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^ nsuBD iBKi-wnia^ . I. u. grist ft sons. Publishers. } g, Jtenragaper: <jfor the promotion of the political, Social, ^gricuttucal and <Kommei[ciat Jnterests of the fJeoptc. jTtRMSiNc^t eoVIKIAivENcEilTsANCE' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1899. NUMBER 56. EfflioSolisHiglfiiiT By JOHN HEARD, JR. [Copyright, 1S9S, by the Author.] Among the many odd trifles which ] bave bronght home from my travels is a little gold bell, on the table before me Dow. It was given to me some years ago as a souvenir by the only highwayman it has been my cbauce to meet, and often since then I have wondered what bad become of the interesting rascal to whom it belonged. A few days ago i received a letter from a friend in Mexico telling of his death. How vjvidly it recalled onr interview! In the spring of 1684 I was obliged to take the tedions journey from Alamos to Mazatlan, in the traditional stagecoach?a picturesque experience to remember, but an agony of five nights and four days to endure. At the time I chafed over the slow progress of our civilization which forced me to travel in a restless, tin sheathed wooden box. but today the perspective has changed, and I look upon the geographical limitations of Yankee enterprise with a decided feeling of satisfaction. There are still some things to do that everybody has not done; some sights that cannot be bad for the price of a ticket; some men to meet outside of offices und clubs. Eraclio Solis was one of these men. He belonged to a species unknown to the railroad freighted Philistine who naively believes that he is traveling two generations; hence the race of such men as Eraclio will be extinct. I had heard ninch about him, for iu those years he wus a more important factor in the government of northwestern Mexico than all the state governors combined. In spite of a detachment of cavalry stationed in the neighborhood of Los Hornitos, Eraclio held up every alternate stagecoach within a mile, more or less, of the same place. Tb6 soldiers always arrived upon the scene a few minutes after his baud had disappeared, and whenever they escorted the coach it was sure to be attacked as soon as their protection was deemed no longer necessary. When he left Alamos, Ben Hill, the gambler, called out to me as we drove past his house, "Here's good luck to Eraclio; tell him I'm all right," whereupon my neighbor asked if I were going beyond Fuertie. I answered that I intended to, and then he assured me that I should certainly make the bandit's acquaintance, as this was the regular marked trip. Shortly after leaving Fuertie my last companion got out, and I was left alone. The certainty of being stopped by the brigand had gradually grown upon me during the past 86 hours, and as 1 sat there suspioiously scanning the cactus brush on either sine Of the coach, my rifle between my knees, and my revolver ready for immediate use, I debated with myself what course I ought to pursue. Beyond my arms I had really nothing to lose, and it seemed foolhardy to attempt to resist, single handed, the attacks of a band of trained highwaymen merely because my Anglo-Saxon prejudices forbade me to yield without a struggle. I did not wish to risk my life for the sake of a mere prejudice, but I rebelled at the idea of holding up my hands without making use of them. While I was thus undecided, the driver settled the question by calliug to me to take off my shooting irons and climb up beside him. "Don Juan," he said to me as I braced myself to the box at his eide, "you've got nerve enough, bo I may as well tell you that Eraclio will stop us in a few miuutes. When we reach the top of this grade, yon will see the arroyo hondo, and on the rise beyond probably the horsemen, too, but perhaps only Eraclio himself. Now, for heaven's 6ake, don't go shooting. There will be 80 rifle sights leveled at us from behind the cactus bush, and the minute you pull the trigger we shall be riddled. "Did you ever hear how Ben Hill was filled with lead? Well, I can tell you, for I was driving. Eraclio appeared in the usual way, and 1 stopped, of course, as soon as be waved his rifle, but Hill jumped out and fired. Whew! How the bullets began to come in?a perfect hailstorm ! Two miuutes later it was all over. Three of the mule9 were dead beside the wbipper and one of the passengers. As for Hill, he was lying on the road with six bullets under his skin?enough to kill any ordiuary man ?but there he lay, firing away at the cactus, with the blood running down over bis forehead and as mad as though he had been eating papashes all the morning. Eraclio had a hard time preventing his men from finishing him, but the gambler was an old friend of his, nnH ho Uont. t.hfi rnvntfiS off. " 'Ben,' 6aid he, 'why did yoa shoot? Are you drunk?' " 'Quien 6abe?' the other answered. 