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, . " v ' ' ' if YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. > ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. i. k. grist & sons, Publishers. } % ^arnilj Utirspper^ 4or the promotion of the political, gotial, ggritnltural, and Ctimmttirial gnosis of the gcogle. |,n advance. established 1855. YORKYILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1900. NO. 73. _ . - - ' " " A ROMANCE 01 I By FREDERIC Copyright, 1900, by Frederick Reddall. * FIFTH DAY. BIDE TRACKED. ' This is what had happened. The DalIon gang bad stolen the Miranda and the Pullman! When No. 89 pulled out rrom tne water tank, the two care, as we have seen, were held to the rest of the train ^ by a single coupling pin only. Just before reaching the old switch they were disconnected, when the main body of the train shot away on the down grade, which was the reason that the engineer did not Immediately discover the loss of part of his load. The Instant the last car of the main train passed the switch to the spur track the spike was picked up. having previously been loosened, so that when the Miranda came along she and her consort, propelled by their own momentum, the switch was pushed over, and they went creaking^ and sliding down the gentle incline toward the gulch. A half dozen blows of a hammer In the bands of one of the gang served to spike the switch back in its old position, and then a few handfuls of loose dirt were cast on the frogs and dusted off again with a sombrero so as to hide the marks of the tools. It would have ueeded a practiced eye after that to defect that the switch had been tampered with. Of course the two coached would be missed as soon as the "Thunderbolt" reached Denver, but this Jim Dallou had foreseen. Before any effective > search could be made his captives would be safely hidden where he could make his terms with them at leisure. The railroad people might find the coaches and welcome, though this was doubtful but the birds would have flown. Talk of consummate daring! Engines have been stolen again and again, train -? robberies there have been without number where a handful of armed desperadoes "held up" and held at bay an entire train crew and a hundred passengers. the latter being stripped of their valuables, but robbers had never before been known to attempt to get away with a train itself or part of a ^ train. Dallon slapped his leg and chuckled with glee at the success of his plan so far. The rest, he thought, would be comparatively plain sailing. When the Miranda and the Pullman came to a standstill, guards were post^ ed all around the cars, two on each platform, five or six on each side, some 18 or 20 In all, with strict orders to prevent any one getting away. As the doors were securely barricaded from without the only possible chance for escape was through the windows. Within the Miranda all was dismay. The brightly lighted interior?the car had Its own gas tank?only served to ~~ make the darkness outside more palpa ble and Intense. After the car came to a final stop and It was discovered that the doors were fast Draper and Chester both rushed to a window, but on opposite sides of the car. Scarcely had the sashes been flung up than there came the peremptory command: K "Shet that winder!" accompanied by the ominous click of a Winchester., Draper obeyed, but Chester tried to parley. The only answer he received was the reiterated command: "Shet that winder and shet It derned quick!" Though bis blood boiled with Indignation at being thus caught like rats In a -n trap, Chester was compelled to obey out of regard for the feelings of the la HJ ' There came the peremptory command, "Shet that winder!" dies huddled together in the middle of the car, who begged him to come away before he was shot "Well, Mr. Draper," said Ives, "this is exciting. What scheme do you suppose Is afoot?" "It seems to me that we have been stolen?kidnaped?abducted!" was the grim reply. "But just how It has been done or who the villains are I can't . say. You may rest assured, however, that we shall be missed the Instant No. 89 gets Into Denver, and there'll be a search party out long before daylight." "But what motive can there be for such an outrage?" queried Florence. "Ah. girl, that's the question I've % been asking myself, and I'm frank to say I don't know." "Do you suppose we are the victims of train robbers?" asked Mrs. Hurst. "It certainly looks that way," replied Uncle John, smiling in order to allay her fears. But there was a serious undertone In his voice which belled the laugh as he turned an anxious glance toward the windows, where the glint of gun barrels could be seen In the gleam of the lamps as the sentries paced to and fro. m. ft F THE RAIL :k ueddall. Illustrations by I. W. Taber. I "TOoii thor'po train rnhbers." Bali Madge, "I don't see why they don't be gin to rob and be done with It" From the farthest corner of the la dies' boudoir, where as yet there wa ro lamplight. Miss Grannies called t Mr. Draper in a low tone. Going t her side, she drew him to the window and there, peering out, the forms o five or six men could be seen standin; and lounging about, while to and fr< paced those on guard. The cars wer< completely invested. There was evl dently an animated colloquy going on and voices could be heard in excite* argument. One of the men raised hi arm and pointed overhead and around Then another of the gang came to tin side of the car and tapped on one of th< saloon windows with his gun barrel. "Open th' winder!" he shouted. Ches ter obeyed and then demanded: "What do you want?" "Them lights has got to be put out!" Every ear in the Miranda was on th< alert, and a chorus of protests cam< from the ladles. "Keep us in the dark! What a per feet shame!" said Mrs. Hurst. "Whoever you are," said Chester, "re member that there are ladles on board They are already terrified beyond en durance, and darkness will only in crease their alarm." "Carat help It, boss. Them lights I: too bright!" A confirmatory murmu came from half a dozen throats In thi darkness. Chester tried one more ap peal. "We can pull down the shades. Won' that do?" The figure turned round and address ed some words to his unseen coufeder ates, and an earnest discussion ensued during which Chester caught sue! fragments as: "Too much bloomin gaslight." "Reg'lar Fourth o' July Ulumlna tion!" "See it from one end o' the gulch t( th' other!" "Put 'em out, 1 says!" At length the leader of the gang?fo It was Jim Dallon who spoke?eam< under the window again and said: "Only one light'll be allowed, ant you'll pull down them shades!" Ives was about to parley again, hop lng to gain some explanation as to th< meaning of the strange events of thi past couple of hours, when John Dra per thrust his head Into the narrov opening and began: "You Impudent rascals"? "Shet that winder!" came the cur commaud. emphasized as before, ant feeling two soft hands on his shoulde dragging him away, he turned to be hold Florence, who had followed hln Into the saloon. "Do not expose yourself," she said as she drew him into the interior, ant for her sake he desisted. Ives let the sash fall with an angr; snap, saying with a grim laugh "There's no use arguing with a mai when he's at the trigger end of a gui and you are looking into the busines end!" and then went about the car low ering all the lights but one and draw lng down the heavy damask shades. "Why. where's Mr. Filley?" sudden ly exclaimed Madge. Sure enough where was he? They looked in eacl other's faces as If to recall when hi had previously been seen. Then It wa remembered that his last appearanc was at dinner. "And Henry and Aleck, too," adde< Dncle John. "Doubtless they are as snugly trap ped In the other car a9 we are," laugh ed Chester. To make certain Chester went to th< rear door of the Miranda and peerei through the glass. Yes; the Pullmai was there sure enough, shrouded li gloom, but with their backs to th< doors stood a couple of guards, motion less as statues, with the butts of thel rifles resting on the platforms. "No chance to communicate, that'i certain." thought Chester. "Hope tb< fellow's all safe, though." At least there was nothing to preven the prisoners from moving about In thi car with perfect freedom. Naturall; enough, no one cared to sleep, mucl less to think of going to bed. All con ventlonal disguises were thrown asld< In this hour of peril. Draper and Flor ence strolled from one end to the othe arm In arm. he stroking and pattlni the little hand that lay on his sleeve a he strove to reassure her and quiet he alarms. In their wake came Madge and Chea ter, likewise linked closely, he talklni hopefully and consolingly, while Mrs Hurst sat by and said never a word. Luckily Annette, the maid, and Gus tave, the cook, were with the party li the Miranda, and when the latter ha< been dragged out of his buffet, the doo of which, with Gallic prudence, he ha< shut and locked at the first Intlmatloi of danger, he was prevailed upon to se about preparing some refreshments for It was now past midnight. For the tenth time at least Florenc voiced the question: "What do you suppose they mean t do with us?" and for the tenth tlm John Draper made answer: "1 can't Imagine. But," he contlr ued after a pause, "It's my opinio that we shall not be kept in doub They will show their hands at dawn. Nor was he mistaken. Faint tinges c grayness began to outline the gaps b< tween the shades and the glass whe there was a sudden bustle outside an the sound of commands delivered 1 strident tones. Then came the tramping of feet on the steps of the