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% ^ ^ ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. i. K. orist'S sons, Pibiiihen. [ %, Jfamilg 11 r irs paper: |for the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the people. ' { SINGLE COPY, FIVE C1MT8. established 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 19Q5. NO. 63. -t 1 ff THE MI By FREDERICK I Author of "The Case (Copyright. lMt. by Vr? CHAPTER XXX. "There, I've told you all the useless *< things I've done up town to-day, now tell ipe all the worth-while things you've accomplished down town, Mr. Vice President." Leslie perched herself on the arm of her father's chair In the library, and held out a lighted match for his after-dinner cigar. "The only thing?thank you, lass? the only thing I did down town that was worth while," he answered be? tween puffs, "was to come up town. There's an Irish answer for you." "With a strong flavor of blarney in it." "By the way, speaking of Irishmen, I was given an invitation to-day for a private musicale of Irish folk-songs." "Good! Let's go. When is It?" "I've forgotten. The tickets are in my overcoat Bring me the papers in my coat pocket, Perkins," he directed ' the butler, as the latter entered with the coffee. ** Leslie took a cup from the tray, dropped in a lump of sugar, stirred it, and offered a spoonful to Mr. Harlan. "Go on, sir. Tell me the rest of the news," she commanded. "I don't think there's anything else to tell. Yes, there is," he added, as Perkins handed him a bunch of papers; - "here's an announcement of Granville Phelps' marriage, and a card for the opening day at the Water Color exhibition?and?March 15, that's the date for the concert? By the way, Leslie, before 1 forget it, just sign this, please." The girl glanced at the paper with evident surprise. Then she slipped from the arm of the chair, and sitting down at the library table, turned up the lamp and read the document through carefully. It was a printed form, headed "Proxy for Stock," and worded with legal phraseology. Proxy for Stock. Know All Men by These Presents, that I, Leslie Harlan, do hereby constitute and appoint to be ray lawful attorney, substitute, and proxy, for me and In my name, place, and stead to vota upon all the stock held by me in The Confederated Machine Companies at the annual meeting of stockholders of The Confederated Machine Companies, to be held on the day of . or at any adjourtu-d meeting thereof, according to the number of votes I should be entitled to vofe If then personally present. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my haml and seal this day of , one thousand nine hundred and Sealed and delivered In the presence of The hrst glance at the paper recalled to Leslie every word of the conversation with Mrs. Parsons. She had '* been waiting for the proper moment to speak to her father about the Machine Companies, but now the opportunity had come, she shrank from taking advantage of it. She could ask herself why: she would not allow herself to answer. She wanted time to think it over. But Mrs. Parsons had said that whatever was done would have to be done promptly. If she let this chance go by, it might never come again. But she could not let it pass. The paper conferred authority to vote for her in the very company in which she had been asked to influence her father's vote. This was a new situation, and one which she had never before contemplated. However the occasion introduced the subject naturally, and that was perhaps more important than time for reflection. "Is all that legal verbiage too much for you?" it must have been the third or fourth reading which Mr. Harlan's question interrupted. "I never saw a paper like this before," she answered. "It gives the right to vote at a meeting of stockholders, doesn't it?" * "Yes." "But how can I give any such right? I'm not a stockholder." "Yes, you are. At least I hold stock in your name, which is the same IUIUK. "Why did you put it In my name?" "Ob, because?well, just for a change." "Wasn't that a strange reason?" "No, everything I have is yours. So it doesn't make much difference whose name is used. In this instance it was more convenient to use yours." "Why?" "For goodness' sake, Leslie," he laughed, "you're worse than a crossexamining lawyer!" "But I don't see how it could be more convenient to use my name when " I'm so seldom down town." "I can't explain all that now, my dear." Mr. Harlan's tone indicated weariness, and Leslie did not press the inquiry. "Tell me, what are you going to vote for, Mr. Proxy?" she demanded, Jestingly. "Merely for some new directors. It's what they call the annual meeting." Leslie dipped her pen in the ink and touched a blurred letter before she spoke again. "Isn't this the company where there's a strike going on?" "Yes." "Will this election stop the strike?" "I hope so." "Whom are you going to vote for?" M "Now, don't you think we've discussed this long enough, my dear?" Mr. Harlan replied, with a shade of annoyance in his voice. "The whole thing's merely a formality. Just sign opposite the seal." "But isn't my proxy going to tell me how he will vote?" "Nonsense, Leslie!" Mr. Harlan's exclamation was sharp and Irritated. Leslie made no reply, and Mr. Harlan picked up a magazine and began reading it. "Mr. Vice President." Mr. Harlan continued reading. "Mr. Vice President." Harlan looked up, and his lips relaxed Into a smile as he noted the mock solemnity of her eyes. NORITY TREVOR. HILL and Exceptions," etc. * _i i itrUk a. ScokM a Oo.) "Well?" he asked good-naturedly. But Miss Harlan's face suddenly assumed an earnest, serious expression "You've always told me, dear, never to sign anything ignorantly, and I don't quite understand this. You say these shares really belong to me?" "Um-yes." "Don't they absolutely?" "Yes, I suppose so." "Well, every stockholder should I I. V ? nU A.,l JnU WA O" rvuuw ? 