'I'm pickled now anyway. Look here, Eraclio, be generous with me. There are 6,000 pesos in my valise, and that ought to satisfy you. But there's my wife, she has all her jewelry along, and now that I am laid up I think you might look after her. Can't you take her down to Culiacan? lean 6crape up a couple of thousand more when I get home, and if you'll do that I'll send them to you and welcome. Is it a bargain?' "'Bah!" the other answered, laughing. 'Friend Ben, between thieves the shortest accounts are best. I'll take your money for the men, but the senora shall reach Culiacan safely. I'll see to that myself.' And he did it, Don Juan. He put three of his men inside, made me do the whipping and drove himself right up to the hotel, though he knew well enough that there was a big placard on the door?'Two thousand (2.000J pesos for the body of Eraclio Soils dead or alive.' "You never saw him? Well, 6enor, he's a caballero, you will see, and I say we ought to have just such a man for governor. He knows what the poor people need and what is good for them. Vaya, if he were governor for only one year, they would make him president the next. The greatest man in Mexico, seuor, and they are trying to kill him." But in spite of Martin's predictions and apparently much to his disappointment. ws drove off unmolested across the arroyohondo and into Los Hornitos. The little rancho was crowded, and I ordered my dinner served outside under the porch, where I sat down alone to wait. The view from my seat was hot, desolate and depressing, typical of onr dreary life west of the Sierra Madre. To the left stood a broken row of low, flat roofed adobe huts, joined together by irregnlar cactus hedges, and on the tops of the fluted gray green columns three or fonr buzzards perched motionless. On the right by the roadside lay odd looking piles of rusty mining machinery, relics of some abandoned enterprise, and far, far away, above the faintly purple level of dry bush, the blue sierra stretched along the horizon. While I sat there, waiting and wondering wherein lay the undeniable charm of this dreary landscape, a horseman rode up, tied his animal to one of the posts and started to enter the house, but catching sight of me he stopped, touched his hat and came toward me smiling. <<rv"M fV?r? Poohttt minp'" hft JL/UU V uau Ui tiiO xivwuim asked pleasantly. I rose, answered that "Don Juan of the Rochin mine?" he asked pleasantly. I was Don Joan, but the man's face was totally unfamiliar to me, and my perplexity was evident, for be said: "You are wondering who I am, Don Juan? It is true, we have not met before, yet we are hardly strangers." He drew a chair tip to the table ana eaia: "I am Eraclio, the outlaw." "Eraclio!" "At your service, senor," be answered, amazed at my astonishment. "You expected to meet me yonder on the road, yes? But really it would not hare been worth while. I knew that you were the only passenger and that you do not travel with more than a few dollars in your pocket. Graoia's draft on Alazatlan is of no use to me, for unfortunately circumstances do not allow me to go there As for your rifle and your pistol?you might have been tempted to use them, and?I bear you no ill will. But, caramba! Why don't they bring uh something to eat?" and springing up with an oath be weut to the house and gave some orders, which were obeyed with eager alacrity. As he stood by the door, one of bis men came up and spoke to him, a huge, swaggering desperado, and it delighted me to Dote the superiority of the graceful, agile and youthful captain over bis bulky lieuteuaut. Eraclio looked so simple and thoroughbred heside the melodramatic bandit?he was unmistakably the commander. wnen ne came uacK, ne unoucKiea his pistol belt and threw it down on the bench between ns, so as to be much nearer me than ban, and as he did 60, he looked at me meauingly. It might have been merely a trick, and so I prudently refrained from following hie example, though I liked the man's