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* IgggjM L. m grist s sons, Publishers. J 4 ^amilg geirspappr: Jor (he promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and (Commercial interests of the people. {K established 1855. YORKVILLK, S. C. TUESDAY, MAY -j4, 1!)1Q, NO. 41. Ed 54? iyt ifzg ^ BY EMERSC Copyright by Boi | CHAPTER XXVIII. When a Woman Would. The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage day and the day of her funeral.?Hipponax. My garden at the Willamette might languish if it like, and my little cabin y might stand in uncut wheat. For me, there were other matters of more importance now. I took leave of hospitable Doctor McLaughlin at Fort Vancouver with proper expressions of the obligation due for his hospitality; but I said nothing to him, of course, of having met the mysterious baroness, nor did I mention definitely that I in tended to meet them both again at no distant date. None the less, I prepared to set out at once up the Columbia river trail. From Fort Vancouver to the missions at Wailatpu was a distance by trail of more than two hundred miles. This I covered horseback, rapidly, and arrived two or three days in advance of the English. Nothing disturbed the quiet until, before noon of one day, we heard the gun fire and the shoutings which in that country customarily made announcement of the arrival of a party of travelers. Being on the lookout for these. I soon discovered them to be my late friends of the Hudson Ray post. One old brown woman, unhappily astride a native pony, I took to be Threlka, my lady's servant, but she rode with her class, at the rear. I looked again, until I found the baroness, clad in buckskins and blue cloth, brave as any in finery of the frontier. Doctor McLaughlin saw fit to present us formally, or ratner careiessiy, u n^i seeming: to him that two 50 different would meet often in the future: and of course there being no dream even in his shrewd mind that we had ever met in the past. This supposition fitted our plans, even though it kept us apart. It was but a common emigrant farmer, camping like my kind. She, being of distinction, dwelt with the Hudson Bay party in the mission buildings. CHAPTER XXIX. In Exchange. Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.?Leigh Hunt. For sufficient reasons of my own, which have been explained, I did not care to mingle more than was necessary with the party of the Hudson Bay folk who made their quarters with the missionary families. I kept close to my own camp when not busy with my inquiries in the neighborhood, where 1 now began to see what could be done in the preparation of a proper outfit for the baroness. Herself I did not see for tlie next two days; but one evening I met her on the narrow log gallery of one of the mission houses. Without much speech we sat and looked over the pleasant prospect of the wide flats, the fringe of willow trees, the loom of the mountains off toward the east. "Continually you surprise me, madam," I began at last. "Can we not per- 1 suade you to abandon this foolish plan ! of your going east?" 1 "I can see no reason for abandoning it." said she. "There are some thousands of our people, men, women and 1 children, who have crossed that trail. Why should not I?" "Bnf Miev come in large narties: they ' come well prepared. Each helps his neighbor." "The distance is the same, and the method is the same." ' I I ceased to argue, seeing that she would not be persuaded. "At least, madam," said I, "I have done what little I could in securing you a party. You are to have eight mules, two carts, six horses, and two men, besides old Joe Meek, the best guide now in Oregon He would not go to save his life. He goes to save yours." "You are a good special pleader," said she; "hut you do not shake me in in mv purpose, and 1 hold to my terms. It ihics not rest with you and me, but with another. As I have told you?as we have both agreed?" "Then let us not speak her name," said I. ??hur r.\-nc huilrod into mine. .'IK-IIM "> straight, large ami dark. Again the spell >>f her beauty rose all arouml me. enveloped me as I liad felt it do before. "You ran not have Oregon. except through me," she said at last. "You can not have?her?except through me!" "It is the truth." I answered. "In Clod's name, then, play the game fair." OHAPTKR XXX. Counter Currents. Woman is like the reed that bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.?Bishop Richard Whately. Tin- Oregon immigration for 1S45 numbered, according to some accounts, not less than three thousand souls, our people still rolled westward In a mighty wave. The history of that great westbound movement is well known. The story of a yet more decisive journey of that same year never has been written?that of Helena von Ititz. from Oregon to the east. The price of that journey was an empire; its cost ?ah, let me not yet speak of that. Although .Meek and I agreed that In should push east at the best possible speed, it was well enough understood th.it I" should give him tin more than a day or so start. I did not pitrpose to allow so risky a journey as this to b? undertaken by any woman in so small a party, and made no doubt that I would overtake them at least at Fort Hall, perhaps live hundred miles east of the Mission, or at farthest .it Fort Ihidgcr. some seven hundred miles from the starting point in Oregon. The young wife of one of the missionaries was glad enough to take passage thus for the east: and there wsis the silent Threlka. Those two could offer company, even did not the little Indian maid, adopted by the baroness, serve to interest her. Their equipment t? -4 ? a : yffk : mv hough mm >bs-Merrill Co. ' A \aJ L rr and supplies were as good as any pur- sj chasable. What could be done, we e, now had done. j Yet, after all, Helena von Ritz had ^ her own way. I did not see her again after we parted that evening at the (,r Mission. I was absent for a couple of p, days with a hunting party, and on my return discovered that she was sj gone, with no more than brief farewell m to those left behind! Meek was anx ictus as herself to be off; but tie ten word for me to follow 011 at once. It may be supposed that I myself now hurried in