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^^^Hrawgnw tssuED saaii-wggKif^ ^ L. M. okist'8 sons. Publisher.. | ^ Ifatnitjr Hetrsgajer: jfor the promotion of the apolitical, Social, ^gricultntal and OJommercial Interests of the feojle. { established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1904. " If i dvT! By IRVING Author of " Ebon Holden," ** D lOopyr***,!**. byLoUu " T "5f CHAPTER III. Wo left the logs and walked to Cornwall, and took a sloop down the river. It was an American boat, bound for Quebec with pipe-staves. It had put In at Cornwall when the storm began. The captain said that the other sections of our raft had passed safely. In the dusk of the early evening a British schooner brought us to. "Wonder what that means?" said the skipper, straining his eyes in the dusk. A small boat, with three officers, came alongside. They climbed aboard, one of them carrying a lantern. They ww? armed with swords and nistols. We sat In silence around the cockpit They scanned each of us carefully in the lifht of the lantern. It struck me as odd they should look so closely at our hands. "Wha* d* ye want?" the skipper demanded. "This man," said one of them, pointing to D'rL "He's a British sailor. We arrest him " He got no farther. D'rl's hand had gone out like the paw of a painter and sent him across the cockpit Before I knew what was up, I saw the lank body of D'ri leaping backward into the river. I heard a splash and a stroke of his long arms, and then all was still. I knew he was swimming under water to get away. The officers made for their boat My blood was up, and I sprang at the last of them, giving him a hard shove as he was climbing over, so that he fell on the boat, upsetting it They had business enough then for a little, and began hailing for help. I knew I had done a foolish thing, and ran forward, climbing out upon the bowsprit, and off with my coat and vest, and dived into the dark water. I swam under as long as I could hold my breath, and then came up quietly, turning on my back in the quick current, and floating so my face only was above water. It bad grown dark, and I could see nothing but the glimmer of the stars above me. My boots were heavy and dragged bard. I was gcing fast with the swift water, for at first I had beard a great hubbub on the cbooner; but now its voices had grown faint. Other sounds were filling my ear. gin. The bellowing of a cow terrified me as It boomed over the sounding sheet of water. The river rang like a mighty drum when a peal of far thunder beat upon it. I put out my hands to take a stroke or two as I lay on my back, and felt something floating in the water. The feel of it filled me with horror. I swam faster; It was at my heels. I knew full well what my hand had touched?a human head floating face downward: I could feel the hair In my fingers. I turned and swam hard, but it still followed me. My knees hit upon it. and then my feet Again and again I could feel it when I kicked. Its hand seemed to be clutching my trousers. I thought I should never get clear of the ghastly thing. I remember wondering if It were the body of pocr D'ri. I turned aside swimming another way, and then I felt it no more. In the dead of the night I heard suddenly a kind of throbbing in the breast of the river. It grew to a noisy brsr i | ?- ^ <11 IfijK^^^PI^^^BlHBJH^naar ?J j".r iIv^i2l^C B oi H L L^i^biMH Mill " , |'| I I ?iMft?J 1M I PADDLED VIGOROUSLY. K^t, %heart-beafW\I listened. Again and &|0i /--^gain I heard -4t, striding, plashiag, iifBllA v ,ght a footfa11- "d comtpc nearer. mdl ~~t BACHELLER arret of the Blessed Isles," Etc. t> J) ?p PobHsMnf Compeey 4 mile off?and what I had taken for a near footfall shrank away. I knew now that it was the beat of oars in some far bay. A long time after I ceased to hear it, something touched my shoulder and put me in a panic. Turning over, I got a big mouthful of water. Then I saw it was a gang of logs passing me, and quickly caught one Now, to me the top side of a log was as easy and familiar as a rocking chair. In a moment I was sitting comfortably on my captive. A bit of rubbish, like that the wind had sown, trailed after the I gang of logs. I felt it over, finding a straw hat and a piece of board some I three feet long, with which latter I paddled vigorously, j It must have been long past mid- 1 night when I came to an island looming in the dark ahead. I sculled for I It, stranding on a roc?y oeacn, ana I alighted, hauling the log ashore. The moon came out as I stood wrltging I my trouser legs. I saw the Island roee high and narrow and was tHckly wooded. I remember saying something to myself, when I heard a quick stir in the bushes near me Looking up, I saw a tall figure. Then came ft familiar voice:? "Tbet you, Ray? Judas Priest " I was filled with joy at the sight of D'rl, and put my arms about him and lifted him off his feet, and, filth! I know my eyes were as wet as my trousers. Then, as we sat dowi, I told him how I had taken to the rhrer. "Lucky ye done it!" said he. "lerushy Jane! It is terrible lucky! Thiy'd a' tuk ye sartin. Somebody see thet jack on the back o' my hand, there 'n Cornwall, 'n' put 'em after me. Bit I was bound 'n' determined they'd nerer tek me alive, never! 3f I ever (few any flghtin', 't ain't a-goin' t' be fer England, nut by a side o' sole-leather. I med up my mind I'd begin the tar right then an' there." 