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^ ^ SEMI-WEEKLy. l. m. GRIST & SONS, Publishers. 1 % Amili) Itetrapaper: 4or the promotion ?Jf the political, foriat, Agricultural, and (Eommer^ia^Jnierests of the people. {TgBMMw^'coir" to cBN?fliCg' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1900. NO. 69. Ihf ?tari| Seller. iliifiiMi. By W. L. ALDEN. fCopyrlRht. 1899, by W. L. Alden.] "Yea, sir,"* remarked the landlord, as be sat fanniug biruself on the veranda of the Middleville hotel, "as yon lay. this town has sprang ap like a mushroom in the night Why. only five years ago there were only two honses here, and now we have the biggest population of any town in northern Minnesota The two houses were pretty small ones too Mine stood just where this hotel is standing, and it was noth ing more than a one story, two roomed shanty Captain Martin's house, which generally stood on a knoll about a quarter of a mile from here, wasn't much bigger " "What do you mean when you say that your neighbor's house generally stood on a knoll?' I asked "Wasn't it in the habit of staying in the same place?' "Why. what with cyclones and cloudbursts, and one thing and another. - that there bouse did do considerable traveling while it was in this section What became of it after it left bere 1 can't precisely say. but I rather think it made its last journey when it went " down to West Antioch It was a curious sort of house, being put together with ropes instead of nails, which was probably one reason why it lasted as long as it did "Yon see.' continued the landlord. "I was the first settler here. I took up a quarter section of land, and with the help of two mules and a Norwegian. 1 put up my bouse aud went to farming About six months later, along comee Captain Martin, and allows that he will farm the quarter section next to me. He was a man about 60 years old. who bad been a seafaring man all his days, and. like most seafaring men. he want ed to be a farmer though be didn't know beans from a bull's foot First ? along I thought he was a sociable sort of old chap, and be aud me used to sDend our evenings together But 1 found out that he wouldn't take any advice, and when I told him that be was a blamed fool for building a house on a knoll in a country where cyclones were almost as common as snakes, he got mad and dropped my acquaintance He was as touchy as he was opinionated. which is saying a good deaL "Well, he built his house with the help of a couple of men from Lucullus. which at that time was the nearest settlement to us. and was considered to be seven miles from here, though now that Middleville has grown clear up to the southern boundary of Lucullus. it don't seem to be so far away I told you that Martin's house was put together with rope lashings The captain said that no land carpenter knew bow to build a house, and that he hadn't any confidence in nails, and didn't consider them shipshape His house was much the same thing as mine, except that it bad a veranda on one side, where the captain used to walk up and down and look at things through a telescope. "Between my land and Martin's thoro woo tho hichrnad. thouerh at that time it wasn't often that anybody passed over it, and by the side of the road and jnst at the foot of the captain's knoll ran the Pomponocsnc river It don't look mnch like a river at this time of year, and you conld jump across it most anywhere, bnt jnst you wait till the spring freshets set in and you'll admit that it is right smart of a stream I've known half a dozen men ?sober men too?to be drowned in the Pomponoosnc. which is more than the Lucullus people can say for their miserable little river One of the last things that I said to the captain before he and me had a coolness was that he had better dig a cyclone pit You know what that is, 1 suppose No? Well, then. I'll tell you It's just a hole in the ground about six feet deep, covered with a trapdoor When you see a cyclone coming, you get into your cyclone pit and shut the door until the trouble is over It's the only safe way. for if you stay in your house you're liable to be crushed to death, and if you stay outdoors the cyclone will pick you up and carry you to kingdom come. But old Martin wouldn't hear of digging a pit He allowed that if a cyclone did come he calculated to be on deck and see it out He said it was all very well for me to skulk down below, seeing as 1 was only a landsman, but that he considered that the quarter deck was the proper place for him in bad weather I made my cyclone pit nearly opposite his house and close to the road, for " 1 calculated to use it as a handy place for keeping shovels and spades and rakes and such and saving the trouble fKom r*TV a tUo Knnun Pon U1 KICUI up iv uuc uvuaw tain Martin used to sneer a good deal at my pit and called it a 'glory bole, which I considered to be irreligious, as well as nngentleinanly