11ai urs uuiug, ouuuiuii i ur; "Yes, theoretically." "Then why won't you tell me for whom I'm voting?" "Because it isn't necessary, Leslie? because you ought to trust me. Really, you're quite annoying." "I'm sorry, but I've bepn intending to speak about this for some time. I've heard so much about this company, and?" "From Kennard, I suppose!" The words were snapr *d out angrily, 'nd the moment they w. re uttered Mr. Harlan would have gladly recalled them. But those few words told Leslie much, and by the time the flush had faded from her cheeks a new resolution hod come to her. "Not one word from him," she answered calmly, "but a great deal of him?more of what he's done. I don't i now what your position or power is in this company, dear, hut I've wanted to ask you about it for a long time. You remember you told me about Mr. Kennard. and afterwards I went to see bis factory; so, of course, I know how successful he was and how interested in the employes. And now every one says he resigned from this new company because the workmen's wages were cut. and not at all as the newspapers say. Don't you approve of his management?" "I don't propose to discuss the matter with you any further at this tUdq* Lwl,r-" "Why not. dear? It's not ntfrifely curiosity. You've always said I was^ mure your chum than your daughter, and I felt proud of that. Why won't you tell m- about this business?" "H^?-?us* I?well?I don't approve everything about the Crotation company and the Milling Companies, and the big fieht in the Pirtltion railroad? Did I ever talk about vonr affairs with any one? Was I ever so dull that I couldn't appreciate your reasons for things? And now in the proud consciousness of my newly discovered responsibilities. when I ask you to tell me for whom I'm voting, you speak to me in a tone I've never heard before. Dad. dear, what Is the matter?" There was a little tremble in the half-jestine. half-serious question. Mr. Harlan did not answer for a few moments. Then he slapped his magazine down upon the table impatiently. "I've told you before. Leslie." he exclaimed. "that I won't discuss the situation further until you display proper confidence in me. I only regret I put those shares in your name at all." "Dad. dear, listen." Leslie rose from her seat and perched herself again upon the arm of his chair. "Put those shares Into some one's else name, and that will remove any idea that I'm imposing conditions. Then we can talk as we always do." "It's too late." "What do you mean?" "I mean the shares will have to he voted in your name. They canaot be changed before the election, so let us end this foolish talk." "Won't you tell me?" "I will not answer any further questions or talk any more at all about this subject. When you are ready to sign the paper?" "But, father, don't you understand," her voice was so serious that Mr. Harlan looked up suddenly as she hesitated?"don't you understand, dear, that I shall not sign?" "Do you mean to say?" "I mean I cannot take responsibility without knowing what my proxy is to do. and why he is to do It." "Then you can get your Information from?from any one in whom you have more confidence than you have in me!" Mr. Harlan rose as he spoke, and swung out of the room without another word. CHAPTER XXXI. Mr. Harlan left the house ana am not return until long after midnight. When Leslie came downstairs the next morning he had already breakfasted and gone to the office without bidding her good-by. Such a thing had never happened before. It measured the magnitude of her offense In his eyes. The troublesome proxy lay on her desk where she had tossed It the night before. She sat down and read it through once more. Was she right In hesitating to sign it? Had she not virtually told ber own father that she lid not trust him? Was she not about to proclaim this publicly? What did she propose to do? Was she to attend this meeting in person and vote against her father, or. at best, vote In his stead? In the one case there would be scandal; in the other ridicule and notoriety. What a story that would make for the newspapers, with pictures of the warring father and daughter, and all the possible and impossible inferences which would be drawn from the facts. He would be a Joke down town if she did any such thing as that. But was there any alternative? If she authorized anybody else to represent her, she would only add to the Insult and increase the scandal. If she refused to vote at all, her action would embarrass her father, without, perhaps. serving the cause she desired to favor. Chance had placed in her hands a technical right which she feared to exercise practically. ^ How much did she know of the issues involved? On the one side was & man she had learned to?to believe fo. *To believe in very earnestly. But thOTW.jpnBt be no issue between her father and this man?or any man. If that were the situation, she would instantly decide for the father whose wonderful love had been hers all her ife and whom her mother had loved. No, the men, women and children whose health and comfort were at stake formed the real issues. If she voted against tbem even indirectly, would not the thought of It outlast her life? Her father was opposed to the man who? He was opposing the poor and the weak in this contest. Perhaps he did not know this. Perhaps he was altogether ignorant of the true state of affairs. She had told him nothing of what she knew. Possibly, if she reported frankly everything she had heard and suspected, he might Investigate and learn why she could not j vote against John Kennard?against what she believed to be right. She I u'nnM OA clraioht tr. t ho nfHpp fiflH PY LESLIE OFFERED A SPOONFUL TO MR. HARLAN. of your general attitude of distrust and criticism, Leslie." 