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! THE NATIONAL BAf^? OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNK, Pre*'*. FM. FORD. Cashier. Capital, ?350,000. I Surplus mid Undivided Trolits Il Facilities of our magnificent Kew V.-xnJt containing 410 ^*iety.lbck Boxes. Dlflor ent Sizes are offered o our patrons and the public at $3.00 to $? .00 por annum. \m 25,000 VOL. LXVIII THE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA, Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, L. C. Hoyne, President. Chas, C. Hon ard, Cashier. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8. 1903. NO 15 t AN ?NCOMTIOrl t A STORY OF Ti "May I come ia, Major?" "Who is it? What-you Curtis? Come right in, my boy. You're just in time for my taps pipe." \ Burke sank into thc wicker chair the Major pushed toward him, a\d slowly filled his pipe from the profAj fered jar. "Major Wright," said he, at last, T want to leave the pest." The oki gentleman looked up quick ly. "Leave the nost, man? Why. what for?" The young o acer arose and stood in front of- thc commandant. "You've been more than ~a friend and kind ?omma?dcr to me, sir, and I come tq/you to ask* this favor." "You cjJiti right io come to me. What's t/hc troulile. my boy?" Yeasm ago, when he was a young L.'ster, *je had |ove? ^e boy's mother, ^j^*-d **hen her son had come from the ?jt" he had tried to bc more than fad commander and a friend to It was with thc solicitude of Father for his son that bc asked: ""^Curtis, my dear 'joy, what is thc patter? I thought you were content here, and you've made an ' man feel like living; but now tei. e, what's on your mind?" and he rctcd his hand on Burke's shoulder. The lieutenant walked up and down the ' room twice before he began. "Margaret-" "I 'hought so." broke in the Major; "I t. night it was th? little flirt." "H , no. sir; not that, lt isn't her fault ' and Burke sank into his seat agai^and hid his face in his hands. ?'It'sa^obinson." Thi other man recalled an episode in bi^; own youth as he gazed at the boy^c loved. "I^jor, listen; I'll tell you all. You're the best friend I have on earth, and you will understand. Yo know Margaret and I were - tffr good nearly li y ea r. Weil, when Robinson became sick at Fort Leavenworth and was exchanged to this post, you know how glad I was;' for Ed was my chum and classmate, you know. Well, he hadn't, been here long when I saw how it was. Ho was trying to win Margaret." "Not he, your best friend?" "Friend! A true friend doesn't steal away thc girl you love. I saw this a month ago, and didn't say a word to Margaret or to him. Finally. Peggy"-he half smiled-"I mean Mar garet, began to like him; so I went to her. Major, and rel her from every obligation she toward mc." The old man nodded musingly "And ?he told me she didn't lo ""y, jatTiri?! Tuish?^did love_Ed inson," Burke went on; "but - - flatly denied that he had ever told her his feelings, cr tried to prejudice her against mc iu the least. She wanted to defend him, you know. So. Major. I've thought ?L all over, and I've come to you to ask if I can't leave thc post. I can't stay hore and see her-" His voice half broke as he hid his ff.ee in his hands. "Not tonight, my boy. Stay-" "No sir," insisted tho yorngcr man. "You'd better take mar. with you." "No, sir, I want to be alone. And now, good-by, dear sir. You've al ways been so good! You sjem like a father. You know minc died when I was so young I never knew how it felt to have one." A half hour later a horseman left the post by the west stockade gat?. He rode at a walk with his chin on his breast, and seemed oblivious to every thing. The cool mountain breeze sang softly to the tall grass as each blade bent its head to hear the music. The blue hemisphere above glistened with' a thousand eyes, which with their merry twinkle tried to mcke the man forget his sorrow, but on he rode. Burke's was not the only note of dis cord; for if he had noticed the north west sky, he would have s:en the re flection of many fires, and had he lis tened attentively he would have lie ard tho weird notes of an Indian song and the beat of mauy dancing fcot But -cn 'he rode, and as the'morning sun faint ly tinted the mist high up cm the moun tains, he entered the foot hills and was lost to view. That morning, as