w and he to accept 5,000 rubles. The student tells him that Andre was a Siberian prisoner; that he escaped and came to St. Petersburg; that the police were tracking him when a plot was concocted to palm the real Count Landrinoff as the escaped prisoner. The plan was successfully carried out and the count was arrested and sent to Siberia. It now becomes a problem how to convince the police of their mistake. Boris interviews the chief of the division who arrested his father but meets a rebuff. Returning home, Boris finds that the chief has visited his bouse. The student, on learning of the visit believes that it was with a view to his arrest and that Andre has informed upon him, he being implicated. Borofsky otiers him a free exit if be will tell all he knows. The student then gives information of a plot to kill the czar by blowing up the train on his return to St. Petersburg. Borofsky reveals the plot to the police, and the student is found murdered. CHAPTER XXXII. THE COUNT'S RELEASE DEMANDED. The chief of police entered the room at this moment. He glanced keenly at Pore v. "Who is this?" he asked. It was Borofsky who told him the news; as for me, I conld not have spoken. There was a horrid kind of paralysis?the spell of horror?upon my tongue. I conld have yelled aloud, bnt to speak quietly and sanely would have been impossible to me. "What!" exclaimed the chief, when Borofsky had explained, in a sentence or two, the position of affairs. "The informer? He whom our friend here has desired to sc-een: who laid information of the railway affair?" "The same." said Borofsky. "Man proposes, excellence, but it is God who disposes in the end!" "Ha!" said the chief, "it looks like business. Moreover, my young friend, matters seem to work in your favor. Come, you shall show me this student. When we return, there may be news from Bootief!" I am sure the reader will excuse if I beg to be allowed to pass lightly over the sight we^ound awaiting us at the little lodging hired for the use of our ill fated informer. It was a pLiin, barely furnished bedroom, with a tiny kitchen attached, rinnn the bed lav the student, dead, I as Percy had reported, and obvionely murdered, perhaps while asleep. The knife I saw at once, to my horror, was a Circassian silver handled dagger belonging to my father. Andre might at least have used a knife of his own, I re" v. N. He had fired a revolver In their faces. fleeted. Strangely enough, it never for one moment occurred to me that the murderer could he other than Andre, und yet doubtless the society to which both he and the victim belonged must have contained many desperadoes quite capable of such an act. The chief directed one of the two RY OF LANDRINOF. tfHISHAW. atlon. subordinates he Bad" brought with him tosearch the dead man's pockets. These did not contain mnch, but among the I fain minora disnnvprfid Were m? tWO checks for 5,000 rubles each. "Ah!" said the chief. "Then it is an execution." "Could the count?real or impostor* ?have learned that this unfortunate bad informed upon him?" he added, looking from me to Borofsky and then at Percy. "If so, this murder aesumes a significance which"? "Most assuredly the scoundrel knew all about it, for he compelled me by means of personal violence to disclose the source of the information I held," said Borofsky. "When was thie?" "Only last night." "Ha! He did not loee much time, then. How did he know where to find the student?" "We brought the poor wretch to these quarters last night. He must have shadowed us." "Good I And the knife?" "It is my father's," I eaid. "He brought it out of my father's study to do his devil's work for him." "Well, I fancy we shall have him presently, whether he be your father or the other," said the chief. "He will not -?i. ? get mi. "Whether he be my father!" I exclaimed. "Do yon mean, excellence, that yon are not satisfied this scoundrel is the man we assert him to be?Andre, or Kornilof, and not my father?" "Nothing is proved, excepting that the stndent is dead with yonr father's knife in his heart 1" said the chief. "We can jump to no conclneions in such cases, though I think mattere tend in favor of yonr point of view." Borofeby nudged me. "Don't be afraid," he whispered; "the officials must make a pretense of believing themselves infallible. He does not really think your father conld possibly have done such a deed as thie. He wonld not be so ch a fool." "Heaven forbid! I wonld net have even a blundering policeman believe it!" I said. Meanwhileonr friend, the chief, bade ns prepare to follow him back to the chancellery cf the department. It might be that news had come, by this time, from Bootief. Much wonld depend upon this newe, he said, for if it should turn ' * * - * A - oat taat tfie student 8 story aooat toe raining of the railway were trne, then | it would he fair to assume that his testimony to the identity of Andre was true also, and perhaps the whole story of the