my plans. I was able to make up a small party of four men, w about half the number Meek took with " him; and I threw together such equipment as I could find remaining, not in wholly to my liking, but good enough, til I fancied, to overtake a party headed w by a woman. Iiut one thing after an- ci other cost us time, and we did not w average twenty miles a day. I felt se half desperate, as I reflected on what of this might mean. As early fall was re approaching. I could expect, in view th of my own lost time, to encounter the p< annual wagon train two or three hun- bi dred miles farther westward than the object of my pursuit naturally would sc have done. As a matter of fact, my sa party met the wagons at a point well o\ to the west of Fort Hall. in It was early in the morning we met th them coming west?that long, weary, th dust-covered, creeping caravan, a mile long, slow serpent, crawling westward re across the desert. In time I came up at to the head of the tremendous wagon or train of 1845. and its leader and myself hi threw up our hands in the salutation of \v the wilderness. in The captain stood at the head of the I'?'i front team, his hand resting on the w< yoke as he leaned against the bowed m neck of one of the oxen. The men and st women were thin almost as the beasts hi which dragged the wagons, rne.-e lai- ? ter stood with lolling tongues even thus J'*1 early in the day, for water hereabout was scarce and bitter to the taste. So, Nl at first almost in silence, we made the salutations of the desert. So, present- <>f ly, we exchanged the news of east and SP west. tit There is today no news of the qual- t*11 ity which we then communicated. They a knew nothing of Oregon. I knew noth- th ing of the east. A national election had been held, regarding which I knew not th even the names of the candidates of either party, not to mention the re- yo suit. All I could do was to guess and th to point to the inscription on the white top of the foremost wagon: "Fifty- t>e four Forty or Fight!" "Is Polk elected?" I asked the cap- gr tain of the train. a He nodded. "He shore is," said he. se "We're comin' out to take Oregon. What's the news?" cr My own grim news was that Oregon aR was ours and must be ours. I shook hands with a hundred men on that, our m' Ti hands clasped in stern and suent grip. Then, after a time. I urged other ques- er tions foremost in my own mind. Had ca they seen a small party east-bound? an Yes, I had answer. They had passed this light outfit east of Rridger's 'al post. There was one chance in a hun- st" tired they might get over the South ,>a Pass that fall, for they were traveling light and fast, with good animals, and old Joe Meek was sure he would make "u it through. The women? Well, one gr was a preacher's wife, another an old 'ia flip.sy, and another the most beautiful woman ever seen on the trail or anvwhere else. Oi Then they began to question me re- ^ guiding (?r?gon. How was the land? . Would it raise wheat and corn and hogs? How was the weather? Was co there much game? Would it take much labor to clear a farm? go Of course it came to politics. Yes, , Texas had been annexed, somehow, not T by regular vote i>f the senate. There was some hiteh about that. My leader reckoned there was no regular treaty. ui It had just been done by joint resolu- ., tion of the house?done by Tyler ami Palhoun, just in time to take the feath- ^ er out of old Polk's cap! The treaty of g,] annexation?why, ves, it was ratified CO by congress, and everything signed up March third, just one day before Polk's j inaugural! Polk was on the warpath, according to my gaunt leader. There ^ was going to be war as sure as shooting. unless we got all of Oregon. "I)o you see that writin' on my wagon top?" asked the captain. "Fifty-four 1 us Forty or Fight. Tliat's us!" . And so they went on to tell us how . this cry was spreading, south and west I \v< and over the north as well; although . be tile Whigs did not date cry it quite so loudly. yc And so at last we parted, each the tj, better for the information gained, each m to resume what would today seem nracticallv an endless journey. Our "n farewells were as careless, as confident, ,,j, as had been our meetings. Thousands w of miles of unsettled country lay east | and west of us, and till around us. our empire, not then won. ,.a I made the journey across the south Pass, the snow being now beaten down jlt on the trails more than usual by the vv west-bound animals and vehicles. Of all these now coming on, none would "] get farther west than Port Hall that |(i year. Our own party, although over nj the Rockies, had yet the Plains to cross. I was glad enough when we -j. staggered into old Port Laramie in the midst of a blinding snow-storm. vv] Winter had caught us fair and full. I s|i had lost the race! Here, then, I must winter. Yet 1 y< learned that Joe Meek had outfitted at dii Laramie almost a month earlier, with new animals; had bought a little grain, ami. under escort 01 a eavairy inmp <_' which had come west with the wagon ,,, train, had started east in time, per- a haps, to make it through to the Missouri. In a race of one thousand miles, |^j the baroness hud already beaten me al- | most by a month! further word was, n of course, now unobtainable, for no trains or wagons would come west so late, and there weiy then no stages sa carrying mail across the great Plains. ,|, Tin-re was nothing for me to do except |a j wait and eat out my heart at old 'ort Laramie, in the society of Indians nd trappers, half-breeds and traders, he winter seemed years in length, so ladly I make its story brief. It was now the spring of 1840, and I as in my second year away from Washington. Glad enough I was when i the first sunshine of spring I started ist, taking my chances of getting over le Plains. At last, to make the long >urney also brief. I did reach Fort eavenworth, by this time a five lonths" loser in the transcontinental ice. As to the baroness, she had long nee left Fort Leavenworth for the ist. I followed still with what speed could employ. I could not reach Washington now until long after the rst buds would be out and the creep s growing green on the gallery of Mr. alhonn's