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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1901. TWICE A WE $1.50 A YE CHAPTER XL TIM BATrLS. I was awakened In the. morning by the shoving of Old Put's cold nose, which said as plain as speeoh, "Rise, my master, and prepare for the one my." Most of the other men were up, and the camp cooks had breakfast ready, bread, meat and coffee. I threw off my blanket and began to eat with the oth. erm. It was the misty region between night and day, but the scouts had come in, telling us that the British would soon be at hand, and by the time the breakfast had been dispatched the rim of the sun appeared in the east, and the day was coming. Then the general formed the line of battle, and each of uf took his appointed place. On the first rise of the slope stood the South Carolina and Georgia militia, the raw troops, in a line about a sixth of a mile long, undor the command of the iron nerved Pickens. They were ex. peoted to give way before the charge ol the enemy, but Pickens was ordered to hold them in line until they could do liver at least two volleys with the pre cision in firing which all these farmet boys possessed. Then they were to retire behind the veteran regulars, under How ard, who were on the second slope 150 yards in their rear. An equal distance behind the second rise sat we cava4ry men on our horses, commanded to pull on our reins and wait tho moment upon which the fate of the battle should tau. Thas stood our little army, awaiting the rush of the battle which, as I have said, was to be one of the most imApor tant and decisive of our war. I stroked Old Put's neck and bade him be.cool, but he was as calm as I and needed no such encouragement, The man on iny left, Dick Patterson, a Marylande', sud denly whispered: "Don't you hear that faint rumbling noise, Phil? That's the hoof beats of cavalry." "Silence there I" ealled the colonel. No one spoke again; but, bendinr my ear forward, I could hear the far drum of the horses' hoofs, and P knew thO the English army was coming. 01 Put raised his head and snuVred the air. A red gleam appeared upm, the horiea and broadened rapidly. A thrill and a deep murmur ran the lengthmd bradtb of our army. "Oh, if those militamne will only stand until the general bids themr se tire 1" groaned the coloneL. That he believed they would not I knew, since it is a hard thing for new men to stand the rush of a seasoned army superior i numbers and equip ment. The sun was just swinging clear of the earth and betokened a brilliant morning, yet it was cold with the raw dam p that often creeps into a South Carolina winter, and I for one wisl:ed that the men could see a little more of the day and loosen their musolee a.little better before they fought. The whole British army now appear ed in the plain, cavalry, infan$ry and fleldpieces in a great red square. I could plainly see the offieers giving their orders, apd I know that the attack wouIld come in a few minutes. "Eleven hundred of them and no raw troops, " said Colonel Washington. "We know that exactly from our scouts.. I think oir cavalr? will have something to do today. " One officer, in the gayest of uniforne,. I took to be the barbarian Tarleton, the British leader whom we hated most of all, for, with all his soldierly.qualities, he was a barbarian, as most. of him brother British officers themselves say. I wanted..to see the faces of those farmer boys down there on the slope. who wore to receive the first and fieroset rush of the enemy anid to check'it. I' knew. that many of them were white to the eyes, but their backs weret toward me, and I could not see. "They don't appear to move," whis pered Patterson. "Their line looks as firm as if it were made of iron. " "Laike untempered Iron, I guess," I replied--"break like glass at the first shot. " A bugle sounded in te .froat f the British