'But 1 don't know what you want to do, so I can't possibly bo criticising. I have no doubt I shall agree with voti when you tell me. Surely you don't wish me to sign this paper, or any paper, without knowiug what I'm voting for." Mr. Harlan shot a swift glance at his daughter's face. "Leslie, are you interested in this man?" he rnquired suddenly. She might easily have gained time by pretending not to understand, but though her cheeks cimsoned again, her voice never falte ed as she answered? "I've always been it 'erested in Mr. Kennard's work, dar . as I always thought you were. H< seemed earnest and sincere, and. as far as I understand Vilo i/Ioop Ka (a lUArblra itncolfichl V fnr the best welfare of tiose under him. Of late I've noticed you don't mention his name and that he has ceased to ''ome here, so I suppose you and he have disagreed. But, dear old dad. I can readily understand that his theories. however honest or sincere, may not be good from a business standpoint. and I trust your wise head. But I can't understand why you won't explain the difficulty and want me to act blindly In the matter. It isn't like you." "And It isn't like you to lack confidence in me. You may sign the paper or not. Just as you prefer. Leslie. I shall certainly not condescend to ask you again." "Now you're offended. Have I ever failed to be Interested or sympathetic with your plans? Didn't you tell me plain the whole matter fully and fairly. Anything was better than this hideous chance of misunderstanding. Miss Harlan's car moved slowly along Park Row, the motorman beating furiously on his metal gong, and gradually dividing the ever-present group of people which gazes morning, noon and night at the big bulletin board of the "Guardian." As the car stopped at the Nassau street corner, Leslie stepped out and stood for a moment in the knot of idlers staring at the empty blackboard. A man mounted on a wooden platform leisurely washed the bulletin board with a big sponge, leaving wide, damp streaks of gray across its face. He seemed aware cf his importance to the watchers below, and took delight in playing with their hungry curiosity. The board cleaned, he hitched up his trousers with great deliberation, and retired into one of the office windows with the tantalizing air of one who knows the public must await his pleasure. Presently he returned, a chalkpot and brush in his hand, which he placed on the platform, changing their position once or twice with the nicety of an acrobat adjusting his paraphernalia. Then he turned and gazed contemptuously at the street, as though disdaining to perform for such a pitifully meager assemblage. At last he swung around, stuck his head into the window, and shouted some inaudible summons, which was answered by a small boy who handed him a slip of paper. Armed with this, he walked slowly toward the chalk-pot, stirred it with the brush, blew his nose, and rolled up one sleeve. Then he carefully dipped the brush in the pot with his right hand, wiped off the drippings, squinted at the slip of paper in his left, glanced absent-mindedly up the street and painted a large white B. Having performed this feat, he paused to examine his work, assuming the critical attitude that proclaims an artist. Then he glanced knowingly at the throng below, as much as to say: "Don't you wish you knew what was coming?" "Big," muttered some one in the group, and the others regarded him with something like surprise. "F-A-I-L-" painted the artist. "Failure," interrupted the clever one. "MILLING" The brush paused once or twice before this word was completed, but it suggested nothing to the prophet, who relapsed into silence. The artist retouched one or two of the letters and then renewed his work with a sudden burst of energy lest the spectators should anticipate his climax. "MILLING COMPANIES ASSIGNS." Leslie gazed at the words as though fascinated by them and the scene before her faded. The Milling Companies! That was her father's company?the one of which he was vice president! She looked at the faces about her, but stolid indifference was the only expression observable. Surely this could not be the great Milling Companies; Everybody would be shocked If that were ao. But the pool did not ooze even a bubble of excitement, and the noisy streams rushed by without the slightest cessation. It did not seem possible, and yet It must be. They would not dare to publish such a thing about a famous company like that unless it were true. This was. perhaps, the reason of her father's silence and irritation of the previous evening. He had been anxious and in trouble, and she had worried him with idle questions and possibly frustrated some plan by her blind obstinacy. And he bad kept silence | ramer man urge ner againsi ner win: AH her doubts and fears faded away. She turned without another t-hought, and flew rather than walked to Mr. Harlan's office In the Consolidated building. "Dad, dear!" she exclaimed, as the door of the private room closed behind her, "I've?I've Just heard about the?the company. Why didn't you tell me? I didn't understand or I wouldn't have bothered you last night. Please, please forgive me. Here, give me a pen?" She seized one as she spoke, took the proxy from her purse and rapidly signed her name. "Opposite the seal? There! I hope It's not too late. Now kiss me and say you'll never speak to me again as you did last night." And then, as her father kissed her, "DAD, DEAR. I'VE JUST HEARD ' ABOUT THE COMPANY." t Miss Harlan, most Inconsiderately, burst into tears. ( Meanwhile the artist of Newspaper row was further enlightening his silent, apathetic audience as to the Mill* ing Companies' assignment, by elab- , orately printing, in generous capitals, ( "RUMORS OF INSIDE WRECKING." TO BB OOWTINOBD. FAMOUS FASTERS. : 1 Feats of People Who Have Gone With* i out Foor For Months. i How long Is It possible for man to I maintain life without food of any description, liquid or solid? At the mo- A ment of writing a Vienna champion i faster is trying the experiment for i three weeks; but this period falls so far I short of existing records that the feat scarcely reaches the dignity of a fast, i At the Aquarium two "hunger artists," 1 Signor Succi and M. Alexandre Jacques, some years ago tried for premier I honors in England by abstaining from i food for forty-two days; and in the 80's a man named Merlatti maintained I health and spirits for fifty days on a ' Spartan diet limited to sips of water. 