residence. Yes, green also i all the lattices of Elmhurst Manon. What had happened there for e. CHAPTER XXXI. The Payment. What man seeks in love is woman; hat woman seeks in man is love.? oussaye. When I reached Washington it was deed spring, warm, sweet spring. In le wide avenues the straggling trees ere doing their best to dignify the ty. and flowers were blooming everyhere. Wonderful enough did all this em to me after thousands of miles rude scenery of bare valleys and icky hills, wild landscapes, seen often irough cold and blinding storms amid >aks and gorges, or on the drear, fordding plains. Used more, of late, to these wilder enes, I felt awkward and still half ivage. I did not at once seek out my vn friends. My first wish was to get touch with Mr. Calhoun, for I knew at so I would most quickly arrive at e heart of events. He was away when I called at his sidence nn Georgetown Heights, but last I heard the wheels of his old nnibus, and presently lie entered with s usual companion, Doctor Samuel ard. When they saw me there, then deed I received a greeting which relid me for many things! This over, p all three broke out in laughter at y uncouth appearance. I was clad ill in such clothing ar. I could pick up western towns as I hurried on from e Missouri eastward: and I had as t found no time for barbers. "We have had no word from you, icholas," said Mr. Calhoun presently, luce that from Laramie, in the fall eighteen forty-four. This is in the ring 01 eighteen forty-six! Meanne, we might all have been dead and iried and none of us the wiser. What country! 'Tis more enormous than e mind of any of us can grasp." "You should travel across it to learn at," I grinned. "Many things have happened since u left. You know that I am back in e senate once more?" i noucieu. "j\ tici aonui lexus. i Kan. "Texas is ours," said he, smiling imly. "You have heard how? It was hard fight enough?a bitter, selfish, ctional fight among politicians. But ere is going to be war. Our troops ossed the Sabine more than a year ;o. They will cross the Rio Grande fore this year is done. The Mexican Inister has asked for his passports, le administration has ordered Genal Taylor to advance. Mr. Polk is rrying out annexation with a vengece. Seeitig a chance for more terriry. now that Texas is safe from Engnd, lie plans war on helpless and derted Mexico! We may hear of a 11le now at any time. But this war th Mexico may yet mean war with lgland. That, of course, endangers r chance to gain all or any of that eat Or* gon country. Tell me, what ve you learned?" I hurried on now with my own news, iefly as I might. I told them of the ips of England's navy waiting in egon waters; of the growing suspi>n of the Hudson Bay people; of the anges in the management at Fort incouver; of the change also from a nciliatory policy to one of half hosit.v. I told them of our wagon trains ing west, and of the strength of our ntiersmen; but offset this, justly as might, by giving facts also regarding * opposition these might meet. "Precisely," said Calhoun, walking > and down, his head bent. "England prepared for war! How much are ;? prepared? It would cost us the venues of a uuarter of a century to i to war with her today. It would st us fifty thousand lives. We would ed an army of two hundred and fifty ousand men. Where is all that to me from? Can we transport our army ere in time? But had all this bluster ased, then we could have deferred is war with Mexico; could have night with coin what now will cost blood; and we could also have night Oregon without the cost of it. nolai' wnu whit liu t imiiii ui \J i?uu. '*??*.? ...... ....... ? needed! All of Oregon should have en ours!" "But, surely, this Is not all news to >u7" 1 began. "Have you not seen e Baroness von Ritz? Has she not ade her report?" "The baroness?" queried Calhoun, 'hat stormy petrel?that advance font of events! Did she indeed sail Itli the British ships from Montreal? id you find her there?in Oregon?" "Yes, and lost her there! She started st last summer, and beat me fairly the race. Has she not made known r presence here? She told me she us going to Washington." He shook his head in surprise, "muble now, I fear! Pa ken ha 111 has ""j* ??llv i.iip worst :tntai5o St." "That certainly is strange," said J. !ne had live months the start of me, id in that time there is no telling hat she has done or undone. Surely, ? is somewhere here, in Washington! le held Texas in her shoes. I tell >tl she holds Oregon in her gloves toiy! I started up. my story half untold. "Where ate you going?" asked Mr tlhoun of me. Doetor Ward looked at e, smiling. "He does not inquire of certain young lady?" "I am going to find the Baroness von It/.!" said I. I Hushed red under my an, I doubt not: hut I would not ask word regarding Elisabeth. Poetor Ward came and laid a hand i my shoulder. "Republics forget," ill he, "but men from South Carolina not. Neither do girls from Mar.vml. I>o you think so?" "That is what I am going to find out." "How then? Arc you going to Elmhurst as you look now?" "No. I shall find out many things by first finding the Baroness von Hitz." And before they could make further protests I was out and away. I hurried now to a certain side street, of which I have made mention, and knocked confidently iit a door I know. The neighborhood was asleep in the warm sun. I knocked a second time, and began to doubt, but at last hoard slow footsteps. There appeared at the crack of the door the wrinkled visage of the old serving-woman, Threlka. I knew that she would be there in precisely this way, because there was every reason in the world why it should not have been. She paused, scanning me closely. then quickly opened the door anil allowed me to step inside, vanishing as was her wont. I heard another step in the half-bidden hallway beyond, but this was not the step which I awaited: it was that of a man, slow, feeble, hesitating. I started forward as a face appeared at the parted curtains. A glad cry welcomed me in turn. A tall, boat form approached me, and an arm was thrown about my shoulder. It was my whilom friend, our ancient scientist. Von Rittenhofen! I <11(1 not pause to ask how he happened to be there. It was quite