liisa and its notes, ioud and mellow, came to us, but from our ranks rose only the' heavy breathing and the *huffRing of nAen and hoes, The trumpet eall was. followed by a cheer front. moye then a thousand throats, and then, the British rushed upon us. The b*ass fleidgIeces on theiV flanks opened with the thundter that be tokens the artillery, an4 ming%e4 with. thielr roar were the rattle of the msal aranu, .the throb of the drums and tid clamopous hoof beats of their numerous cavalry. fire, their red uniformaglowing through it like a bloody gleam, while the pol ished bayonets Bashed in front. "They are firing too soon and coming too fast," said Colonel Washington. "By God, look at those militiameni They are standing like the Massachu sette farmers at Bunker Hill I It was so. The raw line of plowboym never-wavered. It bent nowhere and was still as straight and strong as an iron bar. The plowboys knelt (')wn, and, an the British cheer rose and the Pod line flaming in front swept nearer, up went the long barreled border rifles. I fancied that I could hear Pickens' command to fire, but I did not, and then all the rifles along a line a sixth of a mile long were fired so close to gether that the discharge was like the explosion of the greatest cannon in all the %-(rld. The smoke rose in a thick blagk oloud, which a moment later floated a dozen feet above the earth and revealed the British squares, shattered and stopped, the ground In front of them red with the fallen, the officers shouting and re forming their line@, wbile our own plow lads, still as steady as the hills, were reloading their rides with owift and steady hands. We cavalrymen raised a great shoui of approval, which the regulars on the rise in front of us took up and repeated. A seoond volley ws all that we had sked fm the~ militiamen, and it ia sure now. Even as our cheer was echo ing it was delivered with all the cool ness and- deadly precision of the fist. Again the British line reeled and stop ped, but they were veterans, led by the fiery Tarleton, and they came on a thlird time, only to meet the third of thoe deadly volley,, which swept down thou front lines and blocked the-way witti their own dead and dying. "The battle is won already, " shouted Colonel Washington, "and it'. the farmer boys of South Carolina and Georgia who have won it 1" Never dlid veteran troops show more gallantry and tensolty than those same farmer boys on that day. Two volleyi were all that were asked of them, yei not merely once or twice, but many times, they poured in their deadly vol. leys at close range, again and agai hurling back the llritish veterans, wh< doubled them in number and were sup ported - by artillery and many cavalry, while we old soldiers in the two linei behind stood silent, not a gun or a sa. ber raised, and watched their valor. They retired at last, not broken, but in peufeot order and at the commnand ol Piokens, that we who stood behind their might have tho chance to do our part ol the dey's work. The smoke hung low in oloudsa and~ half hid either army, British and Amer lcan. A billiant sun above pierced through it in placet and gleamed or oluimps of meni, some fallen, some still dghting. Shrielks and groans strove foi a plae with the comes and shouts. Again rose the British cheer from the threats of all those who stood, for, tige militiamen retiring before them, they thought it was a battle won, and they charged with fresh -courage and vigor, pouring forward in a red ava. lanche. But the regulars, the'..steady old Oclatinentals, who now confronted them, received them with another vol ley, and more infantrymen toll down in the withe'red grass, more riderle3ss horsei galoeda4wa.. le fte iawWt ,get us, but wo cavalryien, who foried the third lino, were still silent an(I sat with tight reins, while directly in front of u rose a hugo bank of flaio and smoke in which