1 But even such feats as these are mere pauses between meals compared < with some of the feats of past genera- I tions, if we are to believe contemporary 1 n cords. Thus we learn that a young ( French girl, Christina Mlchelot, after ' an attack of fever, was utterly unable to swallow any form of food, and from ' November, 1751, to July. 1755. swal- 1 lowed nothing at all more sustaining than water. Remarkable to say, after ! nearly four years of this starvation ' diet she gradually recovered her 1 health and lived long in the land. For 1 a year and three-quarters Katherlne * McLeod actually lived without partak- 1 ing of any form of sustenance. Onoe during this period an attempt was I made to force food down her throat, ( but the woman narrowly escaped suf- , focation and the attempt had to be abandoned. ' A Harrogate girl of 12, one Ann I Walsh, lived for eighteen months on j a daily glass of wine and water?a ' dietary on which she somehow managed to preserve health and good ' looks; Monica Mutcheteria, a Swa- I bian, spent a whole year without | swallowing either food or drink, and for three years she never slept; while Dr. Willan, an eighteenth century physi- < clan, had among his patients a mono- i maniac who for sixty-one days refused ] to touch food of any description. About the same time, too, we are in- ! formed that a French peasant boy I of Chateauroux was never known to j partake of food during twelve months, and yt t was able to do a good day's work on his father's farm. ' Dr. Plot, in his "Natural History of < Staffordshire," tells a remarkable , story of a woman, one Mary Wasughton or Wigginton, who appears to have reduced the problem of living to its lowest material limits. Thus, says 1 her historian, "she does not eat In a ( day a piece above the size of a half crown In bread and butter, or, if meat not above the quantity of a pigeon's I egg at most," while her only beverage j was a spoonful of milk and water ( dally. And yet, although this was Mary's modest fare year after year, she is described as "a maiden of fresh complexion and healthy enough." Another j Staffordshire worthy of the eighteenth ( century, one John Adams, lived for thirty years, it is said, on a daily crust ' of bread and a glass of water, and yet ; was famed for his muscular strength | and his ploughing performances. Unfortunately, we do not know what John ate when nobody was looking. 1 In the two cases which follow we get i on to more reliable ground, since the | facts described are little more remark" ?V,ao/, r\f Aim AtlfM Hmo Tn ' ciuir mail iiiu.-?c vi vui unu m,?v. ... 1771 a Stamford man made a wager of I ? 10 that he would touch neither food , nor drink for flfty-one days, and he won the bet handsomely. The records, ' however, are silent as to the price he I afterwards paid for his defiance of na- ] ture. ( The second of these old-time fasters was the famous John Scott, of Tevlont ' dale, whose fasts have survived to our i own day, enshrined In border verse. I John's first experiment as a faster was . when he was Incarcerated for not paying his creditors. So Indignant was he that not a mouthful of prison fare passed his lips for thirty-two days. The , fame of this feat got abroad, and the King, curious to test the man under 1 stringent conditions, had him locked up In a room In Edinburgh Castle. When the door was opened at the | end of thirty-two days, John seemed none the worse for his abstention. In later years Scott exhibited his ; powers as a modest eater to the Pope, and his fame became great throughout Europe, while to crown his fasting performances. when he was thrown Into prison for railing against one of Henry VIII's divorces, he threw all his own records Into the shade by going "without "bite or sup" for fifty days.?TitBits. ilUwIlanrouo JUadittfl. TILLMAN ANO TALBERT. There Was Talk of a Personal Encounter at Edgefield. Reported by August Kohn. Decided Interest centered In the liquor meeting at Edgefield last Saturday. The expectation was that there would be sensational developments and rapid fire speeches. There were neither sensational outbreaks nor a race for records. The meeting had been heralded and much ado had been made. Some time ago the prohibitionists started their movement. The suggestion was mO/)o tKf! f + nimli* f A k/v n /Ka/tun. uiouc uiai iiicic uugiii iu ur a uiotunslon before the thing went too far. A caU was made and Invitations sent out. Saturday's meeting was the result. Thie representatives In the house and senate, Col. W. Jasper Talbert, Governor Sheppard, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Simklns, Mr. Geo. E-ans and Mr. Calhoun were invited to speak. All save Governor Sheppard, who Is In Texas, were on hand, but after the more than two hour speech of Senator Tillman, the meeting adjourned itself without hearing from four of the prospective speakers. The incident of the meeting was the apparent resentment of Col. Talbert over a remark of Senator Tillman. Col. Talbert was mad all over and wanted to know whether Senator Tillman wished to make a personal matter of the Incident, while Senator Tillman was amused and passed it over laughingly. Perhaps the chief Interest Is to know how Senator Tillman views the situation these days. Today he reiterated his responsibility for his advocacy for the dispensary, but he also made it plain that he is not a candidate for senator or anything else on the dispensary Issue. He announced his candidacy for ne-election, but emphasized that the liquor question Is one thing and the race for senator is entirely different and he wants no confusion. He suggested and hinted and Intimated very strongly that things were not what they ought to be with the dispensary, but rather than come directly to the point he prefaced his suggestions by an "if or "it is said" or "It is rumored." He pointed out a long line of inquiries for the dispensary Investigating committee and talking to Col. Talbert suggested that there might be need for an Investigating committee of the investigating committee, because he and the people wanted bottom facts. Here are some of the further kernels full of meat taken here and there from Tillman's speech on the dispensary: "During the last six years and even before that a majority of the South Carolina legislature has been composed of those who were once antl-TlllmanItes or conservatives." "If It be true that bad men have beer elected to control and direct the affairs of the dispensary the conservatives of the state are responsible for It." "I believe that there has been a deep laid scheme to destroy the system by mismanagement." 