However, the day came when he would have been mighty glad to have a cyclone pit and to be able to climb down into it without my knowl edge "The captain hadn t been Aving in his new house above six months when the great cyclone of 1887 came along, and 1 don't doubt that you have heard of it It was about 10 o'clock of the morning and it wa$ at least 20 degrees hotter than it is today though it was only the middfe of June, instead of the middle of August There wasn't a breath of air stirring, and the sky had a sort of greasy coppery look, that made you feel sort of suffocated just to look at it The mules and the Nor wegian were lying under a tree down in the sorghum field, and I was making a pretense of weeding my onion bed. though I didn t make much headway with it I happened to turn round, and there in the northwest was a little patch of cloud, which 1 was glad to see. thinking as 1 did that perhaps it might mean rain But while I was looking at it 1 could see it was spread ing as fast as a gallon of petroleum would spread if you dumped it into a mill pond In a few minutes pretty near one-half the sky was covered with a cloud that was as black as Pittsburg coal smoke The way it spread reminded me of a parcel of men laying a carpet on the stage of a theater You could see the upper edge of the cloud rolling over and over in great thick masses All of a sudden a light breeze sprang up that blew directly toward the quarter where the cloud came from, and I knew then that we were going to have a big storm and that the wind was drawing toward it. The next thing I saw was a sort of funnel that seemed to drop from the middle of the cloud. The lower end kept twisting and snuirminir like the tail of a snake when you've got your boot beel on its bead I didn't wait any longer, but I just dropped my hoe and made a bolt for my cyclone pit There's no mistaking what that funnel meant There was the biggest kind of a cyclone on its way. and it was coming straight for me I was not on speaking terms with the captain thee, but as 1 came near his bouse and saw him standing on his veranda and lashing himself to one of the posts with a rope. 1 sung out to him to come with me if he valued bis life He only said, in a mighty cool and condescending way. *1 don't remember asking you for any advice, my man That made me so mad that I didn't waste any more time or breath on him. but lifted the , cover off my pit. jumped into it without stopping to use the ladder and pulled the cover on again. "By this time the cyclone was making itself heard First there was a low. rumbling sort of sound, like a railroad | train makes when it is a good way off It grew louder and louder, till it got to be a kind of shrieking roar, like a hundred big church organs mixed up with a dozen or two steam whistles It was as black as night in that pit. except when the lightning flashed, for there is ( always more or less lightning playing around the funnel of a cyclone. It ( seems as if no expense was spared in making a cyclone as various and entertaining as possible Just when the roar ing was at its loudest there came an ! fUnf fKo oarfVi eh air ft it wiin Liaou buai luauo mv wa* ?u wuuuv. f and then the sound began to weaken, and in a few minutes it had died away. , and the place was as still as a man's house when he comes back to it from bis wife's fnneral " 'So far. so goodl saye I to myself 'Now I'll clamber out and see if there is anything left of my house and the | mules and the Norwegian But when I tried to lift up the cover of the pit.I could stir it only a few inches, and that , didn't let in any light I couldn't un- ( derstand what this meant; but. being a , smoker, of course 1 had my matches with me So 1 struck a light and in- , vestigated I found that there was a sort of board flooring above the cover , of the pit which prevented me from , lifting it. and consequently I knew that , the cyclone had dropped something just , over my head , "Luckily there was a crowbar among the tools standing in the corner of the , pit. and I bunted it up and got to work j as well as 1 could in the dark It didn't j take me very long to bnrst a hole in ] the flooring that I spoke of. and after I , had made an opening and let in the i light 1 saw that there was a house on top of me I set to work again with the , crowbar, and presently I was able to , climb out. and found myself in a small ( bedroom 1 didn't stop to examine it, , but opened the first door I came to, and , there 1 was in Captain Martin's room, face to face with the old man The furniture wan all upset, and the sides of the house were slanting one way and another, but there was no mistaking ( that it was a house, and that Captain ( Martin was there, looking none the ; worse for having been through a cy cioue. " 'So you've been and broke into my bouse with a crowbar, have youY' he asked 'Perhaps yon don't know, ray raan, that