natural, since It was wholly impossible. I made no wonder at the Chinese dog Chow, or the little Indian maid, who both came, stared, and silently vanished. Seeing these, I knew that their strange protector must also have won through safe. "Aeh, Gott! Gesegneter Gott! I see you again, my friend!" Thus the old doctor. "Rut tell me," I interrupted, "where is the mistress of this house, the Raroness von Ritz?" He looked at me in his mild way. "You mean my daughter Helena?" Now at last I smiled. His daughter! This at least was too incredible. He turned and reached behind him to a little table. He held up before my eyes my little blanket clasp of shell. Then I knew that this last and most impossible thing also was true, and that in some way these two had found each other. Rut why? What could he now mean? "Listen now," he began, "and I shall tell you. I wass in the street one day. When I walk alone, I do not much no tico. Rut now, as I walk, before my eyes on the street, I see what? This? this, the Tab Gook! At first, I see nothing but it. Then I look up. Before me iss a woman, young and beautiful. Ath! what should I do but take her in my arms!" "It was she; it was?" "My daughter! Yess, my daughter. 1 It iss Helena! I haf not seen her for many years, long, cruel years. I suppose her dead. Rut now there we were, standing, looking in each other's eyes! We see there? Aoli, Gott! what do we pot see? Yet in spite of all, it wass Helena! Rut she shall tell you." He tottered from the room. I heard his footsteps pass down the hall. Then softly, almost silently, Helena von Ritz again stood before me. ' The light from a side window fell upon 1 her face. Yes, it was she! Her face was thinner now, browner even than ' was its wont. Her hair was still faintly sunburned at its extremities by the '' western winds. Yet hers was still im- 1 perishable youth and beauty. I held out my hands to her. "Ah," I ' cried, "you played me false! You ran away! By what miracle did you come ' through? I confess my defeat. You ' beat me by almost half a year." "Rut now you have come," said she ' simply. "Yes, to remind you that you have friends. You have been here in secret ' all the winter. Mr. Calhoun did not ] ?? ?- ? > HM... .1!.! ,?.f KNOW ,VOII HitO lOIHf. II ll,Y Hill go to him?" "I was waiting for you to come. Do ' you not rcincnibcr our bargain? Each day I expected you. In some way. I ! scarce knew how, the weeks wore on." 1 "And now I find you both here?you ' and your father?where 1 would expect ' to find neither. Continually you violate all law of likelihood. Hut now. ' you have seen Elisabeth?" "Yes, I have seen her." she said, still simply. I could think of no word suited to that moment. I stoo,] only looking at ' her. She would have spoken, but no the instant raised a hand as though ' to demand my silence. I heard a loud ' knock at the door, peremptory, com- ' mandlng, as though the owner came. "You must go into another room." said Helena von Ritz to me hurriedly. "Who is it? Who is it at the door?" ( I asked. C5U_ I....I,,.a ., mlniiv "If iu Sir ' Richanl Pakonham," said she. "This I is his usual hour. I will send him away. Co now?quick!" I rapidly passed behind the screening 1 curtains into the hall, even as I heard ( a heavy foot stumbling at the thresh- * old and a somewhat husky voice offer some sort of salutation. [To he Continued. 1 The End of the World. The scenes of dissipation that have recently taken place among the Hungarian peasantry serve to remind one of the old truism that human nature has not changed very greatly in a thousand years. The Magyar la- J borers were convinced that the end of the world was at hand, and took the arrival of the comet to he an augury of the near approach of the ' catastrophe. The parish priest, good. ' faithful man. warned them to prepare themselves by due penitence and the proper religious exercises; but the ---' " I. 1 rr.,,.,, ' pieasill e-io\ iiik iiih'k uiso.oi h-??' themselves over to rioting and feast ing. They and their priest were soon I disillusioned when the appointed day | passed without anything oeeurring: but their fright had exactly the same effect as the universal belief that the : end of the world would come in the > year looo. The chroniclers of those | times toll us that people gave themselves over to drunkenness and vice, ' rather than to religious exercises: the contemplation of so awful a catastrophe was apparently too much for ( human nerves. At the same time it has been observed that whenever a ' sudden eartluiuake in tropical conn- i tries lias convinced people that the , actual day of judgment was upon j them, illicit unions have been hastily regularized and many a son has found 1 a father who never before acknowl- i edged him. Such, at least, has been ? Knglish experience in the Hast Indies, . and the same was noticed in the great earthquake during the Venezuelan ' revolution a century ago. It appears ? that men must be convinced that the . disaster has actually arrived before they will lay hare the innermost secrets of their hearts.?London (Slobe. 1 ^Miscellaneous iHcadinfl. BURIAL OF EDWARD VII. Distinguished Procession Follows Corpse to Grave. Sovereigns and representatives of the powers of all the world paid a last tribute last Friday to England's dead monarch, Edward VII. whose body rests in St. George's chapel at Windsor castle, where the hones of Edward IV., the sixth and eighth Henries, Charles I., the third and fourth Georges find William TV nrn nnvc <>ntiimhi>d Bright sunshine followed a night of thunderstorms that swept the city and soaked the funeral decorations of royal purple, the half masted Hag and the wreaths of evergreens and (lowers that hung along the line of march, but had no deterrent effect on the gathering thousands, who from midnight until dawn sought points of vantage to watch the passage of the cortege. London's millions filled the streets and open places as .they have never before filled them either at a funeral or a festival. All the pageantry that marked the burial of Victoria was as naught when compared with the magnificent of today spectacle, which though it passed through a multitude of hushed people reverently bent, was splendid in its