'The onslaught on the dispensary is led by most bitter political opponents." "As founder and father of the dispensary, I have been abused and lied upon as no other man in the state's history ever was." "The dispensary has had nothing to 1o with my political two fortunes. It never contributed In the slightest to my election as senator, and I was governor twice on other issues than 11"luor control." "I believe now that the dispensary law can be so changed as to preclude the possibility of corruption." "If the legislature at its next session will make such amendment and change In the law as I am prepared to offer the boldest and most unscrupulous enemies of the system will be compelled to declare that there Is no room for graft." "The dispensary authority vested in the governor should never have been changed. He wants a dozen counties to try prohibition from now till Janu*ry. I now say that If the legislature now in power does not at its next session change the law so as to reform the system I will undertake, if I am living and well next summer, to fight for a legislature that will reform It." "I do not stand for a corrupted and jebauched dispensary. A saloon will never return to South Carolina again. [ am opposed to private individuals selling liquor. I want this matter settled entirely apart from my personal ind political fortunes. It is a much greater question for the people of South Carolina to settle how they shall wisely and best govern the sale of liquor than whether I or some one else represent them in the senate. "I believe the dispensary system to be the best for the people and for the cause of temperance." Senator Tillman was sure Herbert Evans would gladly welcome a most searching Investigation into his financial condition, and also as to H. Hi Crum. There is a report that Mr. rowill, another director, accepted a fine borse from some whisky house and that Mr. Boykin represented liquor bouses before elected on the board. He wants light on these. All of these things Senator Tillman had carefully written out and prepared but while on iviw-uHttcn naeces he interpo- t lated these side lines: "Do you knowhow much the state Is credited with ?n the books of the commissioner as having In its possession over $800,000 worth of whisky, $400,000 scattered all aver the state and $400,000 in Columbia. What do they want with so much. It is on a cash basis and they can ortler liquor from any source they choose by the carload and get It here, bottled and distribute It In 30 days. Then I hear, I do not know how true It Is, but I want this committee to tell us who is responsible for such a stock of unsalable stuff. I want it to Investigate the Richland Distillery company, find out how it came to be organized, who were the original stockholders, howmuch stock they took, and all about It." He suggested that a check be had and investigation be made on the output of the dispensary as compared with the actual purchases paid for. It was while Senator Tillman was talking about preferring prohibition to any license systiem that he said If there was no chance for the dispensary to live then he would line up with his friend Talbert and shout for prohibition. He went on and said: "I will never consent by my vote or Influence to aid the re-establishment of saloons In any county in South Carolina." Col. Talbert from his seat: "Thank God, one old sinner has come In." Tillman turning to Talbert said: "Why didn't you say that three years ago when you were declaring you would enforce this damnable law?" The crowd cheered for Tillman and Talbert. Col. Talbert said with feeling: "I sold I would support the law?I never did advocate it. You are mistaken and when you were In trouble I stood by the law and said I would go to Columhlo n nrl Hofonrl vmt I nPVPP Ad vocated the law, I have supported It. I have been a prohibitionist for full twenty years." Senator Tillman was still facing Col. Talbert who had meanwhile gotten up ar>d was walking across the platform. Senator Tillman said: "I am not Impugning your motives." (3>1. Talbert replied: "I have not come here for any trouble but if you want a personal controversy I am here. I supported the law because it is the law and If It Is a prohibition law I will support It." Mr. Padgett, the chairman of the meeting thought there may be trouble and he went up to Mr. Talbert and caught him by the arm and spoke to him. There was no trouble. The crowd hurrahed a little and still standing near Tillman, Talbert said: "If you dislre a personal controversy I am here and you can get it" Tillman: "You broke Into my speech, sir." Talbert: "You alluded to me and shook your finger at me which I cannot take from anybody. If you want a personal difficulty you can get It." Senator Tillman laughed and remarked: "I've been along that road many a time before," and turning to his table said: "Now. the figures for Lawrence, Mass., show."