you've committed burglary and 1 can have you arrested for it.' " 'Perhaps you don't know that you're trespassing on ray land.' said 1 '1 never gave you no permission to put '/ don't remember asking you lor any advice, my man." no shanty on ray land, and if you don't take it off mighty sudden there's a prospect that there'll be more or less shooting " 'Yon don't know much about law. says tbe captain '1 never put uiy house on your land It was done by what tbe underwriters call "act of God or public enemies. and if you was a sailor you'd know that nobody Can be held tesponsible for such occur rences "Just then he saw me looking out of the window toward where my bouse had been and he said 'The last I saw of your bouse she was scudding before the wind and beading about sou east or mebbe a little east of that She was making, as 1 should judge, about 80 1 knots an boar It'll take you consider- ' able time to overhaul her and you'd 1 better give chase at once. " 'I ain't anxious for to stay in your ' house, * says I. 'and fll leave" ft this minute. It's my duty to warn you that if yon set foot on my land there'll be trouble As for the matter of your squatting with your house on land that don't belong to you, I'll see a lawyer this very day, and I calculate you'll wi^h you hadn't done it.' "With that I made him a bow and 1 left him. He caine out on the veranda i and said 'If you're looking for them i mules and that there Finn cf yours. ' you'll be wasting your time I eaw a couple of mules about 60 feet in the air, and when they do come down 1 they won't be of any further use. con- 1 sidered as mules. "My house and everything else be- < longing to me was clean gone, but 1 < was, that mad at the captain that I did ' not care a straw about it I walked ' straight to Lucullns. which the cyclone ' hadn't touched, and I hunted up Squire I Gibbs and laid the case before him He said that he couldn't see as Captain 1 Martin could beheld liable for trespass ing. so long as be staid in bis house and didn't step outside on to my land 1 'You can't set his bouse afire or any i thing of that kind, said he. 'without getting into trouble No more can you J move it while he is in it. for that would be an assault on him But I don t see anything to binder you from getting a team of oxen and some rollers handy and the first time he comes up to Lucullus to buy groceries you can move his bouse back on to his own land and he can't find any fault with you "Squire Gibbs was a first class lawyer. and I knew I'd be a fool if 1 didn't follow his adivce after paying $5 for it So I hired a tent that 1 could sleep in till such time as I could run up another house, and I laid in provisions and a yoke of oxen and some rollers, not forgetting a small hydraulic jack When I got back to my farm. 1 pitched the tent right in front of Martin's shanty so that I could keep a good watch on him. and I went to work with the help of a couple of men from Lucullus to build me another nouse You see. the full force of the cyclone had passed over just where my house bad stood, while only the outer edge of it had struck the captain's premises That accounts for the fact that iny house had been carried clean away, while his bad only been picked up and carried a few rods. As for the mules and the Norwegian they were scattered all over Minnesota It mno oaia tViot crima /if thn Nnrwpuian ?? ua oniu iuub wvujw v? ? ? ? ? w- - ~0 . was picked up about 80 miles from here, but it wasn't ever satisfactorily identified. "Captain Martin's bouse happened 1 lo be planted in such a way that one ] corner of it projected a few inches on : to the highroad, and be was able to : get out of a window and into the road ' without coming on to my property However, he didn't feel easy to leave j the house alone, for fear that 1 might meddle with it. so he staid at home for 1 the best part of a week, when his pro- ' visions or his whisky or some other 1 necessary run short, and he had to ' walk over to Lucnllus to lay in a fresh ' stock This was what 1 had been wait- ( ing for. though I never hinted it to J him He used to come out on his ' e- I randa and remark in a general way. ] without addressing himself to me or < any one else, that he was mightily pleased with his new location and 1 wouldn't change it for any other building lot in the whole state. 