accompaniment of gilded coaches, brilliant uniforms and deeorations. Far surpassing the ceremony attending the removal of the king's body from Buckingham palace to Westminster hall, the procession included nine sovereigns, the former president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who alone was not arrayed in uniform; the heirs to several thrones, the members of royal families, the officers of the households, officials of the government, field marshals, generals and admirals, whose names are synonymous with Britain's achievements, detachments of troops of all the British arms and representatives of foreign armies and navies in variegated uniforms, a solid phalanx of glittering colors. The lines of red-coated soldiers were drawn as on that other great occasion of England's mourning nine years ago with arms reversed and regimental flags dipped to the ground. The vast throngs along the streets were massed so tight that those once caught found it impossible to move. The great viewing stands, covered with mourning emblems, were crowded, the roof tops black. And through this multitude, from among whom not a. whisper arose, the gun carriage that bore the king's body moved, to the strains of funeral marches, the tolling of bells and the booming of minute guns?very different from many another day when Edward in the glory of his reign went to meet his people and be acclaimed. At U'pstmlniitpr hnll the widowed queen, point? to spontl a last minute beside the body of the king, was assisted from her carriage by the German* emperor upon whom the loss of his royal uncle has laid heavily. The pmpemr kissed the hand and cheek nf Alexandra, and passed her to her son, King George. Here the queen mother, glancing up, caught sight of the late king's charger,) waiting to follow its master to the bier and near at hand the king's favorite dog led by a gillie, and she faltered, gripping the arm of the king and pathetically gazing upon the animals Edward had loved so well. Then she entered the hall with King George, Emperor William and the Duke of Connaught. there to offer a silent prayer and watch the removal of the coffin to the gun carriage. The order of precedence in the procession was governed by kinship as related to the position of the sovereigns, l'he special envoys of the United Stabs and France occupied the eighth carina ge and although ex-President Rousevent was inconspicuous in the procession. King George gave him marked ittention at the lunch at Windsor castle after the funeral, seating him, with eight other guests, at nis own table. The German emperor sat with the linen mother and Queen Mary. That which impressed Mr. Roosevelt most was the demeanor of the people. Unsolemn dignity of the ceremony. From F'addington station the royal1 train carried the coffin and mourners to Windsor, while special trains were fill d with officials* and foreign representatives. Bluejackets dragged the gun carriage through a line of purple to St. rjeorge's chapel and there simple services were said by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, assisted by oth r prelates. King George with Alexindra on his arm. walked up the nave In-hind the coffin, with the German eml?eror and Queen Mary following. During the service the widowed" piecn moved to the foot of the catafalque and knelt, and just before the otfin was lowered to the crypt King leorge placed upon it a royal standard. Several of the royal mourners, in hiding Archduke Francis Ferdinand \f A uclfl'i ond Piliuui f 'It-it lug i\C -Sweden. li ft London tonight hut all tile reigning inonarclis remained and the king and queen had another notable linnet- party at nuckingham palace. CLEAN SPORTS. State Organization With Highly Laudable Purpose. The Clean Sports League of the Cat dinas ' as been carefully organized and daburatn arrangements have been nade to put into operation an effective A'orking machinery. This organization ,vlll have no legislative or administrative power per se. but will direct its fforts :ilong educational lines. The licadqunrters are in tin- Y. M. C. A uilding, Charleston. It litis been organized to popularize ithletie sports titul to improve the otlilutio i Y*i t i??< s<ii :is to harnioni/.c thein with tin- 11i_c11 jmrwise of education and good citizen-hip 'Sport for sport's s;ik<'" is its motto. In lliott one hundred timi nineteen rofessionnl pltiyers of tlie National ensile were suspended for rowdyism iml other offences. Undoubtedly litany iffenees were overlooked. Similarly n amateur ranks there is a continual violation of rules and principles which collect upon our boast of being true iportsinen. Amateurs too often do things they hope will not come to ight. l-'reiiuently spectators and loot rs are unjust and their actions not ilways in accord with what is known o be light. The Clean Spoils I. ague if the Curolinus is an educational or ganlzatlon composed of the leading F colleges and Y. M. C. A.'s in the Carolinas. T It is endorsed by the? 1. Southern Inter-Collegiate Athlet- f ic association. 2. Athletic League of North Ainer- J lea. t 3. South Carolina Inter-Collegiate d Athletic association. a 4. Carolina Federation of Y. M. C. c A.'s. e 5. Charleston Amateur Athletic Fed- t erntlon u The following adopted codp of pthlcs t I is simple?fair to the individual, to the i< large as well as to the small colleges, e schools or other organizations. It ap- v peals to the manhood in man. and all b lovers of clean sport are asked to sup- f port It. Clean Sport Principles. t 1. Both the home team and the home n town should treat the visiting team as \ a guest. 