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Ey DAK DS QUILLE. [Copyright, 1S03, by American Press Associa tion.] PROEMIAL. "Congratulate nie, old man, I am now a Mayflower of the Mayflowers!" cried my friend Sam Johnson. "A Mayflower?" queried L "Yes, a Mayflower. Not in person, of course, but by marriage. It shall now be my care to perpetuate on the soil of America the line of the noble honse of Johnson. At last I am 'in the swim.' and blue is the hue of my blood!" "What! Married! Have you deserted our noble band of bachelors:" "Yes, and am now of thc noble band of benedicts." "In what bright spot in the Golden State did you find your Mayflower blooming?" "Why, my dear fellow, I've not been in California at all. I've been east. Bless you, old man, since leaving the Comstock I've crossed the 'briny'-have been over to the land of our failiers." "You don't meau to say that you've brought a bride from over the sea, when we have in our own America the best and most blooming beauties the world can boast?" "No, no, my dear boy! No, my bride is not from over tho sea, but to win her cost me a trip to the land of my ances tors-to old England, where peacefully slumbering in rural churchyards lie whole acres of Johnsons." "Why, Sam, you don't mean to tell methat you've been over to England since I last saw you?" "Yes, old mau, that is just where I have been, and to a few other places be sides. Why, by Jove, a man may cir cumnavigate the globe, and when he re appears on the Comstock he is supposed to have merely been over the Sierras to California on a little ilyer !, I've knocked about pretty lively since I left Virginia City a year ago." "A year ago!" "Yes, a year ago. Yon have hardly missed me, but I really left here a year ago. When you think a fellow is over in California, it never counts with you in this town; it is the same as if he were here at home. In the time I've been away I might have put about four 'gir dles' round thc earth." The particular Sam Johnson who thus spoke was a youurr. man about 28 years of age, who had ior three or four years been engaged in running a big hoisting eugine at one of the leading sil ver mines in Virginia City. He also speculated a little in mining shares and otherwise enjoyed himself after the Comstock fashion. He was always a : happy-go-lucky young fellow and bought and sold mining stocks in such a seem-, ingly offhand, reckless way that his friends were wont to say that the god dess of fortune herself "took caro of all his speculations. Thc fact was, how ever, that every move Sam made in stocks was well considered. I was delighted to meet the jolly young fellow, and having met we at once pro ceeded to our old quiet retreat to con verse at ease and pass upon the merits of the newest brand of beer put forth as a candidate for public favor. "Yes," continued Sam, when we had anchored ourselves in our old time safe harbor, "yes, I've been down east, over to England, down south and all about." "I can understand your trip to the New England states and can guess that you went down into Georgia or South Carolina to look at mines, but I cannot imagine why you should have gone to England." "Ha, ha,-ha!" laughed Sam. "What is the joke about your trip to England? Perhaps .you made it merely in imagination?" "No, I actually went to England and accomplished my mission there, but probably no man ever before crossed the ocean on such an errand. Ha, ha! it was the funniest piece of business ever undertaken. But it was a success-a glorious success." "What you are saying is all Greek to me, Sam." "Of course, but you'll see the fun of the whole business when you've heard my ste.-y. Then if you don't say that .the affair is the most elaborate joke of the century I'll treat to thc beer every day xor the nest year. To begin willi, the whole and sole object of my mission to England was to steal and import an ancestor for ;he Johnson family." "To impon an ancestor?" "Yes. A great-great-grandfather, and I got him. He is now the pride of Pason agessit." "But ho is not alive?" '.'Alive! Pooh, no! Been dead ever since 1798." CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE OF TUE TOWN OF PASOXA GESSIT. Sam then proceeded to tell me his story as follows: You know that my Cather, James A. Johnson, left San Francisco about four years agopreity "well fixed," as the say ing is. With what ho made herc and down at the '"Bay," he had very nearly two millions in good, solid gold coin. Ho went back to New England to found a home in which to end his days. After spending months in looking about he at last fixed upon the village of Pasonages sit, near tho old whaling town of New Bedford, Mass. In Pasonagessit ho built a palatial mansion-the finest private residence in the village. His grounds were also the finest. As for carriages and horses, no man in the place could ever approach my father. He had also a line library and some fine and valuable paintings not paintings