'That fellow never knew what hit him," I remarked. "He did n't getnp for half a minute." "Must 'a' swatted 'im powerfct," <*ld D'rl, as he felt his knuckte "Gol-dum ther picturs! Go 'n' try t' yank a man right off a boat like thet ?(* whan ihav hnln' n/i Heht t' teth Aiier aarK 11 is wieru dubiuvbb w u? swimming In Btrange water?the throne of mystery, of a thousand terrors. It Is as If one's grave, full of the blackness of the undiscovered country, were pursuing him and ever yawning beneath his body. And that big river is the very tiger of waters, now stealing on pussy-footed, now rushing with catlike swiftness, hissing and striking with currents that have in them mighty sinews. I was now companion of those cold-mouthed monsters of the the river bottom, many of which I had seen. What if one should lay hold; ^ on me and drag me under? Then I; thought of the rapids that might smother me with their spray or dash; me to hidden rocks. Often I lifted my ) ears, marvelling at the many voices of the river. Sometimes I thought I < heard a roaring like that of the Sault, but it was only a ripple growing into fleecy waves that rocked me as in a cradle. The many sounds were above, below, and beside me, some weird and hollow and unearthly. I oould hear the rocks rolling over in their sleep on the bottom, and, when the water was still, a sound like the cropping of lily-pads away off on the river mar war wiiD tne wiusn. me presiueui had called for a hundred thousand volunteers to go Into training for battle. He had also proclaimed there would be no more whipping In the ranks. Then my father told me that, since I could have no peace at home, I should be off to the war and done with it. We were working near the road that day. Thurst Miles came galloping out of the woods, waving his cap at us. We ran to meet him? my father and I and the children. He pulled up a moment, his horse lathered to the ears. "Injuns," he shouted. "Git out o' here quick 'n' mek for the Corners! Ye'll be all maaaacre^d ef ye don't." Thorn btirhacked the wet flank of bis horse with beTTWnd 'lm. Ef I'd' 'a' hed 01' Beeswax, sone on 'em'd 'a' got hurt." "How did you get here?" I inquire!. "Swum," said he. "Could n't go n?wheres else. Current fetched me hern. Splits et the head o' the Island?bom' ter land ye right here. <3ot t' be mov ln'.. They'll be eftar us, mebbe?'a Ua fust place they 'd look." A few logs were stranded on thi stony point of the Island. We withei three others to mine, setting sai with two bits of driftwood for paddles We pulled for the south shore, but the current carried us rapidly down-river. In a bay some two miles below we found, to our Joy, the two sections of the big raft undergoing repairs. At daybreak D'ri put off in the woods for home. "Don't like the idee o' goin' int' the British navy," said he. "'D ruther chop wood 'n' ketch bears over 'n St. Lawrence county. Good by, Ray! Tek care o' yerself." Those were the last words he said to me, and soon I was on the raft again, floating toward the gr<-at city of my dreams. I had a mighty fear the schooner would overhaul us, but saw nothing more of her. I got new clothes in Montreal, presenting myself in good repair. They gave me hearty welcome, those good friends of my mother, and I spent a full year in the college, although, to be frank, I was near being sent home more than once for fighting snd other deviltry. It was midsummer when I came back again. I traveled up the river road, past our island refuge of that dark night; past the sweeping, low-voiced currents that bore me up; past the scene of our wreck in ihe whirlwind; j past the great gap in the woods, to stand open, God knows how long. I was glad to turn my face to the south snore, for in Canada there was now j a ccld welcome for most Yankees, and my fists were sore with resenting the bitter taunt. I crossed in a boat from Iroquois, and D'ri had been waiting for me half a day at the landing. I was never so glad to see a man?never but once. Walking home I saw corn growing where the forest had been? acres of it. "D'ri," said I, in amazement, "how did you ever do it? There's ten years' work here." "God helped us," said he, soberly. "The trees went over n the windfall ?slammed 'em down luk tenpins fer a mild er more?an' we J? s' burnt up the rubbish." CHAPTER IV. April was near its end. The hills | were turning green, albeit we could see, here and there on the high ledge above us, little patches of snow?the fading footprints of winter. Day and night we could hear the wings of the wild fowl roaring in the upper air as they flew northward. Summer was coming?the summer of 1812?and the ana, wun tne certainty or war, we an looked for the red hordes of Canada to come, in paint and feathers. "Ray," my father called to me, as he ran, "ketch the cow quick an' bring 'er 'long." I caught her by the horn and brought her to the door quickly. Mother was throwing some clothes in a big bundle. Father met me with a feather bed in his arms. He threw it over the back of the cow and bound it on with a bedcord. That done, he gave me the leading-rope to tie about her horns. The hoofs of the flying horse were hardly out of hearing when we were all in the road. My mother carried the baby, and my father his sword and rifle and one of the little ones. I took the three older children and set them on the feather bed that was bound to the back of the cow. They clung to the bed-cord, their hair flying, as the old cow ran to keep up with us, for at first we were all running. In a moment we could hear the voices of people coming behind. One