Pullman. Draper and Ives sprang each to a window and flung up the curtains. Yes, the dawn was all abroad, though as yet no clear Idea of their whereabouts could be gleaned. But the light was sufficient to enable them to perceive Filley, Henry and Alec standing by the track side 1 by side, their arms pinioned behind them and blindfolded. This, then, was what they, too, might expect In a few moments a noise was heard at the front door of the Miranda, and almost Immediately tt was flung open with a crash that shook the car, and . then the command was given: "Step out here, John Draper, and pretty dum quick!" "Don't go I Oh, don't go!" begged g Florence, grasping his arm, to which 0 plaint Mrs. Hurst added her plea. y Draper stood Irresolute. Then a quick footfall was heard, and Jim Dallon apf peared in the curtained doorway, carhlne lifhand. 5 ? a "Did you hear me call?" he thundere ed. "John Druper, I want you I No . one's goln to hurt you, man! Onless if you want to be carried out you'll walk 1 out!" s Gently releasing Flo's grasp he led 1. her to Mrs. Hurst and with a nod all q around stepped out ahead of the robe ber leader. On the platform he was seized by two of the gang, who rapldi ly searched him for concealed weapons, taking away even a small penknife, and then proceeded to pinion his arms and blindfold him. This done e he was led to a place alongside Filley b and told to "keep bis mouth shet!" Chester was subjected to the same - treatment, and then came Gustave's turn. The poor Frenchman made lots - of sport for the band, falling on his ,. knees and begging for his life, be seeching them not to "coot troat," un til at last he was forced to rise by a well placed kick In the nether regions 9 and ranged alongside the five other unr happy masculines. b Sullen despair sat on Fllley's counteh nance. He saw all his plans dashed to flinders by this untoward break In t their journey. At this Instant be had hoped to have been bound eastward on ^ the fastest express, and he cursed John . Draper by all his gods for having dragged him out west at such a time. Con3 sequently he felt none of the Indignation experienced by Draper and Ives when they were forced to stand by and . know that rough hands were being laid on the women they loved, while they 3 were powerless for beIpN or defense. Chester ground his teeth and strained at his bonds until they cut Into his r coat sleeve. The veins In Draper's s neck and forehead swelled, and he grew purple In the face with suppress j ed rage. "You Infernal villains!" he roared, ? and then could have bitten his tongue s In half, for at that Instant the voice of s Florence Granniss became audible as . she appeared at the car door leading jr the little procession of four. Their captors had forborne to pinion the ladles' arms, but they were t blindfolded like the rest, nor were they 3 suffered to come near their natural pror tectors. "I can't stand this," exclaimed Chesi ter, as he started' to run after the women, the bandage having dropped from i, his eyes during bis contortions. But 3 he was speedily yanked backward and downward by one of the desperadoes, p who proceeded to sit on his chest until it Dallon himself came up an Inquired: a "What's the row?" a "Gettln a little obstropolus, that's 8 all!" was the response. "Set him up," was the command. . And then, addressing himself to Draper and Chester, the captain of the i. gang thus spoke: i, "You needn't be afeared that we're la goin to harm them ladles o' yourn? e leastways, not yet! We've got a little s matter o' business to settle with you e men first, and we're goin where we kin talk quiet and confidential like." 3 "If you harm a hair of their heads you shall pay aeariy," exciaimeu vjues. ter hotly, and in the same breath John . Draper uttered the words: "As sure as there's a God in heaven B you shall suffer for this, you hound!" 3 A sneering laugh was the only re3 sponse as the chief rascal gave the sig3 nal to march. The bandages were b carefully looked to, and then the entire . party set out in single flJa, a prisoner r between every two robbers, the ladles and the maid heading the column, with s Jim Dallon in front. b They proceeded thus in silence and by a devious way for more than an t hour, though It seemed like four. The b road was rugged, and its general trend 7 was upward. In fact, they were asi cending the bed of a dried up water [. course. The pace was necessarily slow, e for the ladles being ahead they could not proceed very fast and frequently r had to be helped and half carried over ? the rougher places. Both Florence and s Madge at first indignantly spurned all r such assistance, but when Dallon turned and said, "If they kick, boys, Just h carry 'em!" they deeided to accept the g lesser of the two evils. As for Mrs. u Hurst, she was too dazed