the major 're turned from guard mount, a girlish voice called to him from thc balcony of the post surgeon's house: "Major, I want to see you. Come over, do." The commandant bit his lip as he turned and saw Margaret. "Come, that's a dear. I want to ask you something;" and as th? major went up the stoop: "Where's Curtis?" "You ought to know. Margaret." "I? I haven't the least idea." an swered the girl, witii eyes wide open. "You don't know what you've done, little girl. You've sent the best man in the world away from you." "Curtis gone!" "He left last night. You know. Margaret, how close Curtis and I are to each other, and he told nie all." "But, major, what-" "I don't come as an envoy from iiim, my dear. All I have to say to you is that Curtis is thc best boy that ever breathed, and that you've lost him. Good by, little' girl. I once heard of a case similar to this, and1 but never mind, you've done your best, no doubt." After the major left her, Margaret sat for a long tine simply repeating to herself. "Curtr, gone! gone!" And then she set to thinking over their friendship; how much he had really been to her, and now good, and brave, and kind. She had really loved him once, she thought to herself; and she knew in her heart of hearts that he loved her, and loved h';r yet-and now lie was gone, and what had he left? The door of thc officers' moss ?openc.!, and a man came out ^on the piazza and waved a tennis racquet, She did not see him-, nor did she no tice him at all until he spoke her name next h^r. Thin she rose sud "The same, Miss'Margaret. Why, I must have frightened you, you said .You!' in such" a tragic way. Just the Camille we saw. at Tabor's like ?AL^ SURRENDER. IE FRONTIER. *? %%>%'%'%'%<% 5t^*? last month in Denver. But woL't you come and play tennis?" "Mr. Robinson, Curtis Burke has left the post." "Curtis gone!" That was just what she had said to herself a hundred times during the iast minute. ^NYes," she answered. "\W?" "I shmt him away." "iVinlrgaret, did you send him away on? my account?" And he looked ?Straight into her eyes. He thought she was his, for her eyes reflected his glance for a moment; then she shrank back. "I did not send I.ini ?way, Mr. Rob inson. You drove bim away." "I?" "You did, and I hate you for it." "And you love him?" he asked, breathlessly. "I do, Mr. Robinson, and wo aro your enemies after this;" and s?;c swept into the house. Robinson hardly realized that he had left her veranda as he walked across the parade ground and sank into, a chair in his own quarters. That afternoon, as the major passed the surgeon"s house, he saw .Margaret on the stoop again. "What are you doing. Margaret?" "Why. major?" she asked, sadly. "If you don't stop, every officer in the regiment, will bo leaving the post." "Mr. Robinson-" . ; "Left about ten minutes ago by the west gate." * * * ? * ?, ? * A great rapping came at the ma jor's door, and a harried cad: "Ma jor! Major Wright, quick, let mc In!" Thc major had been sle.ping sound ly, but awoke suddenly and hurried to^m^du^jr^^W^ "It's mc-Mad aughlin." "What's the mat ter, sergeant?" "Major, Black Snake and Iiis band arc oft thc reservation." "What?" "Sure, they've been dancing for the last two days, and this afternoon the Snake and about-fifty bad reds toidi to the trail They looted the agency and half kiilrd Scott." The sergeant gasped out each word, bc was so winded a: excited. "Which way did they go?" asked the major. He had gone back into his room and was hurriedly dressing. their quarters. I and thc call was taken up Uj I trumpeter of each troop. In shadowy { squadrons they formed in on the par ( adc ground, and in a moment they were gone through the west, gate, with t he Major at their head, pounding out into the darkness. ******** For a day Curtis Burke had been in the mountains, alone with his memory and his ri fie. The keen joys of a good killing made him fe:l the more like facing the world again, and lhere was something of lightness in his heart as he descended the trail through the Stage Coach Tass and came into thc foothills. He had ridden hard for the last hour. A spring attracted Iiis notice to the right, so he said, ualf to himself and half to thc pony, "Let's take a drink." He swung off, and to gether man and beast drank from the same pool. He rose and