of the women was weeping loudly aa she ran. At the first cross-road we saw Arv Law and his familv pomlne. in as ereat a hurry as we. Arv had a great pike-pole in his hand. Its upper end rose 20 feet above his head. "What ye goin' t' dew with thet?" my father asked him. "Goin't' run it through the fust Injun I see," said he. "I 've broke the lock o' my gun." There was a crowd at Jerusalem Four Corners when we got there. Every moment some family was arriving in a panic?the men, like my father, with guns and babies and baskets. The women, with the young, took refuge at once in the tavern, while the men surrounded it. Inside the line were youths, some oddly armed 'With slings or clubs or cross-guns. I had only the sword my father gave me and a mighty longing to use It Arv Law reaieu an end of his pike-pole and stood looking anxiously for "red devils" among the stumps of the farther clearing. An old flint-lock, on the shoulder of a man beside him, had a barrel half as long as the pole. David Church was equipped with ax and gun, that stood at rest on either side of him. Evening came, and no sign of Indians. While it was growing dusk I borrowed a pail of the innkeeper and milked the cow, and brought the pail, heaped with froth, to my mother, who passed brimming cups of milk among the children. As night fell, we boys, more daring than our fathers, crept to the edge of the timber and set the big brush-heaps afire, and scurried back with the fear of redmen at our heels. The men were now sitting in easy attitudes and had begun to talk. "Don't b'lieve there 's no Injuns comln'," said Bill Foster. "Ef they wus they'd come." "'Cordin' t' my observation," said Arv Law, looking up at the sky, "Injuns mos' gen'ally comes when they git ready." ?HAA '4. ain't when yer ready t' hev 'em, nuther," said Lon Butterfleld. "B'lieve they come up 'n' peeked out o' the bushes 'n' see Arv with thet air pike-pole, 'n' med up their minds they hedn't better run up ag'in' it," said Bill Foster. "Scairt 'em?thet's whut'8 th* matter." "Man 'et meks light o' this pole oughter hev t' carry it," said Arv, as he sat impassively resting it upon his knee. "One thin' 's sure," said Foster; "ef Arv sh'u'd cuff an Injun with thet air he'll squ'sh 'im." Squ'sh *lm!" said Arv, with a look of disgust. "'Tain't med t' squ'sh with. I cal'late t' p'int it at 'em 'n' jab." And so, as the evening wore away and sleep hushed the timid, a better feeling came over us. I sat by Rose Merriman on the steps, and we had no thought of Indians. I was looking into her big hazel eyes, shining in the firelight, and thinking how beautiful she was. And she, too, was looking into my eyes, while we whispered together, and the sly minx read my thoughts, I know, by the look of her. Great dames were now leaping high is the timber-tops at the edge of the ilearing. A dead spruce caught fire is we were looking. The flames brew over it a lacy, shimmering, a-ackling net of gold. Then suddenly t burst into a red, leaping tower. A few moments, and the cavern or the Toods, along the timber side, was choked with fire. The little hamlet lad become a spring of light in the thrkness. We could see the stumps md houses far afield, as if it had been noonday. Suddenly we all jumped to o?r feet A wild yell came echoing tlrough the woods. "There they be!" said Asher Eastnan, as he cocked his gun. "1 tol' y? so." As a matter of fact, he had told us nithing of the kind. He was the one nan who had said nothing. A.rv Law stood erect, his pike-pole pdsed in both hands, and we were all rady for action. We could hear the ratle of many hoofs on the road. As soon as the column showed in the fireli&t, Bill Foster up with his muske and pulled the trigger. I could hear tin shot scatter on stump and stone. Eiery man had his gun to h.s eye. 'Wait till they come nearer," said Asier Eastman. ?he Indians had halted. Far behind than we could hear the wild hallooing of nany voices. In a moment we could see iuu^e ua nurseuucK go gtuiuyiug off in the direction whence they had cone. Back in the house a number of the women were praying. My motier came out, her face whiter than I hid ever seen it before and walked to uy father and kissed him without eve! saying a word. Then she went bact into the house. "Jcairt?" I inquired, turning to Ros?, who now stood beside me. "I should think I was," she whispers!. "I'm all of a tremble." "I! anything happens, I'd like something to remember you by." '"Rhat?" she whispered. I Doked at her beautiful red lips. She tad never let me kiss them. "Ai kiss, If nothing more," I answand. . jj*e gave me a kisa then that told 'hj^ something of whht was in her Zeiart, and went away into the house, a "Goin* t' stnronnd 1 us," said Arv j*w?"thet 's what 'f th' matter." "Mas' be ready t', rassle 'em any tnlnate," said Asher Eastman, as he idled over to a little group. A young man came out of the house nd took his place in line with a big luirt-gun and a pail of steaming-hot ater. The night wore on; our Ares burned low. As the approaching day began to light the clearing, we heard a sound that brought us all to our feet A burst of bugle notes went chasing | over the timber-land to the tune of "Yankee Doodle." We looked at one . another in surprise. Then came a thunder of hoofs in the distance, the ragged outline of a troop of cavalry. "Soldiers!" said Arv, as he raised lis pike. "The British?" somebody asked. "Dunno," said he. "Ain, no Injuns, I don't blieve." A troop of cavalry was approaching ' at a gallop. They pulled up a few rods away and jammed into a crescent of rearing, trampling horses. We ooil<l see they were American soldiers. We all lowered our guns. 