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t. m. GRIST & SONS, Publishers, j a 4amitg Jltrcsgaper: 4or the promotion of the golifirat, Social, agricultural, and Commeijrial Interests of the ?outh._ _ {teem|^c^ecopt,?tec^ot^11''8, ESTABLISHED 1855. YOBKYILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1898. USTO. 92. ' ? ' i " 1 ? J I soon ?i oor? 41 j LOS? Ill By ANNA KATI Copyright, 1897, by Anna K. Rob It's. Synopsis of Previous Installments. In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginniug, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Amelia Butterworth, who has done clever detective work, is called upon by Mr. Gryce, a professional detective, to take up an interesting case. He tells her that in a certain village several persons have suddenly disappeared. In this place lives a family of the name of Knollys, the children of a former friend of Miss Butterworth. Mr. Gryce desires Miss Butterworth to enter this family for detective work. Miss Butterworth goes to visit the Knollys' home, finding there Misses Lucetta and Loreen Knollys and their brother William. She dines with the family and is taken to her room. She remains awake during the night, and, hearing strange noises, goes into the hall and calls Lucetta, who gives unsatisfactory reasons for the disturbance. CHAPTER YIIL on the stair8. I did not wake up till morning. The room was so dark that I do not know as - - * J ?? L?u I should have waKeuea meu u xu^ uauits of exact punctuality bad not been aided by a gentle knock at my door. "Who's there?" 1 called, for I could not say "Come in" till I had moved my bed and made way for the door to open. "Hannah with warm water," said a voice, at which I made haste to rise. Hannah was the woman who had waited on us at dinner. The sight of her pleasant couutenanoe, which nevertheless looked a trifle haggard I thought, was a welcome relief after the sbmber features of the night. Addressing her with my usual brusqueness, but with quite my usual kindness, I asked how the young ladies were feeling this morning. Her answer made a great show of frankness. "Oh, they are much as usual," said she. "Miss Loreen is in the kitchen and Miss Lucetta will soon be here to inquire how you are. I hope you passed a good night yourself, ma'am." I had slept more than 1 ought to perhaps and made haste to reassure her as to my own condition. Then seeing that a little talk would not be unwelcome to this hearty woman, tired to death possibly with life in this dreary house, I made some excuse for keeping her a few minutes, saying as 1 did so: "What an immense dwelling this is for four persons to live in, or have you another inmate which I have not seen?" I thought her buxom color showed a momentary sign of failing, but it all came back with her answer, which was given in a round, hearty voice "Oh, I'm the only maid, madam. 1 cook aud sweep and alL i couldn't abide another near me Even Mr. Simsbury, who tends the cow and horse and who only comes in for his dinner, worrits me by spells. I like to have my own way in the kitchen, except when the young ladies choose to come in. Is there anything more you want, ma'am, and will you have tea or coffee for breakfast?" I told her that 1 always drank coffee in the morning and would have liked to have added another question or two. but she gave me no chance. As she went out I saw her glance at my candlestick. There was only a half burned end in it. She is calculating, too, how long I sat up, thought 1 Lucetta stood at the head of the stairs as I went down. "Will you excuse me for a few moments?" said she "1 am not quite ready to follow you', but will be soon. " "I will take a look at the grounds. I thought she hesitated for a moment; then her faco lighted up. "Be sure you don't encounter the dog," she cried and slipped hastily down a side hall I bad not noticed the night before. "Ah, a good way to keep me in," thought L " But I shall see the grounds yet if I have to poison that dog." Notwithstanding, I made no haste to leave the house. Some might think that Lucetta had got the better of me, but that is not a good reason for placing myself in uncalled for danger. I don't believe in tempting Providence, especially where a dog is concerned. Instead of that I stood still and looked up and down the halls, endeavoring * - - i - J to get some taea 01 tneir pian ana 01 the location of my own room in reference to the rest. I found that the main hall ran at right angles to the long corridor down which I had just come, and noting that the doors opening into it were of a size and finish vastly superior to those I had passed in the corridor just mentioned 1 judged that the best bedrooms all lay front and that I had been quartered at the end of what had once been considered as the servants' hall. At my right, as I looked down the stairs, ran a wall with a break beyond which was what