stretched. "Well, Roxy, do you want to rest? Shall I cinch off?" As he spoke, a rifle cracked near him. .He turned quickly as a bullet sang over his hat. Beyond his pony's back he saw a haze of smoke rising, and through it a figure crouching. Ilia . revol ver **wos out at once, and a yell followed his shot. "Indians, Ly Jove!" lie was on Roxy's back in a moment, as the echo of' his would-be-assassin's yell echoed .down the gulch. Up tho trail ho sped. "There's only one place for us, Roxy, and that's thc Caldron The reds must have jumped thc reservation. I'll "have to hide you, pet, in thc bushes; then, if cartridges hold out, we can keep them off a while. Curse them, they're coming! Yell, you devils! Split your throats' There, Roxy, you stay there and don't make a nols?, or you'll be wearing another brand at rounding up time, Good-by. old girl," and he crawled in to a natural hollow on the top of thc hill. Below him he could see the In dians breaking cover. They had left the trail and their ponies, and har] formed in a half-circle and were crawl ing up. The Caldron was without covet within a radius of two hundred yards not even a boulder. Burke unstrapped his belt and loaded the magazine of hi.1 Winchester. He then took his Coi from the holster and laid it beside tin belt. "That'll be of use when we ge thick," he murmured, and ho poppet over the rim of the hollow and re ceived a salute of yells and whizzinf balls. "You're wild, friends. I am afrah you're loaded with Scott's worst tan glefoot, instead of your rifles with hi best powder." Every period of thes sentences was punctuated by a pull 01 the trigger of his gun am! a snap of th' lever. "I cnn hold out for some time, am then when we dose in-there, Snake that's for you-you're a mean one you are. and I am glad-I knocked.yoi down last month! You gj to the rea and nurse that arm, young man. am londshrdl ushrdl ushrd] nshrdlushrdl don't."-bang!- "lead"--bang!-"a n ; more war parties"-bang! A sudden redoubling vt che yellini far to his left caused Burke to tur: suddenly. The sound of a falling roe sv.-erved him around with the ejaculn tion, "Surrounded, by God!" He glauc Sd*through the sights on tho burrel an started at what he-brought into range a gun barrel, and behind that an ey< I and that eye ulonging to his woret I enemy, Robinson. His heart seemed to beat a hundred times before he dropped the stock of his gun. "Get in here. Ed. for Heaven's sake, and thank God you're here! I don't mean that I want you to be killed, but two Winchesters arc better than one, even if-look out, man, down! They're getting thc range. Lay there till you get your wind." . "How in thc "world!" "Shut up; don't talk. You'll have to take.my place in a little while!" Ho peened over the edge and fired three times. Robinson wan beside him now. and alternately they singled out their man and iel drive. Between thc shots they talked. "How did you get hero, Curtis?" "Been after goats." "You left suddenly." "Yep; but what the dickens are you doing here?" "Shooting Indians;" and Robinson smiled through the grime on his face. "I left, Ed, because Margaret had "I know; that's why I'm here. Curt." "Did you leave because you thought Pcggy'd sent me away." "Yep." "I lit out for your sake, Ed;" and on tho edge of that little hollow on the hilltop thc two men shook hands. Below, the reds had ceased firing for the moment, and all was still as death. "Whatever happens, Curt, we're herc t'o stay together-" "Till death," answered Curtis. A report rang out near them, and Rollinson fell backward. "I'm hit. Curt." he said, quickly. "Oh. Lord!-where?" A red spot on lu's shoulder showed thc place. Burke peeped over the rim. Five In dians had tried a Hank move, and his ready i-illc- just stopped them. "I'm donn for, old chap." Robinson j crawled back and lay down on his face. 