from over the sea, but the work of our own leading artists. Of all this I had heard through letters from my sisters before I went home. I expected to find my furner, mother and all the family perfectly happy. Judge of my surprise and sorrow when I ais covered that they were quite the con trary. I was not long in getting at the facts-at the real situation. In the village of Pasonagessit resided two "high privates," Captain Shrimp and Rev. Nantucket Sperm. All the rest of the inhabitants were Bradfords, whose progenitor came over in the May flower-so at least it seemed tome. My people wer? looked upon as upstarts-a family without a pedigree-and they were snubbed on all sides. Soon as I made this discovery, which I did in a way that came homo to the heart in my bosom, I took occasion to speak of it to my father. "Sam, my boy, you arc right," said he. "It is true. You see how it is here. These people have a sort of petty, nar row pride of ancestry that cansos them to act in a very clannish manner. All of their societies and social gatherings so smack of the'pilgrim fathers of tho colony of Plymouth'that all who can not claim descent from said fathers are barred. There is here a sort of aristoc racy of the descendants of the first squads of emigrants that landed oh thes* shores, and all others'are looked npon as nobodies. Your sisters are as well educated, as well mann< red and as good in every way as tho daughters of our neighbors, yet they are snubbed. We are an outcast family. All their social parties are parties of pedigree-'ances try' and the 'Mayflower pilgrims' al ways come up in ono way or another to nue r.3 cnn. Ali, tain, we re a set or so cia! lepers:*' "They must be a queer kind of Amer icanS," ventured L "They are just as I hare told you, and they aro growing worse every year. With their various kinds of pilgrim so cieties tliey are cultivating this sort of thing. As wo are socially ostracized hero among these descendants of the Mayflower pilgrims, I am seriously thinking of selling everything I possess in tho placo for whatever I can g*et and moving west or south. My father possessed a really beautiful place. Everything had been arranged to his mind, and he had hoped to com fortably and happily end his days in the beautiful little village. What he said worried me greatly. Besides this worriment on my father's account, I was chafing not a little in my own hr. rn ess. There was cause for this chafing, and a very bewitching little one it was, notwithstanding it owned to the name of Bradford. On my side it was a case of love at first sight. Ah, what a sweet little Mayflower it was! From the moment 1 first set eyes upon Pru dence Bradford I felt that I had "met my fate," as the saying is. Judge, then, of my disappointment when 1 learned from my sisters that Prudence Bradford was upon the very apex of tho pilgrim pyramid-was the Mayflower of the Mayflowers. They said that owing to the peculiar social conditions existing in the village it would be almost impossible for nie to obtain an introduction to the young lady or to in any way make her acquaintance. Besides, they had heard that Prudence was reserved for her cousin Standish, a Bradford of the bluest blood. My sis ters being ostracized in Pasonagessit so ciety, their brother could expect no kinder fate. But where there is a will there is a way. The houses of Rev. Nantucket Sperm and Captain Shrimp constituted neutral ground, as I soon discovered. Very soon after this discovery 1 managed to inake the acquaintance of Prudence Bradford. I found her as good natured and sweet as she looked. Xot a sign of the pride of pedigree did I find in Prudence. I will not say that on her sido it was also a case of love at first sight, but it was very like it. She now accuses me of having "hypnotised her." At all events, we progressed very rapidly, and soon there was a very good understanding be tween us. Soon 1 grew so bold that I ventured to stroll home with lier to the castle of the Bradford of all the Bradfords. There I met my Waterloo. Prudence was hus J fr? WI }?S / ventured to stroll home reith her. tied out of sight in an instant. The Bradford of all the Bradfords eyed me over. Then, beginning with "Youm man!" he laid down the law of the Brad ford dynasty. He erf?ve mo to under stand that Prudence was reserved for her blueblooded cousin, Standish Brad ford, and as good as told me that I was nobody and never again to darken his door. He was almost brutally plain in his talk. But "love laughs at locksmiths," and Captain Shrimp was my friend. He was only a shrimp in tho eyes of Pasonages sit-in the heart and soul he was a whale. Xow, urged by necessity, Pru dence and I came to a good, square under standing. She had a perfect horror of Standish Bradford, and come weal or woe I was to be the man. Yet she feared her father and all her family. They and all the town would bo arrayed on thc side of her cousin Standish. She begged