and dispirited to offer any resistance. At length a halt was called. Each Q captive was half lifted, hauled or 3 boosted up what seemed like a steep r bank, and then, moving forward again, 3 their tired and weary feet sank into a a carpet of soft sand. A few paces more t and the bandages were removed from , their eyes, and, looking about them, our friends discovered that they were e nil reunited and that they were standing In a large and airy cavern down 0 whose side meandered a little brook e nnd dimly lighted from the entrance, which was fringed with bushes around its upper edges. n Both Florence and Madge sprang tot. ward their natural protectors with ex" clamatlons of sympathy. Mrs. Hurst ,f sank wearily down on the dry sand, j. while Reuben Fllley looked grimly and n sulkily about him. The game was up, d he thought, so far as he was concernn ed. It mattered not to him what be1 came of the rest So he leaned moodily against the rocky wall of the cave, MtIng his mustache. Soon a fire was kindled, and snndry tin cups of wretched coffee were handed around, together with some half Vialrnil "flnnlontfl " frnm whlnh hnw ever, the ladles turned In disgust, while Gustave muttered French Invectives on the rough and barbarous cookery. This apology for a meal being ended, the men were bidden to take their places In line again and were marched to the upper end of the grotto, the ladles being kept strongly guarded near the entrance. When they were well out of earshot, Jim Dallou proceeded to unfold his "little matter o' business." TO BE) CONTINUED. JHisccHaiuous fading. TH E MAN SHIRTWAIST. The man shirtwaist. We have never raised objection to a decent sort of dress . When the fashion wasn't carried to the borders of excess; Tolerated starchy bosoms free from wrinkles and from warps When the fellow that assumed it was a bridegroom or a corpse. Never had no kick a comln' if a feller made a bound To the dizzy realms o' fashion when his birthday came around, Or would celebrate his freedom by a dressln* loud an' gay A beflttin' of his sperrits when his wife would run away. We have practiced self-denial by a holding down the tongue Fur to see a feller pumpln' when a goln' to be hung, An* have tried to curb our anger when the Honorable Bill Sv/ett Togged himself to go to Denver when his legislatur' met. But except on sich occasions we have alius tried to tramp Mighty clus to the traditions of our free and easy camp; An' the feller that discarded of the sacred ol' wool shirt Fur the polished open-backer stood a chance o' gittln hurt! Poker Frank had bin to Cripple lookln' fur an easy snap An' he paralyzed the surplus of a tender-footed chap; An' to celebrate his wlnnin' his exaggerated taste Led him into the assumption or a masculine shirt waist. 'Twas so loud we heard it comin' 'bove the rattlin* of the stage An' the sight of It brought on us quite a fit o' righteous rage! Acted on us modest fellers in our shirts o' faded wool Like the sight of a red blanket stirs the passions of a bull. We at fust inclined a little fur to charitably think Mebbe he was half demented from the Cripple brand o' drink; Irresponsible fur chuckln' such an insult at his friends; An' that when he got his Jag off he would try to make amends; But he was In sassy humor, seemed to glory In his shame, Asked us up to hit the snakejuice, an' when we declined the same. Our unprecedented action seemed to paralyze the gent! Made him meeker than a woman, fur he knowed jest what it meant! I remembered the Parson Bill when Frank was strugglin' on the t:^e From a rope made of the garments he had sported in so free That I really felt sorry we had bin compelled to make Slch a quite extreme example, but our honor was at stake. An' his reverence Jest only tuk occasion fur to say That it was the Lord that giveth an' that taketh men away, An' he hoped 'I'd prove a warning to the youth of all the west Not to nuss the sin o* fashion as a viper in the breast. ?Denver Evening Post. THE NEGRO. Henry Watteraon Saya He la Pretty Much the Same Everywhere. The Louisville Courier-Journal prints the following from the pen of its editor, Henry Watterson: "Warn unnn the Neero riot In the I borough of Manhattan conies the Negro riot in the village of Akron. Ohio beats responsive to New York. The heart of the Western Reserve warms to the culture of the Tenderloin. Spirit of Joshua Giddings, rise, behold! Is this the fruitage of thy abolition? Was it for this that thou didst labor and give her thy life? By all the saints from Harriet Beecher Stowe to James A. Garfield, but the Nigger has fallen on evil times in God's country! He could scarcely have fared any worse had he stayed at home and nursed little Eva. out, softly! The moral grows something musty withal. 