2. Both players and spectators should r recognize good plays of the visiting p team by suitable cheering. ti 3. Players should play fair and be good losers. o 4. The umpire and the referee have t difficult tasks to perform. Spectators f should accord them their moral sup- o port. The players should extend them s hearty thanks as they leave the field. t 5. Condemn all use of profane lan- v guage on the field. g Lists will be circulated In every t town in the Carolinas, and every man t and every boy big enough to swing a t bat is requested to add his signature, s with the understanding that an hon- o est effort will be made to live up to c these principles. Such action will t; add greatly to tne pleasure ana cngniiy g of athletic activities of the Carolinas. o . t: DEATH OF GREAT NAPOLEON. ? c "France, the Army, Josephine," Last tl Words of Great Soldier. On May 5, 1821, Napoleon fought his last battle and death closed the ? career of one of the greatest generals, v if not the greatest, the world has ever tl seen. The last tragedy of his life was i( enacted on the little island of St. Helena. He was buried in a valley; a c' simple slab marked the place of his ? repose; two weeping willows waved over it. and an Iron railing encircled v the spot of ground. a A few days before his death he awoke one morning, saying: "I have just seen my good Josephine, but she p would not embrace me. She disap- Sl peared at the moment when I was about to take her in my arms. She n is not changed. She is still the same. C1 full of devotion to me. She told me % that we were about to see each other w again, never more to part." Sl The disease progressed rapidly and the dying hour drew near. A violent storm raged with wild fury on that rocky prison isle as the spirit of the great Napoleon was freeing Itself from ^ its earthly fetters. His few faithful U friends who shared his exile stood rl weeping around his couch. In the . solemn silence of that sacred hour ^ his loved voice was once more faint- . ly heard: "France! Army! Head of ^ the army! Josephine!" and the heart ^ of Napoleon ceased to beat. "Isle of p Elba! Napoleon!" had been the last 0| words of the loving and forgiving n Josephine. "France! The army! R Josephine!" were the last images that ? lingered In the heart, and the last words which trembled on the lips of t| the dying emperor. The heart-melting story of the hardships to which Napoleon had been subjected during his captivity at St. Helena was told over and over again to his beloved France, till the nation I nf Inst rnso ns one man to do his v. memory honor. Just twenty-five years from the time when Napoleon was landed a captive upon the island lr his remains were brought from their cl humble resting place and reinterred tl in the magnificent mausoleum prepared for them in the Church of the In- * valldes. Paris. On the anniversary of k' tlie great victory of Austerlltz the two ei funeral frigates entered the harbor n of Cherbourg. All the forts, batteries . and warships fired a salute. All Prance flocked to the cities and vlllages through which the funeral cor- rr tege was to pass. jj. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of ' the 14th of December, 1840, the flotilla arrived at Courbevole, a small d; village four miles from Paris. Here it the remains were to be transferred from the steamer to the shore. As the funeral barge sailed up the Peine a colossal statue of Josephine, which si had been erected on the shore, of- a 1 ...? oiu.rnnrllto flllil fHtini? Wei romp. A Grecian temple 100 feet high had c< been constructed on the wharf, under which the body was to lie in state until transferred to the funeral car. The funeral car was undoubtedly the c< most elaborate ever devised. The la church had been magnificently V( adorned for the solemn ceremony. The cotTin was borne into the church a on the shoulders of members of Na- tl poleon's Old Guard, preceded by the 2! Prince de Joinville. Louis Philippe stepped forward to receive the remains. "Sire," said the prince, "1 ?' present to you the body of the Km- hi peror Napoleon." "I receive it," said the king, "In the name of France." . Then taking from the hand of Marshal Soult the sword of Napoleon ,and ^ presenting it to Gen. Ilertrand. he t.\ said: "General, I charge you to place this glorious sword of the emperor upon his coffin." Beneath the lofty dome of the n< church the coffin of Napoleon was Cf placed, thus following the last wish of the emperor, expressed in these memorable words: "It is my wish 1" that my ashes repose on the banks of of the Seine, in the midst of the f., French people, whom I loved so well." 1 * ' tl Bible Texts Old and New.?I submit these Scripture texts for the day: Proverbs xiv. .14? Righteousness ex- m alteth a nation but vice degradvth a lil people. |j( Kviiiliis! vxiiL S?Thou siialt tiike no A Kift: for the gift hlindeth the wise, and 11 perverteth tin- words of the just. tli Deut. xiv. 20?Justice, justice shalt ni thou follow, that thou mayest live and possess the land. Deut. xxvii. 2ii?Cursed be he that taketh a bribe. st II '"hron. xix. G. 7?[Jehoshaphat] said to the judges, take heed what you do; for you judge not for man. but for f!od, who is with you in judgment. Where- V? fore b t the fear of God be upon you: er take heed and do it: for there is no Iniipiity with God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. Isaiah i. 23?Thy princes are com- jy panions of thieves: every one loveth gifts and runs after rewards. Isaiah v. 23?Woe unto them that 's justify the wicked for reward, and do- fo prive the righteous of justice. m Prov. xvii. 23?A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom | pocket | to t0 oervert the wavs of judgment. I" I Sam. viii. 3 Samuel's sons walked si< not in his ways, hut turned aside after Sf| luere, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. "The time is not far distant when pr any bribery In legislative halls will he absolutely unthinkable, and nobody will . be able to live under the suspicion of . it."?Gov. Hughes. 