substitution of my innocent father for the guilty party on the fateful day of the arrest. I On our return to the chancellery exciting news awaited us. Though we bad been away scarcely an hour, a reply had already come from Bootief that instantly on receipt of the message from headquarters a squad of mounted gendarmes had been sent down the line two miles, to the point indicated. This was easily effected, because the gendarmes and soldiers were already massed in all towns along the route to be taken by the czar, in readiness to line the railway 24 hours before the imperiul train ebould pass along it. This precaution was constantly taken at the time of these events, in consequence of the activity of the enemies of order, who nevertheless contrived occasionally to make their preparations in spite of the thin cordon of protectors stretched for hundreds of miles through the country. The squad of gendarmes had, in this case, ridden straight to the spot described by our informant and detailed in the telegram from headquarters. Here tney had eurprised a woodman taking bis midday meal within his hut. On their inviting this individual to show them where the entrance to the excavations which he had assisted to make was to be found he bad fired a revolver in their faces, wounding two men before being himself overpowered. They bad then removed bis bed?a mere straw mattress on the floor of the hut?and discovered a neat tunnel starting thence and running underneath the line, 15 or 20 yards away; a beautifully constructed thing and eminently adapted for carrying out the purpose for which it was made?namely, to blow up the permanent way and with it any train that might happen to be passing along the rails at the moment of the explosion. The chief crossed himself as he read the telegram and muttered something which sounded like a line out of the litany. 'Your little rascal spoke the truth," he said. "Upon my word, be deserved to enjoy the fruits of virtue. It will be interesting now to catch this other." "Don't wait to catch him, excellence, before handing us?what we have sure - ' ? - a. a. t ly deserved at your nanas?ooudi ajuudrinof's release." The chief reflected. "It is most anusual." he said, "to do anything of the kind. How can we let the one go before we have the other to pnt in his place?" I stamped iny foot. What did I care for the high mightiness of this official? "I will go to the czar himself!" I raged. "I will tell him that the same police who blundered in July to the ruin of my innocent father have now blundered again, allowing a party of miscreants to undermine the railway over which he will presently travel. I will tell the whole story. The czar shall see who is right and who is wrong, if the police cannot or will not!" "Come," said the chief, "there is no need of raised voices and ungry words. r will telegraph to the penal settlement in which the connt, if he it be, is now living. Tell me something by which be may be recognized, and if such distinguishing mark is to be found upon him be shall be set free on the instant. Think now. Has he a mole, a scar?anything. I only desire to do the right. If we have blnndered. as yon say, we shall rectify onr mistake. But * 1 * ftrtflirv lM We LUUHL LIUl ujuuuci again i CHAPTER XXXIII. THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE. There was no difficulty in obliging the chief on this point. My father had once broken his right leg below the knee and carried an unmistakable memento of the experience in the shape of a huge scar on bis shin. I mentioned this fact to the chief, who forthwith declared that this should be amply sufficient for identification, and that he would have my father's whereabouts ascertained and a telegram sent without delay to the governor of his prison. I fancy, bat I will not absolutely assert it to be the case, that my threat to take care the czar should hear of the blunders of his police force quickened at any rate the desire of his excellence to see justice done. Perhaps I am wrong, but I cannot help feeling that the chief's tenure of bis high office would not long have survived the discovery by the czar of so well advanced a plot to assassinate him. As a matter of fact the secret of this conspiracy never leaked oat, and it is practically certain that the czar never heard of it. So we three young men returned home that afternoon well enongh pleased with our day's work. What had we accomplished? I eat in my own private study, adjoining my bedroom, before retiring for the night and counted up my gains. I was in a fair way to get father restored to freedom. There could be but one result to the chief's telegram. He must be identified at once and allowed to go free. That was the first and best point of all. Then we were rid of Andre. It was exceeding'y unlikely that he would ever favor us with his presence again?nay, it wae probable that the police would put it out of the question by laying bands upon him