'Twas ever thus, as the lovelorn swain in the ballad observes. And, thereby hangs a tale. About two or three and twenty years ago?maybe five or six and twenty ?when the newspapers of the too-too patriotic and pious city of Cincinnati were vying one with another which should paint the South in most lurid colors and raise most Southern h to the square inch upon the immaculate white paper of Chatfleld, Woods & Co., the old Gazette, edited by the Truly Good Deacon Richard Smith, and his wicked partner, Samuel Romeo Read, easily led the procession. Each issue of The Gazette blazed with rebel bonfires. Whilst the Truly Good collected the faggots of news for the conflagration of murders done by the Rebel Whites upon the inoffensive and loyal blacks, Samuel Romeo whooned things up in red-hot English of how the states lately In rebellion were more devilish than ever; of how, If not suppressed by martial law and Federal soldiers, they would rise and drive out the Union men and massacre the nation's wards; of how they spat upon the constitution and tore down tne flag and trampled it under foot, and a great deal more of the same sort for quantity. Well, after a while The CourierJournal got tired of this, and since protests against its injustice and exposure of its fallacies did no good, it thought it would try what a simple object lesson might do. Orders were given the boys in the clipping department to cut out of the Cincinnati Gazette all the special telegrams relating to crime in Ohio. Within a single week enough of these clippings were collected to fill an entire issue of the CourierJournal. They were carefully arranged?date lines and headlines, "Special corresrespondence of the Cincinnati Gazette," and all, so as to make seven full pages, the eighth or first page, being reserved for a frontispiece. Then there appeared this legend: "Courier Journal's Ohio Crimes Supplement," the farago of murders, arsons, wife-beatings and scandals of all sorts, pictured upon the initial sheet, with the Truly Good Richard Smith standing on a stack of Bibles, with a spy glass, looking for rebel outlawry In Kentucky and the Solid South. The Deacon never got wholly over It. He went and consolidated The Gazette with The Commercial, and while the lurldity continued apace, the horrid examples of southern villainy decreased both in virulence and in volume. Naturally, to come back to the present, the newspapers of New Orleans are having lots of fun with the newspapers of New York. It will be observed that although the cases were alike to a "T," the New Orleans nigger distanced the New York nigger in the list of his killed and wounded. In the South, when a nigger goes a-niggering, he generally does the thing at first hand, in an original, niggerly way, while the northern nigger tries to emulate the northern tough, and is merely an imitator. Yet we are told it was a rare sight to see the Astorbilts and the Van Waldorfs and others of the old aristpcracy of New York, chasing the bad niggers of the Teriderloln down Fifth avenue, and driving them into the dark waters of the bay, to the ringing of the Are bells and the booming of cannon from Governor's island. To a gentleman up a tree?that is, high enough up a tree to survey mankind from Kennebunkport to the Brazos, from Montauk Point to Coronade Beach?these outbreakers seem curiously alike. The race question is in good truth a serious question. It involves a problem, the solution of which the wisest have not been able to compass, the end of which the most sagacious cannot see. As a matter of fact, barring some slight infusion of hectic blood trickling in through the barge office and finding its way mainly to Chicago, we, the Anglo-Saxon and Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled the country, are the most homogenous people on the face of the globe. In reality such differences as exist among us are largely local and external. Massachusetts and Mississippi are interconvertible terms, and it needs but a few months and a change of raiment ?a snake around the hat and a sixshooter more or less to the girthband? to convert a typical Vermonter into a typical Texan. The Arkansas sheriff who got away with Ave policemen before they got away with him?out at GarAeld park six or seven years ago? wag Dorn ana rearea in nnuue isia.uu. The dude of Delmonlco's and the dude of Canal street are twins. The tough of a Sixth avenue dive Is only a first cousin once removed from Alkali Pete, of Dead Man's Gulch, In Colorado. It Is next to impossible?particularly after dinner?to tell the difference between the gentlemen who make merry with the world and one another at the Algonquin club In Boston and the Palmetto club in Charleston. The poor provincial who has never been Either In Boston or Charleston cannot realize the close kinship between the two, and the writers for the New York newspapers