's. "OR REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. dcMahan Expects Ultimate Adoption of Plan. tfews and Courier. Columbia, May 19.?The Hon. John '. McMahan of this city, who was acIve in securing the passage of the law luring the last session of the general ssembly by which Columbia has seured the commission form of governnt, which requires registration of voers for the primaries, is one of those rho believes that registration of voers will be required by the Democratis party in South Carolina at a future onventlon although the resolutions iere lost last night that would have irought about stricter requirements or voting. Mr. McMahan fought for the resolulons before the committee, and for the oinority report on the floor of the conention last night. At the request of the News and Couier correspondent, Mr. McMahan preiarod the following on the subject oday for the News and Courier. "The Democratic party In South Carllna, with its election machinery, is he real governing oooy nr me ?iaie so ar as relates to the election of all the ffleers, from governor and United Itates senator to coroner and magisrate. If it permitted woman's suffrage, . e should have woman's suffrage reardless of the laws of the state. If he party rules abolished the distinclon of age, children might control in he selection of the officers of the tate, though at the general election nly males 21 years of age and over, ould participate in the ratification of he result of the primary election. In hort. the quality of the government f the state depends on the quallficalons for suffrage, not according to the tate constitution, but according to the onstitution and rules of the Democraic party. Limitations of Suffrage. "The doctrine of 'universal suffrage,' r of the 'right of every white man' to ote, has Its legitimate limitations in hie exclusion of convicted criminals, of Hots, and of non-residents or mere ranslents with no real interest In the , immunity, and no proper knowledge f conditions, needs, or the personalles of candidates. In this day of unl ersal education, almost as free as the ir we breathe, which removes the hard ite of unavoidable illiteracy, and in , lis era of complex civilization when ublic questions of vital moments are , o involved In their bearings and reitlons as to be unintelligible to the , lan who does not know something of rrent events, there is reason for the lew that a man who cannot read or ( ho has not other evidences of some itelligence should be excluded from , haring in the selection of officers and ie determination of public questions, here is certainly more reason for this , lan for the exclusion of women from , oting, or of young men in business >r themselves over 18 years of age and nder 21. In other words, if we will Id our minds of the assumption that (tings are right as we find them, and ' we will think of the matter logiealr, we perceive, as the constitutional , lw writers have always laid it down, , tat the right to vote is not one of the rimary rights of man, is not natural , r Inherent, but is a privilege confer?d and regulated by society (the oranic state,) in the interest of all the . ion, women and children, who constlite the social organism (in this case, ^ ie state of South Carolina.) . Rules In South Carolina. "The present rules of the Democratic ! arty of this state do not preclude ' ie convicted criminal from voting, or j ie Idiot. If the latter can be led to 1 ie polls by some loyal worker, or paid 1 eeler, and his name has been put on r ie club list, and he can drop the ballot | i the box while the oath Is being re- i ted to him, he can vote, according to j le requirements of the party. Some ( rnorant men, not merely illiterate, s ut grossly ignorant, possibly newcom- ' rs entirely uninformed as to men and leasures, vote with no more real 2 loice than the idiot?Just as somebod> 1 lis them to do, merely serving as the J led in m for dropping into the box the ( allot as handed to thein by a worker. < ' his name is on the club list five ! ays before the election (by whomever \ may be placed there) he can vote? > lough there Is the additional quaiiflca- 1 on prescribed (without any method rf ( rrlotlv enforcing it) that he must be , resident of the state for one year nd of the county for sixty days pre?ding the ensuing general election. Registration Would be Strict. "Registration, on the other hand, is >nducted under strict provisions of ,\v and Insures that the registered oter has personally appeared before board of three and been enrolled by lem as a voter, or elector, that Is, I years of age, a resident of the state vo years, of the county one year and r the polling precinct four months? is some intelligence as tested by the aard of three supervisors of regisation (either the ability to read or ie possession of $1500 worth of proper- | ', or the ability to give a sensible inrpretatlon of a section of the constiition read aloud to him.) and has r ?ver been convicted of any one of I >rtoin oniimpr.nti'il crimes. The regis- ] ation list stamls for ten years as a ^ jbllc record in the office of the clerk r ' court, and can be examined and the i icts on which it should be based test1. There is reasonable assurance ^ lerefore against the impositions which i e easily perpetrated in the case of the j* aking up of the club list. There is kely to be a better average of intelfence and character in the former list c lan in the latter. In tlie appeal to * tl ie ono electorate therefore there Is j uch less temptation to fallacious rea- I uiiitg, to demagoguery. to corrupt in- a lences, and the candidates who abhor _ ich methods and stand for the disin- f rested service of the people, the ele- c ation of mankind, are at less disad- J intage than where the other element j, iters into the electorate. h Only Intelligent Voters Wanted. f if :i 111:111 does not care for his snf- . age enough to take the trouble to gister, it is not probable that his vote * the expression of an intelligent anil j reeful conviction when ho is hunted f it and put in a carriage and hauled the polls and given a ballot ready j epared, the mere tool of a profes- g nnl "worker at the polls." of course, a me who register can bo thus con- J' oiled, but they are fewer in number, e oportlonately. s "The movement for the restriction of c e suffrage in the Democratic primary J1 therefore, in the interest of a liigli er tone in our politics, less self-seeking. chicanery, dishonesty, debauchery. "The only argument against it is the fact that some good men will be technically debarred from voting by reason of a recent removal. That objection does not apply to the proposition which was defeated last night, as It permitted one to vote at any precinct In the county in which he might Join a club, Just so he was registered in the nniintt? fhnnch In a rllfforAnt nrprlnrt. Of course, recent comers from another county would be debarred from voting, but surely they can wait one year before