before be could escape very far. If they did so, they would not let him go again, poor wretch 1 This time bis departure for the east would be final. My thoughts dwelt on the fate of the student. Poor little creature that he was, victim of a very cruel destiny, he bad bad a hard life of it from start to finish. It was to be hoped such as he would be mercifully judged, for indeed ' v a -l H7Ua A ne naa never a tuauixi kjiu wuiu blame him ? Not I for one. On the contrary, I felt grateful enough toward bim, for how in the world should we ever have attained the end, which now loomed well in view, but for his good offices? He had been very aggravating in the manner of giving his information, he had been foxy and avaricious, and, of course, from the point of view of gord or bad faith toward his friends, bis conduct bad been treacherous and atrocious? Nevertheless I felt softly toward the poor fellow by reason of the services he had rendered me, services which?as a matter of fact?had cost bim his life. Was he stabbed while sleeping? I wondered. God grant that he suffered none of the terrible anguish of suddenly awaking to see his murderer, like an avenging fury, standing over his bed, perhaps bidding him prepare for instant death, a traitor's violent death, while horror paralyzed his limbs and his tongue eo that be could neither move nor cry out. Did I dream, or was that the figure of a man standing in the doorway which led into the bedroom? For a moment I imagined that it must be Percy or Borofsky or perhaps my own man Petka, who had been preparing my room for the night; then he suddenly stepped out into the light, seeing. I suppose, that I peered at him, and I perceived, with a gasp of horror, that it was Andre. The odious creature laughed aloud. "Ah," be said, "my charming and most elegant nephew! I have long intended to pay yon a call in yonr own apartments, since you seemed determined to keep aloof trom me in my own I" I was too frightened?there is no other word?I was too terrified to speak. Horror and surprise kept my tongue tied to my palate. I could not have spoken, if my life depended on it, during that first minute or two. "You are surprised to see me, I perceive," he continued. "I am aware that I am uninvited. Probably you believed me to be out of town?nicht wahr?" I made no reply. "I shonld have left before now, no doubt," be went on, "but unfortunately I forgot to draw a check upon my bankers before leaving home. You don't happen to have a checkbook in your writing table there, do you?" He pointed with his right hand toward my roller desk, and I now observed that he held a revolver in it. My thoughts had begun to work now. I racked my brain madly for ideas. I did not know what course to take. " I on internal murueren i uun muttered from between nay dried up lips. "Yon shall never have a farthing from me I" "Oh, oht" he said. "For shame! What, grndge your own nncle a thousand or two from your affluence? Beware, undutiful nephew, lest I take an uncle's privilege and chastise you I" "Yon dare not shoot that thing off!" I said. "The noise would alarm the household, and you would be caught at once." "Pooh, there are other ways less noisy, if need be; moreover, there are also other checkbooks in the house. There is the dear countess', your mother's." "You shall not go near my mother," I said, "even though you stabbed me ns you stabbed the student." "Yon fool!" he said. "Come; write me the check and let me go. I have a journey to make tonight, and I will not J be delayed. Do riot mane me de&perate. I would as soon kill you as not, yon hellhound I It was you that caught the student and wormed my secrets out of him. You would have been a dead man by this but that I must have the mon- a ey. I was an infernal fool not to stick a knife into you as you pat dozing in that armchair. Your mother can pay . the money as easily as you. Come, 11 now, shall she pay it or you ? I will & have the cash, mind you I" I TT.no n<nrlritl(7 nninUrr on/? ? 1UJ UilliU nno ^U?vay uuu ^ well now. "Stop!" I said. "You have the whip c hand of me, for I am unarmed. We e will make a bargain of it. You shall v write me a declaration that you are v Andre Landrinof or Kornilof or any ^ one you please, and that my father, v Count Vladimir, was arrested in your t place. You shall give me such a document, and I will sign a check for? e what, 1,000 rubles?" I never really intended to bargain e with this infernal assassin. My inten- v tion was to spring upon him as he ^ wrote. "Twenty thousand is the sum." said ? be, "and there is no bargain. I sign ? nothing. I will have the money without conditions of any kind. Come; time * passes. Do not make me desperate. I g can force the countess to pay me; re- g member that." f "Not while I live," I said. "You J shall not leave this room, though you may carry an arsenal of arms." "Pooh!" he paid. "You defy me? . You are one that talks much, I take it, and acts little. I