looked like an opening into another corridor, and indeed I afterward learned that the long series of rooms of which mine was the last had its counterpart on the other side of this enormous dwelling, giving to the house the shape of a long, square U. I was looking in some wonderment at this opening and marveling over the extravagant hospitality of those days which necessitated such a number oi rooms in a private gentleman's home when I heard a door open beyond it and two voices speaking. One was rough and careless, unmistakably that of William Knollys. The other was slow and timid and was just as unmistakably that of the man who had driven me to this house the day beforo. They were talking of some elderly person and I had good sense enough not to allow my indignation to blind me to the fact that i'S LANE. IARINE GREEN. by that elderly person mey meant me. This is important, for their words were not without siguificanca "How shall we keep the old girl out of the house till it is all over?" was what I heard drop from William's surly lips. "Lucettahas a plan," was the hardly distinguishable answer "I am to take"? That was all 1 could hear; a closing door shnt off the rest, but that was enough. Something, then, was going on in this house of a dark if not mysterious character, and the attempts made by these two interesting and devoted girls to cover up this fact by explanations founded on their poverty had been but subterfuges after all. Grieved on their account, but inwardly grateful to the imprudence of this more than reckless brother for this not to be mistaken glimpse into the truth, I slowly descended the stairs in that state of complete self possession which is given by a secret knowledge of the intentions formed against us by those whose notions we have reason to suspect Henceforth 1 had but one duty?to penetrate the mystery of this household. Whether it was the one suspected by Mr. Gryce or another of a less evil and dangerous character hardly mattered in my eyes. While the blight of it rested upon this family eyes would be lowered and heads shaken at their name This, if I could help it, must no longer be. If guilt lay at the bottom of all this fear and subterfuge, theu this guilt must be known; if innocence? I thought of the brother's lowering brow and felt it incompatible with innocence, but remembering Mr. Gryce's remarks on this subject read an instant lecture to myself and, putting all conclusions aside, devoted the few minutes in which I found myself alone in the dining room to a careful preparation or my mina ior its duty, which was not likely to be of the simplest character if Lucetta's keen wits were to be pitted against mina CHAPTER IX. A VISITOR. When my mind is set free from doubt and fully settled upon any courseTram capable of much good nature and seeming simplicity. I was therefore able to maintain my own at the breakfast table with some success, so that the meal passed off without any of the disagreeable experiences of the night before. Perhaps the fact that Loreeu presided at the coffee urn instead of Lucetta had something to do with this. Her calm, even looks seemed to put some rostraint upon the boisterous outbursts to which William was only too liable, while her less excitable nature suffered less if by any chance he did break out and startle the decorous silence by one of his rude guffaws I am a slow eater, but I felt forced to hurry through that meal or be left eating alone at the end. This did not put me in the best of humor toward its close, for I hated to risk an indigestion just when my faculties needed to be unusually alert. I compromised by leaving the board hungry, but I did it with 6uch a smile that I do not think Miss Knollys ever knew that I had not risen from any table so ill satisfied in yeara "I will leave you to my brother for a foe? minntea " snid she. hastily trirminc from tho room. "I pray that you will not think of going to your room till wo have had an opportunity of arranging Vfc." 1 instantly made up my mind I would go there, and that, too, before the arranging process was over. But I must 6ee what I could make of William first. I thought that he was not a very promising subject as I turned back to him and followed his huge but ungainly figure toward the front of the housa "I thought you might like to see the grounds," he growled, evidently not enjoying the role assigned him "They are so attractive," ho sneered. "Children hereabout call them the jungle." "Who's to blame for that?" I asked, with only a partial humoring of his ill nature. "You have a sturdy pair of arms of your own, and a little trimming here and a little trimming there would have given quite a different appearance to this undergrowth. A gentleman usually takes pride in his place. " "Yes, when it's all hia This belongs to my sisters as much as tome. What's the use of my bothering myself about it?" Tho inan was