1 never said 1 anything to him. except to remark, al- ' so in a general sort of way, that if any ( rascally old sailor should set foot on my ' land he would have a hole bored 1 through him so quick that be would never know what hurt him. Neither of 1 us felt that it would be judicious to quarrel, you understand, and so we confined ourselves to remarks that neither of us was obliged to take any I notice of "I waited about an hour after the ; captain bad gone, thinking that be^ might turn back in hopes of catching j, nie in the act of meddling with bisj( house At the end of an hour I felt safe ] enough, for it was certain that he must , have gone on to Lucullus. and that he , couldn't get back before dark. So I called the men that were working on my house, and we jacked Martin's shanty up with the hydraulic jack and ! bad her on rollers in nest to no time. Then I hitched the oxen to her with a double ox chain and started her toward the road In the course of an hour I , had her planted square across the middle of the road, so that nobody could . possibly get by her, and I had my fence ! put up again and the ground smoothed j out where it bad been cut up by the . rollers, and then 1 sat down and waited ! for the captain to return. j "It was 10 o'clock, and the night was pitch dark, when 1 heard Martin coming along the road and singing I knew ( from his style of singing that ho had ( ailed himself up with whisky, and i j calculated that he would be considerably surprised when he found out what . had happened He never saw the house j till he had walked bang up against it 1 with considerable of a crash Presently . he says to himself 'Here's a house an chored right in the fairway and with ( no riding right displayed! Thishyer's a ( pretty state of things. Then he hails the house in his loudest voice and wants ( to know how she is. and where she is ( fr*r\*r\ t*r\A oKo ia to onrl iiuiUt auu n UV4V ouw iu uvuum %vi u?jm ^ what sort of an everlasting fool her captain might call himself Not get- j ting any answer, he swore he would , climb aboard and wake the anchor watch with a belaying pin But after , fumbling around for some time and , hammering on the door and smashing a few panes of glass a new idea struck , him 'Thishyer'8 a derelict That's , what it is. said he 'I'll just stand by her till daylight and see if a salvage i job can't be made out of it That was the last that I heard of Captain Martin i that uight He lay down in the road close alongside of the house and was ( asleep and snoring the snore of the just , in less than a minute Then 1 went to bed myself, considering that there i wouldn't be any more performances . that night . "The captain woke up before I did , the next day. and when I came out.of j the tent he was nowhere to be seen, r having unlocked his door and gone into J his house Abont noon he came ont on c the veranda, looking pretty savage, and i I reioar d to one of my men that no- t body hu. a born fool would pat his c house in the middle of the public road, c for he would be certain to be fined for t obstructing the road Martin didn't d say anything, which sort of riled me, fi so I said to the man who was nearest i to me that I wanted him to go straight g up to Lucullus and telLthe sheriff with s my compliments that Captain Martin's 1< house was standing directly across the i * . 1- T l-j?'i i*. T, road, 80 tnai 1 cuuiuu L uy lb nnu ? the oxen, and that it was the sheriff's d duty to see that the road was kept r clear. The man naturally did as he was t told, and in the coarse of the day the d sheriff rode down and investigated t things and ordered Martin to take his house out of the road. c " 'I didn't put it in the road.' eaid z the captain, 'and there ain't no possi- s ble way of taking it out of the road e without putting it on the property of li that there individual standing along- fa side of you.' . e " 'Heaving cuss words at one of our e leading citizens.' says the sheriff^ c * J " Vll give you two days to get your house out of the way." won't help you I'll give yon two days t< to take your house out of the way, and 0 if at the end of that time I find it still in the road I'll make kindling wood of c it and arrest you into the bargain. You n bear mel' b "The captain heard him well enough and knew that he meant business. b However, be didn't condescend to 51 make any answer, and I could see that f( be was determined to let his house n 3tand where it was. The truth is he i? couldn't do anything else. He couldn't baul it back on to my land without p committing a trespass, and he couldn't n baul it on to bis own land without first getting it across the river, which was a more than he or any other man could (a do. My own idea is that if it hadn't ja been for the cloudburst that happened | the next afternoon Captain Martin jd would have waited for the sheriff with id a shotgun, and the sheriff, being one, of the brightest minds in our section ' Df country, would have had his revolv- ^ sr ready, and before the work of de- j molishing the house could begin there 0 would have been one or two corpses b ready for the coroner b "You don't know what a cloudburst c, is? Well, that is astonishing 1 A cloud- ^ burst is what we call a sort of Noah's a flood without any ark. You see, some h big cloud that holds perhaps a million h tons of water suddenly goes to pieces, b and the water all comes down at once, f> t,he same as it does at Niagara falls. t] There's the eame