'v . , "Nonsense!' said Burke. "You're (".7rfr**fisivbad; I tell you what. Put mc on' tlierT!n^l^^ro as j long as I can, and you get oA*^*' ramose." ""V "And leave you herc? Not much." "But I'll die, anyhow. It doesn't matter how." Curtis i urned suddenly. "I have it. .My pony is right down here. I'll carry you down to her, and you get on and under cover of my fire ride!" "And leave you here? Not much." Robinson repeated Burke's refusal. "Come on, I'll carry you. Ed." "It can't l;e done. Curt!" "I nok-they're coming! Get up " - - "?? was ililli . .. "Now is our time, Ed!'' exclaimed Burke. "I'll carry you!" Robinson, reached out his hand and grasped Burke's Colt". He placed it to his own head. A sorrel'tpot showed itself in the sight, of Burke's rifle, and a wild neigh answered his shot. He kicked fhe re volver from Robinson's hand with. "You fool, I've killed ilic pony and we're both herc for good!" ******** Colors had just been sounded, and the fiag came lazily down to the boom of the Major's favorite ten-pounder. Over in the shade of the wind break a hammock was stretched. A thin man lay in it, and beside him sat three persons. Thc girl who was fanning him half crooned a bit of a cradle song as she swayed the hammock. A young of ficer with hit- arm in a sling was play ing ch"ss with an elderly gentleman with a major's leaf on his collar. Thc (.?anio suddenly ended and the Major sat. back. "Peggy, when arc you going to nerve yourr.-clf up to a proposal?" Thc Kiri fanned the thin man in the hammock violently.. "I don't know," shc's&id blushing. "Why. 1 brought him back to you, and you ought to claim him. Hadn't, she. Robinson?" "She had. indeed, Major. Margaret, go on. We'll coach you. I know just what to say. I've done it before; but I hope you'll bave better luck than I." Under his breath the Major repeated the hope, but he said aloud: "Peggy, go on." Tlie girl hesitated a moment. "Curtis," rho commenced. Thc thin man sat up in tho hammock. ' Margaret, will you take what's left cf me?" "Yes, Curtis." "And I'll be chief mourner," said Robinson. "And as commandant of one of tho divisions engaged," said the Major, "I order an unconditional surrender." New York* News.' Diamonds and Rubies Float. "We lloait diamonds and rubies now to prove their genuineness," said the jeweler. "Float diamonds and rubies! What aro you saying? Gems won't float," expostulated thc patron. "Oh. but they will in some media." the jeweler insisted. "A chemist," he weat on "has composed and bottled and put on the market certain harmless acids that will test gems accurately. Look here." He poured from a vial into a bowl a colorless fluid. Then ne unwrapped;a black velvet 'cloth, and a handful of beautiful, unmounted diamonds wore displayed. One'Of these he dropped inte the bowl, ami it floated like a piece ol cork. '.. "Seo that?" bc said. "That is a posi tive proof that this diamond is genu ine. H re, now," and hr? took out ol his pockel another brilliant-"here is a French paste stone. Watch ii sink.' He dropped the antificla] diamond in to the bowl, and it plumped down tc the bottom like a lump of lead. "1 have." concluded the jew 1er, "il half-doxen of these vials, each a test for its own particular stone. That blu< vial tests the ruby; the. purple om beside it tests the sapphira; the yellow one tlie pearl, and an-! so(on down tin line."-Philadelphia Record. . . .. Honorable Joseph Hedges Choate, Arr OHO of ..he famous hoys of Salem,J jollied the har in Massachusetts in I83o was one of lim committee ot seventy th and ho lalor served .his adopter! Staten Volition cf 1S1I4. Ile is one of thc '.'oren high muong our celebrated public speak tradition of the post li" now occupies.-> j FANTASTIC jj i FOOTGEAR. I J Worn by the Sultan, Dattos f J end OU13.-5 of the Moro r 3 Ts..{ Y ?' TT 1IE Moro .Sultan, datto, rajah and slave may lie devoid of ingenuity, care, shanie, gon g tleninnly liistincts,thrift, sense lO^honor and thc like, writes a i'liilip pIueTprre-spondcnt of the Shoe Trade Journal,l'ul "*? ifi certainly well np In what he otTht t" pul ?"< his foot He may noe care^M11*" !l!,,,?,t his shoul ders ;is these ofte,.?" bare. His head is often exposed aii(l'?i7Jeg,sTreoiieiit Iy free from llicilinbrniicos. Jflt'U^i. feet are quite offen as well protected ' 011 the bottoms ns the feet of thc Amer ican. I saw a number of Instances In which the Moro protected the soles of his feet -.??ii M shingle-like piece of wood fixed and thus sustain the piece at thc bot I 'toni of the foot securely. .There is a ! like piece, wider, over the lower-part j of ,the foot. With this affair lixcd'to 1 the sole of the fool the native is able 1 to go almost anywhere without damag , lng flip Joel very, tillich. Another type of shoe is shown in Fig ure 2, consisting ot a