so selfish he did not even seem to realize the extent of the exhibition he made of it. Indeed ho 6eemed to take pride in what he probably called his independence. I began to feel tho most intense aversion for him, and only with the greatest difficulty could prolong this conversation unmoved "1 should think," said I, "that it would be a pleasure for you to give that much assistance to your sisters. i xney uo not seem to do sparing iu wcu i attempts to please you. " Ho snapped his Supers, and I was i afraid a dog or two would come leaping i around tbe corner of tho house. But it was only his way of expressing disdain. ! "Oh, tho girls are well enough," he i grumbled, "but they will stick to the . place. Lucetta might have married a . half dozen times, and one time I thought she was going to, but sho turned straight around and sent him off, ' and that made me mad beyond everyi thing Why should she'hang herself on ) to mo like a bur when there are other I folks willing to take on tho burden?" It was the most palpablo display of ; egotism I had ever seen and one of the most revolting. I was so disgusted wth it that I spoke up without any too much caution. "Perhaps she thinks she can be useful to you," I said. "I have known sisters give up their own happiness on no better grounds." "Useful?" he sneered. "It's a usefulness a man like me can dispense with. Do you know what I would like?" We were standing in one of the tangled pathways with our faces turned toward the house. As he spoke he looked up and made a rude sort of gesture toward the blank expanse of empty and frequently curtainless windows. "I would like that great house all to myself. to make one, huge bachelor's hall of. I would like to feel that I could tramp from oue end of it to the other without awakening an echo I did not choose to hear there. I would not find it too big. I would not find it too lonesome. I and my dogs would know how to fill it, wouldn't we, Saracen? Oh, I forgot; Saracen is locked up." The way he mumbled the last sentence showed displeasure, but I gave little heed to that The gloating way in which he said he and his dogs would fill it had given me a sort of turn. I began to have something more than an aversion for the man. He inspired me with something like terror. "Your wishes," said I with as little expression as possible, "seem to leave your sisters entirely out of your calculations. How would your mother regard that if she could see you from the place where she is gone?" He turned upon me with a look of anger that made his features positively ugly "What do you mean by speaking of her to me Have 1 spoken of her to you? Is there any reason why you should lug ray mother into this conversation? If so, say so and be"? He did not swear at me; he did not dare to, but he came precious near to it and that wus enough to make me recoil." "She was my friend," said I. "I knew and loved her before you were born. That was why I spoke of her, and I think it very natural myself." He seemed to feel ashamed. He grumbled out some sort of apology aud looked about quite helplessly, possibly for the dog he manifestly was in the habit of having forever at bis heels. I took advantage of this look to smooth my own ruffled features. "She was a beautiful girl," I remarked on the principle that, the ice once broken, it is not best to hesitate about jumping in. " Was your father equally handsome for a man?" "My father?yes, let's talk of father. He was a judge of horses, he was. When he died, there were three mares in that stable not to be beat this side of Albany, but those devils of executors sold them, and I?well, you had a chance to test the speed of old Bess yesterday. You weren't afraid of being thrown out, I take it. Great Scott, to think of a man of my tastes owning no other horse than that!" "You have not answered my question," I suggested, turning him about and moving toward the gate. "Oh, about the way my father looked 1 What does that matter? He was handsome though. Folks say that I get whatever good looks I have from him. He was big?bigger than I am, and while he lived? What did you make a fellow talk for?" I don't know why I did, but I was certainly astonished at the result. This great, huge lump of selfish clay had actually shown feeling and was ashamed of it, like the lout he was. "Yesterday," said I, anxious to change the subject, "I had difficulty in getting in through that gate we are pointing for. Couldn't you lift it straight with just a little effort?" Ho paused, looked at me to see if 1 were in earnest, then took a dogged step toward the gate I was still indicating with my resolute right hand, but before ho could touch it he saw something on that deserted and ominous highway which made him start in sudden surprise. "Why, Trohm," he cried, "is that you? Well, it's an age since I have seen you turn that corner on a visit to us." "Some