'Who are you?" one of them shotted. "Citizens," my father answered. "Why are you armed?" "To light Injuns." A chorus of laughter came from the cavalry. They loosed rein letting their horses advance. "My dear man," said one of them, a big shako on his head, "there ain't an Indian 'tween here an' St Regis. We thought you were British, an' it's lucky we didn't charge in the dark; we'd have cut you all to pieces before XVa Irnnw ?itin vnn A body of Infantry was marching down the pike. They were the volunteers of Capt Darius Hp wklns, on their way to Ogdensburg, with an hscort of cavalry from Sackett's Harbbr. The scare was over. Women came est, laughing and chattering. In a few moments they were all In the road, going home?men, women, and children. I enlisted with Capt Hawkins, and hurried to the house and packed gay things, and bade them all good-by. I CHAPTER V. I followed the camp and took my place In the ranks at Ogdensburg. We went Immediately to the barrack*-a structure long and low and weatherstained, overlooking the St Lawrence. There was a fine level field in front; of it, and a flag waving at the top <4 a high staff. The men cheered lusffly that afternoon as they passed'lt, where stood Gen. Jacob Brown, his cocked hat in his hand?a splendid figure of a man. My delight in the life of a soldier began that hour, and has netrer left me. There was a lot of horse-play that night in which some of the green Mys were roUghly handled. They told me, I remember, that all new recruits had to fight a duel; but when they gave me the choice of weapons I was well content I had the sure eye of my father, COME ANOTHER STEP AN' I'LL LET THE MOONLIGHT THROUGH YE. \ and the last time I had fenced with him, there at home, he said my arm was stronger and quicker than his had ever been. Indeed, I was no sooner tall enough to swing a sword than he began teaching me how to use it In the wood back of the barracks that night, they learned I was not a man to be fooled with. The tall sergeant who stood before me saw his sword go dying in the gloom the second thrust he made at me, and ran for his life, amid roars of laughter. I had no lack of friends after that day. It was a year of surprises in the northern army, and D'ri was the greatest of all. That long, wiry, soberfaced Yankee conquered the smartness of the new camp in one decisive and immortal victory. At first they were disposed tcpoke fun at him. "Looks a little tired," said the sergeant of the guard. "Needs rest?that's what 'a matter o' him," said the captain. "Orter be turned out t' grass a leetle while," the adjutant suggested. The compliments he failed to hear soon came to him indirectly, and he had much to put up with. He kept his temper and smoked thoughtfully, and took it all in good part. The night after he came they put him on guard duty?a greenhorn, with no knowledge of any orders but gee and haw. They told him he should allow nobody to pass him while on duty, but omitted to mention the countersign. They instructed him in the serious nature of his task, adding that his failure to comply with orders would incur the penalty of death. D'ri looked very sober as he listened. No man ever felt a keener sense of responsibility. They intended, I think, to cross the lines and take his gun away and have fun with him, but tho countersign would haVe interfered with their plans. D'ri went to his post a little after sundown. The guard was posted. The sergeant, with his party of six, starterl back to the guard-house, but the? never got there. They went as far as D'ri. He stood with his gun raised. "Come another step," said he, "ar' I'll let the moonlight through ye." They knew he meant it, and ther stood still. "Come for'ard?one et a time," said D'ri "Drop yer guns 'n' set down. 11 look tired:" : r They did as he commanded, for th^ r could see he meant business, and the t knew he had the right to kill. Another man came along shortly, i "Halt! Who comes there?" D'ri demanded. "Friend with the countersign," he replied. "Can't fool me," said D'ri. "Come up here 'n'. set down 'n' mek_yerself t' I / I 4 hum. Drop yer gun fust Drop It, er I '11 drop you." He dropped his gun promptly and accepted the invitation to sit down. This last man had some arguments to offer, but D'ri stood sternly and made no reply. At 11 o'clock CapL Hawkins sent out inquiries for the sergeant of the guard and bis relief. He could find nobody who had seen them since dark. A corporal was also missing. The captain sent a man to look for them. He got as far as D'ri and sat down. They waited for him in vain. The captain stood looking into the darkness and wondering about bis men. He conferred with Adjutant Church. Then he set out with two men to go the rounds. They got as far as D'ri. "Halt! Who comes there?" he demanded. "Grand rounds," was the answer of the captain. "Lay down yer arms/* said D'ri, "an' come up here 'n' set down. "Have n't time," said the captain, falling at first to grasp the situation. "You tek time, er I '11 put a hole 'n yer jacket." said D'ri. One of the privates turned quickly and ran. D'ri sent a shot after him, that only grazed a leg, and he kept on. Then D'ri gave all attention to his new prisoners. They could see no amusement in dodging bullets; they threw their arms on the side-hill and sat down with the