solid piece of ?wood cut down to right proportions and gradually liol lowed out by a pro cess of gouging with inferior-tools. ? The Moro devotes considerable taste to the making of protecting devices for j the shins. lhere are always some of the.trilies at war willi one another, and the warriors of the different tribes wear armors of leather, caribou horn. . brass and other mehi I; helmet* for tho I head of wood and metal, and. in muli ; tion, metal and wood protect ?OM Tor the i ankhs such as shown in Figures ?J and 4. The first is a wood interior made , up with .1 shell trimming. The shells ' are sometimes cemented on, and sonie ( times riveted With lillie metal pins. In Figure -I the contrivance is more i like a legging than anything1 else. Ir , is made of several sorts?f native mate rial. The best kinds are those made i from skins. The lacing is some of the < gut properly dried and twisted so as to make very tough and lasting lacing. In Figure.;' is a sketch of one of the Moro shoemciis knives used In various 1 lines of shoe and leather .operations. I It is a very stout-hladetl affair, ofteii j with the butt of the blade .quito stocky and strong. The edge of the blade is kept sharp and clear, and the point in proper order for quick service. These knives arc considered.relics'By visitors to the island, and loar?ais' purchase them and send them homo. In Figure tl ls *nr d-ci.wjng of one of the foot rigs, of 'si 'Sultan. .There fs *n sole piece, consisting of if-pieco of close grained rcdw.I. This is worked by hand tools ujnil il is given the proper form to make "a c?m^nrluide adjust ment to tho foot. Then an artistic style of ribbon or strap with buckle is passed up and over as shown. Some times this strap over the foot contains irrtlsHc/designs. Qfteh the pa Herns are worked out willi little pi?ces of cob tired glass or bits of metal. The feat ure, however, is fhe brilliancy of thc gem used in the ring placed over ont of tho protruding toes. Thc Morn artists have already taken American-made shoos in hand, ur?} they lune endeavored In Morofz? their by applying the necessary coating ol colors. .- r Figure 7 is a sketch of one of thc icricnn Ambassador to Great Britain, lass., and a graduate nf Harvard. Ile and sei fled in New York in 185(5. Ho at drove-Tw-o.cd out of office into jail, s President of tho Constitutional Cou r.ost lawyers, pf his time, and ranks .'i's. Ho has ably upheld the great rational .Magazine. Shoes thus painted by 1 ho hands ol' tho Moro shoe artist.' It will gi-v.e one an idea..oX^tJio direction In which tho av erage Moro niliid runs .when it comes to patterns for -the surfaces of foot wear, a . Every dat to owns slave's. In fact, every one seemed to me to belong to some dat to. Thc chief authority the datto seemed to nie to possess over his tribe of men, women, boys and girls was that of kicking them gently ns oc casion arose. Any transgression of tho datto house rule meant a kick. Thus some of the dattos and their assistants have horns fixed to the too tops, as in Figure 8. Sra Anemona Whipped n Crab. The sea anemone is the last animal on sea or land that one would pick as a lighter; but a certain blue crab in tho New York Aquarium knows that he ls. A La t^ejJbe tween tl;.- liu'!i!::ig ancmoi.o '?T?'il atliie^fi^:ab was described by L. P.. Spencer, wnfehns charge of tho Aquarium laboratory. "I was feeding the anemo?h,a.fair sized brown specimen," said Mr. Spencer, "with bits of chopped" clam from a long stick. The crab, not con OF THE MUK?S. choice morsel from it* mouth. "Then a funny thing happonoil. Ful ly .thirty small threadlike cods shot out from near tho anemone's mouth, star iking thc crab on all sides. These threads an- said to have stinging pow ers equal to a nettle. "Instantly the crab doubled up in ap-1 parent pain and started round- that i glass tank like all possessed. After j numerous tunis hu approached again, I a'ncl this time thu anemone stung him hard, for after a turn or two he turned over on * his back and wagged his ll il fliers feebly. "lt was some lime before ho recov ered. I tell you that crab has not been' within hailing distance ol' the brown anomono since."-New York Mull and Expr .'SS. Sioux Medicine. Those who go to thu Museum of tin University of Pennsylvania will nov" lind on exhibition a single hoop, four sticks and :> b: ?"