?and then went on with his speech. The Incident was closed. ROCK HILL TIGER8. They Manage to Lead a Lively Chase For the Authorities. About the last week In June, says the Rock Hill correspondent of The News and Courier, a whisky seizure was made In the suburbs of the city, from which have arisen several trials and mistrials. These have been of "great Interest In this community and upon them have been many discussions and comments. State Constable J. H. B. Jenkina armed with a warrant to search the premises pf S. "Miles" Cash, went to Cash's house, some distance below the Highland Park mill. He found him at home and read the warrant. Cash refused the service, claiming that the name was not his. Constable Jenkins sent nis assistant, wingaxe, duck, iu have the warrant changed to S. M. Cash. The constable stayed upon the scene and awaited developments. He halted an old "mammy" with a churn full of buttermilk, so full that all of the dasher handle stuck out of the churn which she was conveying from Cash's house to the kitchen. The buttermllk proved to be a number of pints of whisky. While this arrest was being made Gash and a friend, Henry E. McGraw, went Into the house and a few minutes later McGraw came out and started away, but on account of the peculiar bagglness of his clothes Constable Jenkl is stopped him and found five or six pints on his person. The corrected warrant came and a search was made of the premises, resulting In the finding of a total of 33 pints. Cash's preliminary was held and he was put under bond to appear In Yorkvllle at the court of general sessions. McGraw's case resulted In a mistrial and he asked for a change of venue.to Magistrate Glenn's court. This was done and resulted in another mistrial. Wednesday the case was again tried and the jury declared him "not guilty." At Cash's preliminary P. A. Workman. upon whose place Cash lived, and who had been present when Cash's house was searched, made a demand upon Constable Jenkins for a return to him of 20 pints of the whisky, claiming that it was his and that he had it for the purpose of treating his farm hands on the Fourth of July. As a result he was called as a witness in the Cash case and later was arrested upon the same charge, that of "storing and keeping contraband." His preliminary was held and he also Is under bond for appearance at York court. Workman, after his preliminary, brought a claim and delivery suit 1 against the constable. This was tried | also before Magistrate Glenn about ten days ago, but his decision was not handed down until yesterday. He found for the plaintiff. Workman. The , state appeals and the case will be heard i at the fall session of superior court. A notorious frequenter of the court room, locally. Is Jack Knox, a bright mulatto blacksmith, horse trader, etc. The police found a five-gallon keg of whisky In his house a day or two ago, Jack claims that the stuff belongs to another man and the case is in statuquo until further evidence is found. Jack worked a very slick trick on the , officers some years ago; in fact he is i a bright yellow daisy. Taking his < turnout, with a keg skillfully concealed, and yet leaving a scent for the offl- I cers, ever on the alert for him, he > struck out In the direction of the river. 1 Knowing that they would be after him he made arrangements with a confed- 1 erate to go In another direction. Jack ' went to the yellow Catawba and filled ' his keg with the muddy river water and returned. Sure enough he was gathered In when he reached the city and protesting that there was not a ' thing In the keg but river water for 1 his wife's use for something or other, 1 he was carried on for examination. ) His story proved to be true and it was only water, which "Gawd knows a man 1 has a right to carry." In the meantime the confederate had j secured the real yellow booze and stor- j ed It safely while Jack, the general, 1 was making his feint. j Inconsiderate.?A lady who com- I plained to her milkman of the quality I of milk he sold her received the following explanation: "You see, mum, they don't get enough grass feed this time o' the year. Why, them cows o' mine are 1 just as sorry about It as I am. I of- i ten see 'em crying'?regular cryln,' mum?because they feel as though their milk don't do 'em credit. Don't you believe It, mum?" "Oh yes, I believe It," responded his customer: but I wish In the future you'd see that they don't drop their tears Into our can."?Harper's Weekly. WOMAN IN THE CASE. Mrs. Bureh Said to Know About Cotton 8candal. The most sensational development up to the present time In the cotton leak case was sprung last Thursday, says a Washington dispatch. when It was discovered that neither Holmes nor Hyde were In reach of the United States district attorney's subpoena, for their presence before the investigating committee, and also that Mrs. Bertha Burch, the alleged confidant of Hyde, and the woman who has figured prominently before the public since the Investigation begun had handed in her resignation as a clerk. While It has been expected that the two men, parties to the leak scandal, would lose no time In leavI n sr f hp nitxr nnaalhlv fnr tho hnnoflf of their health, If for no other reason, there was, nevertheless, a genuine surprise when Mrs. Burch made It known today that she no longer desired to be connected with the department of agriculture In the capacity of stenographic and statistical clerk. The way Mrs. Burch has risen from the ranks reads like a romance, and from the time she entered the department of agriculture, In 1897 as a laborer at $480 per year she has by some unknown power been able to outstrip all her competitors and yesterday when she resigned she was drawing $1,800 per annum. There are many women, It Is said, in the department as capable as Mrs. Burch, and It is singular that she has been able to rise so rapidly time and again while others have been forced to plod along beaten paths from year to year with but scant If any promotion. It has been declared by many employes that Mrs. Burch had unusual influence with Mr. Hyde, and that so far as the affairs of the bureau were concerned, she was known as "the power behind the throne." Her