others. The captain swore as he submitted. "Don't rile yerself," said D'ri, "you need rest" "No, I don't, nuther," said the captain. "Ye *11 hev t' hev it, anyway," said D'ri. "This beats h?!" the captain answered, with a laugh. A feeling of alarm began to spread. The adjutant was standing in a group of men at headquarters soon after midnight They were ears under in the mystery. The escaped soldier came running toward them out of the dark. He was breathing heavily; his leg was bleeding and sore. "Wall, what is it?" the adjutant demanded. "D'ri!" the man gasped, and dropped down exhausted. "D'ri?" the officer inquired. "D'ri!" the man repeated. " It's thet air man they call D'ri. He 's roped in everybody thet come his way. They 're all settin' on the hill up there beside him. Won't let a man move when he gits him." The adjutant snlkered as he spat an oath. He was made of iron, that man Church. "Poet a guard around him." said he, turning to an officer. "The dcm fool'd tek the hull garrison ef we did n't. I '11 go 'n' try to pull him off his perch." ~ "He '11 lay ye up," said the returned private, baring his bloody leg. "Eff ye try t' fool with him ye '11 limp. See mkat h* done t* me." ' , Th?~aajufcmt swore again. ~ "Go f the hospital," he commanded. Then he strode away, but he did not return that night The moon was shining as the adjutant came in sight and hailed the group of prisoners. "What ye settin' there fer?" he shouted. "You '11 know 'n a minute," said one of them. "Halt! Who comes there?" D'ri demanded. "Friend with?" "Don't ye purten' f be my friend," D'ri answered. " 'T won't work. Come up here 'n' set down." "Stop foolln' man," said the adjutant. "I ain't a-foolin'." 'He ain't a-foolln'; he means business," said one of the prisoners. "Don't ye tamper with me. I '11 teach you?" the adjutant threatened. "Ain't a-goln t* tamper with ye a minute," said D'ri. "If ye don't set down here quick, I '11 put a 'hole in ye." "Lunatic! wha'd' ye mean?" "I mean t' turn ye out t' grass a leetle while," D'ri answered soberly. ! "Ye look tired." The officer made at him, but in a flash D'ri had knxked him down with ms musKet. ine adjutant rose ami, with an oath, joined the others. Dunno but be '11 tek the hull garrison 'fore sunrise," he muttered. "Let "em come?might es well hev comp'ny." A little before daylight a man sick in the hospital explained the situation. He had given D'rl his orders. They brought him out on a stretcher. The orders were rescinded, the prisoners released. Capt. Hawkins, hot to his toes with anger, took D'rl to headquarters. Gen. Brown laughed heartily when he heard the facts and told D'rl he was made of the right kind of stuff. "These greenhorns are not nice to play with," he said. "They 're like some guns?loaded when you don't expect It. We 've had enough skylarking." And when the sick man came out of hospital he went to the guard-house. After we had shown our mettle the general always had a good word for D'rl and me, and he put us to the front in every difficult enterprise. to be continued. The Fame of Giotto.?In his own day Giotto's fame as a painter was supreme. He had numerous followers. and these "Glotteschl," as they were styled, continued his methods for nearly a hundred years. But, like all the great men of the Florentine school, he was a master of more than one craft. "Forget that they were painters," writes Mr. Berenson, "they remain great sculptors, rorgei. umi they were sculptors, and still they retrain architects, poets and even men of science." The beautiful Campanile, which stands beside the cathedral In Florence and represents a perfect union of strength and elegance, was designed by Giotto and partly erected In his lifetime. Moreover, the sculptured reliefs which decorate Its lower part were all from his denlgrt", though he lived to execute only two of them. Thus, architect, sculptor, painter friend of Dante and of other great men of his day, Giotto was the worthy forerunner of that brilliant band of artists which a century later made Florence forever renowned as the birthplace of that great revival or "new birth" of art generally called "the .renaissance."?Century. \ ?EM$rrNttntou$ Sending. BLUE RIDQE BOND 8CRIP. / Something About the Fraudulent Debt to Weeley and Othere. The Columbia State of laat Tuesday printed the following: interesting: outline of the Blue Ridge Bond Scrip case, recently before the supreme court, and decided by that tribunal In favor of the at^te: Mr. T. B. Lee, Jr., was the owner of a piece of land In Fairfield county In 1801. In paying taxes he offered part money and part Blue Ridge scrip. The county treasurer declined to receive the scrip. Subsequently the land was put up for sale for taxes and was bought bjr Mr. H. S. Robinson of Char tone. mr. l<cc reiusea iu mu^uivu possession, contending that he had offered legal tender in payment of taxes and he could not be evicted. Mr. Robinson took the matter to the court of common pleas of Fairfield county. At the instance of J. C. Buchanan, a taxpayer of that county, Mr. William Elliott, Jr., appeared as counsel and as amicus curiae charged that the suit was 'an effort *to place upon the State of South Carolina an Indebtedness of $1,800,000 or more." An individual cannot sue the state without permission of the legislature, and it was Alleged that the offering of this scrip in lieu of cash was but another way of getting the court to pass upon its validity, and the suit is in effect a suit against