appearance. and instinctively felt that I had nothing to fear. He noticed my hesitation at once, and said, with a short, hard laugh: "Doyoudistru6tme,Don Juan? Well, I don't wonder! I have a bad name, and perhaps if you knew as much about me as I do myself you would trust me still less. It is not altogether my fault, though." Then changing the subject suddenly, he continued: "Isuppose you keep pretty well armed up at the Rochin mine? Oh, don't fancy I am trying to get any information. I know you keep a large amount of silver there and have about 20 white men on whom you can depend. Now, suppose I were to pay you a visit?how would you receive me?" "Why, about as roughly aB we know now. "Even if I had 50 men behind me?" " Unless you came with a whole army behind you," I answered. "I don't kuow tb^t the number would make much difference. If you attacked the Rochin mine, we should defend it." "Good! That is one thing I like about English and Americans. Odds don't frighten them. Now a little while since I went up to the Rosario and had an interview with Schmidt, their superintendent. 'How many are you?* I asked. 'Oh,' he answered, 'I have only 24, 60 walk in and help yourselves.' Schmidt is not a coward, bof once be was an oftioer in the German army, and there be learned tbat two men always beat one. Two units always beat one, that's true, and in larg6 armies the average manliness is at its lowest. However, I'll get even with him," he added with a somewhat cynical langb. "I shall take good care to have fewer men than he and force a fight, for I don't like robbing withont some danger or excitement. It is too mnch like thieving." "You draw rather nice distinctions," I said. He frowned, and for a moment seemed annoyed, then he went on. "Oh, let us talk of something else; it is so rare nowadays out here tohaveachanoe of passing an hour or two with a man of education that I must make the most of it. Ycu have been in Europe, of " '" I' -I I? course.' wen, IUCI1, ICI/ ua a a tm away from Los Horuitos as possible. Ah, Don Juan, 1 bate this life,"he added passionately, and in an instant the whole expression of bis face changed. His fisft were clutched on the table before him, and his lips were drawn back over his teeth until he looked more like nn animal about to spring forward than like the handsome, good humored young fellow he had hitherto seemed to be. But this expression vanished again as quietly as it had come. He drank off a tumblerful of wiue and lighted a cigar, while I reflected on the danger of irritating such a fearful temper. For an hour or two we chatted very pleasantly. He was especially interested iu French affairs and begged me to give hira a bundle of papers which I had just been reviewing and happened to have with me. I bad heard that be was of good education and that he had traveled for a number of years, but 1 was not prepared to meet one so familiar with French, English and even German books as his conversation proved Solis to be. Eventually I expressed my surprise at his unusual knowledge, and I asked him how he managed to keep so well informed out in the wilderness. "Do you know anything of my past life, Don Juan?" he asked in return. i i.^iJ i> i ~urucJi? una uuu um euuieiuiuji, ? inswered, "but not much, after nil. He was a friend of yours ouce, was he not?" "He is now, for the matter of that," Solis answered, "at least as far as circumstances will allow him to be." For some minutes the outlaw remained silent, looking blankly at the table before him, while his thoughts were evidently far away. When be spoke again, be did so with unmistakable diffidence and hesitation. TO BE CONTINUED. Dancing and Smoking In Burma. In one village where we 6taid the chief man qrrauged a dance in our honor. Neither he nor we danced. That would have robbed us and him of dignity. He paid somebody else to dance instead A troop of village girls, with flowers stuck in their newly greased hair and wearing their prettiest pieces of silk that serve as frocks, threw themselves into all kinds of graceful and other postures. What little skirt there was was tight fitting and hampering in movement. Yet the girls had a freer swing of the body than uautch girls, and all the while they were twisting themselves into fantastic attitudes they were working their elbows and hands and fingers twitchiugly. The most skillful tiaucer was the girl who could stand statuelike, with face unmoved, while