time, certainly," answered a hearty and pleasant voice, and before I could quite drop the look of mingled severity with which I was endeavoring to shame this young man into some decent show of interest in this place and assume the more becoming aspect of a lady caught unawares at an early morning hour plucking flowers from a stunted syringa a gentleman stepped into sight on the other side of the fence with a look and a bow so genial and dovoid of mystery that I experienced for the first time since entering the gloomy precincts of this town a complete sensation of pleasure. "Miss Butterworth, " explained Mr. Knollys with a somewhat forced gesture in my direction. "A guest of my sister's," he went on and looked as if he hoped I would retire, though he made no motion to welcome Mr. Trohm in, but rather leaned a little conspicuously on the gate as if anxious to show that he had no idea that the other's intention went any furthor than the passing of a few neighborly comments at the gate. I like to pleaso the young even whtn they are no more agreeable than this host of mine, and if the gentleman who had just shown himself had been equally immature I would certainly have left them to have their talk out undisturbed, but ho was not He was older; he wus even of sufficient years for the tlmrnnirhl v ma JUU^IIUJIil. vv/ WV/V.? ? ? 0 ^ tured and liia every faculty developed. I therefore could not see why my society would be considered an intrusion by him, so I waited and was the recipient of his next sentence. "I am happy," said he, "to have the pleasure of a personal introduction to Miss Butterworth. I did not expect it The surprise is all the more agreeable. I only anticipated being allowed to leave this package and letter with the maid. They are addressed to you, madam, and were left at my house by mistake. " I could not hide my astonishment "I livo in the next house below." said ha "Tho boy who brought thes from the postoffice?you see they ar registered mail matter, madam?was stupid lad, aud I could not induce hir to come any farther up the road. I hop you will excuse the present messenge and believe there has been no delay." I bowed with what must have seem ed an abstracted politeness. The lette was from New York, and, as I strongl; suspected, from Mr. Gryce. Somehow this fact created in me an unmistakabl embarrassment. I put both letter an package in my pocket and endeavofe to meet the gentleman's eye witn m; accustomed ease in the presence c strangers. But, strange to say, I had n sooner done so than I saw that he wa no more at his ease than myself. H smiled, glanced at William, made v offhand remark or so about the weath er, but he could not deceive eyes sharp ened by such experience as mine. Some thing disturbed him, something conneot ed with me. It made my cheek a littl hot to acknowledge this even to myself but it was so very evident in his whol look and. manner that 1 began to cas about for the means of ridding ourselve ot William when that blundering youtJ suddenly spoke: "I suppose he waa afraid to oome u; the lane Do you know, I think you'r brave to attempt it, Trohm. We haven' a very good name up here. " And wit! a sudden, perfectly unnatural burst h broke out into one of his huge guffaw that so shook the old gate on which h .vas leaning that 1 thought it wouli tumble down with him before our eyee I saw Mi*. Trohm start and cast a loo] in which I seemed, to see both surpris and horror before he turned to me am with an air of polite deprecation anx ionsly said: "I am afraid Miss Butterworth wU not understand your allusions, Mr Knollys. I hear this in her first visit li town." As his manner showed even man feeling than the occasion seemed to warrant I made haste to answer that ! was well acquainted with the traditioi of the lane; that its name alone show ed what had happened here. His bearing showed an instant relief "I am glad," 6aid he, "to find you s< well informed. I was afraid"?here hi cast another very strange glance at Wil liam?"that your young friends her might have shrunk, from some sense o delicacy, from telling you what migh frighten most guests from a lonely roa< like this. I compliment you upon theL though tfulness." William bowed as if the words of th< other contained no other sugggestioi than that which was openly apparent Was he so dull, or was he? I had no time to finish my conjectures even ii my own mind, for at this moment i quick cry rose behind us, and Lucetta' light figure appeared running towart us with every indication of excitement "Ah," murmured Mr. Trohm, wit! an appearance of great respect, "you: (sister. Mr Knollvs. I had better b< making on. Good morning, Miss Butter worth. I am sorry that oircnmstance seem to make it impossible for me t offer you those civilities which yoi might reasonably expect from so near i neighbor. Miss Lucetta and I are a swords' points over a matter upon whiol I still