me to keep our engagement secret until we could see our way to an open declara tion of our intentions, and if need be de fiance of Standish Bradford and all other Bradfords. I promised, at the same time telling her to be of good cheer, that 1 would set my wits to work for our mu tual benefit. Besides our occasional meet ing under the hospitable roof of Captain Shrimp we established an extra postof fice in the town, and this, after all, was our mainstay. Through it were dis cussed all our plans, she keeping me in formed in regard to every move of the" | Bradf ?reis. The position of our affairs set me seri ously io thinking. I did not wish old Amariah Bradf'-rd -the Bradford of all the Bradfords-to pronounce upon his daughters a Puritan curse, nor did I wish the remainder of the family and tribe to feel that Prudence had become an outcast-had as good as thrown her self away and disgraced the name of her ancestors. I must in some way brin<; all the triba to freely consent to the marriage. I must humor their pride of pedigree in some way. The result of this thinking took such shape that, meeting my father alone in the library one day, I surprised him by saying, "Father, I'm going to England next week." "To England, Sam!" cried the old gentleman, with widely expand ed eyes. "Why, what put that notion into your head, my boy?" "Our talk some time ago. I have thoroughly thought over the situation, and I've arrived at thc conclusion that we've got to import an ancestor." "Import uti ancestor!" "Yes, sir, an ancestor. There must be plenty of Johnsons, Jonsons and John stons buried over in England, and if 1 can find one of the right date and quali ty tho mere spelling of the mme is of little importance. I shall look for a Sir John, a Sir Ralph ora Sir Richard John son, and, when I find him, over here he comes to bo prominently and perma nently replanted in the Pasonagessit cemetery. When I lind a titled Johnson of the right degree of antiquity, I shall steal him, bones, tombstone and all, and wo will then transplant him in a style that will astound the Ta^onagessit de scendants of the pilgrim fathers." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed my father. "Ha, ha! Why, Sam, blast my buttons, it wouldn't be a bad notion," I then thoroughly unfolded my plans to the old gentleman, who laughed con sumedly. My father, you know, is a jol ly joker ns ever spun a yarn or set a trap to catch a limiter after marcs' nests and three tailed cats. He soon began to en ! r into the fun of the scheme and de clared :i::;t merely ar. a joke it would lie worth twice what tho exp?dition would cost. We were agreed that our enterprise must be kej r a "dead secret" from all in the village and all our own family in or der to make it succeed as a really gor geous and ever blooming joke. Even my mother and sisters must remain in the dark. In consequence of this nndorstaudiui:. 1 the next week set out for England. In a note to Prudence 1 told her I was go ing lo the land of our ancestors on a mission of great importance lo my fa ther, and one that would be quite as important to ourselves.. As it was uiy fathers business, I was not at libertj- to enter into particulars, but she would probably be able to get an inkling of it from Rev. Nantucket Sparm or Captain Shrimp, at who.se houses my father vis ited. My father gave out that I had gone to the mother country on business of his own. Ile wore a very solemn face when he said I was going on a "grave" mission. I was going, as he said, to perform a solemn duty which had too long been neglected, a duty which his forefathers had failed to perform owing to various hindrances, and one which he himself had too long deferred. Further than this he declined to explain, except that my mission involved a duty to one long since dead, a venerated ancestor. This of course soon found its way into the mouths of the village gossips, as was intended. My father being on rather in timate terms with the "neutrals," Cap tain Shrimp and Rev. Nautucket Sperm, he did net mind telling them thus much when they put forth some feelers in re gard to the occasion of my visit to Eng land. CHAPTER IL THE TOWS OF THETFORD AXD TOMES OF MY ANCESTORS. On my arrival in London I halted there two or three days to make inquir ies and get my wits into working order. I soon decided that I must g?t back among the old country towns and vil lages. There I would begiu a series of antiquarian researches. I woulu. be a young American specially interested in old churches and churchyards. Wishing to at once get into some old and thickly settled section of the coun try, I took the Great Eastern road and went up into Norfolk. Speaking of my antiquarian hobby and special fondness of old churches and churchyards to a fellow passenger, he mentioned the town of Thetford, on the Little Ouse, in Norfolk county (and part ly in SulFolk), as a place in which 1 might see some very old churches still standing and the