her bosom rose aDd fell in panting excitement. Then some of the youths danced. First of all they were seated, and after lowering their heads as obeisance to us they commenced a song. Suddenly jumping to their feet and drawing handkerchiefs from their waists, they began pirouetting in the most demented fashion. While the women were stately in their gyrations, moving languidly, the men thought the chief merit was to work themselves to a pitch of frenzy by throwing their legs about in a reckless manner. During the dancing everybody man urnnion finfl phi I who aiuuniug, uivu, uwiuvu v?. dren. There were little rascals who had to hold ou with both hands while they 6ucked at a cheroot a foot long. ?Travel. A Family Greatly Bleased. Many years ago, when oneness of interest characterized the relations between employers and house servants, the cook at the Virginia home of the historic Harrisons was a negro named Georgo. Master of his craft, George was stately and even pompous in manner and speech, and an incident which illustrates the mingled dignity and conceit of his character has a place in the family records. A family festival in honor of an anniversary had filled the Harrison house with guests for several days and tested the abundant larder to what seemed to be its utmost possibilities. On the very day that saw the departure of the company a communication was received by Mrs. Harrison, informing her that the presidential party might be expected on tho morrow. She summoned Georgo and imparted the startling news. He met it like an ebony fiiVvrnlfnr "Vorv welL madam. VOUT orders shall be obeyed. " "But, George, can we be ready for them? There will be about 80 persons, including the president of the United States and his cabinet." Gibraltar relaxed measurably. The lady's apprehensions appealed to his chivalric heart. It was his duty to allay them. "Very true, madam. But we must bear in mind that we are greatly blessed in our cook." It is unnecessary to add that George nobly sustained the sublime vaunt.? Marion Harland in "Some Colonial Homesteads." JUisccUancous grading. THE TRANSVAAL RULER. What Has Made "O0111 Paul" the Unique Character He Is?Spoken of by His Own People as "The Lion of Rustenbure." From a history of the Transvaal re- I efcntly published by Mr. Van Oordt, 1 state historian of the South African 1 Republic, the New York Sun has condensed some interesting mutter relat- 1 ing to the personality of the Boer president : "The founder of the family was a certain Jacob Kruger, who arrived at \ Cape Town in 1713 as a youth of 17, in ' the service of the Dutch East India ' company. Jacob Kruger was a German. A descendant of bis, Casper Kruger, married and settled on the Buhoek farm, near Colesburg, in Cape Colony. It was there that Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger was born on October 10, 1825. While still quite a child he had to help his parents, in his ninth year sometimes acting as shep- 1 herd, and even leading the oxen yoked ! in the wagon. Later, when yet too , small to handle the heavy musket of the period, be went after game with ' bow and arrows, and returned to the j farm house with many a hare and par- ' tridge. "Then ca ne the trek into Natal, j and be went out into the wilderness to begin a lile of toil, care and danger. 1 That was the school in which be was ( reared and in which he was trained to 1 he what he is. He received his hap- ! tism of fire in battle with the Matabele j before the occupation of Vechtkop, and took part in the repulse of the Zulus in the attack on the laager which ; followed the massacre at Weenen, in j Natal. At 18 he became assistant field cornet, and two years later attained . full rank. Later on he served as com- j mandant and commandant general, was one of the Trumvirate during the war of independence (in 1880-'83,) and has been president since the retrocession of the territory of the Republic ' bv Great Britain to its own govern ment. By his people he is spoken of ' as the Lion of Rustenburg. "Although a republic, the centralization of administration in the Trans- , vaal is such that nothing can be done ' without the consent of the executive ( council. The consequence is that business is often months in arrears. Mr. ' Van Oordt admits the evil of this and agrees with the contention of the ' Volksraad, that more power should be ' delegated to the head officials of the government. President Kruger, however, is most strongly opposed to this, 1 believing it would be dangerous in a ' young state circumstanced as the Transvaal is to entrust the government wholly to officials. 