insist she is to blame. See hov shocked she is to see me even standinj at her gate." Shocked 1 1 should rather have sai< terrified. Nothing but fear?her ol< fear aggravated to a point that made al attempt at concealment impossiblecould account for her white, drawn fea tures and trembling form. She looke< as if her whole thought was, "Have come in time?" "What?what has procured us th honor of this visit?" she asked, movini .ip beside William as if she would adi her slight frame to his bulky one to kee] this intruder out "Nothing that need alarm you," sai< the other with a slight tone of intentio) in his kind and mellow voice. "I wa rather unexpectedly intrusted this morn ing with a letter for your agreeabl guest here, and I have merely come t deliver it." Her look of astonishment passing fror him to me, 1 thrust my hand into m; pocket and drew the letter out which had just received. " EV/im homo " ofiirl T xuitVinnt, nrrraei ly considering that this was in som measure an untruth. "Oh I" 6he murmured as if but hal convinced. "William could have gon for it," she added, still eying Mr. Trohr with a pitiful anxiety. "I was only too happy," said th other with a low and reassuring bow Then, as if he saw that her distres would only bo relieved by his depai ture, ho raised his hat and stepped bacl into the open highway. "I will not in trudo again, Miss Knollys," were hi parting worda "If you want anythin] of Obadiuh Trohm, you know where t find him. His doors will always b open to you." Lucetta, with a start, laid her ham on her brother's arm as if to restraii tho wo^ds she saw slowly laboring t< his lips, and leaning breathlessly for ward watched tho fine figure of this pei feet country gentleman till it had with drawn quite out of sight. Then she turn ed, and with a quick abandonment o - * ? ? ?-?ul ~ all sell control, cnea out witu a pnuu gesture toward her brother, "I though all was over: I feared ho meant to oom into the house, " and fell stark and seeiu ingly lifeless at our feet. TO BK CONTINUED. A Dt'Hperato Debtor. Many years ago a man carried to bank in the midlands that hud jus failed some bills which it had issue and demanded gold and silver for their The cashier replied that the bank di not pay gold and silver. "Give mo. then," said he, "notes c the Bunk of England." "We have none." "Then give me bills on any bank i England." "We have none of them." The man, growing desperate, ea claimed: "Pay me, then, in the boBt counterfei bills you havel"?Pearson's Weekly. e JUiscfUaucous Ratling. Q TALK WITH "RED" TOLBERT. e T Man Responsible For the Greenwood Troc ble Gives His Side. t- Greenville News, Friday. 1 R. R. Tolbert, formerly known a 7 "Red" Tolbert, the Republican nonii v uee for congress in the Third distric 8 of this state, brother of Thomas Jt ^ Tolbert, who was shot at Phcenis ^ Greenwood county, on Tuesday, pass Y ed through Greenville yesterday,seek ? ing safety. In an interview with 0 representative of the Greenville New a he told his side of the story of th 0 Greenwood riots and bloodshed. B Mr. Tolbert is the son of John I l* Tolbert, of Abbeville, who is the col h lector of the port at Charleston by a]. I" point ment of President McKiulej r The Tolberts have been the leadin ? Republicans in South Carolina eve * since the war and have been the mos ? formidable opponents the Democrat of this section have encountered ^ John R. Tolbert is a man of good edu cation and position. He is a gradual of the South Carolina college and wa ^ a gallant Confederate soldier. Hi ^ courage is beyond question and, lik other members of his family, he i Q prosperous, a large farmer and lan _ owner. Politically he has always bee 0 aggressive. In 1876, when so man ^ white Republicans "crossed Jordan L and identified themselves with tbei Ij ruce against Negro supremacy he wa 0 oue of the few who stuck to his partj j He was a candidate for superintended of education on the Republican ticke with Daniel H. Chamberlain an j fought to the last. He has continue the fight ever since, aud with his son ^ as they grew up, has constituted th only strong Republican force abov a Columbia for the last 20 years. } He has four sons?Thomas P., wh [ is about 40 years old, and who we j sbot at Phoenix ; R. R., or "Red," tb . nominee for congress; Thomas N who was postmaster at Abbeville, an who lives there, is popular among a 5 classes and parties, and Joe Elias Tol 9 bert is the brother of John R., am . has never been prominent, politicall 9 or otherwise. f "Red" Tolbert came here yesterda t on the Columbia and Greenville u i train, which he boarded at Donald'i r Abbeville county. Conductor Hughe* who was in charge of the train, know a Tolbert well and also knows the senti i meat along the line of the road. Ther . was a small gathering of white men a t Douald's when the train left and Cap i tain Hughes thinks there would hav a been trouble there in a few minute s more, although Mr. Tolbert said b 1 thought tfie men there had assemble . simply to see him and intended him n i harm. Captain Hughes, howevei r warned his passenger that notice tha 9 he was on the train would probably b - sent ahead of him. Mr. Tolbert tele s graphed Sheriff Gilreath here to mee 3 him at the train aud protect hira. l The sheriff met the train. Mr. To! a bert was among the last passengers t t leave the first class coach. He is i i tall, well built, ueatly dressed, intelli it ..nnt trinlrintr man with a dark ret r 61T..V ?