being merely provincial literary men?untraveled except In Europe and untaught except out of text books?knowing least of all about America, however versed In the ways of London and Paris, Berlin and Vienna, naturally take a narrow and Jaundiced, ill-conditioned view of American affairs. But yesterday we mourned for New Orleans. Then we mourned for New York. Now we mourn for Akron. Whose turn next? And, harken you little boys up in the tree of Kalamazoo and Conk'ud, don't you all speak at once. WANTS ONLY ONE TERM. Mr. Bryan Talks Interestingly About Himself and Purposes. On his way from Deer Park to Cumberland, Mr. Bryan had an interesting talk with a Washington newspaper correspondent last Friday. The occasion of the talk was a recent statement to the effect that Bryan, personally, had prospered under the McKinley administration: "I never was a poor man," he said, "In the sense of not having enough to live on. My father was a Judge, and among the people of his community he was a well-to-do man. My share of his estate was about $2,000, which is now the average wealth of our people. "I am better off than I was four years ago. The presidential campaign increased my abilities to make money. I was offered a salary of $25,000 a year as counsel for an American tile company, but declined. I made a contract to deliver a series of lectures for $50,000; but found there were unpleasant features about It and canceled the agreement. I wrote magazines articles and got $600 for a series of Chautauqua lectures. "Since 1896 I have given $500 to colleges and $1,700 to the Democratic executive committee. I saved a sum for my expenses in this campaign and paid taxes on that and everything I own, which amounts to between $2,500 and $3,000, none of which was earned in consequence of any policy of the McKinley administration. "One of the objections frequently urged against you, Mr. Bryan," the correspondent suggested, 'is that It is m j "'111 vniiraplf ieareu mat. juu ?n> nunuuuu with a cabinet of Populists or unsafe people." "I know that," replied he. "A man who does not wish to vote the Democratic ticket at once commences to construct a cabinet for me and will always put In it the men whom he dislikes most. Mr. Tillman and Mr. Altgeld are favorites in this line; but those who intend to vote for Mr. Debs always assume that I will select a cabinet of gold Democrats. It is safe to assume one thing. If I am elected I will be elected for four years and no more, and I will select such a cabinet as will make my administration a su cess. The cabinet will not be select* with any view to a renomlnation or r election. I stated four years ago, du ing the campaign, that I would not a< for a re-election. At the proper tin I will make that announcement again Speaking of his views and policie Mr. Bryan said that there need be i alarm for them. He does not adhei to a political principle that is not 1 years old. The charge that he is o] posing the property interests, he say is folly. In his campaign, he declare mercenary wealth is hiding behli honest wealth, and honest wealth ha best get away from the association. DIFFERENT KINDS OF WEALTH. "What do you mean by honei wealth and mercenary wealth?'" tl correspondent asked. "Honest wealth is honestly earned replied Mr. Bryan. "Mercenary wealtl or perhaps I had best call it predatoi wealth, is what is gained without gli ing any return for it. It is best f< people of wealth to elect a conservi tive man. If the policy of legislatir for the advantage of the wealthy ei clusively is continued indefinitely, dli turbances will finally occur. "The Debs movement is far strong) than it was four years ago. If the po icy of injunctions is continued it wl continue to grow. My remedy for th is arbitration. If a man employs ha a dozen persons he knows each of thdi He knows their affairs, and when the families are sick and in want. Th association brings sympathy, and thei is no need to interfere between thei employers and employes; but the coi poration which employs 1,000 men has superintendent to get all out of thei that is possible, and the men are n< known as individuals." In reply to a question as to the ou look, Mr. Bryan said that in the ml< die West especially, the prospects ai good and growing better, all the tim He had been informed, he said, that member of the Republican commltt) had said that if Mr. McKlnley shoul be defeated his defeat would likely I as crushing as that of Greeley. He coi sidered this an important admission. FAMINE AND PLAGUE IN INDIA. Six and a Quarter Million Now on the Rell Works. New York Sun. The official telegrams from Indl thoueh meant to.be encourasrinsr. fa to be so on examination. The returr from Bombay and Bengal are reporte as Incomplete; but all the same tl numbers described on the relief worl are given at