'Be trustworthy, but trust no one,' is the president's life motto, which he often j quotes, and which is, according to his frieuds, the plain wisdom of Paul Kru- i ger. It is, says Mr. Van Oordt, the j simple philosophy of a man who shrinks from no duty, but only fears and doubts whether others will do theirs. j "The personal habits of President Kruger are extremely simple. He never takes strong drink himself; but has 1 said that he believed God gave man ( strong drink to use, and that there is no harm in its moderate use. Although fairly wealthy he likes the or- ! dinary life of a well-to-do Afrikander, indulging neither in ostentation nor festivities. To poor burghers he iius Innt mnnev without anv security. knowing as he said, that they were honorable rneo. In character, Oom Paul is stiff uecked?obstinate, some say?and full of hardihood. This quality he has displayed on many occasions. During the war of independence, with only a small escort, he rode iuto the kraal of a Kaffir chief who was making trouble for the Boers, and though he ran great risk of being attacked, seized him by the neck. The result of the interview, begun under such unusual circumstances, was that the chief remained quiet during the rest of the war. "While still a youth his gun, which he had overloaded in order to make sure of a rhinocerous he was hunting, burst and shattered the top of bis left thumb. Before he could get assistance the wound began festering, for he was far distant from surgical help, and threatened mortification. He thereupon amputated the thumb at the first finger joint with a pocketknife; but, finding the operation insufficient, he cut. the second joint, after which the hand healed. As his biographer says : "The man who could do this is not the man to be easily frightened. Many - i i u stories are toia musirauug uis sweugiu . of will and endurance, of racing contests with Kaffirs lasting a whole day, and his personal strength in strugles with animals. "As to his place in history Mr. Van < Oordt says Paul Kruger has been ; compared with Washington, with Lin- < coin and even with Ulysses and Bluch- < er, and many other illustrious histori- i cal personages. It sounds well, says 1 the state historian, but the fact re- < mains that he can be compared with I no one. The circumstances of his 1 bringing up, those in which he has < gaiued his influence and ruled over < his people for 16 years, have been so < exceptional that Paul Kruger can be s compared with no other historical s character. To the Dutch of South I Africa he is simply Paul Kruger, a < man of themselves, born into their i troubles and tribulation, who has con- < tributed to their triumphs, and is now, t in his last years, steering them through < uew dangers. i "Mr. Van Oordt, in concluding his I sketch, thus apostrophizes him : i " 'All peaceful lies the Lion of Rustenburg, bis eyes fixed on God, his paw upon the flag of independence. You mark no signs of attack ; only 1 the Lion takes a watchful protecting grasp. But, take care! At the first approach of danger be erects his mane and rises up. And woe ! woe to him, however mighty he be, who dare touch 1 the flag of Transvaal independence. The Lion then will fight; he will de- ' fend himself to the last drop of his ' blood ; and if be must fall dying and 1 conquered, then shall it be enwrapped ' in the vreiklem, which shall make the j 3hroud of Stephanus Johannes Paul 1 Kruger.'? J WHAT VICTORIA HAS SEEN. 1 i Fresh Suggestions of the World's Marvel- | ous Progress During Her Life. ] From Leslie's Weekly. j "Crowned heads hold a low place in i the space of longevity." If the French i author of this expression had foreseen i Victoria his assertion would not have i been quite so sweeping. England's I queen born 80 years ago, has long ] passed the Psalmists span of years, i She has gone much farther beyond the ] average official life of the world's | srown-wearers. Sixty-two years will 1 have passed on June 20, since she as- t cended the throne. This exceeds in ] duration by over two years the reign < of her grandfather, George III., bith- i erto unexampled in British annals. < No other monarch of a great nation in t the world's history has been on the throne as long except Louis XIV. of i