eay I shall go from . this room to the apartment of the countess. Sit where you are or yen are ? a dead man. I mean what I say. This v is not a dummy revolver. All the chambers are charged. I will shoot the whole a infernal household and escape, curse P youl Sit still now!" r He edged toward the door. I sprang 1 to my feet, starting to rush toward 11 him. He raised the pistol and fired. At the same moment I tripped over something that lay between him and me ? and fell. d The shot passed, I suppose, over my e bead. w At the same moment a very surpris- ,f ing thing happened. From out of my 81 a -<3?. ~ ~ \ b Then there was a rough and tumble on a. the floor. bedroom, wbicb seemed to be a kind of ^ enchanted chamber tonight, rnabed a c party of men, gendarmes. How tbey t( came there I conld not and did not at- ^ tempt to imagine. Andre dashed bia pistol at tbem and again and a third ^ time. Then there was a rongh and Q tnmble on the floor, and many flowers j of speech, both from Andre and the 1 others. c TO BE CONTINUED. 5????- d A Genius. a "Whew!" remarked the bead of the a firm after he had listened to the report r of the chief collector. "Who can the li rascal be? And all these people say that ti they have paid and hold a receipt?" ti "Precisely. Some fellow has been go- t: ing the rounds, and wherever my men c are sent they find that at least 75 per a cent of the bills have been paid. He has even collected a lot of bills that we ? considered bad. ile certainly innst oea n villain of the deepest dye, sir, and I ji have taken the liberty of notifying the f< beat private detective in the city." n "Perfectly right. Send the detective a to rne as soon'AS he pats in an appearance. We mast find this villain." tl Half an hoar later the head of the e firm and the detective were closeted to- t gether. t] "Can yon find him?" asked the for- f( mer. e "Sore I I'm satisfied now that I know g who he is, and I'll have him inside the t| bars before morning." c "Who's hiring yon and who's going to pay for yonr services?" 0 "Yoa, of coarse." e "Then I'll do my own planning. If 5 that fellow won't take $150 a month to t] work for me, offer him $200. He haa ^ the kind of talent I'm looking for."? f( Detroit Free Press. a 1, Why Do Cat* HlnnT C Why does a cat hiss when angry? a Take a tiny kitten at play and mako it c ? ^ ;i ?in 1 11- i- _ 1 r 1. Ii angry, ana ii? win sunn iu ilw uauy msu- ? ion and hiss as best it can. Why ? t Di. Lonis Robinson says that the hissing and spitting of young kittens is s' probably an instinctive attempt to scare t away enemies from the helpless tots by s imitating a snake's hiss. tl A great many creatures that live in shallow holes have a like habit of hiss- c ing when annoyed or angered. The tail c of a cat seen dimly in the half light of c a cave suggests a snake's tail and is s often marked in a way to heighten the resemblance. fi "If," says Dr. Robinson, "this real- b ly is an instance of protective mimicry, v I think it is probable that the chief foe o guarded against was the eagle. Eagles r are very fond of cat flesh, and it has p been remarked by naturalists that these c formidable birds habitually make war tl upon the smaller felidae. "?St. Louis s Post-Dispatch. ll London policemen have been for- n bidden to wear tan shoes on the ground v that they are "too stylish." " ?MsttUanroujs ftcadittg. OUR DISAPPEARING FORESTS. i Question That Is Deserving of Serious Consideration. Mr. W. D. Woods, of Darligton, who 3 quite an expert on the subject writes he following timely letter to The Jews and Courier about the prevailing riminal waste of forest timber: Unless some plan can be devised to heck the great waste of what, if proprly managed, is a great source of wealth, it will not be a great many ears before our magnificent pine forsts will have disappeared, and there kill be nothing to show for their wan od aua inexcusauie uesirucuou. > To those who only live for the pres- I Dt, ami take do thought for the future, t he above remark may seem a grossly t xaggerated one, but a little reflection vill easily demonstrate, its truth and urtbermore show the imperative imiortance of devising some systematic 1 ilan by which the waste may be , hecked, and the land already derived of its timber restocked with rees that in the future will prove a real source of profit. As a matter of course the demand J ur lumber for the innumerable uses to k hich it is put must be supplied, but c his can be easily done without any . eal injury to our forests, provided 1 hat only the lipe or fully grown trees 1 rcreusedanda little intelligent care ^ e given to the young trees that would 0 priug up in the places of the ones that yere cut down. Unquestionably the most destructive 1 gent to our forests has been the tur- I euiine distilleries, for, in addition to *" uining the timber, they impoverish he laud to such an extent as to very 8 luch retard the growth of the young f rees that stand up in the open places. 