difference between an J ordinary rain and a cloudburst that h there is between sprinkling a cabbage with a watering pot and dumping a whole washtnb full of water over it. Thishyer cloudburst that I'm speaking n of took place 30 or 40 miles above ]( here, and the whole lot of water ran into tl ) Pomponoosuc river and swelled c, it into a raging torrent that swept v everything before it I heard it com- s< ing just before it reached me. and I si went for that hill yonder as fast as I s< could run and just managed to reach'a it in time Before I started I hailed j a the captain and told him to run while s; be could, but he pretended not to hear tl me and remarked, as if he was speak- 8 ing to the universe and all the rest of Vc mankind, that the curse of thishyer b country was the confounded imperti- h nence cf the lower classes. He was one 1 af those men that nobody can help except with a club, he was that everlaetingly obstinate and conceited t] "Martin saw what was going to happen as well as 1 did. and just before the j. flood struck his house I saw him trying !ir to rig up a sort of steering oar by lash- k ing a plank to one of the veranda posts. L Then the flood, which came down like L a wall six feet high, burst on the house, b and away it whirled. The captain's b steering oar wasn't of the least use, j and before be went out of sight he d flropped it and sat down on the railing w cf his veranda with an arm around the b post and his pipe in his mouth as com- a Portable as you please I watched him cl for the best part of a mile, and I could v aot see but what the house was doing 1 ?ery well and that the chances were w " < ^ i?: ? lrt. O max It WOUJa Untlg up iu OUUJO ocuo iu cali ty before reaching the Maskingum 11 falls, which are 47 miles from here. 'Anyway. I says to myself, 'here's an and of trespassing on my property and j blocking np the punlic road and an end jr if u mighty disagreeable neighbor ' The sheriff, when he came the next day a, and fonnd that there wasn't any work w for him to do. said pretty mnch tne s] same thing c< "What became of Captain Martin? s< SVell. his house floated ashore down b ligh on to 17 miles from here, and the s> :aptain never so much as got his feet ai ;vet. When the water went down, it fc eft the house on the most valuable cor- w ler Tot in West Antioch. just where the b eople had calculated to put up a new o ipera ho'uee Of course the owner of the ot made trouble for Martin, and Mar- s in made trouble for him There were t: 10 less than 15 separate lawsuits going t n at the same time between them, and he prospect was that they would both 0 *" "' fV?A onn a wnnl/1 lie Ui U1U ngo UC1UIC iuu wuna nuuiu ind oat who was in the right Captain 3 lartin made an arrangement with a 1 ;rocer in the town to heave in all bis 11 applies throagh a window, and he 0 oopboled the walls of bis hoase and 8 ade it sbotproof and swore that he n vonld never leave it alive He never lid, for one day he got so particularly c Dad that he bad a stroke, and when 13 he coroner broke into the hoase a few 8 lays later be found Martin lying on * he floor dead v "Yes. sir. what with cyclones and n loudbursts and prairie tires and bliz- ^ ards, and each like, northern Minne- t ota is a middling lively place How- ^ ver. we folks that live here never al- s ows ourselves to worry over what may c lappen tomorrow, and then again may v lot happen for the next 20 years Be- a ides, it woald take a hrst class cyclone b ir a tremeudons big flood to move a b louse that is built as solid as this hotel s. so yoa needn t be afraid that you'll t ind yourself sailing through the air or A bating down the Pomponoosuc?that e 3, so long as you pays your board reg- 1 ilar. as 1 am free to say you always las done, and 1 presume you always n vill do. * 8 piSCfUaiwous fading, E THE BATTLE OF TIEN TSIN. 1 a ow a Jap Sacrificed Himself Under the City t Wall. J1 The Atlanta Journal of Friday, prints he following letter from Corporal John v 3. White, formerly of Atlanta, but now v f the Ninth U. S. infantry, which pafIcipated in the battle of Tien Tsin, uly 20 and addressed to the writer's rother, Mr. Lewis White, of Atlanta: I wrote you about the 18th of May E rom Conception, P. I. Since then a reat many things nave transpired that ave been interesting and exciting to le. My regiment received an order bout June 20th, to proceed to China. Ve went to Manila and from there to lagasaki, Japan, and reached China uly 10th. "Tien Tsin is a large city, a million j 1 - 1-ii Ti Ai) 4?