the State of South Carolina. , The case was taken to the United States circuit court and Judge Simonton decided In favor of H. S. Robinson as agalnat T. B. Lee and in his decision declared the Blue Ridge scrip to be Invalid. Mr. Lyles on behalf of h's client, appealed the case. W. L. Turkett of Fairfield was admitted as a party to the suit, being represented by Mr. Elliott. Mr. Elliott in his brief gives the following historical data taken from "The Prostrate State," a book written in 1874 by Mr. James A. Pike, late minister of the United States at The Hague: "The Blue Ridge Railroad scrip is another scandal embracing several millions of pure stealings, The case is briefly this: Some years ago a charter was obtained for a railroad across the southern end of the Blue Ridge from South Carolina to Kentucky. It was a difficult work, and the state promised it aid on conditions. The road was never made, and these conditions were never fulfilled, but since the restoration the state obligations were authorised to be Issued. But this was not the worst of it. The sum authorized was $1,800,000. It turns out that on the strength of this authority over $5,000,000 of the scrip has been. Issued. it was renaerea available, to the holders by being made receivable for taxes, and In thle way haft got spread abroad. The whdT? scheme has been for the moment frustrated by a decision of the courts that the entire transaction Is fraudulent and void,from the start. With $5,000,000 of this stuff afloat, which the legisature can legalize if the members are paid enough, what hope is there that the state will escape liability for the emission?" Mr. E. B. Wesley of Port Chester, N. Y., Is the owner of over $1,500,000 of this tscrlp, provided that It is valid with the interest included, and should one dollar of the scrip be valid when presented by another party, Mr. Wesley would step In and try to get his scrip validated. Mr. Wesley In his affidavit in this jcase sayij: "That In the year 1872 he was engaged in business in the city of New York, and has been so continuously since that date; that during the said year 1872, this witness was approached by John B. Palmer, Esq., president of the Central National bank of the city of Cblumbia, In the State of South Carolina, and by L. D. Chllds, Esq., president of the Carolina National bank of the city of Columbia in said Rtate, who requested doponent to advance a certain sum of money to take up a large block of bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad compr ny of South Carhu the State ef Ul II 1*1, 5 UIU UIIWWVI ..? __ South Carolina, this witness being offered. as security for the loan desired to be made, a block of the certificates of indebtedness of the State of South Carolina ki.own as the revenue bond scrip, issued under the act of March, 1872, for the purpose of taking up and retiring the bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad company, guaranteed by the State of South Carolina; that witness, after some hesitation, finally -agreed to advance the sum of three hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (326,925) dollars, taking as security therefor the sum of nine hundred and seventy-five thousand "(975,000) dollars of the revenue bond scrip, at the par value thereof, said sum being advanced to the State of South Carolina, to bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, with which sum there was redeemed from hypothecation two million four hundred and eighty-five thousand (2,485,000) dollars of the bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad company, with the guaranty of the State of South Carolina endorsed thereon." He alrfo cites other instances in which he was given scrip in return for money advanced. ' Fed on Moonshine. Congressman John Sharp Williams asserts that Henry Watterson solemnly warned him against saying anything humorous, writes Julius Chambers in the Brooklyn Eagle. "Be solemn!" Watterson Is said to have advised. "WraD a mantle of dignity about you and never Jet it slip off." Colonel Watterson's advice reminds me of some very sage wisdom I heard the late Charles Nordhoff give to a young man who seriously contemplated going into Journalism. The youngster had taken a degree in college and came to Mr. Nordhoff with a letter of introduction. -The agad editor, who began life as a sailor before the mast and never effaced th* glamor of that career, studied the boy awhile and then said gravely: "I can only give you advice, because I do not hold an executive position and have no authority to make] appointment. "But what I shall say to you Is of great value, if you can understand it. Remember this: Every time you walk 1 up Broadway and ever? time you walk down Broadway something happena that haa never happened before and never will happen again. Discover it. See it Describe It and?and, well. If you do that your future is assured." T heard this myself and didn't know whether to smile or not The young man went out profoundly impressed, and, I dare say, grateful. He had been handed out a bit of moonshine and nothing more. If a man has to earn his living by writing and could see what nobody else can behold and put It on paper as nobody else can, he would be a prodigy like Kipling or Hawthorne. A WHITECAP FOR LIFE. Five Men For SO Years Eaeh and Another For 2S years. judge wiimiisuii iwncu dciuciiccu on the Lincoln county whitecappers recently, sending one man to prison for life, Ave otfeprs were given fifty years