- of tobacco. These simple objects meaning little to tts, ye/ SIOUX COSTUnTNO STICKS AND Hoop. mean a great deal tn the Sioux Indian Tliej* are ihe conjurer's houp, and i' Will be observed lll.'lt Kl ell ipili rief ii painted a different color and so is cact stick. When a Sioux falls sick thc eon jurer is sent for, thc hoops and siidi are so arranged ll lion thu leper i!uot as to orientate willi thc points of tlx compass. A simple song, "he and c. he-e; she and ce." are repealed ovel and over again, filially Hu; hoop ?UK slicks are removed and taken to sunn [far-off lonely eminence. Thc furthei and lonelier thu greater thu ellicicncy Few hills in thc Sioux country nit without remains of thc conjurer's hoop RETRIBUTION. Poor old horse ! Ile hns to do lust, what wo humnna tull him to ! fruo sympathy his voes provoke; H hon llrst ho starts In Ufo, ho's broko. [fu plods ru bbl, this way and that; [Io's foi cod to wear a funny lint. (To has no chanco to choosu his sup. Ho 1ms ty sleep whllo standing up. Ami when wo bi} ods souk Ibo track Alni bot; and 'reft of coln go back, Unmoved, tho f-tccd beholds our plight Aud says, in horso-tulk, "fiOrvoa you right." -Washington Star. HUMOROUS. "She has* buried three husbands.' "Yes; I heard her say that she had a lot in thc coniotory." . La Mott-Is the young man who is going to play a finished musician? La Moyne-No; but he will bc if I can lind a brick handy. Sunday School Teacher-Now, cen liiy ono tell mc who made the Milky Wuj .' Tommy-It was thc cow that ju m lied over thc moon. Mr. brown-Yes, Slader ls passion ately fend of horses, but ho loves his ..vile, too. Mrs. Hrown-Ho loves ?mything he can drive. Wifig-The average Englishman is slow lo s jo a joke. Isn't he? Wagg fes; iio believes that he laughs best who laughs the next day. She-Why do you suppose they have all thc telephone wires so high in the air.' ile-Oh. that is so they can keep up the. conversai ion, I suppose. "Hello:" the first (loaf mute's lin ders signalled rapidly, "nid you get Lhut job aa office boy?" "No," replied thc other, "tho man sid bc didn't think I'd answer." Sharpe (describing amazons)-Ima gine a great army of women and their leader'calling: "Kail in!" Wheal ton H'm! If it was an array*ol women I guess they'd 'Tall out." S?llen.?-Prosperity has ruined rptite as many mon as adversity. Cyn Icus-Possibly; but most of us would prefer to take the former course if wo aro to bc ruined at all. Blobbs-Tho vermiform appendix seems to 'oe thc one thing in the world that Is absolutely useless. Slobbs Useless? Why it has kept lots of doc tors from starving to death. Nell-Mrs. Rittcnhousc Squccr says tier husband was a perfect nobody when she married him. Belle-And now? Nell-Oh, now he is Mrs. Rit icnhousc Squeor's husband. Baeklotz-Yon don't mean to say this is thc Prst you've heard of it? Subbubs-Yes. Bflbklotz-Why, Its ihe talk of tho neighborhood. Sub bfrsr-Ycs; my wife is away on a vis it. " '^V .*-*?- ?>inrn clllU in- - (in surprise) -You don't, mean to say you ride in a carriage? Dusty Dennis -No, mum;'a patrol wagon. Tvv%t-I should think you'd be afraid lo write in your novels of things you don't know thc first 'bins' about. JiUuC-My itefcs-l?oy, don't you know that thc people who read my books don't know oven as much as that? Lad..-Aren't you the poor man to whom I gave a piece of my cake tho other day? Tramp-No'm; dat wuz me twin brudder lilli. He croaked dc next day after eatin' dat cake-, an' I fought mebby you'd gimme a quarter to help ereckt a marble shaft to his mem'ty. Mother-Have you any waterproof boots for a boy? Salesman-We have waterproof boots, ma'am; but they are not for boys. Mother-Why don't you have some for boys? Salesman When somebody has invented a boot, that hus. no opening for tho foot to get into it, wc may hope for boy's wat erproof boots, not. before. Mutiny Veterans at Delhi. When all the others have iong been In their places, a small band of men, composed in about equal poroprtions of Europeans, Eurasians and natives, ! all well stricken In years and some i visibly bowed down under their weight, gray haired and white beard ed, march up the arena from the cere monial entrance. They would fain make such a show of military align ment and soldier-like precision of step