asking to take part in controlling the politics of the county into which they have moved. Moreover, In human affairs nothing is perfect, and we can only strive for the greatest good for the greatest number. "The country people in some Instances regard registration as a useless formality, because they know all the men In the community and have known them for years?they are fixed In their habitations, established as Institutions. But they should reflect that such personal acquaintance and full knowledge is Impossible, even to be approached in cities and even towns, and that they should submit to some Inconvenience for the safeguarding of the hallot where safeguards are needed. Moreover, they might well reflect that their control In this so-called agricultural state is passing, or will pass, unless the floating vote of the larger cities is prevented from becoming the determining factor in our state government." L. M. Green. FRANCE THE WORLD'S BANKER. Conditions Which Give Her an Annual Credit Balancekof $730,000,000. Thorr was a time when many persons believed that New York was destined soon to be the world's financial centre. This was during the boom period of 1900-1901. Foreign trade was largely In our favor. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, for favorable balance amounted to $664,000,000. But as we received very little cash In settlement thereof the claim was set up that we were lending the balance to foreign capitalists and bankers. The boast was made that the United States was changing from a debtor to a creditor nation. Alas for human hopes and dreams! Two weeks after the panic of May 9, It was discovered that American bankers were borrowing immense sums abroad. We have been borrowing other Immense sums since then. At the end of 1906, we owed $600,000,000 to Europe. All this time France was steadily forging ahead in the race for supremacy. It Is true that her general business prospects did not seem to be as good as ours, but nevertheless she seemed to have more money to show for what business she did. Whatever trouble she experienced was on account of lending too much money to other countries. These different conditions naturally suggest the question why it Is that a country like France, which produces practically no gold, has so much of it to lend, while the United States, which has produced such vast quantities of the metal, is thus forced to borrow it from outsiders in order to lvert serious financial disturbance. The orthodox answer to this question Is that the prosperity of France is mainly due to the thrift of her people, whose great aim in life is when they have four cents to save two. But this answer contains only a small part of the truth. The whole truth would show that in its dealings with the outside world France as a nation practises the same thrift that nas so prospered the individual Frenchman. Paris is the Mecca of foreigners. They come from all parts ot the world to enjoy life in the great metropolis, ind the yearly income from this source llone approximates 1600,000,000. Along with this item the earnings of French capitalists on their investments in the securities and properties of other countries amount to $250,000,000 a rear. On the other side of the account is in adverse balance of trade which in 1907 amounted to $120,000,000, Deduct this outgo from her income of $850,100,000 and It leaves France with $730, ;00,000 to the good. There is no otner country in the world that can make such a showing in its dealings with >ther countries; and here Is the wholJ secret of her wonderful prosperity. This is how she has become the world's banker. Instead of getting an income of $600,)00,000 from foreign tourists the United States pays out at least $150,)00,000 for the expenses of American tourists abroad. Again, instead of Irawing $250,000,000 yearly from foreign investments this country pays out 1300,000,000 to foreign investors in our securities and properties. A third factor Is the army of aliens who flock here horn all parts of the world to hoard jp money, which they take back to heir own countries; this drain costs js $300,000,000 more. Add $100,000,000 nore which wo pay for ocean freights n foreign vessels. Deduct our yearly ncome of $500,000,000 for favorable rade balances, and it leaves a yearly leficit of $350,000,000?Moody's Maga:ine. MARTYR TO LAW'S DELAY. Horse Trading Not to be Appealed to Magistrates. David Harum's horse that was waranted to stand without hitching never tecame the cause of a lawsuit. Men of fnnkee stock sedulously avoid calling n lawyers to straighten out horse leals. The fellow who gets out a sumnons is not a dead game sport. Beaten n a trade, the American hustler takes lis medicine, laughs at his own exiense, and prepares to get even in his inn way. He may be litigious enough n other fields, but public sentiment retrains him In this one. Horse trading s, like gambling, a matter not to be ippealed to the magistrates. It Is different when the persons conerned are adopted Americans from Sicily, Naples or Calabria. For exmple, in New Village, N. J., when hank Faretta sold a nag o Guiseppe 'asquarina and Alfredo Bevalaque, and question arose as to whether the aninal was up to guarantee, no Amerian tradition checked the disputants. Phey went to law. They employed ounsel. Before a justice of the peace he matter was argued pro and con or weeks. Meanwhile, the horse was n Pasquarina's stable, and Pasquarina lad been told by his lawyer not to feed he creature, for that would be acmowledging valid delivety, and would irejudice his case. At last tlie justice gave his decision, hiretta went to look for his property, tnd lo. there was a dead horse in the 'asquarina stable, calling aloud to the our winds of heaven for decent buril. Such burial was furnished by the ward of health. The Society for the 'revention of Cruelty to Animals is :etting busy. The horse was clearly martyr to law's delays. The moral of lis fate, however, deserves to be emulated. The American scheme is wis st. Never go to law over a norse ale. The stranger within our gates annot learn too soon the limitations of ur national hahit of legal quibbling nd judicial controversy.?Brooklyn :agle.