1 I wuoa ara nAf. Lr i 1 loH ^ JVCU micu IUC new OI V uvv UIIIVV4 utrigbt by tapping, they are in greater auger of being ruined by fire, and veu if they escape destruction in this /ay and are converted into lumber, it e ) iuferior in every way, both in 0 Lrengtb and durability, to the lumber iade from the unboxed trees. e The saw mill is not really so injuri ? us to the forests, as ouly the large Jj rees are used, the main trouble with bem being that so many piue forests e ave been deprived of their most val- 1 able trees without any adequate com- u ensalion to the owner of the land, . eing practically sold at about the cost 1 f sawing. 1 Another great source of destruction c i the babil of allowing tenants to de- 1 troy piue forests in order that they 1 lay half cultivate the land and make hundred or two pounds of cotton, or 1 hree or four bushels of corn per acre, be whole crop being worth a great 1 eal less than the standing trees. The truth of the matter is that our c imber resources were originally so c reat that they were regarded asinex- 1 austible, and in accordance with this elief were valued in proportion, thou- ^ auds of acres of our finest timbered v inds being sold for a mere fraction of e beir value and that, too, in many v ases, by owners who were not forced e a sell and who ought to have known etter than to have parted with their aluable possessions for a mere song, 'bis inexcusable sacrifice has been otable especially in the case of swamp ?nds that have often sold at less price er acre than the value of oue large ypress tree. Even at the present time timber synicates are buying up all of our avail- j ble timber lands at a very low price, nd that, too, with an iron-clad ar- * angement that puts the owner of the ind entirely at their mercy, the conract being that the buyer has all the ime he wishes for the removal of the rees, virtually giving him absolute outrol of the land for as long a period s he chooses to bold it. The presence of large forests has a onsiderable effect on the temperature, making it warmer in winter and cooler j summer than it would be were the irests destroyed. The northers that lake the climate of Texas so unpleasnt and the terrible blizzards that are o prevalent on the treeless plains of he northwestern states are due almost ^ ntirely to the absence of timber; ^ here being absolutely nothing to break L he force of the wind. Were there no -] irests in South Carolina the tbermomter would show at least 20 or 25 derees greater range in the temperature ; hat is, from extreme heat to extreme t old. The kingdom of Saxony, with about F ne-third the area of South Carolina, asily supports a population of nearly v ,000,000 people, and this, too, despite 1 be fact that two fifths of the whole b md area is reserved for forests. The o irests, instead of being au expense, o re a source of considerable revenue, ii o say nothing of the good they acomplish in improving the climatic a ud atmospheric couditiong of the ti ountry. The same rule, with very n (lie variation, prevails throughout p he whole of Germany. t In Spain the timber has been de- f troyed, with no attempt to replace it; v he consequence being that it formerly g upported a much larger population o han it does at the present day. v In Germany things are not left to hance, but all the stale lands are in e barge of expert foresters and the pro- n ess of replauting the forests is con- p tantly going on. t Another culamity that will occur ^ rom the destruction of our forests will fi e the very small volume of water that fj rill flow in our streams during seasons e f dry weather. This would meau ir- u eparable loss to all the mills that de eud on water power, for no dam t ould withstand the terrible floods o hat would rush down in the raiuy sea- b on or hold enough water to last v hrough a drought. 1 The state of New York has spent j lillions of dollars to protect the head- c raters of the Hudson river and other a otable streams. This action was ren* t dered imperative when it was found, c after a careful measurement, that the it Hudson river bad been lowered at V least two feet in the past 30 years, b showing conclusively that if the tim- n ber destruction went on unchecked tbis t< magnificent stream would be ruined. tl Selling abandoned lands for a mere w pittance, in order to secure the taxes, b las been a great mistake in tbis state, fr It would have been far better to have ield tbem as timber preserves and bi save bad a paid'official to protect tbem w rom trespass. tc The writer hopes to be able, in a fu- ol >ure issue of The News and Courier, w o make some practicable suggestions pi n regard to tbe preservation of our ic "oresta; bis present intention being to N irouse tbe land owners to tbe impor- iii ance of holding fast to the timbered ai ands, and of turning a deaf ear to the hi ilandisbments of distillers and the tc imber syndicates. ti a< A MAMMOTH BOOK. O m Jnique Scrap-Ilook to Be Presented to George Dewey. few York World. A unique gift is in store for Admiral ^ )ewey when he reaches town. It is be biggest book that has ever been ^ nude. Its weight is in the neighborlood of 350 pounds, and when it is ^ ipened it is just 5 feet 2 inches wide. j B. Daizell was the originator of the J dea of the gift, aud he had only to Q| nention it to other members of the tfl he Maritime Exchange to secure their ej ooperatiou. 