each, and Another twenty-five years. Other offenders were given lighter punishment. This action is the most drastic ever applied In this section in the punishment of race rioters, and has created consternation among the whites accused of harassing negroes. Judge Wilkerson says he proposes to put an end to the reign of terror in this state Those convicted are members of the Farmers' League. The following were sentenced: < Oscar Frankln, life imprisonment for the murder of Ell Wilson, a negro, William Franklin, fifty years la prison for manslaughter, for killing Henry List, a negro, Elbert Oill, fifty years In prison for killing Henry List, a negro. John McNulty, negro, convicted of murder: life sentence. David Posey, found guilty of killing Ben Bayless, a negro, twenty-five years In prison. Sam Posey, ten years for highway robbery and five years each on two whitecappiifg charge# a total of twenty years in prison. D. W. Smith, fifty years in prison for manslaughter in killing Henry List, a negro. Ellas Smith, fifty years in prison for killing Henry List, a negro. R. L. Smith, fifty years in prison for killing Henry List, a negro. John Smith, negro, convicted of murder: life sentence. J. A. P. Troy, negro, convicted of burglarly, one year in prison. 8tarts a Reign of Terror. The "Farmers League" some months ago inaugurated & reign of terror throughout the country. Negro homes were burned, many negroes were killed or wounded or whipped. Notices were posted in many places throughout the county warning the negroes to leave. Judge M. A. Wilkinson ordered a grand Jury to take up the case, and as a result the grand jury at the prssjenL.term of. court returned sixty-tyro true bits of indictment . Seven of these were for murder, twenty-one for other felonies, and the rest for various other forms of misdemeanor. Three hunA ro/1 man mano o nnnsa/f A# AAnanlPfli^V. Whiteapping Must 8top. In announcing to the three hundred men accused of conspiracy that they would not have to stand trial, Judge Wilkinson said: "As a representative of the law, and not with any Intent to threaten, nor with any braggadocio, but as a fact, I say to you who have been concerned in this thing that you have got to quit. Not 'Will you quit?* 'Please quit.' but 'you have got to quit!' This experience Is Just a little chastisement, as you would correct a refractory child with a straw, but the next time we are going tc 'bust the hide'?you will get the full penalty of the law, even if It takes every man In Lincoln county and makes every woman a widow. The law must be enforced; It's your law. "Here are two boys, who, out of the goodness of heart of the people who have stood cheek by Jowl and shoulder to shoulder with the court In ferreting out crime, are to be given their liberty. Over there are seven boys who are going to the penitentiary for one of the foulest crimes that ever blackened the name of your county. Calls For Baokbona. J- m/v.iM ho nuw uu jruu miuw wiivbc nvuiu w the next house to be shot Into If some people had not organized to put down lawlessness? Instead of telling lies about them, you ought to sing the praise of the men of Brookhaven who had backbone enough and gift enough to organize for the purpose. You ought to thank the witnesses for testifying before the grand Jury, who have sought to be better to you than you have to yourselves. If asked to Join anything investigate It first. If not satisfied, take the matter to your preacher, your family physician, the county officers or other good citizens. "To you colored people let me say that you are entitled to the protection of the law. But don't mistake! This 1oes not mean anything but that you must be negroes. Work, pay your debts, do not be saucy or impudent, mind your own business, and then you will merit the respect of your neighbors. Do not get blgoty because we are sending some white men to the peitentiary for killing a negro. Lynchers Worse Then Viotim. "The bad effect of this whitecap business is on the lives of those who Join. If you should take a negro out and shoot or hang him; if you should take a white man out and hang him, It would not make much difference If It stopped there. The negro who Is hum? or shot Is in a heap better fix than the man who does the deed. Death Is soon over, so far as the mortal part Is concerned, but the perpetrator goes along with a black conscience, and a seared heart to eke out miserable existence. There Is no way on earth to remove the scar. "I want you school teachers to stop coming up here to draw your salaries unless you can mold for good the characters of the children tn your charge. There Is in this room an old school teachers of 30 years ago. Two of his boys were led into a bull-dosing acrnpe?Tf'lfd tticjp tjfrhlm and gave theip such earnest admonition that they heeded his advice, and their lives have been those of upright citizens. Those two boys?men now? were approached and asked to Join the whltecap organization. Did they do It? No! "Quit your foolishness. The Lord help you to quit it!"?Brookhaven,, Miss., dispatch to the Chicago Tribune. I Fewer this year's fat the elections in a majority o<? /ewer votes cisf^^H^H t^of these elections. '^^HKni..r The StatMj^^^HKg^a were New York, ? west Virginia, Rho4? hana, ConnecIda.'bo.^^^^^B wev Jersey, Pennsylvuiiq.