France, 72 years, and he was only five I years of age when he became titular ( king, and during bis minority his 1 mother ruled in his stead as regent, t Victoria, however, was 18 at the time < her predecessor died, and she has ex- < erted sway ever since. \Tintnt-ia rturi'nor h<?r lifp.f imp has seen T J, the entire world transformed. On the Jay of her birth, May 24, 1819, the i first steamboat which ever crossed the Atlantic or any other oceau started from Savaunah for Liverpool, making | the voyage in 26 days. The same dis- , Lance is now made in less than six. ? She was six years of age when the , first railway train in the world started j Lo carry passengers. She was 18 years , 3f age, and had just ascended the throne, when the Morse system of tel- j jgraphy and that of Cooke and Wheat- , stone were first patented. Thirty-nine j years of her life had passed when the ] first cable was laid under the Atlantic, ( and that one almost immediately , leased to operate. Fifty-six years of ( it expired before the first telephone went into practical operation. I Scott and Byron were in their prime \ when Vicioria first begau to read the t printed page. None of the great , writers?Thackeray, Dickens, Buhver- . Lyttou, Tennyson, George Elliot, the j Brownings and others whose names have cast a glory over her country { Juring the past half or two-thirds of a ' century?had yet begun to work. t Darwin, whose labors have revolu- ( [ionized science and have profoundly itlected the thoughts of moralists t ind theologians, was not heard of. t At the time of Victoria's birth the irarop of Bonaparte's armies had jus' ceased to shake the world, and Buna- < part himself was prisoner on a British * stand in the South Atlantic. She has seen every throne in Europe vacated y nnonir timp-j Shfi has seen her own ^ ~ J ; country transformed politically from * in oligarchy, iu which only one out of lifty of the population was permitted j Lo vote, into a democracy iu which the j voters number one out of six of the uhabilants. France bus changed its ' form of government four times since tter early girlhood days. Italy, then : jnly a "geographical expression," to t jse Melteruicb's phrase, has since be- ^ come oue of the greatest powers of j Europe, while the empire of Germany was still far in the future. The Uuited States was iu the midst t )f the "era of good feeling" when Vic- j :oria was born. Monroe has had 19 successors in the presidency since .hat time. This country bad only j ),000,000 population then. Buffalo and y Pittsburg were frontier towns, and not i house existed on the site of the mag- * sificent metroplis of the west, Chicago, r The annexation of Florida, Texas, { New Mexico, California and Alaska, so say nothing of the more recent accession of territory, all came siuce Victoria's birth. The world's map las been changed iu mauy places the world's ideals have beeu altered in ^ nany respect, and the face of human society has been transformed in four score years which have elapsed siuce . Britain's queen first saw the light. ' I Marriage In the Philippines.? s The Negritos have a curious marriage I justom, says Self Culture. When a c young man makes known his prefer- t 2nce the young woman flees from him a tvhile he gives chase and catches her a n his arms. She struggles and frees i berself, whereupon the chase is renew- c 2d, and so on until he has caught her \ :he third time, when she yields, and i he proudly leads her back to her fath- s 2r's dwelling. The father and mother 1 )f the bride-elect then meet with the I lontracting parties, the latter kueeling i >ide by side. The father then takes \ some water in a cocoanut shell and t ihrows it over them. Continuing the 2eremony he takes each by the neck \ md bumps their heads together several times, and they are then adjudged a :o be duly married. A wedding tour i >f five days' sojourn alone in the c mountains follows, after which they a take up their abode as staid citizens imong their friends. YELLOW FEVER SERUM. [f a Succenn It Will Be Rough on the Horges. Writing to his paper, the Greenville News, from New York, under date of July 8, Mr. A. B. Williams, sends the following : I went over to the quarantine station on Staten Island today to find out ibout the yellow fever cases and the lew serum there. Dr. Doty believes be can vaccinate with bis serum against yellow fever just as we inoculate against smallpox. He gets bis