ruins of others much old er. "There, on the Norfolk side of the Ouse," said my fellow passenger, "you will see St. Peter's, called the "black church" because built of flint. Also in Thetford, on the Suffolk side of the Ouse, you will find St. Mary's church, a large thatched structure, with a lofty square tower. And in Thetford you will see the remains of a Cluniac priory and oth er religious edifices." My fellow traveler appeared to be quite an antiquarian himself. He said Thetford was a very ancient town, even for England, and told me so much about the place that I decided lo make tla town my headquarters and from it for a time prosecute my archaeological re searches, though it is only about U? miles out from London. As there are in Norfolk county alone no fewer than TOO parishes, I had before me an excellent hunting ground. I very soon discovered that I had landed in what must have been the original rook ery or hatchery of the Johnsons in Eng land. The ground was full of the "cror pings" of Johnsons of both high and low degree; also there were "Johnstones." "Jousons," and even "Johnssons." I did not devote much time to the ex amination of the large cemeteries in Thetford, but at once set to work at "prospecting" the old dilapidated church yard of the neighboring parishes, many of them so overgrown with weeds and brambles as to be in what we would call a "shocking condition." However, the people explained that they were now al most disused and many of them wholly deserted on account of the shifting of the population, so many people leaving the farms and going into the large man ufacturing towns. As you can imagine, all this suited my purpose well. After "prospecting" about a week I found a Sir Archibald Johnson in an old parish churchyard, who had "de parted this life" in 1793. The tombstone was about G feet in height and of pro / found a Slr Archibald Johnson. portionate width. The inscription was in a good state of preservation, which I considered a fortxmate circumstance. The date was about what I required for a great-great-grandfather. By the side of the tomb of Sir Archi bald was that of his "beloved wife," Eleanor, who had closed her eyes upon things mundano two years earlier than her lord. I surveyed this new and Unexpected "find" with great satisfaction. Instant ly I decided to extend my original plan and take back with mo a great-great grandmothtr as well as a great-great graudfather. A sense of justice and the "eternal fitness of things" told me that to carry away Sir Archibald and leavo Lady Eleanor behind would be simply outrageous. As they had not been separatod in life, they should not bo in death. I knew my father well enough to feel sure that he would bo de lighted with Lady Eleanor; that ho would receive her with tho greatest en' thusiasm. The next day, while wandering aim lessly in another old churchyard, I chanced upon an earl, one Reginald Johnstone. Ho was hidden away in a thicket of briars. "Why not go in for an earl while I am about it?" I asked myself. This earl for a moment sorely tempted me, but it soon occurred to me that ho was rather too ancient for my use, the date on his tombstone being 1 G:JO. Af tor due reflection I arrived at the conclusion thal a good, well matched pair, though of lower rank, would be preferable in (he game I was about to play to a lone earl. Besides all thu, there was a fitness of the names of the pair I had at first found that seemed almost providential. My fat'.?"r's name whengiven in full is James Archibald Johnson, and I have a sister Gleanor. Thoughts of these otiFlons co incidences made mc resolve to cling lo my first find, indeed I began to feel a 3or! of affection for the old couple. My sister would be in raptures when I took home to her thc remains of Lady Elea nor, her gjreat-greut-grundniother. CHAPTER III. I POSSESS MYSELF OF TUE ASHER OF MY ANCESTORS. Having decided upon tho "transfer ence" of Sir Archibald and Lady Elea nor, I mado careful measurements of their tombstones and had boxes made for their reception and transportation. inc only roui woric m connection with the business was the exhumation of the remains, and even this was no great task for a man from a mining region. ThlT churchyard being half a mile from any village, and the graves being hidden ina thicket of brambles and thorn bushes, one might have worked there a week without any ono appearing to ask ques tions. Had any questions been asked I was prepared with a plausible story which I had concocted. After mature deliberation and a care ful survey of the ground, I decided to do all the work of exhumation myself and in daylight, in order that I might be able to carefully inspect the contents of the coffins. As the coffins themselves would be too much decayed for removal, I pur chased two neat and strong trunks of small size in which to place whatever I might find in the way of remains. This done I had only to find means of conveying tho