0j The book is composed of clippings w ut from every newspaper in the counry, and every one of them refers to Admiral Dewey and the war with ipain. ey oma qKauI iflfl r?ocroa onH nn . XU^io oio auvuv *vw |/ugvw^ mmv. ^ ome of the pages as many as 78 clip- U( tings are pasted. In all the book con- j. ains about 10,200 clippings, and a th ouple of hundred more will be added a? tefore the presentation takes place. The clippings were selected by Frank L Burrelle, of No. 32 Park Row, an Xpert in such work, and he had charge ^ f the other details. 80 The size of each page is 22x26 inch- tj( s. Including the covers the book is Q| xactly 11J inches thick. The binding ^ 3 of cardboard one-half inch thick. ^ This has been covered with seal leath- ^ r. The largest single hide of seal bat ever came into this country was ised in the biuding. The clippings began with the sinkng of the Maine, and the whole deailed story of the war as told in the lewspapers of the country is given in he succeeding clippings. Scores of 1' he latter were cut from The World. Speaking of the book yesterday Mr. tii Jurrelle said: tb "Aside from its unique features it is P< he most authentic history of the war PI hat could possibly be compiled, as it to ontains all that was written by the w orrespondents who actually saw what w hey described." W Yesterday the book was in Cassidy's h* lindery, in Fulton street, where men jn vere engaged attaching the huge cov- in r. The corners will be bound in sil- ac er and a silver nameplate on the cov- Tl r will bear this inscription : Sc w j ! 'p : ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY,. | fn : : VV U. S. N. | Qf I May 1, 1898?September 28,1899. in : : at : : so On the title page is the following in- tb criptioD, prepared by the Rev. Allan w ). Brown, president of the Norwich qc iniversity, of Northfield, Yt., an old ht riend of Admiral Dewey : bi : : hi i i th Presented to Admiral Dewey by t0 the representatives of the ship ping interests of the port of New D< : York as a token of their personal at regards and a slight appreciation j |0 of the great service rendered our common country, not only in the : glorious action of May 1, 1898, in j to Manila bay, but by his wise and j la prudent ministration of aflairs q( during most trying circumstances ? preceding the surrender of the * city of Manila, August 13,1898. j th i : m : tb A special table is being made for the m iook. If Admiral Dewey can be in- \V luced to visit the Maritime Exchange e(j he presentation will be made there. w The cost of the book is $2,500. ht DEPORTING THE NEGROES. to 'ormer Governor Bullock Oppoted to the ^ Proposition. J1 10i ^rom the Atlanta Journal. It is well-known that I do not agree .' vitb Colonel Graves or with Bishop r Purner on the deportation plan?first, .' iecause it is not for the best interests of ur white or colored people, and, sec-. ? nd, because it is impossible to enforce ln ' an M Colonel Graves stated that this sep ration or deportation will be better . i>r the Negro, "because he can never, 0 lorth or south, be received into social ?!? lersonal relation with the families of he white race, and can never, there- P ore, be a social tqual. Where and P? yhen in our state has the Negro ever .e ;iven evidence of a desire to assume 311 r covet "social equality" with the m whites? PJ Is it not true that educated and proprty owning colored people are far oore interested in protecting the social turity of their own race from intrusion ^ han in seeking to intrude upon ours? Vhere in our state can Colonel Graves *v ind white people having so little con- 19 idence in themselves as to fear "social quality" with Negroes being forced ipon them ? It is reasonable and proper for us t o consider the future in the light of sa ur experience. No people were ever nc lefore subjected to the ordeal through dt rhich we have successfully passed, at The illogical legislation of congress 7? tutting the ballot in the bands of ig- o\ lorant men just freed from slavery tb ,nd witbbolding it from a large por- in ion of tbe intelligent former master w lass might well lead timid miods, as ; did, to abandon hope. But as beween that experiment and irresponsile military authority for local governient, men who had done their utmost 5 sustain the Confederacy "accepted ae situation," and civil government 'as established in our state on the road basis of universal manhood sufage. No harm has yet come to our state ecause of it, but safety