close on six and a quart* millions. What makes these figures t terribly significant?and the complei returns would make them more so? that while the people at work earnlr wages are-fewer In number the numb* of those In receipt of gratuitous rell* Is increasing. Abundant rain Is sal to be falling throughout the country but crops are backward, prices are hig and there Is a restricted demand f< labor In the fields. Also, there are r means with which the fields can I tilled in the vast majority of cases an over large tracts of country, j Meanwhile pestilence in one form < another Is running Its course unchecl ed among the starving natives, ar [cholera has begun to attack the Britii garrisons. One hundred and forty-sei en cases of cholera, of which 88 wei fatal, occurred In 10 days in the var ous military stations, one cavalry ret iment losing 13 men. Owing to tl abuses of various kinds that crept Ini the management of segragatlon cam] established with the object of staylr the ravages of the plague, the reals ance of the natives Increased, and rio In which many lives are lost, were tx coming dangerously frequent. The government fearing that grav< trouble might arise out of these inc dents, has virtually abandoned all ser ous efforts to check the spread of tl disease, with the result that it threa ens to overflow from the British terr tory in India Into other countries. Is already reported from Afghanists that cholera Is raging at Cabul, ar the plague, we now know, is establisl ed In England itself, having made 1 appearance in other European coui tries and In Africa and Australia. Looking at the causes to which tl plague danger can be traced, it ms one day become an international que tion whether a government und< which such conditions are produce may not be held responsible for the e: istence of what is distinctly a dangi to the whole world. More than or English paper is calling the attentic of the people to the gravity of the si uation, one going so far as to say thi England's Income from India is n< worth ten years' purchase unless the bestir themselves, and not only gh effectual help to a famine and plagu* stricken people; but determine on sue reforms as shall confer on that peop the power not only to exist, but to n cuperate. JIM WATTS'S RIDE. It Deserves to Be Ranked Ahead of Pa Revere's Famous Gallop. The ride of Jim Watts is fit to g down in history beside that of Paul R( vere, for he saved the lives of the foi elgners in Tien Tsin. Instead of peac< ful colonists to whom to deliver hi message of warning, it was Watts' dut to ride 60 miles through a hostile cour try teeming with savages ready to sul mit him to slow torture. When tli Boxers, after two days of bombarc ment, had almost succeeded in ovei coming the foreigners in Tien Tsii nine men of the legation started f< Taku in a boat. Later in the da came back the word that the boat ha been run aground and the nine me killed. Later It proved that this r< port was not true, though the boat ha been run ashore and tne nine men seal tered and obliged to flee for their live to escape the fury of the Boxers. T1 result In either case was the sameno word of warning had reached Taki where the foreign gunboat lay, an from which place alone succor coul come to beleaguered Tien Tsin. When the report came that the oth< messengers had been killed, Jim Wati volunteered to ride to Taku. Wati was born In China 22 years ago, tl son of a Taku pilot, and he is as bra> / c- as a Hon. The foreigners insisted that ;d the youth be accompanied by three e- Cossacks, and, though Watts preferred r- to make the ride alone, he allowed hlm3k self to be prevailed upon. It was just le at nightfall when he left Tien Tsln. The city was blazing behind him and s, some shells passed perilously near. He 10 left the place noiselessly; but as soon re as he was out in the open country he 00 put spurs to his horse and fairly flew, p- Again and again shots came whizzing s, over his head, and before he reached / s, Taku one arm was swinging uselessly id at his side. Chinese ran out and tried id to seize his bridle, but he swung his whip vigorously, and in the dark many a native was knocked down by the horse's flying feet. ie Arrived at Taku, Watts did not lose _ a moment, but, securing: a small boat, > put out to Admiral Kemplf's flagship, [j and his message was the flrst news y that the admiral had that the foreign/m ers at Tien Tsln were in any serious )r danger. The world knows the rest of. l. the story. Tien Tsin was saved and ig Watts returned to the city with the alc_ lied troops on the 23d of June, marching s. in with the Welsh Pusileers. He was cheered on all sides, Watts, who was a ;r private in the local volunteer company, j. was at once made flrst lieutenant, and [U will probably be given a medal by the ja foreign powers.?Tien