tombstones to the depot. I must secure a trusty drayman. Dis guising myself as a workingman -I -one morning sauntered down to the iron bridge which 6pans the Ouse, uniting the Norfolk and Suffolk sides of the town of Thetford. The town-we would call it a city-is situated at the influx of the little river Thet, and the Ouse, thus strengthened, is navigable as far up as the point where it is spanned by the bridge. Some small vessels were discharging cargo at the wharf, and drays were haul ing, the goods up into the town. I pres ently went down upon the wharf and studied the faces of the draymen. Among them was a young fellow about my own age, whose looks and manner I liked. I soon engaged him in conversa tion, and pretending to be interested in something he told me appointed a meet ing with him for that evening at a tav ern he named. I found Tom Bell, my drayman, await ing me at the tavern. After a long talk about the Thetford business outlook, in the course of which Tom complained bitterly of hard times, I suddenly ex claimed: "By Jove, Mr. Bell, I can do something for you! I can put a small job in your way in a day or two. It ia not much-maybe ??3 in it." Of course Tom Bell was all attention when lie heard me mention ?3 as a sum he might easily earn. I then told him I was an undertaker's man sent down from London to remove a couple of bodies, and that I had all in readiness except thc mere taking up of the remains. "I'd like tho five pun," said Tom, "but I don't much fancy handlin of dead bodies.'1 I laughed and said: "Why. my friend, these have bs* a in tho ground a hundred years. There will be nothing left but a few bones, and those you'll not even see, for I'll have them in two small boxes, all ready for you. The only work about the job is the removal of the tombstones. You see the family care as much about tho tombstones as about the bodies, as the remains to be removed aro those of a baron and his lady. It is an altair of family pride. The relativos, at least one wealthy family among them, want the remains and che two tombstones to give a sort of tone, d'ye see, to their family burial plot up where they now live, near London." "Oh, I was afeerd they was fresh uns like-that is, not so old but they'd be bad uns to handle," said Tom Bell. "You'll have the handling of nothing but tho tombstones," said I. "I'll take care of the small boxes." Tom was satisfied and declared him self ready to take tho job. "Are there any Johnsons in this town?" I asked. "Lots and lots ou 'em," said Tom. I then told Tom that it appeared from what iny master had told me that there was some disagreement between two branches of the Johnson family as To which had the best right to tho remains of the ancient and titled Johnsons. Therefore it would bo best for ns to say nothing of what we were about. "Some of the Johnsons here in Thet ford may be of thc same family," said I, "and may put in a protest against the removal of the bones of their ancestors, therefore let us earn our money and say nothing. We'll leave the Johnsons to fight the matter out in the law courts if they like. Heretofore the graves seem to have been sadly neglected. Now, if these Johnsons up Lun'un way want to take proper care of the bones of their an cestors, why let 'em have 'em is what 1 say, particularly as they've got the mon ey and are willing to pay well for all trouble." "I don't want to git into no law courts," said Tom. "Pooh!" cried I. "Mighty little you and I would have to do with it. It's a matter between my master and the John tn thc grave of Slr Archibald I found a very vxll j>rcscrvvd skeleton. sons. If my master sends me down here to do a job o' work, I'm going to do it according toordcrs. If there's any lawing or sich fussing, that's his louk out." Tom said ho might as well have the job as another and would keep mum about the business-I had but to say when I was ready. This matter arranged, I went to the churchyard tho next day in my working dress and disinterred the remains. In the grave of Sir Archibald I found a very well preserved skeleton. It showed him to have been a tall and powerful mau, au ancestor to bo proud of. Thc collin was much destroyed and crumbled al most at a touch. On it I found a silver plate containing the name and coat of arms of the deceased, and in it among some dust and scraps of cloth a number of large silver gilt buttons bearing the family crest. These were prizes to be treasured. In the grave of Lady Eleanor I found nothing except a few bones and a plain gold ring-doubtless her wed ding ring. On her coffin was a plate similar to that found in the other grave. After the remains had been carefully packed in their respective trunks, and f.lio graves rilled, leveled and strewn with dry leaves and other rubbish, 1 went to the wharf and informed Tom that all was in readiness. After ho had deliv ered tho load he had on his dray, we went out lo the churchyard and loaded on the boxes. The only