_ na a nan popuiauuu. n is umucu m3 several parts, according to the creed a f the inhabitants. "The foreign population have a 'con- a esslon,' and live apart from the Chinalen. There are some magnificent 11 ulldings In this part of the city. "The main part of Tien Tsin has a f uge wall around it, 30 feet thick and li J feet high. This wall is built in the orm of a square, and is about two p illes long on each side. Quite a wall, n m't it? "The Chinese bombarded the foreign t< art of the city from these walls, and t1 lost of the fine buildings are in ruins. "The big battle occurred on the 13th, a nd It did look silly to run infantry up b gainst those walls, but it was done nd at: a frightful cost. b "The British used their 45-pound 1yd- n ite gun with terrible effect. In fact, I on't think we could ever have run J< hem out of there wimout that gun. n "The Japs were next to us and they ght like demons, and can outdrill any n roops I ever saw. There is not two a iches difference in the height of any p f them. They lost heavily and stood it ravely. One of them volunteered to r< low up a part of the wall with gun- t] otton, and blow himself up with the S; all, (it could not be done otherwise), nd he was allowed to try it, so that r, is troops could get into the city. How t] e ever got to the wall nobody knows; e ut a few minutes after he leu an awul explosion occurred, a big part of p he wall was down and the brave little t] ap went with it. How is that for g eroism? o "The Russians also lost heavily, and hey are a class of men who have my jj eepest sympathy. Some of them could n peak German, and as we have a good e lany Germans in our regiment, we p ?arned a great deal about them. "Their salary amounts to about 35 0 ents in our money per month, and it b as disgusting as well as pitiful, to t< ee soldiers of a great nation like Rus- f, ia, walking around picking up little n ?rnn?j nf hardtack that we had thrown way. We fed quite a lot of them, and b more grateful lot of men you never Ci aw. Now, I don't mean by this that n tiey had no rations. Oh, no! But you h hould see their bread. It is cooked in p Lrge, round loaves, like burnt ginger ei read and cannot be broken in your and. And just think of it?we were o lie first to tell them of the Spanish- d .inerican war and the Filipino insur- o: jction, as they were just from Siberia, ir here no newspapers or anything of t< tie kind are allowed. ii "We went into the walled city on the d ith and the sights there were sicken- d ig. Without exaggerating, there must ii ave been from ten to fifteen thousand ij ead Chinamen all over the city. Most f the place is in ruins from the bomarding and is on fire and thousands of odies are burned. "The Chinamen never touched their ead and wounded, and no matter here you look, it is nothing but dead odies in all stages of decomposition v< nd a common occurrence to see a dog b; nnp Ti was awful! Horrible! /e had to stay in there two days, and tl had charge of a fatigue detail who s< ere forcing the Chinamen, at the point ir f the bayonet to bury their dead. I ad two severe vomiting spells before B got through with that job. pi "I helped pick up eleven of our own pi len the day before who had lain on le field all night. Our regiment got ol lto a tight place and had to lie there H 11 day and wait for night to escape, ai 3 the instant you raised your gun you ould get the stock shot off or the gun is lot out of your hands before you b; juld raise yourself to fire! This may ti jund like an 'Arabian Nights' story, dl ut it is an honest one, and will be vorn to by any American soldier here, 01 nd there are plenty of guns to show ai >r it that have bullets in the stock. I tf as right between two men that got hot 'In the rifle,' and splinters from ne of them struck me. "The Chinamen are certainly dead hots, and there were fully 100,000 of hem making targets of us, but we were oo well entrenched for them. Our loss ra the regiment was 98 men and eight fflcers, killed and wounded. "You could tell a lyddite victim as oon as you saw him, and there were housands of them. They were black o the face and splotches of green were n their bodies, with long strips or kin torn off and bleeding at the louth, nose and ears. "The women and children did not esape. Mothers with babes In their iodles and children of all ages were cattered all around. The stench from he bodies In the burning buildings /as simply unendurable. "There was a mint here, containing illlions of dollars' worth of silver bulion, and all troops were allowed to 1 ake all they wanted of it, except the Lmerlcans. It finally caught fire and topped It. I stood guard there In harge of a squad one night, and It /as quite a job to protect It, as there re several fortunes there yet, and the iulllon Is plainly visible among the ricks of the fallen walls. "All troops except ours were allowed o loot, and there was plenty of It. lagnlflcent furs and robes that would asily bring from $150 to $300 in the Tnlted States, were plentiful. "The grandest sight was when their lagazine was exploded by one of our hells. TheTe was a cloud of smoke fuly a mile thick that was blown two niles high in about a second. The explosion was terrific. It broke all the /indow panes In the 'new city' (forign), and killed over 700 Chinamen, 'here &re seven arsenals here, valued t over $20,000,000, and the enemy left hem behind. I haven't time to write lore, as I am acting sergeant major of he Third battalion. "When this reaches you, write me, /herever I am, as you can 'find out /here I am by the papers." BUSINESS LAW IN DAILY USE. atablished Usages Which Ought to Be Familiar. A note by a minor Is void. It is fraud to conceal a fraud. | A note made on Sunday Is void. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. A contract made by a lunatic Is void. The acts of one partner bind the rest. An agreement without consideration 3 void. . Signatures maae witn a ieaa pencn re good in law. Principals are responsible for the cts of their agents. No consideration is sufficient in law f it be illegal in its nature. Checks or drafts must be presented or payment without unreasonable deiy. A note obtained by fraud or from a erson in a state of intoxication canot be collected. Notice of protest may be sent either o the place of business or residence of he party notified. An indorsee has a right of action gainst all whose names were on the ( ill when he received It. An lndorser may prevent; his own lia- . illty to be sued by writing "without j ecourse," or similar words. If two or more persons as parties are , alntly liable on the note or bill, due otice to one of them is sufficient. . If the letter containing a protest of on-payment be put into the postofflce, ( ny miscarriage does not affect the ( arty giving notice. j Each individual in a partnership is , esponsible for the whole amount of he debts of the firm, except in cases of l peclal partnership. If a note is lost or stolen it does not ] elease the maker; he must pay it if , he consideration for which It was giv- , n and the amount, can be proven. , Part payment of a debt which has assed the statutory limitation, revives he whole debt ,and the claim holds ood for another period from the date f f such partial payment. ] "Value received," is usually written . i a note, and should be; but it is not ecessary. If not written; it is presumd by the law, or may be supplied by roof. | If when a debt is due the debtor is , ut of the state, the limitation does not , egin to run until he returns. If he af- , srwards leaves the state, the time ] srward counts the same as if he re- j lained in the state. ( The maker of an "accommodation" ] ill or note (one for which he had re- , eived no consideration*, having let his 3 ame or credit for the benefit of the j older, is bound to all other parties, j recisely as if there was a good considration. , The holder of a note may give notice , f protest either to all the previous in- , orsers, or only to one of them; in case ^ f the latter, he must select the last , idorser, and the last must give notice . ) the last before him, and so on. Each , idorser must send notice the same ( ay or the following day. Neither Sun- j ay nor legal holiday is to be counted , 1 reckoning the time in which notice ! i to be given. j ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR SONGS. < ome of Them Have Been In Existence Hun- ] dreds of Years. "The Campbells Are Comin,' " is a ery old Scottish air. Copies of it date . ack to 1620. , "One Bumper at Parting," is one of * le best known of Moore's convivial )ngs. The tune was called "Moll Roe ' t the Morning." "Come, Landlord,' Fill the Flowing . owl." dates from the time of Shakes- . sare. It appears in one of Fletcher's J lays. "Cheer, Boys, Cheer," was the work 1 ! Charles Mackay, the music being by !enry Russell. It was the outcome of n evening of conviviality in 1843. t "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," t from a poem entitled "The Forest," i y Ben Jonson. The air Is an adapta- s on from one of Mozart's opera melo- c les. I "Allan Water." is by Matthew Greg- i y Lewis, better known in literature t 3 Monk Lewis, whose weird tales were 1 te fashion when Scott was young. t "What Are the Wild Waves Saying?" I a duet once immensely popular, was suggested to Dr. Joseph Edwards Carpenter by the conversation in "Dom* bey and Son." "Rule, Brittania," is usually credited to James Thompson. It first appeared in a play, "Alfred," by Thompson and Mallet, in 1740. The air was by Dr. Thomas Arne. "The Wearing of the Green," exists in several forms and versions. The best known one was written by Dion . Boucicault, the dramatist. It is sung by Shaun the Post, in "Arrah-na-Po gue." "* "Scots Wha Hae," was by Burns. The tune is an old march, Hey Tuttie Tattle," that is said to have animated Bruce'8 men at Bannockburn. "A Life on the Ocean Wave," was the work of Epes Sargent, an American poet. The idea came to him in a high wind blowing from the sea as he walked on the Battery in New York. The music is by Henry Russell. "The Last Rose of Summer," one of Patti's favorites, is by Thomas Moore. The melody, an