resignation coming immediately upon the information that Hyde is now perhaps near- J lng the rock bound coasts of England makes the matter all the more Interesting and at the same time more i mysterious, for as far as known there ; is no reason why she should have been forced to relinquish her po- i sition paying her $1,800 per annum. As stated, Mrs Burch entered the i service of the government April 5, 1897 as a laborer at $480 per annum. August 20, 1900 she was promoted to stenographic work at $900 per annum. October 16, 1900 her salary ] was raised to $1,100. May 1, 1901, her salary was raised to $1,300 per annum. July 1, 1902 she was again ; promoted and received $1,400 per annum. January 1, 1903 she was further advanced and received $1,600 | per annum, and on July 1, 1904, 1 she was advanced to the grade where she received $2,300 a year. 1 Being asked how it was that she received such rapid and unusual promotion while other employes had not been able to keep up with her in 1 anything like this style, Mrs. Burch replied that she had not received any promotion without first having ; stood a competitive examination, j These examinations, it has been ( learned, were prepared and held at i the department of agriculture, and 1 it was a comparatively easy matter ( to arrange them according to tne wishes of those Interested. < It has also been discovered, it is (' said, that since Mrs. Burch came into the department of agriculture ( that she has been in the habit of 1 borrowing large sums ot money j from Hyde on Holmes' endorsement, , and while no special significance is t attached to this fact. It Is also noted < that since her entry Into the bureau j she has managed to come into pos- | session of a very fine home in one of the most prominent and refined 1 suburbs of Washington. ( It is expected that when the grand i Jury now probing this matter takes ' up Mrs. Burch's testimony there j will be some mighty interesting read- i ing, if she consents to tell all she I is said to know about the depart- ' men: of agriculture and its management. SOUTHERN'S GIANT FREIGHTERS J New Engines Pull Forty-fivs Cars ' With Great Ease. ' Greenville News: i Pulling forty-five cars, nearly all * loaded, with ease, and running as 1 regularly and smoothly as an engine j that had been In use for months, ' No. 774. one of the great steel monsters recently secured for this di ision by the Southern to handle ' I he heavy freight traffic, steamed out ' of Greenville at 4.30 o'clock yester- ' day afternoon for Atlanta. Engineer ' F. W. Wolfe was at the throttle. ' No. 774 made Its first trip Friday ' night when it hauled a short train under slow speed from Atlanta to Greenville, arriving here about midnight. Wolfe brought the big locomotive, the largt st ever operated on ' this division, and as large as any in the world, from the Gate City on its initial trip, which was made without the slightest mishap or de- ' lay. 1 "She is a beauty," said the en- j gineer, as he was seated in his cab ' yesterday afternoon watting ror leaving orders on the return trip. 1 "I have never met with an engine ' that behaved better. You know, as ' a rule a new engine gives a lot of ' trouble, gets hot all over, and does < all kinds of mean things, but there was nothing of the sort with No. 774 J last night. She tan like a veteran, ' and while her springs are a little < stiff as yet, she was as steady as a < rock. We were careful, of course, and jogged along because It Is 1 iiangerous to run even a new street J car at high speed much less a giant 1 locomotive. They have to get ! limbered up, you know." No. 774 was a magnificent sight ' as it waited with steam up In the I round house. Compared with big I stationary engines and those used in modern battleships and ocean grey- I hounds, it might not have seemed < large, out there is something so com- i pact, so symmetrical and altogether powerful about a locomotive that It draws admiration above all other machinery, and towering above the great engines that have made the i Southern famous, No. 774 was Inspected and praised by engineers, hostlers, fireman and everybody else I hat saw It in the yards yesterday. With the exception of the design of the fire box the new locomotive, which is made solely for handling freight, does not vary materially from the others used by the Southern. It Is simply a great deal larger at every point. The boiler, which was measured by Roundhouse Foreman Walden, is 24 inches larger In diameter and In circumference appears even greater. The locomotive is two feet higher over all than those which approach It nearest In size, and In order to prevent any danger 4>.H. of Its striking overhead bridges, the smokestack is reduced to a minimum, being hardly a foot in height while the sand dome is a very small affair. Even the bell is smaller that those generally in use and is fixed as close to the top of the boiler as possible. The bracket supporting the headlight Is made to project over the boiler and is swung below the top so as not to project above the smokestack. The boiler is set high above the trucks and the whole mass of steel seems to be top-heavy, though the center of gravity is said to be lower than In most <other types. While the engine and its firebox are larger, it is said to be even easier on the fireman than those of a smaller type. The improvement In the grate gives a bigger heating space and steam is easier to keep. Moreover, the locomotive pulls a load with less effort and does not have a tendency to exhaust the supply of steam as rapidly while ascending a grade as is the case with the smaller engines. No. 774 was turned on the table here yesterday morning by cutting it in two. as railroad men say. That is, the tender was uncoupled and the engine turned first and later the tender. FIR8T MAN KILLED. Henry L. wyexx, or m? nr?i nwhi Carolina Regiment. The very flrst life lost In the flnal direct struggle over Secession was on the Federal side at Fort