friend and enemy struggled and fought. Even Old Put, with his iron nerves, fretted and pulled on tho reins. The long line of the British overlap. ped the Continentals, whom they out. numbered three to one, and the general, whose gigantic figuru I could sea through the hazo of smoke, ordered them to retreat lest they should be flanked. Again the British cheer boomed out when they saw the regulars giving ground, for now they wero sure that victory was theirs, though :-vo hardly won than they had thought. But the retreat of the regulars wts only a foint and to give time for the militiamen be hind thom to come again into action. General Morgan galloped toward us, waving his sword to Washington, and every one of us know that our moment had come. "Forward I" was the singlo command of our leader, and the reins and the sa bers swung freo as vo swopt in at semi circle around the line of our friendi and then at the enemy. At tho same moment the regulars, ceasing to yield, charged tho astonished foo and poured in a volley at close range, while the militiamen threw themselves in a solid masa upon the British flank. Wo of the cavalry were but 80 strong, / pt UP W wih50mromune vouter e hid9sune Mao4cal,btw W5 morse intevoBrites ale wren frcompat shoy of throntinoren aistrng themiamen, idthree risand flain sabers,allw wore on h sln u mren staight work mid hallo the wild dWn slathe shuinga the muitsh,aletry rango the 1fth mofe ntnen-am crkowmptle upa beor ws oing excppr befor, back fire Ou rifls gad of epie.d, anud thesar stee griting the bolnt, but athe melof lethere~ ad( tmoe fanid blood arose, hut the smnoko was still in any eyes, and I could only see enough to strike and keep on striking. We horsemen. 180 strong, were still a solid, compact body, a long gleamiing lino like a sword blado thrust though tih mar row of the enemy. We had cut our way directly to tho heart of tih lnglii army, and their lorolon iiuares were falling asmider its otr lino of steel lashed and toro. Telk, red armv reeled about over the slopes limk a man who has lost power over his limbs. I struck at a trooper on moy left, but he disap peared, and it a second trooper on my right raised his saber to cut moe down. I had no timo to 'vind otf the blow, and in Otno swift. instatt I xpected to tako imty phico with lthe fallen, but a long muscular brown ieck shot mut, Iwo rows of powerful white teeth itn-le id tho man's sword arm, and he scroained aloud inl pain .nl fright. "Do you surrend-e'lt!? I eried. "Yes, yes, for G,od' I akt , tako himl olff1" Ih shouted. "I ca.ihlt a nila, but not P. inuti antid a wild devil of a horso at the samie (iin-!" "Let him go," I said to Old Put. and, the horse unclasping his teeth, the man gave it) his sword. The smoke was lifting aid clearillg away somewhat, atid th") fire (;f thot rifles had declined ftromt a steady eacl Ie to jets and spurts. A dozen of the itiii tiamen bad tiized on of the brass fiel pieces of the British, and lIloward's Coti tinientalm already held tho other. Every whero cries of " I surrender, I surrender ' Quarter, quarter!" arose from tho Brit ish horso and foot, who were throwingi down their arts to receive from us that quarter which wo willingly gave, bit which the bloody Tarloton had so oft,en denied to our men. I could scarce believe what I siaw. The whole British army seented to bo killed, wounded or takeitn. The muskets and bayonets, the swords atnd pistols, rattled as they threw thei iipon tuo ground. Whole companiies surrendered bodily. An oflicer, his gay untiform splashed with mud and blood, dashed past m11e, lashing his liersO at every jump. It wa- Tarleton himself, and bc hind him caie Washington pursuing with all his vigor and lunging at the flecing English leader with a hayontet fastened at a rifle's end. lie ret urned after awhile without Ttirletonii, but there was blood on his bayonet. Tarleton, though