^^^B'fyomlnr. Vermont, Cai|l4iHVkinffton, Georgia. South CarottnaTf isslsslppt. Wis- I consin and South D&Bta. The othiT states swwed generally a falling off varying fwj n a few votes m Florida to more thanjjioo.OOO in Texas.' The large losa 4a *Ut4 latter put it out "" of reckon! n^jQrfow years, at least, as one of thdM^kates, though the slipping oi MflHLnto the Republican columirvmaBSTl5ks--the chief of the states in 'h^jnocratlc electoral column. ? 1 One of vhe ' toe. of the r cent election vai ofiktmparatlvely .'arc* vote cast In thMMsa. Q< ,the sooth In which the suffnJpha* been abridged and in wlilch no vigorous fight was carrrled on. Georgia, for Instinct, showed a gals compared with four years ago, and ^Mississippi also showed a gain. Two states 1 rhiOh showed a marked falling off we e Kentucky and Virginia. In Kentucky, which hai not adopted since the last presidential election any discriminating ballot laws, the fall! g ?ff was 35,000, and in Virginia the total vote declined from 205,000, fo r years ago, to 120,000, a loss of 140,00 The vote of llinois, too, showed a surprising slun d, generally explained on the ground hat the result of the election in it * is foreseen. In neighboring Intliana, in which a hard fight ^ was made by 1 oth parties, there was no falling off ii the vote. It inert ased above the figures of 1000?New fork Sun. > I L ?. I THE COtT OF LIVINQ. Compared/ Figures In Time of War and Pesos. In the month Just past the co.rt of living advanced one per cent, dtie to the incret ie in price of dairy proc'ucts. How the annual coat of living baa steadily Mien in the United States is shown lii a series of tables publ shed in Dun's Judex number. Just issue d. Tendencies to further * Increase are shown bt the scarcity of wheat, milk, eggs, w>'.i a*ft hides, all Important items infjrMinectlon with maklmr arrangement for the winter. In 1881 when the civil war had Just begun, tL annual cost of living was $181.8$, pud in 1884 It had rism to $318.73. The year 1870 saw the allowance forkich person reduced-to $118.47. There w*n a gradual decrease, until _ the lowA mark, {78.45, was reacl ed 1HJ7. ,!V1rtinror the succfee&ng year flHl was: 18*8. $97.04; 1800, $80.48; 1000, $95.80; 1*01. $05.00; 1908, $186.69; 1908, $1( .36, apd 1904, $100.14. I The commodity price proportioned to the com imptlon for each person was on the rot of this month $100.6 S .as compare withl$99.43 of November and ^ with $91.2.! of la year ago. The advance o4 7 per lent last month was due to the 1 creased cost of eggs and dal- -M ry prod eta Eggs rose eight certs a dosen, ind milk was a cent higher a quart Ipirits, tobacco and tea showed no fluctuation in price. Aitho gta the fall in cotton has been "W great tie pricesof cotton goods have % fallen litle, owilg to the limited sup- ^ niies. The available supply of wool has beai depleted and it is erpjcted that th4 pHce of*woolen garment* will increase. "Scardy any significant change," runs the report, "is pointed in boots and shoes, but hides and leather have moved steadily upward, almost without interruption, fince the" packing house, strike, which curtailed the supply. The shortage has never been made up. and it is likely to corrlnub, because hides are only a by-product, and there is no prospect of such a demand for beef that an abnormal number of cattle will be killed. The other solution lies In the Importation of foreign dry bides, which may be substituted >o a certain extent. "There Is jm echo of the demand fbr tariff revision and the unrestricted Importation of raw material in the conclusion' that this movement was also diverted from Its normal channel because of law prices, European markets now receiving many hides which formerly came to this country." PRE88ED TO DEATH. Fearful Punishment That Obtained Under Old English Law. Under the old English law if a prisoner stood mute and failed to plead to the indictment a jury was Impaneled to determine whether his conduct came from obstinacy or from a natural Impediment. According to Blackstone, if the prisoner was found to be obstinately mute and the indictment was for high treason It was settled that hi? silence was eaulvalent to a convlc tion and that Judgment and execution should follow. This same rule applied to petit larceny and misdemeanors, but upon appeal or Indictments for other felonies or petit treason, according to the ancient law, the prisoner wan not deemed convicted; but, because of his obstinacy, he received "the terrible sentence of penance or peine" and was pressed to death. Blackstone thus describes this punishment: "That the prisoner be remanded to the prison from whence he came and put In a low, dark chamber and tkere be laid on his back to the bare loor, naked unless decency forbids; thav there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron es he could bear and more; that he should have no sustenance, save only on the first day three morsels of the worst bread, and on the second day three drafU of standing water that should be nearest the: prison door, and in this situation this should be alternately his colly diet till he> died or (as anclentyHhe Judgment ran) till he anhe-trials for witchcrafts in Nctr&nmMnlt rcipcctable citlieri being so a&ueed, knowing that by reason of <?e excitement of the times a> plea of no- guilty and trial would result in ft conviction with confiscation of property, and the same Judgment would fbllow a plea of guilty, ret used to plead, thereby preventing a convlctlen and enabling his family to retain hit property. The court ordered that he be pressed because of his obstinacy. Ths order was carried out and the victim died.?Chicago Newa