- - I moustache and small beard and wor a black water proof coat. He carriet 1 a heavy overcoat over bis arm and i 1 large and a small valise, and oue o 1 two bundles. The small vulise, fron - its appearance, contained one or tw - revolvers and Tolbert seemed anxiou 1 to keep it close to his hand. He wa I in a condition of intense but suppress ed excitement. 0 The Greenville News had been noti 5 fied by wire from Donald's that To) * bert was ou the train aud a represen P talive of this newspaper met him With the sheriff and reporter the fugi 1 tive came from the West Greenvill a depot to the Mansion bouse. A dozei 8 times on the way Tolbert broke out * breathlessly "Good God Almighlly 0 And this is what they call white su 0 premacy I" Every time he began t talk he became almost hysterical ii a his excited declarations. He repeate 7 "I'm no coward. Every man in thi * town and all the soldiers here couldn' scare me." Sheriff Gilreath in a sooth '* ing voice, warned him to keep quie 0 and cool. At the Mansion house Mr. Tolber * registered and went to a room on th 6 third floor, the sheriff going with him a He had lunch in his room, remarking us he gulped a cup of coffee and nib 8 bled ut some fried oysters, that it wa ' his first meal siuce Tuesday. He wa s too excited to eat much, however, aui ~ spent most of his time in talking ^ ^ Tfc TT Lilt ..f ,U. A UL, treiierai rv. iv. nempuui, 01 me auuc ville Medium, who was in the citj 8 went to see him. Tolbert broke ou ' in a fierce denunciation of Hug Wilson, of the Abbeville Press an< Banner, who, he said, had printed a ^ editorial advising the people todestro all the Tolberts, root and branch j "Great God !" he said, "to think c that mau throwing a firebrand wher lire is running over a per-ary." When the lime came for the vest: ^ buled train for the north Mr. Tolbei f asked the sheriff's advice ahou ^ staying here or leaving. He was tol fc to follow his own judgment, and afte e brief consideration, he said he woul r go to Washington. He asked th sheriff to go with him to the depo1 and they left together in a hack. 0 the way Tolbert said he would nc feel safe until he was out of the Care a linas. Jfc In his room he gave his side of th Greenwood troubles thus: , I had arranged for a contest of Lat mer's seat from the Third distric My purpose was to show that the Ri ,f publicans had a majority of the qual e-J T K../I UCU VUlCl 3 Ul mc ui3u tub. x iiau jjj * pured three forms of affidavits, fc n those who could read and write, fc those who could read, but not writ and for those who paid taxes on $30 of property and had been refused rej, istration certificates. I wanted to gt it these affidavits in boxes which I ha prepared for the purpose. They wei Ot oauot oozes ana no oauois were taken iu them. God knows I did not Z mean any harm or want any trouble and I was not lookiug for any. Tom Tolbert, my brother, was at Phoenix i" because my first cousin, Henderson, who was to be there, could not go, his mother having died the night before. a I voted at Abbeville court house for i- my opponent, Asbury Latimer, and it and heard there from the telegraph \ operator that Tom had been shot at :f Phoenix. I started for his house to i- look after him. My father, John R. Tolbert, had a come up from Charleston to vote. Af* ter he voted at Verdery he heard Tom e was shot and drove out to his house, taking little Steve, son of his brother I. Elias, who had come with him to lake |. the horse back. So far from expecting >- any fight, my father thought when he r. drove up to Tom's house that the men g he saw there were Tom's friends. Steve r told him better for the boy saw a man it with a gun in the front door of the s house who he knew was not Tom's I. friend. This man bad gone to Tom's i- bed and drawu the guu down on him e as be lay on his back gasping for breath ,8 and had threateud to murder him then, s but my aunt, Mrs. Henderson, threw e herself on the bed and said she would s take the bullets too. Some man had d the manhood to stand up then and say n be would not see Tom murdered in y bed. I thank him for that. They began " to shoot at my father as soon as they ir saw him. They hurt him badly. The is artery in bis* left temple was cut by a j. small shot and his back is full of buck it shot from his neck to his waist. Steve, it the