work about the job waa tho carrying out of tho boxes con taining thc tombstones, and we soon had them on tho dray. Indeed before sun set we had all atibo station ready for shipment to London the next morning. Wo did all tho work in the broad light of day, and not a question was asked us by any one of tho several persons we cu countered at tho churchyard and else where. At parting with Tom Bell he said he "had~i.ever before so easily earned "five ponn." I told him that people always expected to pay big prices for such work, as at best it was not very pleasant busi ness. He said, "If the maister should send ye daoun Tef'ord way for 'nuther load o'the dead uns. just'ee call on Tom Bell, will 'ee?" I promised Tom he should have all my jobs in that line and left him a very happy man. The next evening I had Sir Archibald and Lady Eleanor comfortably housed In London. I have given you all the particulars in regard to the finding and "transferring" of my ancestors in order to show you how easy of accomplish ment I found an enterprise which at first mention one would think very dif ficult. Why, I would be willing to con tract to deliver in good order in any part of the United Stat??s the bones, tombs, ashes and all the belongings of any num ber of lang syne departed Browns, Smiths, Clarks, Robinsons, Richardsons and no on. In England the old parish churchyards are full of them. [TO BE CONTINUED.J Temperature and Steel. An official statement of tests made at the Massachusetts arsenal to ascertain tho effect of temperature on thc strength of iron has appeared. The specimens were heated by rows of bunsen burners, which were arranged in a muffle, and the temperatures of the test specimens were judged by their observed expan sions. Each piece was heated to the temperature of the test before being strained and its expansion determined by a micrometer, and the coefficient of expansion of each grade of metal having been determined before the tests began the temperature could be inferred with considerable precision. An abstract of five of these tests-the temperatures being all on the Fahrenheit scale-is in evidence that the strength of steel is greater at above 500 degrees than it is at 70. These five series of tests were made with five different qualities of steel, containing, respectively, .09, .20, .81, .37 and .51 per cent of carbon, and the percentage of strength was obtained by dividing the tensile strength of a sample of steel at the given temperature by the strength of the same quality of steel at 70 degrees. The result presents the iutercsting fact that the specimens in question wero all stronger in the neighborhood of zero than they were at ordinary temperatures, all of them, in fact, showing a minimum of strength at 210 degrees or thereabouts and a maxi mum of strength at about 550.-New York Sun. Tho "Witched Tree" of Calcutta. The awful Indian bugaboo, the "witched tree" of Calcutta, stands near thc residence of C. C. Dillon, an English lawyer, o:i the Stanley road, a few miles out from Gdcutta. It is not a botanical freak of thc "cannibal" or "bloodsuck ing" variety, neither is it a tree which exhales poisanoas vapora or other deadly elemeiito-it is sim ply a species of churail which tbe natives and not a few of the English residents beiieve to be bewitched. Away back in the sixteenth century Sercga Dowlah and 2~ or his men camped under it about 2 o'clock cue morning, and at daylight all but two were dead. One of the survivors remained a chat tering idiot all the rest of the days of his life, and the other died a horrible death within the month of a terrible eruption that swelled his body out of all propor tions. In the seventeenth century the tree claimed a score or more of victims. What they died of no one knew. My record does not mention the casu alties of the eighteenth century, but during thc present century they have bceu quite numerous. The last victim was a servant of a Mr. Kemp of the British department. He took refuge un der the cursed tree to escape a storm. A sowar, or mounted policeman, tried to rescue the servant, but the two men and horse were found dead next day. Since 1SG0 five persons have been struck by lightning within 100 feet of the "witched tree."-St. Louis Republic. Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc. The liquor, morphine, and chloral habits absolutely cured under guaran tee. Particulars given by .'etter or in person at my office, which is open all hours of thc day. There is no use to go away from home and spend hundreds of dollars for treatment, when you can be cured at home for a much smaller amount. J. GLOVER TOMPKINS, H. D. Edgefield, C. H., S. C. Richmond & Barnie Rairoa? Co. -1 [SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION. Condensed Schedule, in effect January 17, 1S92. Trains run hy 7th Meridian Time. SOUTHBOUND. Ves.Lim No. 27. Daily No. 9. Daily. No. li. Daily. 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