Sumter, in an accidental explosion, after the fort had surrendered, April IS, 1861. But the flrst Confederate to be killed in line of battle was Private Henry Lawson Wyatt, a soldier In Company A, First North Carolina Regiment, Infantry. His life was lost In the battle known as that of'Blg Bethel," fought June 10, 1861, near Yorktown, Va. The conflict at Big Bethel was the flrst land battle of the war. Though on a minor scale, It was a victory for th southern arms. The Confederate troops engaged belonged to the command of General John B. Magruder, the Infantry force being chiefly the First North Carolina Regiment, under the immediate command of Cblonet D. H. Hill, who was afterwards a lieutenant general In the Confederate service, and who has been quite universally regarded as the hero of the battle. The lieutenant-colonel of the regiment was C. C. Lee, and the major was James H. Lane, both of whom subsequently rose to the rank of brigadier-general in t' "? Confederacy. The regiment passed into history as "The Bethel Regiment" of North Carolina troops. The Federal troops engaged in the action were under the Immediate command of General B. F. Butler. Henry Lawson Wyatt was a native of Virginia, born In Richmond February 12, 1842, a son of Isham and Lucinda Wyatt, the latter of whom had but recently died. Henry had learned the carpenter's trade and was working In Tarboro, N. C., when the war broke out?his father having moved from Virginia to Pitt county, N. C., In 1856. Young Wyatt was one of the very flrst men to enlist as a soldier for the southern cause when the Governor of North Carolina called for volunteers in April. 1861, after the Lincoln proclamation declaring war against the Southern Statea He entered the Edgecomb" Guards, under command of Captain John L. Brldgers. Fiftyfour days after he was mustered Into, the service Henry Wyatt fell In battle at the age of 20. He was buried near the foot of the Cornwallis monument, Yorktown, Va. Young Wyatt lost his life under circumstances of great gallantry and heroism. In the beglning of the battle In which he fell the sharpshooters of the enemy occupied a house between the two opposing lines, blue and gray. A call was made for volunteers to advance across the Intervening distance, through an open fleld 200 yards wide, and Are the building. Corporal George W. Williams, Private Henry Lawson Wyatt, John H. Thorpe, Thomas Fallon, and Robert EI. Bradley responded to the call and attempted to perform the duty. They had proceeded but a short distance into the fleld when Henry Wyatt fell with a bullet In his brain in a volley Bred from the building. The other four soldiers dropped to the earth and remained until they could with safety rejoin their command, went through the entire war and are yet living. Very soon after the cannonading of the house began, Major Wlnthrop, a gallant and noble son of Connecticut endeavored to lead his men Into the action; but as he came to the front waving his sword about his head, the Vorth Carolinians fired a volley at him and he fell dead, his body riddled with bullets?he, I believe, was the first victim among the Federal officers In the war. His native state has long igo well perpetuated his memory. The state of North Carolina has at last determined to treasure in perpetuity the features and name of the laring and noble Wyatt. Through the efforts of J. C. Birdsong, State Librarian, a photograph of the dead hero was secured, and at the session jf the Legislature of 1891 the Librarian secured an appropriation to have i. life-size painting made from the )nly existing picture of the young man, and a handsome oil portrait made from it now adorns the walls of the North Carolina State ILbrary ? L--* ? living Persons wno nau kiivwu uic yrouth say that the artist has. In a most striking degree, caught the very 3pirlt of the daring, generous soul ind fixed its expression brilliantly In the dark lustrous eyes that gleam >ut upon the speaking canvas.?Richmond Dispatch. AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRY. This Country Has Reached the Position of a Leader. The United States record-breaking crop of 12,162,000 bales in 1904 will serve to draw attention to cotton as a. social and economic factor in the world's development and to show the important part which it plays in human society. Congress In 1793 placed a. duty of 3 cents a pound on cotton, never dreaming that it would one day become the most Important of the country's exports. When, In 1794, John lay was In England to frame the treaty under which American commerce got its first real start, he did not know that cotton was exported from this country cr ever would be exported. The 155,000 bales of cotton produced by the United States in 1800 had grown to 4,800,000 In 1860. In the words of Hammond of South Carolina cotton bad become king among United States products by that time. The year 1898 saw the 11,000,000 mark in production passed for the first time. It was never passed afterwards, except in 1899, till 1904, when the output was lz.iez.uow bales. I,i 1903 the farm value of the cotton crop and Its by-products was In the neighborhood of 1700,000,000. In 1904, owing to the reduced price, the value did not pass beyond that mark. In each year, however, it ranked all the other products of the soil in the amount of money which it brought the grower, except corn. Three-fourths of all the cotton grown in the tforld is produced in the United States. Twenty per cent of the entire American crop was manufactured in American mills in 1860. This proportion. increasing faster than the production. had grown to 37 per cent in 1901. The south, which manufactured only 80,000 bales of cotton In 1870, as compared with 777,000 in the north, only 221,000 as compared with the north's 1,574,000 in 1880, and only 545.000 to the north's 1,780,000 in 1890, was even with the north in 1903 and 1904. each section manufacturing slightly less than 2,000,000 bales.?Chicago Chronicle. i.