for the future ill be found in limiting the franchise > intelligence and property. In spite t all tbe distressing conditions to hich I have referred the general rosperity to which we have attained i our state have never been surpassed, ew, relations, new industries, new nes of progress have been established ad while the old Hues and systems ave been left behind or abandoned, ) the loss of a few, tbe new generaon has kept step with progress and lapted themselves to tbe present, ur colored citizens as a whole have ade a record of progress not surissed by any race on earth, thus esiblishing not ouly their own capacity, Jt giving tbe highest evidence of tbe indly spirit and helping hand of their rmer owners. A race that has lilted self from au illiteracy of 100 per snt?absolute ignorance?to less than ) per cent, and has accumulated near$300,000,000 of taxable property ithiu tbe relatively short period of ie generation after its slavery is cerlinly not one that must be deported, tber for its own good or for the safety r the communities where these people ere born and reared. Our Negro population do not deaud, seek or desire social relations itb the white people. They do, bowrer, ask and are entitled to receive all eir public, civil and political rights H a t a ur ao /4i?l?f n/liiwli/iutor] iuci uic law ao uuij ouj uuivuivu he sporadic cases of outrage against em will he eliminated by the prompt id bold official acts of executives like s excellency, Governor Candler, of ir slate. If not deterred by outside meddling, e wbite and colored citizens of the uth will work out tbeir own salvage in God's good time, so that tbe dest of us may live to laugh at tbe ea of deporting. 10,000,000 of Ameri,n citizens because of the color of eir skin. GENERAL WHEELER SNUBBED. >? Flghtlni AUbnmlan Appear* to Have Been Shelved by Don Whlakerandos Otla. jw Orleans States. General Joe Wheeler, who for a me jumped about tbe country tooting e praise of McKinley's policy of imsrialism, has been snubbed in tbe hilippines by General Otis, according cable advices frbm Hong Kong, be ishes' to be ordered back borne. It ill be remembered that General 'heeler was very anxious to take tbe sld in tbe Philippines, and finally bis iportuuiug resulted in tbe president structing bim to proceed to Manila id report to Major General Otis, he press bad much to say about tbe tod work General Wheeler would do ben be took tbe field against tbe Filinos. It was generally understood am tbe Washington dispatches that heeler would be given the command Funston's brigade and participate tbe active operations of Lawton id McArlbur as soon as tbe dry sean commenced. It appears, however, at upon his arrival at Manila be met ilb a chilling reception. There was > field band at tbe landing place to lil bis coming with martial music ; it, od the contrary, General Otis exbited the marble heart aDd extended e icy band ; in other words, he was, use language of diplomacy, persona >n grata to the entire military outfit Manila and was treated as an interper. General Wheeler for weeks wanted be assigned to a command, and at at, growing impatient, be called on eneral Otis in order to ascertain vhere he was at." He then learned at he bad been billed for the comand of a little and lonely island of e archipelago, situated "far from the adding crowd's ignoble strife." 'heeler protested against being snuffI out in such a manner; but the man bo shaves bis chin and allows bis lir to grow on the rest of the lawn, mained firm. Wheeler then began yearn for home and every fond spot at bis infancy knew. He had been rown down bard, and bis dreams of ading a dashing charge against the lipinos were jolted out of him. rmy officers predicted that when sneral Wheeler sailed for the Philipnes that he would not be given a ?-- ?aooan t V?o f ha waiiM Ka UW, IU1 luo ICOOWU vuuv uv ffwu.v. wv the way of the regular army men, id Ihey would resent bis comiDg to anila. General Wheeler was all right so ng as he traveled from one city to lother making speeches in favor of cKinley's -Philippine policy and imirialism, but the moment he sought a mmand in the Philippine army he gan to bore the president. The de e of Wheeler to distinguish himself ade him persistent, and finally the esideut sent him to the Philippines, lowing full well that General Otis Duld find a way to smother him. ae treatment General Wheeler has ceived will arouse considerable ingnation, because the country is well rare of the fact that us a soldier he the superior of Otis in every respect, id the equal, if not the superior, of iwton and McArthur. 1eS" According to estimates of the Imnn nflp.k made at the Drincioal can iries on Puget sound in the last few iys, this year's product of canned id pickled salmon will reach fully ?0,000 cases, or a gain of 50 per cent. rer last year's pack. This means at the product of the canneries sold the English and American markets ill realize about $2,300,000. * #