boy, is badly shot but no bones are d broken. Their lives were saved by the d horse turning at tne snots ana runuing is away. The buggy is shot all to pieces e and the horse is hurt, the boy fell out e of the buggy. My father overtook a 'nigger' who got in with him and drove o him towards Verdery. I met them a is mile outside of Verdery, on my way to e Tom. My father didn't know me at ., first. He was as bloody asa slaughterd ed hog. I took him to a friend's house II at Verdery and sent back for Steve. I- Next morning, Wednesday, I carried d my father to my house, y I sent Doctor Neuffer on to see about Tom and two other doctors looked after y my father. Those doctors are men. p Neuffer is a man right, j, (Here Tolbert wept freely, as he did >, afterward whenever he alluded to his s father, brother or family or those who i- befriended them.) e Doctor Neuffer told me Tom had one ,t chance in ten to live. I reckon he is >- dead by now. From my house I sent e a note to Sheriff Nance asking for is protection. He wrote me back a cool e -note that he could not come and could d send nobody. o I want to say that Tom expected no r, trouble at Phceuix. He did not have ,t a ballot box. He was out on a store e piazza taking affidavits and putting i- them in the box. He had permission t from the owner of the store to be there. Ethridge came over from Gage's, an! other voting place, and made the trou0 ble. He kicked Tom's table over and a struck him and another man hit Tom with a stick. My brother did not even 1 have a pocket knife. He picked up e bis box and fought with it. That was 1 all he had. Then the shooting began, a Tom was shot with buckshot and small r shot. They had Winchesters and pisa tols; but some green boys had them o who didn't know how to shoot. Some s of them killed Ethridge. The Negroes q hud nn nrm? and ran when the shoot i- ing began. Tom walked off when these boys bad shot out all their ami munition. A Negro picked him up I- on the road where he fell and carried i- him home. i. Joe Tolbert, my other brother, came i- to my house Wednesday through the e woods. I carried him and my father n to a little station ou the Seaboard Air ,, Line near my house Wednesday uight, ! Sagged the train aud put them aboard - for Chester. I told Joe to get father o to Charleston to the hospital if he a could. He had two shot guns and d would have defended father to the last, s I hear they have been arrested at Chest ter and don't expect to hear anything i- else but that they have been taken t back to Greenwood aud lynched. Tolbert seemed to be rather sorry t that Sheriff" Gilreath had no warrant e against him as he said he knew the i. sheriff" would not allow him to he lynched. I- 1 ? I s THE NEXT CENSUS. s i] Not Likely to Show Any Sensational Gains r. In Population. s- The twelfth annual census of the United States, says the Boston Trant script, will occur in 1900, and while, h no doubt, the statistics gathered will d show a contiuued healthy growth, it is n the opinion of experts that those who y look for sensations in the growth of i. states and cities in all quarters of the >f country (aud who have seldom been e disappointed siuce the census of 1830, when the settlement of the west was i- under full way) may find the growth iu t the 10 years ending 1900 not corameuit surate with that of former decades, d Iu the decade of the rebellion there r was the first and only decrease iu our d increases since the first census was e tnken. This was caused in part by t, the increased mortality because of the a war but was nrobablv more largely it due to a falling off in immigration. > It is expected that there will be another falling off in the amount of the ine crease in 1900, although the natural momentum of the couutry's growth i- mav give us au increase equal to that t, of 1890. ; In 1S80 the percentage of people i- living in Americuu cities of 8,000 pops' ulation and upward was 22.57 of the r whole; a little over one-fifth. The ir census of 1890 increased this perceute age of urban population to 29.20, near'0 ly one-third of the whole. More than ;- one-half the total increase in popula!t lion between 1880 aud 1890, viz., 12,d 466,467, was in the cities. This urban a increase was precisely 6,965,838. In loots bueru were ^ou eitica IU tuc uuiieu Slates containing 8,000 people and upward, and their aggregate population was 11,218,547. In 1890 the number of these cities had increased to 448, having an aggregate population of 18,284,385, out of a total of 62,622,250. The proportion of urban population to the whole in all the southern slates is very small compared to the north and west, being less than 13 per cent. The growth of southern cities during the last decade was substantial; but not so marked as in other sections. WHERE THE PROFIT IS. Here If a Farmer Who Knows How to Manage. The Yorkville correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier tells an interesting story of the successful manner in which Mr. Janies F. Carson, of York county, conducts his farming operation. It is stated that he reaped a net profit $22.32 cents per acre on 10 acres of his farm, and not one cent of the profit was made on cotton. The details of the story are that last fall be sold 10 acres in wheat. Last June he harvested 150 bushels, worth $150 or more, in the local market. After harvestiug the wheat be sowed the tract in peas, from which he cut a "magnificent crop of the choicest peavine aud grass hay." During the last week he sold the hay in Yorkville for $112.58. The wheat straw is worth $7 a too at the lowest estimate. The total value of the three crops, wheat, bay and straw, is $322.58. The cost af preparing the land, seed, harvesting and hauling the hay to Yorkville was n $69.38. The profit is $26.32 cents per acre, and the land is "more valuable than when the peas were sown," because of their fertilizing effects?estimated to be worth $6 per acre. This item of profit is not counted, but fairly offsets expenses not included in the estimate made. The News aud Courier comments as follows on the showing: "How much cotton, at 4, or 5, or 6, or 7 cents a pound would be required to show a net profit of $26, we may leave all cotton farmers to estimate for themselves. At a profit of 1 cent a pouud, and a product of 250 pounds of lint to the acre, 10} acres would be required to match the result obtained by Mr. Carson from 1 acre of wheat, peavines and hay. At a profit of 2 cents a pouud, 5 acres would be required, and it is not the rule by any means that cotton vields 250 Dounds of lint to the acre or a profit of 2 or even 1 cent a pound. At the rate of 200 pounds of lint per acre and a profit of 1 cent a pound, which may be taken as a good "average" result for the past few years, 130 acres of cotton would be required to return as much clear profit as Mr. Carson made on his 10 acres. Evidently better "money crops" than cotton can be made in South Carolina, or anywhere else in the south, in these times." CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. This Is Wliy Ten Negroes Were Killed In Wilmington. The following is the editorial in The Daily Record, the Negro paper, which caused the outburst at Wilmington, N. C.: "We suggest that the whites guard their women more closely, thus giving no opportunity for the human fiend, be he white or black. You leave your goods out of doors, and then complain because they are taken away. "Poor white men are careless in the matter of protecting their women, especially on farms; they are careless of their conduct toward them, and our experience among the poor white people in the country teaches us that the women of that race are not any more particular in the matter of clandestine meetings with colored men than are the white men with colored women. "Meetings of this kind go on for sometime until the woman's infatuation, or the man's boldness, brings attention to them, and the man is lynched. "Every Negro lynched is called a 'big, burly black brute,' when in fact many of those who have thus been dealt with had white men for their fathers, and were not only not 'black' and 'burly ;' but were sufficiently attractive for white girls of culture and refinement to fall in love with them, as is well known to all." DRINKING MEN NOT WANTED. A circular, containing several inquiries, was sent out by the United States commissioner of labor several months ago to persons and companies employing a large number of men. The object of the investigation thus instituted was to ascertain something ubout the relations of the drink habit to labor. Over 7,000 establishments, which employ nearly 2,000,000 men, replied. The answers have almost the significance of a census, therefore. pAmmloQIAnnp \ \7 ? I rr V? fr Knn i nnf *\n UlinU VUUiliilOOIUUCI TV & licio JU31 puuuoli" ud a summary of them. Out of 6,976 employers, 5,363 said that they were accustomed to consider whether a person was in the habit of driuking when they were asked to give auy sort of a place. The employers who did not take this matter into consideration numbered 1,613. The industries represented in this report were agriculture, manufactures, mining and quarrying trade and transportation. The largest percentage of employers who inquired about drinking was among those engaged in trade and transportation. The means used to find out about an applicant's habits were usually direct inquiry, reputation, and personal appearance. The reasons assigned for taking a man's habits into consideration were to "guard against accidents," "because of responsibility of position" aud "because of unreliability of drinking men." Dishonesty, abuse of animals, the employer's disgust for drinking men, and the importance of example to other employees were also urged in explanation of the praetice.