virus by inoculating a horse with yellow fever germs more than a year and :hen drawing off the animal's blood and injecting a dilution of it into human veins. The man be is working bis scheme on seems to be getting well, and if he does recover, the serum business will have a boom. But it will be rough on horses. One bealtby horse in two years will yield only enough to inoculate 50 patients. As there will i)e some hundreds of thousands of people to be treated yearly, it looks as ,f a good many horses will have to go. But with the development of motive power it may be that presently we will have no use for the horse but as an unwilling breeder of serum. The process is said to cause little pain to :he animals, and the doctor says they are as good as ever after a rest; but I wouldn't care to have a horse saturated with yellow jack around me. Maybe if they keep on experimentng on this line with horses they will and some way of injecting a solution >f horse sense into the human family. [ would like to get a few gallons of it and a syringe about four feet long and aperate on some people I know, in? 1 _ ci 4k n UUCUDg several iu ouuiu varuuun. WONDERFUL STORY. N'o Reputable Newspaper Would Stand Sponsor For It. A wonderful kind of Indian corn has seen discovered and is now being ;rown in Kansas. Tbis corn has sprouted from seeds perhaps 2,000 ,-ears old. The corn has grown 10 feet n five days, and there is no telling .vhen it will stop. Two years ago J. L. Brady, a wpIIcnown Kansas explorer, went to Markree, Ark., and commenced exploring n the mounds of that section. He cept it up for three months and recovered many valuable things from the sounds. These things were known so have existed 2,000 years ago. In an old earthen jar Mr. Brady bund some small round seed resembing Indian corn kernels. He took .hem to his home and preserved them jntil one day last week, when he Wanted live seed in the moist ground n bis back yard. These seed grew out of the ground ind nearly a foot high by morning. r?L?_ ? ' ? LI ? MMAtnin/v L ft a ohf ro/^ i ms reujauumc giumug u?o ouuvu jp the neighborhood, and every day :rowde assemble to watch it grow. The corn has every resemblance to he Indian corn of today, except in he growth.?New York Journal. Spaniards Going to Mexico.? Spaniards formerly in busines in Havana and other Cuban cities are now irriving here looking for Investment, iays a City of Mexico dispatch, and says that by Oelober, fully $30,000,000 )f Spanish capital will have been withdrawn from the island, for Spanards of wealth do not want to risk a oug period of political unrest and possible coming into power of professional Cuban politicians. Thisweulth, vhich is being taken away by Spunards, is good cash and will mainly be aken to Spain for investment, while (ome will come to Mexico. Spanish nerchants and planters now here report the English as beiug the boldest uvestors now in Cuba, and declare hat the Americans are timid and have ost many large businesses which have )assed into English hands. A mh?i.?sHrlor Clavton has arrived rom Guadalajara aud is greatly pleased vith the remarkable demonstrations of jood will made him by the authorities ind people of the state of Jalisco. The Americans are prospering in trade, uiuing and contracting in that state. He Saw the Point.?A former atoruey general of the United States, in l recent article, tells the following anecdote of Mr. Justice Miller of the ederal supreme court: Judge Miller was a very agreeable nan socially ; but in the later years of lis life became somewhat impatient jpon the bench. He was no orator limself and seemed to have an averiion to all attempts at oratory in court. ! have seen him on more than one oc:asion disjoint with sharp questions a >eautifully prepared speech with which in ambitious orator expected to charm ind captivate the court. One midsum - i i ner day, as it is saia, ne was uuiumg :ourt in a western state, and a lawyer, vhom we will call Brown, was adIressing him in a long, rambling ipeech. The judge listened and fanned limself and fidgeted about on the lench for some time, and, finally, leanng over his desk, said in an audible vbisper, "Confound it Brown, come to he point." "What point? inquired the soroevhat astonished lawyer. "Any point," responded the judge ; md, t hough the sequel does not appear, t is probable that there was a rapid :ondensation of talk in that courtroom ifter this short colloquy.