Tsin letter In If Leslie's Weekly. "r STORM SWEPT GALVESTON. re The City Lay Right In the Mouth of the Hun3e gry Sea. r~ D. B. Clarkson, a citizen of Galvesa ^. m ton, was at Indianapolis last Sunday, at when he first heard of the storm that wrought such havoc in the city and t- probably destroyed his family. Speaking to the Associated Press about the re e city, its location, population, business a interests and former floods that have ?e swept over it, he said: Id Galveston is situated on an island je extending east and west for 27 miles, i- and is seven miles in Its greatest width north and south. Np city could be in greater danger with such a horrible visitation-as has now come to Galveston. In no part of the city with its 38,ef 000 population is it more than six feet above the sea level. The flat condition not only points to the desperate situation of the people at such a time as * this; but their danger may be considered emphasized when It is known that exactly where the city is built the island is only one and a quarter miles ie wide. . cs On the bay or north side of the city, ir is the commercial section, with wharv,0 es stretching along for nearly two miies, nnea wnn sneas ana large sior,s age houses. Then, In that portion of [g Galveston there are three elevators, one of 1,500,000 bushels capacity, one of rj 1,000,000 and the third of 750,000. The _ Island from the north side is connected J/ with the mainland uy railroad bridges 'h and the longest wagon bridge in the >r world, the latter nearly two miles In 10 length. In 1872 the entire east end of the city was swept away by the tidal wave that followed a terrific storm that - t swept the Gulf coast for three days. )r Then the eastern land on which the c" buildings stood was literally torn away. l<* 'the work of replacing it has since been lh going on, and Fort Point, that guards r~ the entrance to the harbor, has since re been built, and on its parapets are mounted some of the heaviest coast defense ordnance used by me governie ment. By the force of the storm of 1872 six entire blocks of ti*e city were swept r ^ 58 away. ig "It is on the south side of the city, beginning within 50 yards of the mets dium gulf tide, that the wealthy resie" dent portion of the city is located and which was the first part of Galveston ar to be stricken 'by the full force of the recent storm and flood. All of the eastern end of the city must certainly be ie washed away, and in this quarter, between Broadway and I street, some of the handsomest and most expensive residence establishments are located. L" There was located there one home which cost the owner over $1,000,000. tl" Most of the residences are of frame; ts but there are many of brick and stone. a~ In the extreme eastern end of the cfty there are many of what we called ie 'raised cottages.' They are built oh Ly piles and stand from eight to ten fecfc^^y a" from the ground as a precaution ^ against floods, it being possible for the water to sweep under them. K~ "The only protection that has evet^C1*-^ - 7 er been provided for the gulf side of the 16 city has been two stone breakwaters; *n but many times, with ordinary storms ~ coming In from the gulf, the high tide 1 water has been hurled over the low * stone walls right to the very doors of the residences. From Virginia Point, * six miles from Galveston, in ordinary "" conditions of the atmosphere, the city . can be plainly seen. If It is true that * Galveston cannot now be seen from the point, then the condition of the people in the city must be indescribably horrible." Antiquity op Alfalfa.?An exul change says that alfalfa or lucerne is probably the oldest forage crop that is ;o now cultivated. History states it was ?_ brought by Darius the Great from Mep. dia to Greece about 500 years before ?- the birth of Christ, is The Romans, who were excellent fary mers, planted the seed in Italy, and in i- most of the countries they settled .and >- colonized. For centuries it has been ie the leading forage crop in southern 1- France, Spain and Portugal. The dairy r- farmers in Switzerland prize it very n, highly, and the name lucerne is given >r to the plant in many parts of the.globe y from the circumstance that the seed d were obtained from the Canton of Lun cerne, in Switzerland. The Spaniards i- who settled western South America d brought the seed with them, and int troduced the plant which they called >8 the Alfalfa, on both sides of the Andes. ie it was also introduced into Mexico by ? the Spanish conquerors, and extended J. from them into California, Colorado d and Nebraska. Id tar An officer in the Austrian army ;r In Vienna has invented balloons whicn ts will float both men and horses across ts a river. They are to be fastened to ie the belts around the men and the harre ness of the horses. f