wouided in the shoulder, escap ed through tho superior speed of his horso, to be taken with Cornwallis anld the others at Yorktown. The general raised his sword and cried to us to stop firing and striking, for the field was won and the battlo was over, and ho spoke truly. Far away showed the red backs of some of the English fleeing at the full speed of their horses, bat they 'wero only a few, and almost their entire army lay upon the field, dead and woutided, or stood there our prisoners. Tho defeat that so many of us feared had proved to be the most brilliant little victory in our his tory, a masterpiece of tactics and valor, the decisive beginning of tho great cam paign which won us back the southern colonies, one of the costliest of all her LRRLE BORERRI- ES T batls o ngan. hvoiol ouho it wsnw uta h itre,bt Enls n Aeia,tlli'oyu Allhooran gor t to alan pow boso ot aoin n eri h reeve hefrs hcko teBrts battsion anglsald.l a,ven1( ou thoso Allhonrcaed, gor te thro gthemn a)1wy boy ofothei lgt Throln kildaond edia~h ancd ttn just shockled te umbrtsof ou ioarmy,rk and so braely 12f ht mndeiatdsalam,ovno hs CTIAPTER XII. I returned toward the Broad river, where, untder the Ie of a little bill, ai tent had held six or sev'n afr'indly womten. Jul1 O ia 13(1 out, Jer face still pale, for she ha.d heahl all the crash WM. MKINLEY AGAIN SWORN IN, t'COND INA Um; HATION OV ft A N FnOM Oll A ll(il.t*.NLT IisENT. 114gptifihevvt atid ToLPeftil l)cDecratitni Or. mid ivontrep-A otiur oif 11mior lltit Itetl VonFM141t' l Arter Artintic Di)PgmtA- OraIy thn Niktitial FIHg W1at'4 Over th lA ii tor'le W ile I 1111, \\aslingtol, .ai-reb -1. W1i11am MeKiffloy i Socordl timeit, is p1rideilt of the4 'nlited Stitvs. I .Ias ush.It ered into that ofliev, todiy i n a eit ablazo with more aid finer deorn tionim than over havo graed tho holi day lovinig na1tionall cap)itul, whow. mtrots todiay rometiolo<l to the trend of inre marebing ooldier nd unilo' than over hav participated in a like function, and had ats witnesse to the ceremounim a vast, multitndo who cheered frequently whenever the prosidont or his vico preosidential col league was visiblo. Thore has boon better weather on inauguration dity, and thor hat befn much worte than that. which attended today's eermno nies. The (daIy in the early forenoon gave promise of bving a golden spring day, 1uch aH Prof. Nloore, the chief of tihe w'c,ither hir-eau, last n.ight confidently and with much om phisis predicted, but the weathr was in a capricious mood, and by noon i slow drizzlk, had bgun that lasted with somli1 ilitermimmosi, aind an occasional ively downpour in tho ifternoon. The worst of (ho weather unfortunately onme just i the prosi dont wais being indiiet.od ito offico on the east front of the cnapital, be foro 40,000 peoplo. But the air was milfl and planilt and the (lily ondIed with diy weather. arfield wa-; in augurniod in a storm; Harrison in a cold rain which deluged the city from lawn till dark, and Cloveland took the oath it his socond inmgiil bv fore 10,000 cheoring people ini a fierce galo with the snow beating down upon hisj bare hoad. Today'H downpour again brought forward the agitation of April '30 an the timo for future inaugurations. ON THE AVENUE. Off to the 8o1t h on the broad bosom of the Potonic six warshipm, one of them tho historic Iltirt ford, Admiral Farragut's flugthip at the battle of Mobile bay, rodo at anchor. From overy direction long winl.ing trniitH woro creeping into the il y to pour their human freight into the already seething buman caiulhii. In the maze of choked iitriets, ipread out1 belo0w, squares of moving gun barrels gleamed; banners, flatgs, a111( trans. parencies rose above compa)ict masflsi-s of men and gorgons hands, chocks of color, driftedi her and( there andi( overywhere, thte shtiftiang mul1 titnde 240 clnoly pack- d t hat i f;m1nndi seemed0( fairly a i ve. (On '.'nnvsyt h ia avecuie the crowdlHl Wgotl tip abd. dlown both sides, overflowed tihe ter raced stands atnd balcLnies, walledl ini the windows and fringed the roofs. IN HRR (IAYE.T ClAin. Wash in gtoin had decked lhnerslf ont as never before. Only ai comparatively insigntiflcant portion of the vast multitude saw anlything of the aclta inanguration ceremonies at the capito1. 