ancient Irish tune, was once known as "The Groves of Blarney." "The Blue Bells of Scotland," is by Annie McVicar. afterwards Mrs. Grant, the daughter of a Scottish officer in the British army. The melody is an old English folk-song. "Kathleen Mavourneen," is by Mrs. Crawford, an Irish lady, whose songs 90 years ago were in high repute. The music is by Crouch (still living in Baltimore), who, in his old age and poverty, begged his way into a concert given by Titiens, that he might hear the singing of his own compositon. "Love's Young Dream," one of Moore's best, is from an Irish tune called "The Old Woman." Moore heard it from a blind fiddler, and by giving It better words gave it immortality. "I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree," is the result of a romance. It was written by a young nobleman, enamored of Queen Victoria, a year before shfe ascended the throne, which event destroyed his hopes. The music Is by Wellington Guernsey. "Auld Lang Syne," is of uncertain origin, there being several versions of this deservedly popular song. The best is by Burns; but only the second and third stanzas are by this poet, the remainder is from the pen of Ramsey. The song is very ancient; one version dates from the sixteenth century. IMPERIALISM AND MILITARISM. The Democratic Candidate Talks of the Republican Inconsistencies. Mr. W. J. Bryan addressed the voters of his former congressional district, at Auburn, Nebraska, last Wednesday. He devoted himself principally to Republican inconsistencies. In part he said: "You Republicans who were shouting yourselves hoarse when McKinley said In 1891 that Mr. Cleveland was trying to make money the master and all things else the servant, did it not take you several days to come around and hurrah for McKinley when he did the same things that Cleveland had done? V All Povtnhllnona nrV?r\ aol/1 4-V? <-? 4 * V** k/KVUiiU) IT 41V UU1U iliab LUC Greenbacks saved the country when gold and silver left It, did it not take you several days to turn around and advocate the retirement of greenbacks? You Republicans, who were boasting that the party was paying off the national debt, did it not take you some time to turn around to that .position where you could say that a permanent debt is a good thing? You Republicans that used to denounce the trusts In the most vigorous language, did It not take you some time to turn around where you could say that there are good and bad trusts, and the good trusts are those which contribute most liberally to the campaign fund? And don't you think that some of you Republicans are in a position where you are not going to return any more? You Republicans, who for years have been boasting of the Fourth of July, that we had a country which did not need a large standing army, and did not have a large military establishment as they have in Europe, don't you think you will refuse to turn when the Republican party wants an army which is four times as large as when the Republican administration was elected in 1898? You Republicans, who ' naoH tn hrotr tViia aro vnn nnt afraid that now you cannot turn over and make your opinions conform to the Republican policy when you find that the expenses of the army in a single year is half as much as the entire amount 3pent on the education of all the children of the United States? Are you willing to enter upon this career of militarism? "When we talk about increasing the 3ize of the army they say it is all buncombe, and say 'what is 100,000 men in a, country like this?' I will tell you that 100,000 men, compared with the situation when the Republican party jot into power, is four times as big an irmy; and when you defend the increase of four times the size of the army in the four years, four years from now you can with propriety say that we will have an army of 400,000 if you tiave an imperial policy. The same spirit of militarism and imperialism that carried you to the Philippine islands will carry you wherever you can find uC people- weak enough to be whipped by the United States. The doctrine of imperialism is the doctrine of the bully md the coward. It is the doctrine which takes people under the pretence that /on are taking them for their good and ^ou reach your hand in their pockets ind rob them while you are taking them. They say that we cannot haul lown the flag in the Philippines once t is raised there. Even this administration does not find any trouble or difIculty in hauling down the flag in M&ska." Treatment For a Sprain.?The best reatment for a sprain is rest. At the .mic ui cue atuucui mw vw?.v *.w ^ educe the swelling and pain. If the ikin Is not broken apply thirty drops )f arnica in a wineglassful of water by neans of linen bandages. If the skin s broken reduce the amount of arnica o Ave or ten drops. If any redness or nflamation occurs in consequence of ising the lotion, discontinue its use.? few York World.