as thc Infirmities of age allow, but in many eases the attempt is be yond their powers. Of thc Europeans, sonic are in plain mufti, some in uni forms long since discarded, an-: tarn ished and faded. in the con. e of years, while several aro wearing tho uniforms nf their civil and military employment. The natives clearly be long mainly to thc humbler elapses, for their long, flowing garments arc plain and unadorned. But, moro superbly than in shining raiment or in lustre of gold and 'silver, those men are clothed in tho glory of as splendid memories as the records of our Em pire can boast. They are Mutiny vet erans, about f?00 altogether; remnants of those slender isolated forces of stout-hearted Britons and loyal na tives who, -15 years ago, held India for the empire on the Ridge of Delhi, in thc residency at Lucknow, and on many another bloody Qeid.-London Times. A Dog's Long Jcurney. Th?? other day McClellan McCord, of Abeona, accompanied by his son. went to Lewiston by trai l to enjoy a rabbit hunt. With thom they took ! what they had been led rn believe was 'a fir.-:-el-;ss rabbit dog, bul as scon as tho eba in was removed from hrs neck he took to his he- is in thc direc tion of Altoona. Pat!' .;. and son fin ' Islied the day's hunt with normal sue ? cess, returning heme -'?t night with lit i Ile hopes of ever seeing thc dog again. ? Two dv.ys later ho walked in and took i hi? accustomed place beneath thc ! kitchen rtove. Thc di.-tance from j T.ewr '<." b> Altoona is 71 miles.-Ty rone Times. Electricity is the motive force em nloved on 1623 miles of rail in Italy Wagons. Buggies. Large Shipments of thc best makes of wagons and buggies just received. Our stuck of furniture, housefurnishings is com plete. Large stock : always on band. All calis for our Hearse promptly responded i to. All gui,ds sold un a small margin of profit. Call to see me, I will save you money. G. P. COBB, Johnston, S. C. The Artist's Favorite atchless Unsurpassed in touch, tune, wurkmauship and dura bility. Sold on Terms of Easy Payment. Factory and Warero oms, Cincinnati, Ohio. J. A. HOLLAND, Traveling Agent for South Carolina, /NI/NETLJ-SIX, s. e French ships are usually named after French provinces cr towns, vic tories, ideas or sentiments, but no French names, excepting those of great men in their history, are made use ot. j*l??Nya^^AT*s^ear, the names of Ger.: ice. The professional nurse is sup posed to know better, and so it ie the woman not accustomed to nursing who is advised to live on a wholesome diet. The Sick Man of Europe has been in so distressful a plight financially and in other ways for a long series of years that the expectation of his speedy collapse has heeu general. Neverthe less, in mysterij paying his^ ingaj ?urnis army, and that he may proceed about it. Thc amount cf money that can pass through the hands of a young woman has prefequently paralyzed a young husbauA'.-Htfvo vhtrygYA. he waa something of a spendthrift himself, re flects the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There is a break in the radium mark et. Radium, it may be raid, is a eoai bination of metals, pulverized, milich gives off a light almost as strong as that of the sun. by means of which ! government .v?U3 wc mw .i_ dor Captain Brownson, which the Brazilians.Vo time during the'Mel i?T revolution. Recently she bas been the cause of another little incident between that republic and ours. She entered the harbor of the Port of Paro recently and saluted the Fortress De Barra. The salute was not returned until five hours later. The incident has been sat isfactorily explained by the Brazilian It seems that the corn iron three feet thick caa be penetrated, j Radium is now $900.000 a pound i marked down from $1,000,000 the j other day. mamier of the fort was away when the Detroit entered and his subordi nates did not know enough to return the American salute. As soon as he returned to the fort the customary number of guns was fired. An American wowan in London | writes: "I have said that I am at a loss to know whether the lack of heat in English homes and business build ings ls caused by hardiness or sting-1?^J^!.?l5fL^!