'The great uu4iumbered thuoands were content'U t,o wait in tiholV(i avenn to 140( t hei I wo men on whom-n tbe menotal at teat ion of the world was fixed todal) and( the great prcsso which foilh>wed I hem. Theii brill iant an;d tinlpressve 2iceIon the sen-ate whein the v'ice paiditent elect waIs inIduct ed into oflice wats ro served for a few hundreds. Whaiji the distinguished iaudiee wits gath-. ering in the chambol)r of the senate the president, in a little sidle room, was signing the bills which Congress was sendIcing to him. The assemb)lge inl tile sonatoe felt anelectric thrill as the vice president elect was aninounced. The greatet curiosity eisted to see this uroan whoi has beelnso miuch ini the public eye (luring recent years, and instantly all eyes were turned toward him as wheat in a field in all blown one way in a gale. Hie halted a mom-ent, dro'w himsiielf nyJ. utilit be roomed a1 foot~ taller, anid miarchd dlown thi. ainla ereot and with the bearing of a ily bloody tword -"ai tho British arny no longer . :s." "6Aid the victm y p yoir.; Yesterday I thoughit. it inip . -' "Yourl coutiltnlnen 1111ko tho sallo mistake over aInId over again, but thy pay the price. " Wo walkeit toward the thid, and wo iet t;oino iniin bringiniig in a gray haired prisoner, a (;,11. fii-e I(mking officer. JuIia, crving. aw.ald i:i her joy, rai for ward aitid (.ibhracc<l him. Ito returned Ohw vInIlIra,e I:tid ag-ain with tho greatest tendt-rness. "Fatdher, " -:tiid lelia, "wo aro now prisollcrs t ogc1t1h.r. " I watelld ithelin fior a few likilliltes, anid then I at 1 f'r d ii said: "Gtw(l monn,Alaj(ir Htowaird. " lie t;ired at me il tlie Niv w of the EIglisnlMII who has bIeeI addressed by a tit ran.gr '1 (oi ni kinow y, sir, " Ito taid. "My ianloti is 1lilip Alareel, and I a m y o u r iu tu r1l soI i l ! ,w lie wvas n11w t')h te pIak. " It is true, I, " aid. "Ask your daugihter. " lie Ilbkod at hor. She smiled and re,biilentd. Old Put was standing by, an(I ho nod deILd his head in approval. Hto had liked hi fiIoII tle first. " Yotir daugliter it to ie ly wvifj, ' contitlnued. with elliplasiH, "ainld you are to livo With us alt hko us.' Tlieso wero resomidiing boasts for a yoiiig wldier to tiake, but they all caino true after Yorkitowin. Tilt CND. A l'opiular l'rtince. Princo ileiry of I'rus:-ia is in every way tle exact opposii i (t' his brothor tl kaiser. A liet, iiodest, iniassuming young inan, ho iiakes friends overy whero lie goes. 1io is idolized by his brotlier ofetictrs in io navy and by th ieii also, who (o not forget that on two occasiois ho dived fromi tho quar ter (eck t(j resieuo drowniing sailors. Iliq devotion to his inthier in 1889 was inost inajrkivd, and, in emnbracing and blessilg Iis sailor son on tho occasion of his iiarriage with Irono of Iesso, Frederick tho Noblo pressed into hid hand a slip of paper (for to could not speal) on wHl'ich was written, "You it least. hiavo :vr given Itl it ioient' sorrow and vill ctrtainly iialko as good and triuo a hiutsband as you have boon a loving soin. ''--London lobo. Judge-Pat, to savo the I suppose you will ahnuit that you vero drunk? Pat-Dhrunk, sor? Oi wor so sober, or, that mo naybors tort Oi wor dead nd wor 'bout to hould a wake over me, sor.-tI, to Dato. J.E T O= Tt.1 a Beara the Tho Kid You Have Always BoU&M Signature of CHICAPER r M i.tLAGIC HOOKS. Senboard Air Unc Riliken a Notoworthy Rthiductipun tf Pricem. The Seaboard Air Line being over alivo to tho pooplo's interosts as well as its own h1as, fY rtiv Feohruary 26, reduced its 1,000 mile tickot in Flor ida frotm $30 to $25; all one thousand mile tickets of thso Seabl1oardl Air Lino rilway issuoit are niow good over the entire system (with the excepltion of' the family mi lontgo Iicket s soldi in the State of Nor'th Carolina), wvhich trav erses Virgin ia, Nerthi Carolina, South Carolitna, Ge'orgin, Floridla and Ala baman, andix reaebesti t he c it als of al thei abiovt Statoi1)1. By iagt'romont, (onel thtouisainmile ttckets of Seaboard issno aret good in addit ion to its own lines over tihe Richmond, Frodericksbu rg and Poto matic railroad frotn Richmnond to Qnan Lico, and the P'emoiyl vJaia railroad front Quant icom to Washintgton, the Colnobia, Nt-wherry and( Liaurens railroad, anid thn Baltimore Steam Packet comopany's line from Norfolk to Baltimore. TPhe Seabotard Aitr Lino0 railway is the slhort line fraint Hoth Carolina to all poinits ntorthi, stifh anid wet and hits a service that is sec-(ondt to none ini tho Sonth, and( its t rains are run on quick andl( contvenrienit schedules. FoXir iniformnatio.n nrit Gp:o. McP1. IA'rnm:, T.' P. A., Colmaitbia, S. C. i. 1E. LA. Hibsca, Go0n. IPass. Agont, Portsmouth, Va. Tthin silgnatuire hit on every box of the gentuna Laxaive Brom10Quinine Tablet. tho remedy that eutresi a col In osse day CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hlave Always Bought Bors tho Never has anll itimignral parado in fri- tion Itnd with the4 goni l11 p ictu11 revstIlno I.l'eet thilt IWCOmlpiid tho grvat pagoant that. sorved its I 'resI - dilt MeKinley aitl( N, ice PriesidetI h' ORt ell'S'St tO Iho Wt hite HOUSO aft(-r thw)y had0 takln tho oaith of olli tIldtr thw Shlow of thocapitol. The' pojice 111*rr"geIromonts throughout ier* OXCOptionally ofTotivo. Th1 o I roOp were ablo to inuare in oxtond ld Itmrinaitionl. TIh Pitr witas iolo from the eapi I I 2 l 41'cl4ok, antd the last of tho rovi,v iing sl t ai t h t l W hiti I lou;n it littlo bwfort, 6 o'clock. Con tidoring 11t wIttier Conditlions, tho prtade in pill it of nuommbers closely approximated tho offlieial frecast. A VFINt' " l)1 'A Y. Iin point. oif bwimty t ho iiht ary dim. play probah!y itovor has 1)(11n ox eoodd in Washingt on. The rogular vontinget of (avalry, infantry and ar. tillery woro uniformed as though for tholmwst exiletingv offivil inspectionl. Hi 'h .1-un c-1:h1, h1% Said wvith vgnall t-m hi' w- of ilho nlaval contfinlgilnt. 1tt ltimrO11- Itl tho jackics wvr 4- .'vililly wvolf r(cl-iVed by tho crowds. Th yo,u nt Vfl en.hI ors of Wst, IP1oitnt auid Ailiapoli., inl tho Sovero siillp'wit.t f Hwir uniforms, quick, Minlppy aiction 11114 1utchlinlo-like 110 MiuriCy wvith whielh thoy porforrnwd "Iachll ('VolitiOln, wvon it body (uito aptirl, and di4lintteivo from till othwrs. Tho lnaval entdot's band crvated much10 A-o11n1n(l1t, 1H polrhaps f ho betst mus1iiCal Orgatlzatioll ill Ilto procelssion. PROM Tli CoLONY. One of io Niuniquo featiures of the uifilairy divphji.:, wai a u i tiion of Oie P1uorlo It':n regimeit recently organized in or isluand possession and recruited from among 1iho nativo polition. Their welcoim wis of thut warmvIA. Ihe civio division coisisted of clibis from all scctioliH of tdile coun iry, many of thmit-i unitpio i thoir tilu ifolm14 anl regIlI aii. Malty hafudsmilolly gowned" womMn, mloumt of Ot theilltolr! and 1prwprelitit tiv,s, ovvry minlor of it stprotto lit a11 ind th Itt i frt1 diplil.;at i, corps brdv I t? h.hinntm oil Ih ,vt1d At t he t i f1it. TIhloro the 1111uliteilO ti I he mi thIy l I lll . l a k.ho f Arngtont tcos jthie t P tmao' wth theirI(11 uph.s.i' dy had0t tt thet inf. augma bhon015 winh whe the rk ain thel bil all tp he burged vonnottt -n u o . 1 r G tl' ('Ii'r: rI n reanury inbn andR cion thrth Tiurt of, onrt the hite House.d ped ko neIonersn'o,f i enher hand at heinngra nal aitwh w land Lher ctd ped l Forhor uage i