^^!0^ The fighting around Santiago In 1S?I8 has resulted in the adition to thc iness. ? used to think it tho latter, till I found numerous delightful En glish friends objected to my own heat ed home. Actually some of them 'cut' me every winter, so far as calling on me is concerned, because they say my rooms are too stuffy and hot. In Germany, electricity, anion other curious results, has rehabilitated . implements which proved to be very ! useful in that battle. These are the machete and the wire-cutting pliers. The machete is not only a valuable weapon of offense at close quarter, but is useful in cutting through thick j brush and jungle growth. The useful ness of the pliers is obvious since j barbed wire has come to be such an important factor in the defense of for other curious results, has rehabilitated . t,fled positions without them it is the discarded windmill. At Nereshelm ,ikely that many n)0ro men wou,d a windmill supplies power for thirty six incandescent lamps that light a large paint factory. Another in Schleswig-Holstein keeps up a steady cuiront of thirty volts. At Dusseldorf a windmill winds up a heavy weight, of which the descent works a power ful dynamo. have fallen in the assault on the San Juan blockhouse. Professor Dewey of the f?oston In stituto of Technology, in speaking be- j tims fore the convention of educators and business mci. at Ann Arbor, Mich., de Insurance Agents' Methods. Every once in a while the news papers print stories about the devices adopted by lifo insurance men. book canvassers and others engaged in sim ilar occupations to gain and hold audience with their prospective vic A favorite fctory tells of tho life insurance agent who, when on tho point of being ejected on the ground plorcd the lack ol' fitness shown by j (,.at his v{ctim's tin,c was toc valuable college graduates for the hard realities j to wast0 in iist?ning to insuranco of life. Professor Ripley of Harvard University urged the enforcement of business methods of exacting attention to study all through a university stu dent's course. A movement has bern started in he halt' of such non-commissioned officers and men in the Army who had a Civil War record to have extended to them the same privileges as is given to com missioned officers-that is, of retiring with the next higher rank than they possess at the time of their retirement. Thus non-commissioned officers of thc highest rank would retire with the grade of second lieutenant. Privates would retire with a grade of corporal. Among the many hobbies of Senator George F. Hoar arc his fondness for trolley trips and dime novels. The Senator's favorite time for reading hair-raising publications is while trav eling, and he declares he gets keen en joyment out of the plots and impos sible characters. The Senator is ..s well a student of history. At his home in Worcester he lives on tho atmos phere of history. One of his chief means of recreation in Washington is a long troley trip. An English physician warns all at tendants upon the sick against the amateurishness of "toast and tea/' which is a diet not especially conduc ive to cheerfulness and patience .in any person who undertaken this seiv schemes, bought five minutes of the hmo at $1 a minute, the price being sot by the owner, of course. At tho end of five minutes the insurance man had the victim's signature to a $10,000 policy. But for simplicity this docs not com pare with the plan pursued with great success by an insuranco man new In town. Adniissio.. to tho victim being gained, the conversation runs some thing like this: Insurance Man-Give me a dollar and I'll tell you something of great interest to you. Victim (cautiously)-Not so fast; why should I*give you a dollar in ad? vance? Tell me your scheme first (or words to that effect). With an invitation such as that it is plain sailing. This possesses the advantage over the first scheme that in case of failure, even if the agent is not a dollar in, he is, at least, not $5 out.-New York Sun. When people with small means are thrown in the way of'wealthier ac quaintances, always let it be with frankness. Putting oh a4r is detrimen tal to self-respect. A good deal of misery comes to people who are not able to make both ends jneet. The ef fort to keep up appearances which are beyond one's income is a constant nervous strain, with which no sensible person should willingly burden him self. Much better say at ope?, "I can not afford it."-American Queen.